BCS Rewatch: "Slip"
Feb. 24th, 2021 09:04 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
between_time_and_42...and slip Jimmy does, true to his old Cicero scam name. It had to HURT to resort to that old trick, and I bet the store owners saw right through it. But at least he got what he wanted... even if it was at the cost of a hurt back... I just wanted to yell at Jimmy when he insisted to Kim that he'll keep holding up his end. God DAMMIT, now is not the type to be all macho! You can afford to take a break if you need it! Now look what you've done, she's overworking herself just to make ends meet. I swear, sometimes this man is just as prideful as Chuck.
This episode always made me root for Chuck, as much of a bastard as he is... just because it's satisfying to see him finally getting some help for his condition. I actually use something similar to his calming technique on a nearly-daily basis, so I always really liked that part. And I actually managed to feel emotional when he was talking about wanting to have a dinner party and invite hundreds of guests once he's better... I just have to ask, though... does he have ANY friends? Besides Howard, I mean. And there's also a tragic air about his optimism, because we all know it goes down the toilet once Jimmy fucks him over for good and he ends up relapsing. Hell, he was even starting to sound regretful over the way he's acted, which, while it wasn't an admission of wrongdoing or an apology to Jimmy, is certainly SOME amount of progress... But then once he realizes what Jimmy did to him, he cuts him off for good (I need to rewatch the last two episodes of this season to get a good grip on his motives, but this is how I always interpreted it- he didn't mean what he said, he just realized that if Jimmy still has such animosity for him, he's better off without Jimmy in his life), and then the guilt of rejecting his brother causes him to relapse and he ultimately ends up killing himself. God, it's such a tragedy. And it really couldn't have ended any other way, because that's just how the two McGill boys were and always will be.
Nacho's pill-swapping scene was so tense- I didn't remember it being tense, but Michael Mando REALLY sold the performance, especially with how his hands were shaking as he filled the pill bottle. In the last episode, Mike's motives were unclear to me, but now it all makes sense now that he's found the Good Samaritan. And now he and Gus are properly teaming up... Yessssss.
This episode always made me root for Chuck, as much of a bastard as he is... just because it's satisfying to see him finally getting some help for his condition. I actually use something similar to his calming technique on a nearly-daily basis, so I always really liked that part. And I actually managed to feel emotional when he was talking about wanting to have a dinner party and invite hundreds of guests once he's better... I just have to ask, though... does he have ANY friends? Besides Howard, I mean. And there's also a tragic air about his optimism, because we all know it goes down the toilet once Jimmy fucks him over for good and he ends up relapsing. Hell, he was even starting to sound regretful over the way he's acted, which, while it wasn't an admission of wrongdoing or an apology to Jimmy, is certainly SOME amount of progress... But then once he realizes what Jimmy did to him, he cuts him off for good (I need to rewatch the last two episodes of this season to get a good grip on his motives, but this is how I always interpreted it- he didn't mean what he said, he just realized that if Jimmy still has such animosity for him, he's better off without Jimmy in his life), and then the guilt of rejecting his brother causes him to relapse and he ultimately ends up killing himself. God, it's such a tragedy. And it really couldn't have ended any other way, because that's just how the two McGill boys were and always will be.
Nacho's pill-swapping scene was so tense- I didn't remember it being tense, but Michael Mando REALLY sold the performance, especially with how his hands were shaking as he filled the pill bottle. In the last episode, Mike's motives were unclear to me, but now it all makes sense now that he's found the Good Samaritan. And now he and Gus are properly teaming up... Yessssss.
