afaik Netflix gets the previous season about two weeks before the new season, every time.
― Fantastic. Great move. Well done (sic), Sunday, 23 February 2020 16:15 (four years ago) link
So maybe the secret construction slaga to: Mike crosses the Rubicon ov blood yet again shoka--will actually be redeemed, in terms of possibly promising consequences (the basic tension, many faces of Gus, better not say more if you haven't seen the season opener). Other good stuff more as expected, but good. Adios, Robert Forster!
― dow, Monday, 24 February 2020 06:02 (four years ago) link
sloga
― dow, Monday, 24 February 2020 06:03 (four years ago) link
So Gus pinned the drug blame on Werner? It is a frame, right?
― dow, Monday, 24 February 2020 06:05 (four years ago) link
My unofficial broadcast finished suddenly with Kim in a stairwell--was that the actual end?
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 00:51 (four years ago) link
First two episodes were pretty good (I had to wait an extra day to see them)--meant to rewatch the last episode of S4 as a bridge, but I think I'm more or less up to speed. I like the D.A. Saul cuts the deals with in the elevator.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 03:23 (four years ago) link
Normally when you watch a show part of the excitement is finding out what happens next but this show wouldn't be as good if we didn't know what happened to Jimmy. It's how he gets there that's interesting
― paolo, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 10:31 (four years ago) link
Though i would love some gene each episode.
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 10:46 (four years ago) link
Highlight of the S5 opener was Robert Forster's presence (and the dedication at the end of the show).
― clemenza, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 15:18 (four years ago) link
I was worried that they were going to make his appearance dovetail with his appearance in the El Camino netflix movie. He gets off the phone as his front door chimes and they pan to the left to show Jesse Pinkman walking in.
Pretty sure we're a couple years down the line in the timeline, now, depending on how long he's been working at that Cinnabon
― mh, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 15:26 (four years ago) link
I still have a hard time placing the prequel stuff on the timeline...A couple of years pre-Breaking Bad?
― clemenza, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 15:29 (four years ago) link
seems about right
― mh, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 15:42 (four years ago) link
I rewatched the last 4 eps of the previous season before this started - there were a few things I had forgotten, but I’m sure they would have come back to me as I watched (the biggest thing was the entire character of Lalo, don’t know how I managed that). I wouldn’t have recognised the DA from the Huell caper had I not just rewatched tho (and I have no idea what beef she’s meant to have with Jimmy)The end of episode 2 gave me kind of a jolt cause I’m so used to the main storylines running parallel that it just feels completely natural at this point, I kinda forgot they sometimes intersect lol
― Last night I dreamt I watched The Mandalorian (wins), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 17:58 (four years ago) link
There are so many great performances in this show that I somehow feel like Michael Mando still flies under the radar, he is SO good.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 18:02 (four years ago) link
Had to check who the actor is--Nacho might be my favourite character is the whole series.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 18:20 (four years ago) link
Canadian!
I thought he was great in Orphan Black, but he's even better in this show.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 18:33 (four years ago) link
I still have a hard time placing the prequel stuff on the timeline...A couple of years pre-Breaking Bad?Better Call Saul’s “present” starts in 2002, with mailroom flashbacks... five years before? and Slipping Jimmy flashbacks in the early ‘90s. There’s been a year or so of actual stuff happening onscreen, plus the one episode last season where most of a year passes during the opening split-screen montage of Kim & Jimmy’s joint / growing apart lives. (rewatched this and the season finale last week as prep)Breaking Bad mostly takes place over one year, except the final season which spreads over another year, including Walt’s winter in the wilderness. They don’t really make an effort to keep it as a period piece, though.So we’re still about four years from the start of Breaking Bad. Plenty of time for Jimmy to ruin Kim’s life over the next two seasons and still be an established success & singleton by the time he first appeared
― Fantastic. Great move. Well done (sic), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 19:37 (four years ago) link
Kim in a stairwell--was that the actual end? On her own, she carries out Jimmy's suggested scam-on-the-client-for-the-client(and-wife-and-kid-and-embryo)'s-own-good. It works, but she doesn't admit it to Jimmy, just tells him again not to suggest such a thing. He's really continuing to stress her out.
― dow, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 21:08 (four years ago) link
Esp. since this really did seem to justify the means, assuming the client has learned his lesson (would a first on this show, or any other law etc. show, right?)
― dow, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 21:10 (four years ago) link
Ah, I didn't realise there had been 2 eps. Cheers!
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 21:13 (four years ago) link
The sequence with all the long takes in Monday's episode, of Saul schmoozing and networking and wearing a colourful suit in the courthouse corridors, made me wish that the entire serious ongoing-plotlines series wraps up this year, and we get one season of the originally-intended sitcom adventures of Saul Goodman before it's all over. As a palate cleanser, if nothing else!
But
Both of the series are so interested in how things happen, with long visual sequences of people doing careful work, that it's certainly no disjunct that it turned out like this.
― Fantastic. Great move. Well done (sic), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 07:38 (four years ago) link
show does not disappoint, although I found a couple sequences straining credulity (selling phones out of a circus tent under a freeway, Nacho grabbing the endangered stash)
Looking forward to Gene taking out the cab driver
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 16:21 (four years ago) link
A while since I watched BB: did Saul ever kill anyone?
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 20:32 (four years ago) link
not directly iirc
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 20:34 (four years ago) link
as much as I found the circus-tent-phone-store nice the use of Lee Morgan's "Sidewinder" was a nice touch
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 20:43 (four years ago) link
as I much as I found the circus-tent-phone-store *ridiculous* the use of Lee Morgan's "Sidewinder" was a nice touch
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 20:44 (four years ago) link
yeah the circus tent thing coulda been dialed down several notches + on the nose "criminals" casting
― Suggest Banshee (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, 27 February 2020 13:11 (four years ago) link
spoiler: this is apparently the plan for the two final seasons
― Fantastic. Great move. Well done (sic), Friday, 28 February 2020 08:23 (four years ago) link
― Last night I dreamt I watched The Mandalorian (wins), Friday, 28 February 2020 09:13 (four years ago) link
lalo’s running commentary/audience reaction as a fun distancing effect (“what’s he doing now—is he really going to—damn!”)
ha ha, yes
― Fantastic. Great move. Well done (sic), Friday, 28 February 2020 10:01 (four years ago) link
it’s tuesday, man50% off!!
― mh, Sunday, 1 March 2020 00:02 (four years ago) link
The ants around the ice cream cone: symbolism? a 2001 reference? just a bunch ants around an ice cream cone?
What song was playing when Mike was in the bar? Sounded '70s. Him turning his back on that street crew stretched credulity.
It feels like every Saul-Kim conversation is Fraught with Significance. I kind of wish they'd move that relationship along.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 3 March 2020 03:25 (four years ago) link
This show is incredible. The scene when Kim went back Mr. Acker was done so well, I was anticipating one kind of horrible but it turned into a completely different kind of tension and outcome (purposefully being a little vague to avoid spoilers). I thought the last shot was kind of sweet and reminded me that those two really do like each other.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 3 March 2020 15:51 (four years ago) link
The guy from No Country for Old Men...As he listened to Kim on her second visit, his reaction was much different than I expected.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 3 March 2020 15:55 (four years ago) link
That's who he was! Couldn't place him, but it was nagging at me. Yeah that reaction was, in some ways, a more horrifying resolution than what I thought was going to happen. Just watching her intentions get so crushed was painful. The scene with Nacho and his dad was great too.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 3 March 2020 15:59 (four years ago) link
I think you mean the guy from Northern Exposure ...
― Fantastic. Great move. Well done (sic), Tuesday, 3 March 2020 18:41 (four years ago) link
Was wondering if any more Breaking Bad characters would show up in this show... these two make sense to bring in. Seems likely we will see them in upcoming episodes too
― Vinnie, Wednesday, 4 March 2020 01:28 (four years ago) link
I can't remember--have Badger, Skinny Pete, or Combo shown up in BCS? They'd seem like sure things (having lots of time on their schedules, I'm guessing).
― clemenza, Wednesday, 4 March 2020 01:48 (four years ago) link
They have not as of yet
― sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 4 March 2020 02:34 (four years ago) link
loved how the guys rampaging around yelling “fifty percent!” made Badger and Pete seem like complete geniuses in retrospect
― mh, Wednesday, 4 March 2020 03:03 (four years ago) link
The two guys from the bust? I actually thought they were Badger and Skinny Pete at first! They were in the car and you couldn't see them very clearly--one of them especially looked like Skinny Pete.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 4 March 2020 03:09 (four years ago) link
I’m a little behind and was thinking of the two guys who were rolling around town causing chaos in maybe ep2 of this season
― mh, Wednesday, 4 March 2020 13:10 (four years ago) link
jfc Rhea Seehorn is soooooo good why is she not getting other acting roles
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 4 March 2020 15:53 (four years ago) link
she was criminally underused in the final season of veep as tom james' chief of staff
― ooga booga-ing for the bourgeoisie (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 4 March 2020 15:56 (four years ago) link
also loved Odenkirk's face when Lalo told him "not yet" about swallowing condoms full of heroin
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 4 March 2020 16:02 (four years ago) link
I'm having fun guessing how Lalo is gonna get dispatched.
As far as who will carry it out, that's fairly obvious
― sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 4 March 2020 18:43 (four years ago) link
Hank and Gomie warmed my heart
it's weird watching this show and wondering how p much every character is going to die
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 4 March 2020 18:46 (four years ago) link
I had completely forgotten until this last episode that Crazy-8 was revealed to be an informant in Breaking Bad. Cool idea to use that for BCS.
Speaking of BB, we know that Lalo is still in the picture (or at least Saul thinks he is) when Saul first meets Walt and Jesse. So he surely won't be killed off in BCS unless the timelines start overlapping heavily.
― JRN, Wednesday, 4 March 2020 19:21 (four years ago) link