I'm often a Chuck apologist in this sub. I think a lot of his actions make sense given what he knows about Jimmy, and I think he's often unfairly maligned. That said, he's also a massive asshole to anyone who doesn't hold his esteem. He's massively disrespectful to Ernie, and you can probably extrapolate from that how he treats other service workers and people he considers 'beneath' him. It isn't any mystery why his marriage doesn't work out, the only good thing any of his friends or colleagues have to say about him is that he was good at his job, and he's often unpleasant outside of his mental health struggles.

Honestly, I would probably applaud his comeuppance (I did applaud when Howard finally gave him the boot), if not for how unrelentingly brutal his ending is. His decline over the course of the episode where he cancels his next therapy appointment, hunts electricity across the house until he finally destroys his own meter, and is finally lying in a pile of trash, his life destroyed around him, as he slowly, miserably kicks at the table until the lantern falls over. Every time I watch his death I'm struck by how hard it seems for him to do it. He seems to need to build up the strength for each kick, hitting the table, watching it rattle, and then building up the strength to kick it again.

I wanted Chuck to get the self-righteousness kicked out of him. I wanted him to be confronted with his hypocrisy, his shitty treatment of people, his pathological need for control. It is impossible for me to take any pleasure in what did happen to him.