Most people do not catch the irony of Jimmy flipping out and going into his spiel about doing a background check for the interview when, in the previous season, he immediately wanted to hire Francesca after a 2-minute interview without doing one himself, against Kim's wishes. 🤫

3:30 - I never considered that the $14k missing from his dad's store was the dad's doing. Obviously Jimmy did take from the till as well, but hey who really knows for sure

The writing is great because as a viewer, you always change sides on who is in the right and wrong

19:54 "the cop's wife.." it's her sister xD

22:00 - The swimming pool looks like a giant tray of meth

Lydia's actor is incredible. Her character is so insufferable and I want to smack her every time she's on screen. She did a great job portraying her.

I think that having Mike die in an undignified way is a great way to remove a strong character. It just has that contrast that makes it hit harder

Brock isn't dead!

Georgia O'Keefe's estate is extremely protective of her artwork. To do this scene, the production had to make their own replica, then mail it to the estate for disposal after the fact

Chuck does care about jimmy. Him telling Jimmy he doesn't care about him was just something Chuck wanted to believe himself. Chuck's line in the sand wasn't jimmy being successful it was "slippin jimmy" being a lawyer. Consider how important the law is to chuck (basically his life) and how many times and for how long Jimmy has been crooked/slipping (stealing money from their dad etc). For someone like jimmy to claim to be an advocate of the law like chuck would be nothing but insane to someone who has known jimmy like he has and loves the law as much as he does. We see his mental illness get worse every time he catches lawyer jimmy slipping. His whole condition stems from and is tied to jimmy. His final conversation with jimmy is what finally does him in. It was an attempt to cut jimmy out of his life but he clearly couldn't really let go. If he really never cared about Jimmy he would have cut ties with him forever ago. Should he have been supportive of jimmy? of course. But after jimmy has been that crooked guy who cheats and lies to get what he wants pretty much chuck's entire life he's never going to see past it completely. I believe he meant it when he said he was proud Jimmy got a regular job and stopped his chicanerious lifestyle working in the mailroom. but hell jimmy even took what would appear to a cum laude university and lawschool grad like chuck as shortcuts with his online schooling and what not.

Everyone seems to think the gas heater causes an explosion. I guess that's a reasonable concern, but it's never crossed my mind.

Fairly certain the cousins only said "No, too easy" or something along those lines in BB.

I’m trying to understand what’s so funny?

Honestly, I've always thought Kim's outburst at Howard was her misdirecting her frustrations. I don't think she likes how little Chuck's death seems to be affecting Jimmy, and she goes off on Howard because she wants Jimmy to actually be grieving. She wants to be able to tell Howard he is being inconsiderate of how Jimmy feels because Jimmy should be doing it. But he isn't, and he doesn't seem to care. Also, incredible performance from Rhea Seehorn

Unfair?!..... the showrunner fed women to Harvey Weinstein. She hired actors who bitch about men and white people. According to headland, Sol's actions are rooted in misogyny because of course they are.. these people are obsessed with that... and you think the hate is unfair. You're clueless, like most acolyte fans.

Kim is a very interesting character throughout the series. (no spoilers) Jimmy through and through loves Chuck until it involved Kim's career. Also Chuck loved Jimmy in his own way just like he still loved Rebecca. Only 3 things Chuck loved - Jimmy, Rebecca & his version of the Law. All 3 things is about Chuck's love of control but he cannot control himself.

you as some other reactors are falling for the plot where the main character can do no wrong and must love and approve them no matter what. that's not the case with this show. hope you wake up to it.

29:33 Gus and Eladio's bottle

Always liked the little Vince Gilliganism to remind the audience that certain characters are awful people just in case you become too sympathetic toward them. Or as the French say: Ils ont leurs raisons. 😆

The pearl clutching on the smoking was a little over the top. Treating it like she was shooting heroin.

6 more episodes and my favourite song is coming, Paca Paca en mi caballo :D

slowly remembering which episode this is after forgetting since my last time watching a reaction is such a ride. so many truly incredible scenes and lines all packed into one episode. the copier shop, lydia and mike, then the call with lydia and gus. not to mention my second favourite (and there's serious competition) monologue in the entirety of BB and BCS just to close out with the Gus and Nacho scene. so damn good, i can quote almost every single line in this whole episode and yet i'd never be able to tell you that they're all in just this one single episode

Chuck represents the cold hard law. The law is for the good of the people, it represents justice and is “pure” in its own way; but the law is devoid of emotion. It rules “justly” regardless of personal situations or motives…you break the law, you pay the price. Chuck’s motive (in the present day) is always to uphold and protect the law. He knows that Jimmy is corrupt and as an attorney will corrupt the law. Jimmy has no place in the law. In this way Chuck is right as we see how things turn out with Jimmy/Saul in BB. Don’t get me wrong, Chuck is a cold-hearted, loveless man and corrupt in his own way…and Jimmy is a warm person in HIS own way, but I think in the larger story arch of Saul, Chuck represents the law trying to keep Jimmy out.

The conversation between Marie and Skyler needed to be between Skyler and Walt. That's why she was so aggressive about it

Anna Gunn (Skyler) was apparently bullied on Twitter etc so much that she deleted her public-facing social media. People cannot seem to distinguish character from actor.

Everyone blames chuck for Jimmy mistakes n decisions but end of the day Jimmy chose to do those decisions with all free will. Every person is accountable for their own actions. It's cause consequences.

Wow that was the best reaction I've seen to the bathtub scene in a while

9:20 He hates the fact that when he played it straight and tried to do the "right thing".... His future employers wanted a week to think it over and to interview other people and so on. That's pretty much standard practice, most companies interview more than one candidate. But when he gave them the Saul/Slippin Jimmy routine, they were ready to hire him on the spot! They ignored their own process & procedures because they were so enamoured by the Saul/Slippin Jimmy sales pitch. James McGill playing by the rules, isn't as successful as "Saul Goodman" or "Slippin Jimmy" and this is leading to a build up of resentment within Jimmy which is all linked to everything Chuck said about him and to his relationship with his father

I remember this scene for Jimmys shenanigans (a fun scene to rewatch) and "YOU... ARE.... MINE" but i did not remember how good Kim yelling at Howard was! This episode is goated maybe not crazy payoffs but the acting was *chefs kiss*

Regarding your thoughts post-reaction; there are scenes to come (flashbacks) that will offer further insight into Chuck and Jimmy's relationship-prior to them having that same level of adversity we see between them, in the show's beginnings. They are few and far between, but them in conjunction with the letter, do a good job elucidating their dynamic a little further.

The Waiter and Uncle Jack working together 😂

The one thing Jimmy defenders always forget is the Davis and Maine arc, which shows that even when he gets an honest opportunity, he kinda scams the people that gave him that chance. This proves that Jimmy isn't just a product of Chuck's low expectations, but rather that Chuck had a genuine point about who Jimmy is. The brothers were both right about the other's failings.

Regarding Jimmy vs Chuck, my POV on Chuck at this point is that I want to take him at his word. Obviously he has a ton of deep-seated resentment of Jimmy for being more popular than him, even with their parents. But he's also aware that Jimmy was a incalictrant petty crook before the mailroom job, and correctly predicted he'd go back to scamming after becoming a lawyer. I don't agree that he was just "out to get him" and just wanted to see Jimmy fail. I think he was just genuinely horrified at the thought of this petty crook becoming a lawyer and just wanted him out of law. He went out of his way to avoid pressing criminal charges on the judge in Jimmy's case; he just wanted Jimmy disbarred. I think if Jimmy had just become a salesman Chuck would have politely let him be.

Kim is obviously biased, and some of those things (the personal letter, the size of the inheritance) are out of Chuck's hands as the estate executor, but I do think Kim had some legitimate gripes against Howard in that argument. It _was_ selfish of Howard to unload his guilt in front of Jimmy, and it was insensitive of him to ask Jimmy to be part of Chuck's scholarship committee (at first I thought it was Chuck's idea to put Jimmy on the committee, but Howard's phrasing suggests its his own idea, and that makes more sense anyways). Howard is mostly a good guy who's gotten caught in the crossfire (which I couldn't see on my first viewing because I was so pro-Kim), but he does have his faults, particularly in his people skills.

Perhaps Chuck harbored bitterness towards Jimmy, but I think it's a bit unfair to say that everything bad Jimmy did was provoked by Chuck. Chuck was supportive of Jimmy's PD work, and the trouble only started when Chuck saw that Jimmy was conning people again with his billboard scheme, which is a pretty clear sign that Slippin Jimmy is back, he can't be trusted to handle the Law and potentially hurt clients. Chuck was unaware at that point that Jimmy tried to scam Betsy Kettleman with the skaters, and then took a 30k bribe from them. The cycle of destruction in this show started with Jimmy.

To paraphase Groucho Marx, "I would never take a job at a place that would have _me_ as an employee." Jimmy can't respect someone who would fall for his shtick so easily. Plus, not being employed there makes it easier to steal the statuette (the salesmen would investigate their employees first).

The look on y’all’s faces when Kim did this incredible dialogue? I still make the same face after watching it three or four times. It’s riveting

My estranged father left me $5k. Making sure it didn't look like I was forgotten? Hmmm.

*I just realized one of the copier salesman is creepy Uncle Jack from “It’s Always Sunny”*

This is the exact moment the copy guys became suckers

Love the Jimmy/Chuck relationship fallout/issues discussion in the wrap up here. That relationship is so dense, and maybe the deepest familial sibling relationship ever created in tv history. Shakespearean. Also, Eric saying this in the reaction, "I wanna know what the letter says." Yup. Rock on, you two :)

For decades Chuck has been there for Jimmy and Jimmy has made him regret it with his wrongful ways. We pick up on the show way later and most people feel Jimmy doesn't deserve Chuck's negative behaviour towards him.

I don't think there are any spoilers when it comes to Chuck, the first 3 seasons were Chuck's seasons now it's Jimmy and it's all good man.

I love that they noticed the method of killing the Salamanca guy, this along with the car in the last frame gives a little glimpse into the next episode.

Jimmy doesn't want to work for chumps.

I love Kim, but she was out of line with Howard.

We never see Kim giving Jimmy a piece of her mind no matter how many wrong things he does. Howard didn't deserve that.

9:12 no... it is more the saul in him... he wants the challenge. yes, he cut corners but not for the easy job, its because it thrilling. those people in the interview are suckers, are sheeps... are like his dad even in a way

A lot of people are angry at Jimmy for telling the insurance company about Chuck's breakdown, but Chuck and Howard were defrauding the insurance company by hiding Chuck's condition. That is why their insurance rates skyrocketed when Jimmy told them. He was a liability that would cost a lot if he lost it and caused the firm to lose an action on a client's behalf and the company had to pay out.

The two copy place guys reminded Jimmy of his father, I think that was the reason he didn't take the job