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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
But Chuck may also have a fair amount of insight into 'Slippin' Jimmy' that the audience also doesn't have. It could very easily be that past knowledge along with the present knowledge of Jimmy's backslide with the billboard that makes him wary of pretty much everything surrounding Jimmy. If you're friends with a reformed alcoholic and you walk into his house while he's drinking a Budweiser, are you going to assume that's the only drink he's had that day? Week? Month? Of course not - you're going to assume he's fallen off the wagon outright. Chuck assumed the same of Jimmy and Chuck was absolutely right.
I'm sure we've all heard it from a parent at some point whenever we get scolded for something we didn't do - "well consider it a scolding for something I didn't catch ya doing..." Well that's kinda what we're looking at here with Chuck. It's pretty hard to say "well Chuck didn't know about all that shady shit" when Chuck got it right and likely got it right due to decades of past experience with Jimmy.
Like I said - I absolutely agree that Chuck's deceit was what made this objectionable, but it was also exceedingly human and what makes him a well written character. If you have a willing hatchetman and you're dealing with a family member, virtually all of us would try to use a proxy to save us from the brunt of turning away family. Why wouldn't you? I don't even have a huge problem with that.
The only place I see Chuck truly failing as a human being was in how caustically he explained all of it to Jimmy.
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Like I said last season, folks - Chuck knows some shit about Jimmy that we don't.
Remember that time that Jimmy kinda killed his dad? Yeah, that shit's gonna stick with you for awhile.
I still don't dislike Chuck. He's not a perfect person, but he has ample cause not to trust Jimmy and frankly, if I my sibling had 'was a factor in the death of my paragon of virtue father' on the ol' resume, I'm not sure I'd be even as cordial as Chuck has been to Jimmy thus far.