#and of course the way jack's and oscar's plotlines seem in some ways a sort of inverse of each other

[whartonists]

Once again the alarm clock plotline is giving me life. I love the way they're highlighting the weird awkward gaps in Jack and Larry's partnership--Jack being half a part of the conversation at dinner and half an invisible servant; the coffee incident; neither of them having the ability to function in the other's world (Jack having no access to the investors Larry can meet with, Larry having no actual knowledge of Jack's invention).

And the scene with Adelheid suggests a really interesting facet of Jack's journey to explore as well: that once you start moving up the ladder of money and status, the people you used to be friends with might not want you or see you as the same person anymore. You end up belonging nowhere, neither with the people you left behind or with the new group that hasn't really accepted you. Which of course ties directly into the undergirding theme of so much of the show: What are the inward costs of outward success?