Red Mosquito

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maybe Rich Schweikart. He has his suspicions about Saul’s influence on Kim including her irrational behavior. His firm represents Sandpiper, so there’s some reasoning behind tailing them

Stickman wrote:anyone else notice when Jimmy was looking at Kim in the restaurant in the first ep, she was behind bars in the window?

The Argonaut wrote:Here's something from Wikipedia about the character Juan Bolsa that you probably already knew:



"Bolsa's name, translated literally from Spanish, is John Bag or John Sack; this is a nod to the character John "Johnny Sack" Sacrimoni from the HBO drama The Sopranos. Both characters are high-ranking members of powerful crime families who are very level-headed, well-spoken, and act as intermediaries between their families and others."

spike wrote:More annoying was he could’ve run and hid into the woods another 50 feet away from that decrepit tank truck.

Jorge wrote:Okay, that was a really good episode. Definitely lower stakes than the last one but still a delight. Way to go, Rhea! My girl directed the shit out of that

daft twat wrote:

Jorge wrote:Okay, that was a really good episode. Definitely lower stakes than the last one but still a delight. Way to go, Rhea! My girl directed the shit out of that

Did she, tho? I was very cognizant that this was her directing, and so much of it seemed exactly like the vision of those (Gilliam?) before her. I mean, is she choosing to shoot bike spokes and dripping bottles? My favorite scene was Saul eating his lunch. The long shot and all of the foreground people was visually very interesting.

The Argonaut wrote:I hadn't realized she was directing. Well done. Best episode so far this season, in, yes, an understated way. I've actually felt that this season has been trying too hard to be artsy fartsy and this was the first episode this season that I felt was appropriately artsy and not so fartsy.

I'm not sure I understand the value of having an interracial senior couple living in Gus's (fake?) house. Is the cover story that he lives with them? But they really live in the basement? Or they live in the other house? I'm confused about the mechanics of it as well

Jorge wrote:

daft twat wrote:

Jorge wrote:Okay, that was a really good episode. Definitely lower stakes than the last one but still a delight. Way to go, Rhea! My girl directed the shit out of that

Did she, tho? I was very cognizant that this was her directing, and so much of it seemed exactly like the vision of those (Gilliam?) before her. I mean, is she choosing to shoot bike spokes and dripping bottles? My favorite scene was Saul eating his lunch. The long shot and all of the foreground people was visually very interesting.

There's been a lot of talk about how the overall "helmer" of a season of television is usually the showrunner; it's their vision that all the different departments sync up with and take cues from. The "director" on episodic television makes a lot of decisions but the role is very much beholden to the showrunner's vision and the show's overall aesthetic identity. That's how a show is able to have a cohesive look and feel while (usually) having different directors for every episode. Much more than film, TV directing is a super collaborative role, so it's hard to know which decisions she can have full credit for, but the episode looked good and had good rhythm and featured great performances (also part of directing!) so I give her kudos