Someone like David Lynch, I suppose. Dumb movies for smart people would probably be someone like Paul Verhoeven (who is the master of well-made dumbness, and is great). 

That’s interesting, because that’s exactly what I’d call most of Kaufman’s work. 

There’s a particularly interesting version of Othello where he’s played by Patrick Stewart, definitely a white guy - but the whole rest of the cast is black and it’s set in Africa to still keep the fish-out-of-water feel.

That’s not a bad take on the book, but this seems to be nothing like the book.

It reminded me of the old lady love plot of the WWDITS movie, which was very cute. 

“A pillow!”

Also the movie where the dumptrucks started. Y’know.

I like that Colin Robinson might be *any* age, but he always looked the exact same, down to the boring clothes. 

“...because they are korean and this is all new to them”

I liked that the implication here was that he clearly *did* know, but he also knows that annoying chain e-mails are a great way of draining energy from his colleagues. 

The whole turning into vampires thing seems to be solely when the vampire wants to do that exact thing (rather than murder), so it might still be biting.

That gravel sound - like approaching thunder.

I’m not worried about Kim dying, that seems to be below this show’s writing. I *am* worried that the reason Saul doesn’t have Kim around is that Saul disconnected from her to protect her. Lalo doesn’t seem to be around in BB, so assuming he’s dead or missing, Saul might have shifted everything to do with the cartel…

How the hell did that car end up flipping like that, anyway? What did he load the rifle with, explosive rounds?

It’s interesting that to some characters, *Jimmy* is the moral compass, still. When Mike comes in and shows the evidence that’ll get Lalo out on bail, Jimmy asks “You know what he DID, right?”. The fact that Mike seems completely content in this episode, “playing the cards he’s been dealt”, makes him a pretty horrible…

I feel like that would be too much under the belt, considering how good the writing has been for quite a while now. There’s been the fear that Kim would get hurt by Saul because of his choices, but instead the show gave her the agency to make those choices herself. I don’t see them fridging her. 

Props to Laura Fraser. Lydia was on screen for a hot three minutes and I immediately despised her again. 

Twilight Zone, by some distance. ST: Picard managed to flanderize a series (or, worse, not represent characters at all), but Twilight Zone thought its viewers were absolute idiots. 

Yes! It’s easy to imagine the Mesa Verde commercial and copyright spin to have been put on a montage in any other episode, but the way it was framed and edited here (as distinctly not funny) made it feel really bad. 

The scene where Kim impersonates Kevin (and Jimmy impersonates Kim) is one of the funniest but more importantly cutest and well-observed I’ve seen on television in quite some time.