I understand it was a deliberate choice, I just found it frustrating and every time there was some new crisis I just thought "should've taken the money, huh". But this is mostly a personal hang-up about characters making choices that are obviously bad; I also disliked Uncut Gems for more or less the same reason.
Oh, me too. My wife and I are always like "just go cook the meth, idiot" when he's got that nice rig that Gus gives him in the laundry building. I get he wanted artistic license and a bigger piece of the pie or whatever, but ALL HE HAD TO DO was show up, punch in, cook that shit, go home. A million dollars a cook.
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I understand it was a deliberate choice, I just found it frustrating and every time there was some new crisis I just thought "should've taken the money, huh". But this is mostly a personal hang-up about characters making choices that are obviously bad; I also disliked Uncut Gems for more or less the same reason.
Oh, me too. My wife and I are always like "just go cook the meth, idiot" when he's got that nice rig that Gus gives him in the laundry building. I get he wanted artistic license and a bigger piece of the pie or whatever, but ALL HE HAD TO DO was show up, punch in, cook that shit, go home. A million dollars a cook.
You'd think he'd be happy just doing chemistry and getting paid