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The GPS tracker didn’t mark the first time hobbyist technologies played a pivotal role for Better Call Saul or Breaking Bad, and both Jason Delap and Joseph Ulibarri can point to more than a few favorite memories. For Ulibarri, he was responsible for perhaps Breaking Bad’s most infamous prop—the M60 machine gun that Walt uses in the series finale.

“By the end, I had that all controlled wirelessly so I could start the gun rotating back and forth, pop the trunk, and pull the trigger on the machine gun so it could fire,” he recalls. “It was a little less Arduino, more remote-frequency controllers like you’d use for a radio car. That was one of my favorite tech moments so far.”

Delap’s mind goes toward a bit of Roomba-hacking, also on Breaking Bad. “There was a party scene at [Jesse] Pinkman’s house with the Roomba, and originally I was steering that with my phone—we Bluetooth’ed that with an interface,” he says. “But it was a little iffy; it’d go out at times and I almost vacuumed up a girl’s hair who was passed out on the floor. So it ends up that was actually me pushing the Roomba—I’d go forward, back up. I had to mentally prepare for the role of Roomba, and it looks great. So sometimes the fanciest tech work is analog, and you still have to get creative. No matter how many things are out there to make our lives easier, sometimes they don’t work.”

Q: Chuck’s smugness on the stand, especially when he makes his little speech about how he knows why Jimmy brought Rebecca there, then his outburst… it’s reminiscent of Jack Nicholson on the stand at the end of A Few Good Men. Chuck is so sure that he has disarmed Jimmy, and he gets very, very angry when it turns out that really Jimmy has just set him up. Was that an intentional nod to A Few Good Men? A - Gordon Smith: “Yes, and no. We went kind of to the same source that A Few Good Men went to, which is The Caine Mutiny of it. All three scenes have the same DNA, I think, which is, yes, that sense of somebody brought down by their own hubris. It’s sort of the classic of tragedy structure, where somebody has the opportunity to not do this thing that destroys them, and they still do it. And I think Chuck is exactly that character. He counts on the fact that he’s the smartest guy in the room to always save him. And sometimes when you’re the smartest guy in the room, but you’re not the nicest guy in the room, that can come back to bite you in the ass.” – from ‘Better Call Saul’ Postmortem: The Truth of Chuck’s Illness and Jimmy’s Big Play (YahooTV)

I saw that someone changed the title of my post "Shameless US 5x01 livestream link" to "Shameless US 5x02 livestream link", but that link worked just for episode 5x01. The livestream link is different for every episode.  Here's the one for tonight's episode:

LINK

Usually, it works like this:

Before 8:30 pm ET/PT: sports

8:30 pm ET/PT: House Of Lies