4.08 Coushatta
hypergenesb
Atlanta
Written by Gordon Smith
Directed by Jim McKay
Cinematography by Marshall Adams
Edited by Chris McCaleb
Fun Fact: This is the 100th Episode of the Heisenverse. This is the second episode for Jim McKay, who last directed 1x04, “Cancer Man” (Feb. 2008). In between, McKay has directed shows such as Mr. Robot, Rectify, The Good Wife, The Americans, Bosch and many HBO shows (The Wire, Treme, Hung, In Treatment, Big Love).
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Idk maybe it will have to do with the Tribe in Texas. That seems way more feasible distance wise.
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EDIT: aaaaand of course it had nothing to do the Germans
Three things:
1) I just don't get the hang up with the "different" Gus Fring. I thought Gus was so great in Breaking Bad because of how ruthless he was. It seems like the same character to me, but I guess we just see it different.
2) Kim is trying to go for the fulfillment trifecta. Doing something respectable in terms of prestige and money with Mesa Verde, doing something respectable and altruistic as a public defender, and then doing something that gets her heart racing as Slippin' Kimmy. You can see it in the final Mesa Verde scene of the episode where Kim has to hold back and be prudent and cautious and back the more sensible stance of Paige. She has to be responsible and not tackle an impossible challenge. We've seen her stressed out and overwhelmed this season. We've seen her be compassionate and help people in unfortunate situations... but to me when she blew off Paige, it felt like she was doing it as a way to avoid the pressure that Mesa Verde was putting on her as much as it was to help out the girl. As for the public defender stuff, remember, the judge told her she wouldn't find what she was looking for in the sea of drudgery that goes through his courtroom.
With this latest Huel case, it became personal after the assistant DA insulted Jimmy. And it was a real injustice based on how other similar cases have been handled in the past. And so she got what she didn't know she needed this whole time. What she's been searching for. A "fuck you" win.
3) About why we should care about the Huel case... for one thing, that's the prequel hurdle that every prequel goes through. Can you care about people and events when you know the outcome from the original piece. Just because we know that Huel is in Breaking Bad and is out of jail by that time, it doesn't mean we shouldn't care about why and how Huel came to know Jimmy and that we shouldn't care about how deep that relationship goes.
But regardless of Huel's situation... this whole case is really about Jimmy and Kim. Kim out Jimmy'd Jimmy today. She found a better way out than he came up with. No one's career got trashed and Huel stays free.
4) What I'm waiting for in these coming final episodes is the final resolution of Chuck's death. That can't be over right?
5) I think you have to view this season as setting up the groundwork for a second series climax. The first three seasons was the Chuck arc, with a launching point for the second arc with the introduction of Gus in season 3. This second climax (like your addendum addresses) is likely going to be the end of a Salamanca arc that was B plot in the first three seasons but it coming back around to intersecting with Jimmy somehow.
I just don't like these guy’s chances of surviving.
maybe we got the Wendy prediction wrong?
My own work is software consulting, and it's a big, time consuming contract for a bank that's paying the bills. But it can be sooo boring. Then, I've got associates/clients who give me freedom to try out new technologies and come up with creative, clever solutions, but who don't pay worth a damn.
My read is that Kim could have made the branch redesign happen, but it would have been a shit-ton of mind numbing paperwork. Bank work is paying her bills, but she really hates it. Her brain knows she should be doing that stuff, but scamming the ADA was just fun! (Fun enough to make her horny. I haven't had work that was that good.)
Shifting gears/re Coushatta (kuh-SHA-tuh): A Zydeco-listening Babineaux whose church pastor is Fontenot would be from a town south of the coon-ass/redneck border. Likely would be Catholic also. Coushatta is a real town (very close to my in-laws) that's firmly on the redneck side of that line. The names, accents, food, and music up there would be more what you would expect in Arkansas or Mississippi than the Villagang thinks.
I did appreciate Jimmy's cringeworthy impersonation of a Cajun accent. That's what all TV Louisiana accents sound like to us. I'm assuming it was meant to set eyes rolling and not meant to be a good impersonation.
Either way, it's just not something that gets her heart racing. Just something she "should" do because it's expected/makes a lot of money for her.
Still love Jim and A Ron. I watch a lot of shows only because they watch those shows, and I love hearing their takes even if they differ from mine, sometimes because of it.
I think Jim and a Ron have an idea of where the show should have gone that is based on what is best for Breaking Bad and not so much what best answers the question of how Jimmy became Saul.
The downfall of Kim is the only believable set up for Jimmy going over the Saul cliff, and somehow the show has to set that up without manipulating what happens in BB...not an easy task!
However I do think at this point the Viligang has earned our attention and patience to just experience not only the rest of the season but through the end of next season as well, and reserve judgment for the process once we look back at the road from the finish
P.S. Mike’s reaction to Gus killing Victor is a non-issue, Gus potentially had known Victor way longer than Mike and no matter what atrocities Mike may have viewed Gus accomplish in the past, self preservation will always take over in the moment... Mike was not reacting to what Gus was doing but who he was doing it too
This is a great point. Victor seems to be one of Gus' longest standing and most trusted employees - so Mike very well could justify (but not agree with) Gus killing a bunch of German contractors, but killing Victor to get Walt/Jesse (who Mike didn't respect and probably didn't see it as a worth the sacrifice) in line could be a whole lot more horrifying in Mike's eyes.
But also, I guess, I felt that way because I've been viewing this season as a new beginning and didn't have the expectations of Jim and A Ron about this season needing to even come close to the intensity of Season 3.
Sure, Mike says they are behind, but, can he quantify it?? Is he employing Earned Value Management? Is there a Risk Management Plan? He didn't mention the budget - come on Mike, what kind on project status report is this?
Tom, PMP
Another point to add is that all of Kim's Mesa Verde riches are ill-gotten gains. She only got this business because Jimmy changed Chuck's/HHMs paperwork. She knew about this and chose not to rat on him. Her choice was part of the demise and death of Chuck. Since Chuck was someone she looked up to (see earlier flashback), she must be devastated by this. She seems to be a combination of guilty, unfulfilled, and bored at this point. I think she is not as clean-cut as the guys think, and I'm not surprised at all by her erratic behavior based on the various pressures that she is under.