Chuck Explains His Illness | Alpine Shepherd Boy | Better Call Saul
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- Опубліковано 29 гру 2023
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Season 1 Episode 5 - Alpine Shepherd Boy: Alarming news disrupts Jimmy's efforts at drumming up new business, forcing him to make a difficult choice.
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I can't believe the doctor is putting up with this, this chicanery.
She's done worse!
She defecated through a sunroof!
That billboard
You’re telling me she just happens to fall like that??
And that illness, Are you telling me a man just happened to ill like that? No he schizoid it. CHUCK.
Chuck acts so confident about his condition as if he is some sort of medical professional compared to the actual doctor in the room.
As Jimmy mentions, Chuck’s been to see numerous doctors who were unable to diagnose him. However it seems they came to the same conclusion as Dr. Cruz, that it was in his head, and Chuck either ignored their statements or brushed it off, unable to comprehend his own mental illness.
It's a lawyer thing
Well, there have been many cases where the doctors dont know anything of what is troubling someone or they’ve grossly misdiagnosed; so yeah, his condition is mental but if he believes it otherwise then it takes time to get him there…
It's hilarious because when the insurance found out, he completely denied that he had any medical conditions and Howard could no longer tolerate him anymore.
You'd be surprised, but often, patients who have to deal with certain conditions for years end up knowing more about them than the average doctor. It's usually the specialists that really know the ins and outs of conditions. Only in chucks case is it pretty much made up.
He stigmatizes mental illness. If he didn't, he would have gotten better a lot sooner.
For someone who is this highly educated it is against his pride to even consider that his psyche might be the issue, not his body.
I guess it's more than stigmatizing, but the feeling like you can isolate yourself from real, seething and changeable world just with legal treatment and logic of law protection.
He should be a better friend to himself. Plus, there's no stigmata these days.
@@TheMisterGuymy son went to a therapist after the court ordered it for the thing with his wife. Very helpful.
@@Wilson_graham It was The Sopranos refernce you stunaz, oh Madon!
“Make sure you still have your wallet when you’re done.”
Wow Chuck, just wow
What did he have in it?
I really think it was just a friendly jab, don't think theres too much to look into there.
@@Keyecomposer If you watched the show, you will realize that there’s never a single moment that Chuck is “friendly”.
@@Keyecomposer while yes it was just a jab, Chuck held a firm belief that Jimmy is thief and only cares about money and will never change. Jimmy went out of his way to make sure Chuck was taken care of and yet he always saw him as the one who destroyed his family’s business when in reality the father gave away most of that money to charity and wolves.
@@nont18411 There are more than a few scenes where he's friendly to Jimmy i've seen the show.
Chuck spent 2 years living without electricity in his house.
2 years he hasn’t done a thing to get himself better he believes his condition is a physical illness until Season 3 he finally excepts that he was wrong about his condition , when really he actually suffers from a mental illness.
even then i think he was still trying to avoid admitting to himself that he was wrong and was thinking of it as physical exposure therapy rather than a mental thing.
It also doesn’t help that Jimmy and Howard were enabling his delusions, instead of getting him the help he needed. Jimmy because of the loyalty he felt he owed Chuck, and Howard for the respect he had for Chuck and the firms reputation.
doesnt matter what he thought that still would have worked. He would have ended up fine until Jimmy sabotaged his career @@Skeif13
@@matthewriley7826 Would you throw your brother in the looney bin?
Dr Cruz is one of the few sensible people in the entire BB universe. I mean look how smartly she convinced Jimmy that Chuck's problem was never physical.
Up there with Skyler’s divorce lawyer in S3 of BB.
I assumed that Jimmy always knew just that his helping was not making it better
"You see?! I'm better! Howard, I'm fine!" "This is not what fine looks like."
Yeah at that point Howard had to drop facts. He had kept his mouth shut for a long time due to the respect he had for him and safeguarding the firms reputation. But deep down he knew Chuck shouldn’t be practicing law if he’s mentally ill, and his ability to lead had been compromised.
God, the acting in this show was always impeccable and amazing. McKean is a genius.
Insane how good it is. Like really next level stuff. Props to the director and staff who gave them the vehicle to shine as much as they did.
The doctor's thoughts:
"He orchestrated it! "
Chuck basically explaining how much of a crap his “illness” really is. His real illness is seeing jimmy slowly becoming a big shot lawyer
More like obsession
Chuck is the real Slippin' Jimmy.
Jippin’ Slimmy
He should've Called Saul
slipping Chucky
Chuck is no where near as bad as jimmy lmao
Maybe the real Slippin' Jimmy was the friends we made along the way...
This doctor knew exactly how to handle this. Certainly mental illness but put it to the test anyway.
At 3:36 the doctor pressed the button on electronic bed which caused Saul to think that his brother's illness is mental so he used battery trick on him at the court to win the case
Yes he did indeed Saul Goodman / Jimmy McGill
It is indeed a scene that would have unfortunate consequences for future events.
Saul already knew his brother had a mental disease. He was simply an enabler thats why he gave the guilty look after she did that.
@@billballinger5622 yes he was aware that his brother's condition is mental but with doctor's trick Saul got clear proof.
everyone knew all along bud. he doesn't learn anything new here
My opinion: Chuck's illness is the resolution to his internal stress, namely he loves practicing law but is no longer worthy to. His illness keeps him from being able to, so he doesn't have to face himself.
That is really cool perspective and I really think that's it now...
That would require Chuck to see himself as unworthy. On the contrary, it is very clear that Chuck always believes himself to be the most intelligent person in the room, and excuses all of his unethical behavior with the law. But seeing Jimmy as his equal, now that is a thought he cannot bear.
@@Mediados Okay, now suppose, hypothetically, that Chuck knows at some level that his justifications don't change the fact that he has abused his position as a lawyer. That's the root of my idea, that people are not always consciously aware of everything they're thinking, and they can tell when they're trying to fool themselves. I know it sounds crazy; but give the idea some thought, and how it might apply to someone like Chuck, whose self-image is built around being incorruptible even as he engages in dishonest behavior more befitting Slipping Jimmy.
His internal stress is entirely related to his criminal brother returning to his life and forcing him to put up with him in his own place of work. Meanwhile Chuck knew it was all part of a longer con and guess what - he was right about everything he said about Jimmy
I would also add in his divorce
Jimmy really did everything possible to take care of his brother - Jimmy knew he owed him a lot.
But, in the end, Chuck resented Jimmy regardless. A long rooted resentment, that was Jimmy's fault in some ways, but Chuck's in many other ways.
This is the moment Chuck McGill becomes The Faculty
His condition is out of sight, out of mind.
OMG 😱😳😳😱😳😳😱❗❗ IS THAT A WILCO REFERENCE❗❗❓❓
Ngl Dr. Cruz was hot as hell.
god damn it, you coomers need to relax
Like the principle who fired Walter. She was a a baddy with a fatty
This. I was thinking this.
She probably does SM
Probably in her 60s now.
/s
Fun Fact: The doctor here was going to be Marie, but they felt her presence would take away from the significance of the scene, so it didn’t happen.
Marie isn't a doctor, she's a radiology technician. They do wanted her to be in the hospital scenes but not playing the doctor's part
they made the right call
I felt this series already relegated too much to cameos from one-off characters that had all of one scene originally in Breaking Bad and no one would remember.
@@Hysteria98what's the problem if you didn't even recognized them lmao?
@@Hysteria98
Absolutely. The Jesse cameo when he met Kim was cringe. Blatant pandering
So did Chuck read some Medical Journals to give himself symptoms for his Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity to make it sound more plausible?
He’s been to see other doctors of questionable professionalism. So it’s possible one of them suggested EHS, and Chuck grabbed onto it.
I think his symptoms are pretty generic. Some things like shortness of breath and heart palpitations match anxiety or panic attacks too.
The thing is, he didn't lie about his symptoms. But the underlying cause was psychosomatic, not physiological.
It’s entirely mental he probably just latched onto something that vaguely resembles what he feels and stuck with it as fact
He likely read about a case study done on people who Do believe they have this (yes they exist) like theres a group that live on the east coast by these enormous satelite dishes used to scan the stars, and due to their sensitivity you cant have any electronics in a 2 mile radius. So there are people who are permitted to live there, as long as they have 0 electronics.
And people with this "illness" have been known to move there
Chuck is the most realistic portrayal of mental illness I’ve ever seen. He’s still a functioning adult who’s accomplished a great many things, and it’s the mental illness that screws that up. Too many shows and films go immediately in the schizophrenic psych ward direction or the 13 Reasons Why melodramatic misunderstanding direction. We’ve all seen or known a Chuck.
3:36 Gotcha!
Even if it's in his head, the pain is real and if it wasn't for Jimmy backing him up, his explanation of the situation would've looked like incoherent nonsense from a head injury. The hospital would've kept the power on and he would've been stuck there in pain.
It still didn't really get him the help he needed on the long run.
When someone has this kind of condition- a delusion causing distress due to certain stimuli- the Last thing you are supposed to do is enable them.
Thats just causes them to go further into thr delusion
Thats why you arent supposed to go along with peoples OCD demands. Enabling makes it worse.
@@ConnorNotyerbidness He would've just died there.
@@ConnorNotyerbidness Yet the media tells us not to question trans people, but to cherish them as stunning and brave. Entire nations are currently participating in this mass delusion.
Quite literally, the pain isn't real.
The pain is a delusion that he believes, but it's not real. You can see that clearly demonstrated.
1:49 If this scene is set on June 21, 2002 and it was mentioned here that Chuck left the office since 18 months, so that means he have had that condition since December 21, 2000. And if the flashback shown in the episode "Chicanery" happens in 2001, probably, the flashback would had take place in January or February 2001
Interestingly, June 21, 2002 was the longest day of the year, and Dec. 21, 2000 was the shortest.
@@ecdjcl7642 ?
@@ecdjcl7642wow!
Yeah and? What's with all this obsession about the dates.
@@VCthaGOATdunker lol what, im making a theory
Chuck notices Kim isn’t convincing on his behalf and later punishes her for it
Chuck is a Bad person
@@RealVegg Chuck has to go
@@SimoSisu he went a long time ago
"you think i just happen to get ill like that? No! He orchestrated It! Electronic device!"
He was 100 percent right too thats the sad part. Everything he accused Jimmy of Jimmy had done. It just seemed crazy
Interesting fact, for this scene Michael McKean had to learn his lines!
That’s not it. I heard he was *pretending* to be sick.
So funny I forgot to laugh
@@garmenlin5990 that “comeback” is older than the internet lol
@@811chelseafc 3 2 1 Penguins, baby
Bravo Vince.
This is the same Dr. Cruz that Chuck saw later in the series to "get help", so to speak? At least, I think she is.
This is one of the most raw and realistic depictions of untreated Obsessive Compulsive Disorder I have ever seen. (His obsession is Electricity, and his compulsions are generally either ticks such as his hands shaking/gripping, and of course, finding any way to "mitigate" the electrical fields (such as the space blankets).
As someone who experiences OCD I definitely agree with you. My obsessions and compulsions are much different then Chucks but the way they portray the anxiety and how real our minds can make our obsessions feel is extremely accurate. Thank god I am getting treatment now because early on I could definitely relate to Chuck with how severe my ocd was due to it being untreated
Just wait 'til you see what he flosses with.
I had a lot of those same symptoms when I had Lyme disease that had gone un-diagnosed for about a year. Not all of them--but a lot of those same symptoms. It went away after receiving proper treatment.
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Im currently rewatching this series and currently on this episode and I realiezed what the doctors said that came out truth in the end where chuck died due to his house burning down.
Jimmy so happy
Are you telling me that a man just happens to react to electricity that way? No! He orchestrated it! Jimmy!
Dr Cruz is sooooooooooooooooooo fine.
Not really
I agree , 100 %❤😊
Tell me you prefer men without saying you prefer men.@@Compulsive-Elk7103
Wrong, Howard is sooooooooo fine
Well I'm a hetero male.@@vapingfury4460
Man, Clea Duvall is still smokin' hot lol
Oh my god that's Clea Duvall.
The doctor looks like the fbi agent in heroes who worked alongside Matt Parkman
Jimmy should of had him committed. He might of gotten the help he needs
Slippin Chucky 😂
As someone who got severe severe OCD over pandemic, this was cool to see someone otherwise brilliant still have the illness affect him badly
bravo vince
"Electromagnetic radiation" is light, Chuck. Not electricity. Congratulations; you have thin skin.
Well, electromagnetic radiation is electricity and magnetism, hence the name. An electromagnetic field can actually be thought of as a string of changing magnetic and electric currents (see Maxwell's equations).
Still, none of the physics of Chuck illness make sense, despite him constantly trying to claim otherwise.
Some examples:
Batteries use intercalation to store chemical energy between use. A free battery wouldn't produce any electrical energy since the cathode and anode aren't connected. This is why AA batteries may leak over time, but they won't discharge from just sitting around.
Similarly, devices that aren't on wouldn't have any current either.
Also, what he's actually vulnerable doesn't really make sense. On one hand, he would be bombarded with radio waves and wifi waves in the hospital, since they're meant to be broadcast over a long range. On the other hand, the lights and phones he's concerned about would produce about the same frequency over a much shorter range. So he would be affected no matter what, even without lights or phones.
Well he did mentioned "certain frequencies of electromagnetic radiation" so he maybe believed that it would be the lower ones given that light is on the upper spectrum and electricity is on the lower side
“Make sure you still have your wallet”
AHaHaHaHa
“Doc…grab the crash cart”
Too bad Barry Goodman wasn’t Chuck’s Doctor, _‘You no “puff puff”?’_
J'aime beaucoup Matt et il a prouvé sa valeur une fois de plus.
yea man
The actor playing the doctor here was also in Buffy, the girl in season 1 who is invisible. (theres a flashback where we see her before)
Clea DuVall is far more famous than that cameo.
oh i know, for sure, just a fun little fact :)@@BoozinNord
@KaraCroft Sorry, apparently I made this comment. Was I looking for a fight?
Yeah, Clea Duvall was also in The Grudge and The Faculty. She is such a good actress.
Stokely
is the a Veep crossover episode?
For some reason I don't remember Clea Duvall being on this show
If this condition really existed. That would be a superpower basically, but it’s not.
Right? Just have this guy doing security checks for secret meetings.
Clea Duvall.
After Jimmy went through all this bullshit for two years, Chuck still betrayed him in the most cowardly way possible. Think about how much could’ve been avoided if Chuck had shown even the least bit of love and support towards his brother.
He was delusional😢
Yep
I feel sorry for him. Illness is not good because you’re not healthy then 😔
Great observation
@@lowkey6134 Are you having a good time?
@@Kim.Ju-ae absolutely
@@lowkey6134 i am delighted to hear. I appreciate you having a good time 🤗
@@Kim.Ju-ae I've never really heard someone put it like that before
Iron level in his blood too high😊
Chuck is the best character in Better Call Saul (and second best in the whole Breaking Bad franchise) and it’s not even close.
I mean, he went to Belize ever since season 3 and yet his impact is so big that we are still saying that “Chuck is right” even after the show ended. Meanwhile, those who lived longer than him didn’t give the plot that much impact. Even Lalo’s biggest legacy was that he scared Jimmy but wasn’t a catalyze for Jimmy to turn evil and amp up the game in Breaking Bad.
🔥 nurse alert
What a sick joke!
Was it ever explained in the show why chuck has this mental condition????
Things like schizophrenia and OCD can become exacerbated by stressful life events. I believe in the show they imply that his delusion about electricity began due to his wife divorcing him or something along the lines of personal conflict with her, I can’t remember which came first
Trauma
i love how every yank thinks "therapy = padded cell and straightjacket for the rest of your life". not surprising at all tho, but still
It’s nothing but a racket for the jews.
I hated Chuck more than Hector watching the show. Go figure...
What mental condition did Chuck really have that made him think this?
This is the moment Walter White became Heisenberg
You people get lazier and lazier with every comment.
@@OniLordMiki This is the moment Walter White became Heisenberg
Walt was teaching while Chuck was doing chickanery, and Jimmy was hustling.
@leninvasco Hopefully, it precedes the moment you walk into a speeding locomotive.
@@OniLordMiki This is the moment Walter White becomes Heisenberg
Two brothers and two worlds where others go along with their story. Two manipulative people. Are the bad? Or are they good? Does it even mean anything?
Chuck was a caring older brother. They demonised him like he is the villain. He cared for Jimmy so much that he wanted Jimmy to succeed in life, but Jimmy took it as jealousy by his older brother, finally ended up hating him.
wrong
Bro it most definitely WAS jealousy
He did want what was best for jimmy but he also couldn’t stand the idea of him not being more successful then jimmy and in the end the jealousy and envy won out
Jimmy was the one that cared for Chuck so much. Chuck felt almost nothing but resentment for his younger brother, due to how Jimmy always had what looked to Chuck as "The easy way" in life - easily getting along with people, getting the law degree online, even making lawyer jokes with Chuck's wife, to which later Chuck miserably failed at doing the same thing. There is a ton of jealousy towards Jimmy, even so much so, that when their mother was on her deathbed, and her final words were calling "Jimmy", Chuck lied and said she said nothing, and just passed. Despite all of this, Jimmy still took care of that massive list of errands basically daily for Chuck, even surprising Howard when it was given to him.
Maybe do a re-watch of the show 👍
Got it backwards, he wanted to be above Jimmy