What does this scene say about Chuck?

So I've been rewatching the series there's a scene in Season 1 Episode 5 (Alpine Shepherd Boy) and its right after Jimmy brought Chuck home from the hospital and he's there on the couch clinging to his space blanket when Jimmy asks him if he wants to talk about the Billboard incident and Jimmy blames his episode on the fact that he saw the story in the newspaper and it didn't really. But then Jimmy confesses and explains that it was a promotional stunt and he only did it to bring in more business and pretty much swears up and down and pleads that he will never do anything like that again and he's thinking about specializing in elder law and then Chuck takes a moment to think and says 'ok, we'll see' and then he just casually takes off his space blanket like its all good and walks over to the kitchen to make coffee and Jimmy is just staring at him like wtf?

And I'm kinda like wtf too because what is scene saying about Chuck's illness? Is he subconsciously (or consciously) feeling these symptoms of this condition in order to somehow guilt Jimmy into being a good person? Because he's literally holding on to his space blanket for dear life one minute and in the next after Jimmy confesses the truth he's no longer affected by his symptoms? And they show it pretty blatantly in the show.

So what is it then, is Chuck knowingly faking this illness to somehow try to control Jimmy? and why does the scene play out like it does with him suddenly being unaffected by it?

Submitted December 31, 2019 at 10:17PM by rockthehoody https://ift.tt/39yBFun