Oh.

Then I guess widow wondering made Mike realize there's another widow out there somewhere, that's why he's suddenly interested in digging up this guy.

That lawyer who had safety deposit boxes at the bank for everyone on Mike's team. Mike eventually entrusts the lawyer to pay out his grandkid x-amount of money per month.

There are 2 more episodes this season.

What has to happen so that i never have to endure seeing the Sklar Bros cast in anything again?

(Lol, phone tried to correct Sklar to Skylar.)

What's wrong with the sklars? You didn't like cheap seats?

hate the ****ing Sklars

I thought the Sklar brothers were the Cartel Twins from BB and was thinking they were going to pop up and episode or 2 ago. I had to google who they were. I didn't mind them.

Agree, dont know if I've ever seen them in something and liked it. the whole brother schtick sucks

And screw you all for making me google them.

They've been good in two things IMO

1. Filling in for Jim Rome on his radio show

2. The Burger King ad (they were good, ad was stupid)

Watching a show once a week is for the birds.

You won't have to worry about that after next week.

poor Irene...

And I knew the Kim crash was coming...it just had that feel. I was like "don't do it, don't do it," and they did it.

Don't know what the show intended, but the Irene thing struck me as the most disturbing kind of moral line that Jimmy has crossed on the show so far en route to becoming Saul.

To be fair, what he did was likely also the best outcome for the residents.

I thought it was the worst writing of the series. The idea that the other ladies just cold shoulder Irene and she never asks them what's up is ridiculous.

I was expecting it to be a worse crash

Night of the Hunter playing in the background on the TV that ep

Loooool, 'hope your biopsy comes back B9.'

Did feel for Irene in this ep. I don't think it's too far of a stretch that the other women would snub her like that. The retirement home seems quite cliquey, so doesn't surprise me that that's how it would go down.

Jimmy probably could have convinced Irene to settle another way - but let's face it, rigging a seniors bingo game to manipulate a bunch of olds into doing his bidding for him fit's the Saul M.O. perfectly. Slippin' Jimmy at his finest.

Hope Kim bounces back quickly as well. All in all, a solid ep imo.

If there's any place in the world more clique-y than high school, it's a retirement community, and Jimmy knew that perfectly well (prior TV examples -- Paulie's mom got the same treatment in the Sopranos, although more deserved; and then there was Del Boca Vista).

Last week I jokingly predicted the legal powerhouse of Hamlin and Wexler. We may actually have moved closer to that this week, with both Howard and Kim working feverishly to contain the chaos caused by the McGill brothers.

Poor Mike is just starting to realize that he's losing control of his situation, and how big the Madrigal/Fring operation really is. Having to give his ID and sign his own name just locked him into the path that ultimately leads to a bench by the river (and a barrel of acid).

Mallwalking Jimmy leads to mallworking Gene. I don't know if we were supposed to draw that connection, but I did.

The placebo effect is a powerful thing. It will take a stronger stress on Hector's heart for the lack of the real medicine to be felt.

I'm worried about Nacho's dad. It was good of him to get Dougie home the night before though (same actor in small roles in two prestige series; that's pretty good).

It definitely made me dislike him a lot more.
Without knowing the current cash value of the settlement, the time value of that money over the period it would take to get a higher settlement, the potential amount of the higher settlement, and the likelihood of getting a higher settlement, there is nowhere near enough information to say it's "likely" better.

Even in his peanut example, they were getting a 50% return by waiting. That's an ROI people would kill for. I know he wasn't trying to be precise, but he also didn't frame it as 50% more. He just said look at all these peanuts HHM gets, leaving out how many peanuts *he* gets. He was psychologically manipulating them for his own benefit.

Jimmy is becoming Saul...he's doing anything he can to make money...even destroy an old woman's friendships.

It just doesn't make sense that the women wouldn't have talked to her and said we want the money, etc. and maybe she changes her mind.

Also in snubbing her they never tell her why, which would also make her want to change her mind.

His plan could have been to get the women to talk her into settling. It still works out for him.

have you ever talked to a woman, ever? You're applying logic to hurt feelings.

They said the current settlement offer was about $17 million. I thought his peanut example was two full peanuts on the table, and they could wait it out for another half a peanut. So 20% rather than 50%. At that age could be like do you want $200k now or $250k when you're dead?