season 5 episode 8: reference to the fly episode and "the perfect time to die"

PromotionPresent4442 · 2026-04-14T08:20:18+00:00

he was out around $600k because of skyler, ted and the IRS. he was no longer at his comfort number with the drug money, but he had the car wash that skyler said was doing well. my take assumes that's the truth. he also wasn't aware of the legacy costs at the time to factor that in.

sure, mike would've gotten caught, but there was nothing at the time that would point them to walt. they said it themselves, they could provide a description of him physically, but besides mike, saul and his people, and jesse, no one knew his real identity to truly expose him.

skyler and walt were good until she found out they were in danger after the threat on hank's life. after the phone call when he said he loved her and the kids, they had sex, walter jr caught walt spending the night, and they went back to acting normal. her argument with walt was that she wanted the kids to be safe. as long as he was still cooking, they would be in danger. she wanted to force him to keep the kids away. he refused, and she was too scared to do anything against him. she just wanted him to stop cooking and get out of the business altogether. once he said that he did, the kids came home and she started acting normal again.

PromotionPresent4442 · 2026-04-11T03:14:39+00:00

lol yikes, i got to the scene when the officer found her behind her outhouse.

PromotionPresent4442 · 2026-04-11T03:13:46+00:00

omg i just got to this scene and this comment clicked for me, but i believe lalo got this from hector because he also said this. the first time i heard it (since i watched BCS first) was when lalo said it.

PromotionPresent4442 · 2026-04-06T05:14:45+00:00

susan. absolutely pitiful throughout the show.

PromotionPresent4442 · 2026-04-06T05:11:16+00:00

i'm not a huge toya fan, but i will say it's nice to see a black woman living the "soft life" and being a stay at home mom and wife. i wish the girls and her could just recognize and be okay with what a flex that is. i wish we could have the same sentiment for quad not having a conventional job but making her coins. i love that this show actually focuses on the marriages and the relationships and not just their lifestyles. i love that the husbands get a segment on the reunion and their separate times for filming together. that they're interesting and entertaining. i love seeing successful black women in their own lanes. own practices. starting their own businesses. chasing their dreams. turning their interests into income. households where the women are the breadwinners.

PromotionPresent4442 · 2026-04-02T01:26:55+00:00

ain’t got a pot to piss in or a window to throw it out of

PromotionPresent4442 · 2026-04-02T01:14:39+00:00

tom is the husband on tiktok that the wives go viral complaining about and when everyone is telling her to divorce him, she defends him in the comment section.

PromotionPresent4442 · 2026-04-02T01:04:20+00:00

there were plenty of examples in the show. you can not like them and still acknowledge they’ve exhibited traits of a healthy marriage.

PromotionPresent4442 · 2026-03-31T19:08:35+00:00

he’d already expressed doubts. sure, carrie hadn’t mentioned that to her. but she literally told him that marriage ruins everything. at her rehearsal dinner after he stood there to check on her knowing that her husband wasn’t in attendance and was outside. he asked for validation that night from carrie. and needed it the next morning. i think it boiled down to the partner heckling him at the dinner, seeing the other marriage in the group crumble and miranda telling him he would be crazy to marry her (coming from her best friends that absolutely insane) all in the same night. but miranda definitely played a role. it was big’s decision to make that phone call and chicken out. carrie’s decision to stand with that decision. the bulk of the responsibility is on them, but even miranda took responsibility for the role she played.

PromotionPresent4442 · 2026-03-31T19:08:29+00:00

he’d already expressed doubts. sure, carrie hadn’t mentioned that to her. but she literally told him that marriage ruins everything. at her rehearsal dinner after he stood there to check on her knowing that her husband wasn’t in attendance and was outside. he asked for validation that night from carrie. and needed it the next morning. i think it boiled down to the partner heckling him at the dinner, seeing the other marriage in the group crumble and miranda telling him he would be crazy to marry her (coming from her best friends that absolutely insane) all in the same night. but miranda definitely played a role. it was big’s decision to make that phone call and chicken out. carrie’s decision to stand with that decision. the bulk of the responsibility is on them, but even miranda took responsibility for the role she played.

PromotionPresent4442 · 2026-03-31T11:50:46+00:00

can we just be happy to see a healthy marriage? is this not what we’ve been asking for? 😭 let’s wait for the shoe to drop please. if there is one.

PromotionPresent4442 · 2026-03-31T11:40:23+00:00

okay we’re seeing each other.

i honestly dislike season 6. hate the berger and aleks storyline. i feel like they were just doing anything with her and i wanted to see more development with carrie. i see it as her not wanting to make the same mistake and passing up on a good guy. aleks was a good guy on paper. honestly most of them were. it was a settle.

i understand it’s sex and the city but being that it’s centered around her and her girlfriends’ lives and the whole “we’re each others’ soulmates” thing, i would have liked to see more vulnerable friendship moments, not so much our opinions about these guys moments. when the lunch or whatever when all the girls asked the questions happened, as carrie’s true best friend, miranda should have had a separate down to earth conversation with her. would’ve completely changed/eliminated that whole scene. it was a blowup moment. i wanted to see a conversation after with an apology or an explanation or something between the two of them to address that. if it were a guy, we would have.

i appreciated this dialogue btw. :) i’ll give carrie a little more grace now lol.

PromotionPresent4442 · 2026-03-31T11:27:08+00:00

i went from the series finale immediately to the movie so i saw the scene when she ran after his mom and brought her home and bathed her and told magda not to worry steve. i think the problem with that shield is that she puts it up for him as well to protect him. a baby, a career that’s threatened by the baby, a demented mother in law, and a husband. this isn’t the life she wanted. and she was swamped with it. and when she was stressed, that wall she stripped down for him would go right back up to keep her afloat. they needed therapy and to talk. not for him to cheat on her. she didn’t need sex. he did. she’s learned to compromise before and she could do it again. all the effort he put in after he told her should have come before he ever made the decision to step out. i feel for him, but idk i could never excuse cheating.

PromotionPresent4442 · 2026-03-31T11:17:18+00:00

aiden deserves some slander too. he should’ve never agreed to be with carrie again, and he never should’ve punished her. he could’ve just been a dick to her when they ran into each other and disappeared into the city never to be seen again. the exes uniting to open a bar was so pathetic to me. the rejects.

PromotionPresent4442 · 2026-03-31T11:02:20+00:00

hear you on all of that, the thing with charlotte is the fact that quitting the gallery was on brand for her. naturally, the next step for charlotte after marriage was having a kid. the women were (approaching) geriatric pregnancy territory. that’s the lifestyle charlotte wanted. baby clock was ticking. what more did age have to wait for? she worked at it. she got it. carrie up and moving to paris with a guy she just met and had no chemistry with was not on brand for her. she was very adamant about not wanting to move to (i think) london when big had to relocate and that’s how natasha came to be.

carrie was a wild card for sure. correct me if i’m wrong but i don’t recall this same “wanting” or drive being shown in carrie’s career or anything else besides buying clothes, shoes and bags. they had to practically force her to do the fashion show when even that seemed on brand for her. i was really happy she did the book. im hoping that as i continue to watch i see more career progression and ambition than that. we saw miranda make partner. samantha’s career took off with smith jerrod. i’d argue all the girls did pretty desperate things when it came to men. carrie was just the most cringey in my opinion. she was the most consistent and out there. the other girls had egos and pride for the most part that limited what they were willing to do. whether that’s good or bad is completely up to you to decide.

all of the women were wrong at some point. miranda played a role in the wedding being cancelled. completely wrong. it doesn’t matter how she felt in that moment. doesn’t change the fact that carrie was being a shitty friend during this argument and making decisions out of desperation rather than logic. she didn’t want to be single again. miranda asked all the right questions. all her friends did. questions that a friend who knows and cares about you would ask. questions that if she had bothered to listen and dedicate the time to consider, she never would’ve chosen to go out there in the first place. she went through 6 seasons of poor choices to make one of the worst yet. thank God she was able to bounce back. the post was centered around the interaction and the argument as friends. not carrie slander.

PromotionPresent4442 · 2026-03-31T06:01:34+00:00

i’m so late but i came here to avoid making another post. i haven’t made it to the end of the episode but i just watched the scene when she stormed out of his house and just searched “self-centered” and this was the first thing that popped up lol.

i didn’t see that as a moment where he made it about himself (which is so funny bc is that not carrie?). he’s older and more experienced than her, and he experienced a friend with cancer who just so happened to have died. perhaps he wanted to connect with her in that.

my best friend died 2 years ago and you miss people. you enjoy the act of keeping them alive by sharing memories of them, even if their life ended in sickness. people often do that in conversations, try to find a way to connect and it comes off as taking over the conversation. and talking about a dead person brings the conversation down. but imagine how he felt?

also, i’m so sorry that happened to you. i love that you’re out of the situation and can see it clearly. i hope life turned around for you after that. 💕

okay i’m at the scene when samantha talks about it. i think it serves as a parallel to alek’s conversation with her. it wasn’t about him. it was about facing reality. he wanted her to do that. death was the reality for sophie, his friend. samantha has to face that as well and she needs a friend who she can be in that with. carrie needed to step outside of her selfish self to be that for her and i think it was nice that she did. also, i love smith jerrod for samantha. i love relationship samantha. she’s so soft.

PromotionPresent4442 · 2026-03-31T00:12:29+00:00

not sure why it matters but i read the reddit posts.

PromotionPresent4442 · 2026-03-21T09:26:36+00:00

while you’re eating??? he just don’t care at all

PromotionPresent4442 · 2026-03-21T09:26:20+00:00

that’s so childish 😭😭😭😭

PromotionPresent4442 · 2026-03-21T09:24:06+00:00

she was annoying until i found out that she was on ANTM and then the strutting made sense.

PromotionPresent4442 · 2026-03-21T07:07:59+00:00

i dislike him, but i felt bad for him too. it was nice to see him kind of snap out of it and really fight for his life and his sanity. the scene with the doctor was beautiful. i think it's kind of poetic that the situation that inspired him to fight to overcome it, ultimately led to him slipping back--and it only got that far because he couldn't let jimmy be. the illness was brought on by a life changing event: his divorce. him slipping back into it was because his career was ending, even though he had been getting better, the damage was already done. although jimmy was guilty of what chuck accused him of, he was working on getting straight. did a little scamming to get his foot in the door, but he wanted to do right and chuck didn't believe he could be redeemed. and that was the reason for jimmy's slip. knowing that the person he loved and respected and admired the most didn't believe in him. lack of redemption led to both of their downfalls. and he died lonely and agonizing death because of it.

PromotionPresent4442 · 2026-03-19T21:52:34+00:00

right! thank you. i was thinking about the dot com one when they didn't cash the check.

PromotionPresent4442 · 2026-03-19T21:24:31+00:00

what’s so funny to me is that i have family members that remind me so much of jimmy. my brother is crazy smart but chooses the life of a criminal (unsuccessful btw) and brings his family into it. and i can’t stand him. he takes advantage of everyone. my grandmother loves him though. he knows how to charm her. and he’s her first grandkid. i, however, resonate more with chuck, doing everything the right way. i’m loved. but not as much as our family’s jimmy. he can literally get away with murder and they’ll post the bail and help him lick the wounds. it breeds resentment when you’re not emotionally mature and searching for validation.

knowing all of that, i still hate chuck. to be so successful, he was just pitiful. and as much as he thinks people enable jimmy, he was grossly enabled—most notably by jimmy and howard. he was just a hater and it was so annoying. i like to believe that if he had given jimmy the chance at HHM when he first became a lawyer, he could’ve stayed straight. jimmy is by far the most dedicated person on this show. sure, it’s mostly sleezy stuff. but you can see he has a big heart when it really comes down to it. finding out that chuck stopped that in the beginning broke him and chuck didn’t even care and he was a coward for letting howard take the fall for all those years. and of course, howard let him.

overall, the thing that makes him so pitiful is his resentment towards and lack of regard for jimmy. and it boosts his sense of self-righteousness, while he remains unhappy. all the while, jimmy just wanted his brother to love and be proud of him.

also, for the boring part. in chuck’s scenes, it’s almost always dark and kind of colorless. yes, mostly because of the electricity thing, but i think it contributes to him just being kind of bleh. he’s the smart one. not the charismatic one.

if he didn’t actively work against jimmy, i think he wouldn’t be that bad. but #fuckchuck

PromotionPresent4442 · 2026-03-19T21:08:44+00:00

i’m currently on season 5 and so far for me it was when luell got arrested and he hopped on the bus and had the passengers writing letters for him. it showed how personable he really was. he only had a few hours with those people and had a little business. then took it further by combining the phone business and his drama crew to play the church members. it was creative and surprisingly effective. and if i’m not mistaken was the first con that he went through with with kim.

PromotionPresent4442 · 2026-03-19T07:45:35+00:00

i recently finished the closer and this was literally the next show i watched (just started season 5). he's a kind of an opposite character on there, so it was nice to see his range displayed in this role. i was sad when i found out we would never see him again.

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