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Originally Posted by nol
I thought the show did a great job of balancing the desire from BB fans to see a bunch of Saul and Mike doing their thing while also doing enough to sketch out their pre-Albequerque lives, but this last episode really laid it on too thick.
For example, that opening scene in one of the earlier episodes where Chuck had to come bail Jimmy out was a nice little vignette that had you thinking "boy, that Jimmy sure was a screw-up and a burden to his brother, but he's not some evil, perverted guy so I'm sure there was some goofy reason he got himself booked on all these charges" but not "How exactly did Jimmy get himself into that situation? There needs to be a 5 minute monologue explaining this at some point in the future."
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I think this might be a good example of what a relatively narrow ledge shows like this have to walk.
That Bingo meltdown is one of my favorite moments of the show so far, the eventual absurdity of the situation being one of the best tiny bits I think they've written. There's an enormous amount of absurdity in Jimmy's life (and later Saul's), he eventually embraces that as we know but at this point the meltdown including that piece of it made total & complete sense to me.
Maybe my favorite meltdown monologue since Eric Bogosian in
Talk Radio .