Clarkman wrote:Jenuall wrote:Most heartbreaking moment - Mike's misplaced anger at his granddaughter.
I felt this was a weak spot in the opening two episodes. The snap of anger was too unearned. There was no clear tie between his guilt and stress over Ziegler and his grief for his own son. The challenge with writing a reserved and unemotive character like Mike is that you risk making him limited in his emotional range. I'd have preferred to see Mike trying to change the topic or divert Kaileigh's attention before snapping.
I'm not so sure, I think they handled it well. It was implied at the start of the sequence that Mike had been restless in struggling to process what happened with Ziegler and the fallout with Fring, he's very slow to wake up and it seems that he spent the night drinking and that he really would rather not be spending the time looking after Kayleigh today. But he knows that he owes it to his stepdaughter so of course he goes round, worse for wear and clearly not in the right frame of mind for it. He does try to steer Kayleigh away from the topic of her father a couple of times before snapping as well, not overtly but he tries to keep the focus on the job at hand.
Mike is reserved, but he's still responsible for one of the most emotional scenes in the whole show - the "I broke my boy" sequence from the first season is utterly heartbreaking and a sensational performance from Johnathan Banks.
Anyway, I think Tony Dalton's performance of Lalo is of the highest, highest quality, alongside Rhea Seehorn. In a show full of grim determination and quiet menace, his levity and swagger is much needed.
Agreed, Lalo is another great addition to the mix - looking forward to how the Salamanca vs. Fring scenario plays out with him. I don't think it's explicit that Lalo is dead in BB but I think we can assume things don't end well!