On 2/3/2023 at 9:26 PM, dwmarch said:
Episode 4 is in the bag and now we're starting to see the larger plot unfold. Edit: spoiler tagging my comments as I seem to be seeing the episodes before they air.
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I guess Hector Salamanca was brought in as the heavy this season, even though his character is supposedly long-retired. You'd think there would be some other Italian mafia in New Orleans but the mafia is supposedly very weakened in the US because of RICO prosecutions. I can't imagine Jimmy doesn't have more muscle than any remnants of the Italian mob in the city.
This divergence between Jimmy and Gina is interesting though, in the previous episode they're not a couple any more so she's not predisposed to backing him. Instead she will constantly remind him how he doesn't measure up as the head of the family, how inadequate he is in many ways.
That could be a volatile situation.
Thing I don't get is that the Baxters have this luxury hotel and restaurant front, trying to get influence from the mayor and other politicians and trying to get this $1 billion waterfront project going.
So where are they getting the money, if they're not engaging in as many criminal activities? Gina expressed scorn for that drug dealing bitch Big Mo.
If the Baxters aren't trafficking in drugs, are they still doing crime? Sure they will kill people but where is there income to fund a $1 billion project? I doubt hotel and restaurant generates that kind of money.
Maybe prostitution and gambling?
But if they are doing that much crime, politicians wouldn't be seen with them and certainly even entertain giving them a huge project.
In any event, the criminal aspect of the Baxters don't make sense. Jimmy wasn't going to kill Michael in his own hotel, right after hosting a very public event where he's embracing Michael and Clay Davis.
It's a good thing Michael got rid of the bug because he would have been caught easily. That bug wasn't going to be useful, not like Jimmy was going to confess his crimes to Michael, who has no interest in helping Olivia.
Never been to New Orleans but what are the chances that some entertainment venue across the river, presumably in some different place than the French Quarter and where the Mardi Gras would be held would succeed?
It does look like a nice location but if people are going to visit New Orleans, they'd want to stay and hang out where the action is, not go across the river?
I mean you can stay in New Jersey instead of Manhattan to save on some hotel rates but its kind of a drag to have to take the PATH train every day, maybe more than once a day, to go to places in Manhattan, have meals there.
Edited February 7, 2023 by aghstncG1vNJzZmien6fCrr%2BNqamipZWptq6x0WeaqKVfqbyxtcJoaGprYm5%2BbsXOrqlmoJ%2BjvLN7z5qenmdoZA%3D%3D