Picking Nits
Basketball references; apartment; finances; mob behavior; poker tactics; smoking
In the discussion (7)
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- Clyde/Pearl seems too old a comparison for the characters; Strickland/Jackson is suggested. Petrovsky’s personal-looking gin bottle is noticed but explicitly called not a nitpick.
- The apartment is implausibly spacious, with joking claims that Jo must be rich. Teddy could not know Mike lacked four nines in the opening hand.
- Teddy’s job and unlimited playing availability are questioned; running a mob-protected gambling room is the working explanation, not a verified occupation.
- The mansion-game arithmetic leaves Mike 450 after sharing 1200 and a 25 percent fee, which seems inconsistent with his large cash roll. A don’t-touch label on a feared boss’s Oreos is funny.
- Grandma’s hostility despite repayment is explained by villainous dog abuse and mocked as bloodlust. The Binghamton drive wastes time, and the beating should leave them worse injured; the Cape Fear conspiracy is recalled.
- Revealing the cookie tell is debated as a psychological tactic, reportedly confirmed by the writers. Cashing a 10000 personal check at night without fees is questioned;12 percent is a tossed-out guess, not a verified fee.
- Norton reportedly refused scripted smoking, which the speakers think would suit Worm. Mike leaving with the money alive seems implausible to one, who imagines an immediate killing; this is a hypothetical objection.