Better Call Saul

re: Jimmy-Huell, that seemed to me like a partial truth Jimmy amplified in order to get him to back off re: ceremony trappings

Yeah, that's actually what I thought: that Jimmy was lying but voicing something partly true that he hadn't even consciously formulated himself yet.

Interrupting sex with "There's something I don't want to tell you, so that must mean I should" was great.

Giancarlo Esposito should have a spinoff Marie Kondo-style lifestyle show in character, all about the benefits of being ott deliberate and meticulous in even the most mundane tasks

lie, "how to set your pen down on a dresser"

like

I'm eating healthy these days--those curly fries looked really good.

That madrigal guy (Peter) is the one who zaps himself in bb yes? He had good snack-eating form in that too

ok, refresher...what happens to him?

all of the other madrigal group restaurants were pretty awesome

Yeah I loved Luftwaffle especially.

That was the saddest fucking wedding.

xp after gus dies and everything’s exposed, the cops come for that guy who’s shown mechanically trying disgusting-looking dips, but he goes into the toilet and kills himself with a defibrillator

right!

dunking first taste of new product in ketchup not good for evaluative purposes imo

someone deserves an award for this matter of fact wiki version

In Hannover, Germany, when the police arrive to question him about his relationship with Gus Fring, Peter commits suicide by sticking one end of an automated external defibrillator in his mouth and the other over his heart. The electric current flows, and Schuler slumps onto the floor of the bathroom, dead. His death then triggers the automatic flush function on the toilet.

assuming this list of known restaurant chains is correct:
Los Pollos Hermanos, Stingin' Rays, Luftwaffle, Whiskerstay's, Haau Chuen Wok, Burger Matic, Polmieri Pizza

I did a double take at Luftwaffle

seated nexy to Gus was a rep from another taco chain, too

another?

no—a Mexican chain, was thinking Hermanos was Mexican food

though I guess technically it is

Together, the "chicken brothers" made a name for themselves and their small-town eatery by using authentic flavors and spices to make the tastiest chicken south of the border.

hmm yeah if it's slow-roasted chicken they advertise and they just now added the fries, what was making the fryers dirty? call the plot hole police!

did anyone else laugh at Gus inspecting the fryer basket before setting it aside, despite the fact he was about to blow up the place?

Saul’s rant at the end is an even more delusional “I am the one who knocks” (but sadder to see because jimmy is more likeable and his petty megalomania doesn’t just come from wounded pride, failure and resentment)

xp that was excellent

Spice Curls, put some respect on their name

Gus's beaming pride when he said the name was funny.

yes, totally performing "normie" for the other owners

same tone he used when doing charitable things for the community in BB

Yeah - I like the implication that he is genuinely proud of his spice curls, and sincerely sees worth in his community-building, BUT also has absolute contempt for displays of pride, AND cares even more about how well they cover for his criminal enterprises.

So he's learnt a performance of pride which connects with other people who care mainly about such things, and that also helpfully projects him as a simp to people who don't.

The way gus is filmed and portrayed in this series is ridic, somewhere between a terminator and Satan

of course he insisted on being the one to blow up his own restaurant so that he'd know it was competently done

...and Mr C.

cleaning's good, cleaning's good
cleaning your grill tray's good

As my wife commented when Gus was kneeling in front of Peter to calm him, "he is terrifying and reassuring all in equal measures".

Odenkirk is great, I love the guy, but he’s a comedian, not an actor

kind of apt for someone playing a con man trying to be a lawyer

I have accepted that there's a lot of pantomiming and telegraphing in Odenkirk's acting. It's most glaring in one-on-one scenes with Kim, when he's going for earnest.

But most of the time he compensates for that with charisma—he's still compelling to watch!—and yeah the fact that he's playing someone whose whole m.o. is a false front helps too.

(xpost) Same applied to his agent Stevie Grant in Larry Sanders, the ultimate con man. Acting or not, I think he's great in both, maybe even more so in Larry Sanders.

Kim’s comedic turn imitating Kevin in S5 e5 is pure gold.

I loved that rant to Howard at the end; it’s why I have always loved Odenkirk, he’s so good at being inappropriately angry

plus: it’s ~that~ exact potion of boiling hubristic rage mixed w deep entitlement & bone-deep insecurity that will permanently turn Jimmy into Saul.

Definitely

I liked when the judge asked if these are the witnesses and Huell went 'mmmmhmmmmmmm'

I'm also surprised that Kim is apparently OK with Jimmy working for the goddamn cartel

thought for a minute that they were gonna kidnap Kim

Now that everyone seems to be caught up, wasn't there a shot in the previous to last episode--when Jimmy was shooting the get-Verde video, and Kim offered to come in and help clean up--that suggested Kim was being followed and watched? I kept waiting for either her boss or the Mesa Verde guy to say "Oh Kim, by the way..." at some critical point.

I don't think she knew about the video's contents, or even that it was about Mesa Verde. It was part of what seemed to genuinely shock her at the meeting.

I got the impression that the copyright infringement charge was her idea, but not the commercial

yup, that picture was the thing she saw in the dossier delivered by the guy who broke into the house

I thought she was all-in on the videos/copyright infringement accusation and then decided against that play at the eleventh hour. She was shocked because Jimmy disregarded her decision.

agreed with old lunch

I'd buy that

I didn't explain clearly. When Kim entered the place where Jimmy was doing the shoot, we saw her enter in longshot, as if from the point of view of a car across the surveilling her.

"across the road"