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Better Call Saul REACTION 4x5 [Edited - Early Access]
Added 2025-01-19 01:26:45 +0000 UTCNext episode coming tomorrow. This week was stacked with work! Thanks for your patience.
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I feel like Mike could really use some therapy too. He clearly felt a particular way about Stacy’s story, but he never says anything about that or what he’s feeling. Instead it transformed into him verbally berating one the other members and the group as a whole. But Mike is really the one who has a negative relationship with his guilt and an inability to let go of the trauma that the Matty situation created. Yeah, they didn’t notice the fraudster, but the fraudster also doesn’t really matter. He’s a distraction Mike is focusing on while the other people in the group he’s close to are actually progressing. With Jimmy and Howard, Jimmy is just seeing the pain of trying deal with things head on, without truly grasping the “no pain, no gain” nature of trying to deal directly with something like this.
Eric Wall
2025-02-09 03:04:08 +0000 UTCAlso, in addition to the reasons you cited, another reason Gus had no interest in working with the first contractor was that he couldn't keep his mouth shut: l'm sure his previous employers would not be thrilled to hear him bragging to Mike about the cool drug tunnel underneath El Paso he built them anymore than Gus would like the idea of him bragging to his next clients about the awesome underground meth lab he built in Albuquerque.
Brian Gonigal
2025-01-20 10:08:31 +0000 UTCI'm not gonna get personally involved in the "Value of therapy" discussion and in fact would suggest that it's probably way too complex, nuanced & shades-of-gray type of a topic to be handled well by a Patron or YouTube comments thread, but I will point out that Vince Gilligan & his writers do seem to have some decidedly mixed feelings on the subject themselves. The show does make it clear that yes, Jimmy DOES need to talk to someone to better process his feelings about Chuck and flushing away that card was a bad decision, and over the whole course of BB/BCS they do show examples of people clearly benefiting from therapy, but then that speech of Mike's about the group therapy session he was in being so wrapped up in their own pain & feeding off of each other's grief that they were easily taken in by that guy's fake sob story is definitely presented as being an accurate read of the situation, and in the BB ep "Problem Dog" the writers had Jesse deliver a pretty devastating takedown exposing the shortcomings of his therapists' advice to just stop blaming yourself for any & all terrible things you might have done and just move forward with your life.
Brian Gonigal
2025-01-20 10:01:05 +0000 UTC
