4.03 Something Beautiful
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Atlanta
Written by Gordon Smith
Directed by Daniel Sackheim
Cinematography by Marshall Adams
Edited by Skip Macdonald
This episode comes from the same writer & director team – Smith & Sackheim – that brought you 3x05 “Chicanery.”
4.03 Coverage on Heisenberg Chronicles.
Directed by Daniel Sackheim
Cinematography by Marshall Adams
Edited by Skip Macdonald
This episode comes from the same writer & director team – Smith & Sackheim – that brought you 3x05 “Chicanery.”
4.03 Coverage on Heisenberg Chronicles.
Comments
While *I* don't blame her, I can see how it's within her character to blame herself. After all, the Jimmy she first met was perfectly happy working in the mail room at his brother's law firm.
I've also been going with the theory of Jimmy being happy that he was the one to kill Chuck, and his reading of the letter strengthens my thoughts. He perks up when Howard confirms that the insurance was the thing that did it and his whole mood changes after. Now he reads this letter and doesn't personalize any of it. He wasn't his brother, but was "The Man" that wrote the letter. He sees Kim crying and says it's a "great letter". Nothing meaningful, just words on paper put together well.
But I have an additional take: Jimmy is processing his Chuck grief...like, really super badly.
Chuck was dismissive of him. If the letter is sincere and predates Jimmy's law degree, his coldness comes from being reminded how little Chuck ultimately thought of him. That the Great Charles McGill was driven to suicide by Jimmy, then #FuckChuck or no #FuckChuck, Jimmy is thinking of himself as a huge piece of shit.
So he has two impulses driving him to the Great Hummel Caper: I want to pursue my addiction so I can feel good and I'm a degenerate piece of shit who's no better than this. Chuck was right, so I might as well live that way, $4k at a time.
You don't have to watch too many episodes of Intervention to see that both of those triggers can fire at once for an addict.
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A good slice of cheese pizza is the iznit. Sometimes the classics (cheese/pepperoni) just hit the right spot. Maybe it’s an NorthEast thing because cheese pizza and cheese slices are big here still.
Thanks for the heads up. Stopped listening early due to this post so I don’t get hit with the spoiler.
1. Jimmy of course lives in Omaha, NE post B.B.
2. The company that Sandpiper was doing business with that made the class action a RICO case was in Lincoln, NE (approx. 45 minutes from Omaha). Jimmy actually says “Go Cornhuskers!” at the mention of this.
3. Kim mentions that she was raised in a small town on the Kansas-Nebraska border (which could be as close as 90 minutes from Omaha).
4/5. Kim is seen wearing a Kansas City Royals t-shirt; future Gene has a Kansas City Royals lunch sack (Kansas City, MO is 2.5 hours from Omaha).
6. North Platte, NE, a town of only 24,000 people is one of the potential new Mesa Verde bank branch sites (North Platte is approx. 3.5 hours from Omaha).
Did I miss any?
Because a) the Villigang is too intentional about these sorts of details, and b) this area is approx. 800 - 900 miles away from the setting of the main plot (with no other obvious connection), it seems highly unlikely that this is all a coincidence. Vince and Peter are trying to say or do something here (I think); it’s just not obvious what.
That said, at this point, I’d kind of be surprised if (barring an unexpected, premature cancellation) we don’t see Kim in some capacity in the black and white Gene days. Does anyone want to spot me some internet points to push into the middle of the table? We can split the winnings.