Yeah, that's a close question for me as well. Initially I did not think she was lying at all, just mistaken, and paranoid, and fearful, all of which seemed like perfectly natural reactions given what she had been through. She may very well have believed that "bullet mark" was real and new. Now I'm not so sure;…

And Mrs. Doubtfire. Oh my, a drive-by fruiting!

Yes, she was in BB, same actress, and Mike also spoke with her on the phone sometimes. (At one point I thought she was his daughter, so either I misinterpreted something or they have retro-fitted the relationship to be able to work in the story line about Mike's son.) So she was clearly still alive; however, she was…

Kind of similarly, I thought briefly that young Jimmy was going to con the con man, and give him a much-inflated price for the cigarettes in order to recoup some of his dad's money. That was hoping for too much, though, as young Jimmy hadn't yet honed his skills.

You may be right, but I had a different take on the primary purpose of the flashback, which to me was to show that Chuck's story from two weeks ago was NOT the truth — or at least not the whole truth — but rather reflected (once again) his ingrained bias against Jimmy, his determination to see everything in black &…

Right, plus Mike said that he didn't want Kaylee to see him that way (even with the cover story of a car accident), so I think we're supposed to assume he's been laying low for a week or two.

That would be called "defamation." Hope you have a good lawyer.

Ha, I've always disliked Streep too, perhaps you've hit on my subconscious reason why!

True, but young Mr. Henry's work in KvK was clearly just a training ground for his greatest performance of all time, pesky younger brother Mike to Molly Ringwald's Samantha in Sixteen Candles:
"The hell are you bitchin' about? I gotta sleep under some Chinaman named after a duck's dork!"

I agree with your comments 100%, and I too had little to no sympathy for Streep, a mother who would abandon her child. But to me that was one of the central points of the movie — challenging the ingrained conventional wisdom (and law) at the time, that the mother was always presumed to be the better parent who would…

Really? THE central character in Ordinary People — one of my favorite films of all time, btw, and the book is maybe even better — was Timothy Hutton (Conrad). He's the protagonist, the story revolves around him from start to finish. (At least I thought so at the time, being around his age then. Interestingly, when…

I agree w/ Donna that we can't get enough of Jimmy/Saul spinning a yarn. That scene on the bus was fantastic. Notice how he didn't start out slamming Sandpiper as fraudsters — which could have easily backfired because he was a stranger to the old folks on the bus and maybe a lot of them actually liked living there —…

Bingo!

Exactly. I also kinda thought that Jimmy may have thought "well, there is no way I'll top this, scoring a threesome as 'Kevin Costner,' so it's time to end it and head back to the ABQ." Great scene either way.

"I was last night."

Agreed. I'm still under the assumption that more than clothes were/will be involved. Pretty clear that lady warden was not heterosexual.

Ha, before I saw your comment I posted the same thing. SBS is still a good choice, the live version does rock, but yeah I agree when you compare the studio version of Bad, which is incredibly bland, with the absolutely mesmerizing live version, it's almost hard to believe it's the same song and same band.

Glad to see U2 on here as they were the first band that sprang to my mind when thinking of bands whose live performances generally improve upon their studio tracks. But while Sunday Bloody Sunday is not a bad choice at all, I'd go with the song "Bad," originally on their Unforgettable Fire record, as it appeared on…

Ha, that is exactly what I said aloud at first, oh look he's choking on a bone from the bird he slaughtered inside his piece of cake!

This is exactly right in my opinion.