Better Call Saul

and the follow-up, confirming things

I had a small heart attack. But I'm going to be ok thanks to Rosa Estrada and the doctors who knew how to fix the blockage without surgery.
Also, AMC and SONYs support and help throughout this has been next-level. I'm going to take a beat to recover but I'll be back soon.

— Mr. Bob Odenkirk (@mrbobodenkirk) July 30, 2021

the people love you, jimmy bobby

I have a zero-percent chance expectation they’ll close this series with Neil Young’s “Albuquerque” for varying reasons but if they did…

episode 5.7

i'm starting to get bad feelings about all this because we know there's only one more series after this, 13 more episodes, and kim doesn't show up in Breaking Bad. it's going to be the german engineer all over again.

(series 5 seems a bit down on 4. i mostly liked idea of the warehouse with chalets inside it.)

I like to think that she'll eventually give up on him, move away, and have a nice life, lol

She probably went to the vacuum cleaner guy

i hope to god they give her a series of her own

BCS isnt quite as brutal as BB was so I think Kim will probably survive but will be in a position where she's not really in his life anymore. or at least to the point where she wouldn't be relevant to the events of Breaking Bad

I'm curious how much of S5 is gonna focus on Saul as Gene the pretzel guy. all those black and white season opening scenes have gotta be leading to something big. for me the big question is if Jimmy & Kimmy meet up in the "afterlife" somehow

gonna be weird for those who decide to watch this all "in order" and encounter Saul Goodman in Breaking Bad looking 12 years younger than he was in the prequel

gonna be weird for those who decide to watch this all "in order" and encounter Saul Goodman in Breaking Bad looking 12 years younger than he was in the prequel

that kind of suspension of disbelief is essential for any "prequel." what about the flashback scenes to chicago when jimmy was in "his 20s" or whatever lol

its a big pet peeve of mine, not only because the make-up and hair look so unnatural when they do this but also because the voice isn't right. especially with Bob Odenkirk who sounds a lot more gravelly these days. I'm sure there are 2000 posts about this but it distracted me a lot in The Irishman because even though "young" DeNiro looked somewhat real he moved and talked like an 80 year old man. it was real uncanny valley shit. I bet you could find a lot of great actors willing to do a young Bob Odenkirk.

since this is the Breaking Bad universe I'll also say it was unsettling when they did this in Malcolm in the Middle, where they'd flash back to Hal & Lois as newlyweds and they'd just put wigs, goofy clothes, and 5 points of makeup on them. conversely the one episode they did where they flashed back to Lois in high school where they actually cast a young woman was really cool and obviously way more believable

i think CGI technology has done wonders for this kind of stuff these days

they'd flash back to Hal & Lois as newlyweds and they'd just put wigs, goofy clothes, and 5 points of makeup on them

they also did that in breaking bad a few times–cranston shaved, used his real full head of hair and called it a day

Gene the pretzel guy

Cinnabon! Cinnabon!

Ooof, you got me there

I only mention it because of this Breaking Bad scene--perfect set-up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VM_5_vQ7nek

Walter requested to vacuum man to have exactly that done with him then, right? or else the showrunners are just being way too cute.

vacuum me. I'm ready.

Taxi driver from Albuquerque delivers Cinnabon Gene to Kim---

I thought this might be tied into new season starting but sadly no. I guess we've had a pandemic and a heart attack since the last one so not yet still.
Shame coulda done with some more around now.

#BetterCallSaul returns for its final season. Mark your calendar. pic.twitter.com/xX7Rsb3qmK

— Better Call Saul (@BetterCallSaul) February 7, 2022

Mark your calendars... but not date given. Speculation is that the 'D' and 'R' evidence tags means April 18th (4/18).

:D

Momentary timeline confusion when I saw the two brothers.

Hell yeah. Hope you're right Jon, it's been a long wait

It has been, long enough that it just hit me that we currently don't have a way to stream AMC shows. Since Season 5 ended, we got rid of Sling. Guess we're gonna have to pony up for AMC+ before April.

Can’t wait to find out what happens to Mark Prokschs character

I am excited but they're doing that thing again where they split the final season into two parts. So we're probably getting like 6 or 7 episodes upfront, then another wait...

Damn I forgot what Mark Proksch was up to in this show. Last I remember he was complaining about his missing baseball cards? (classic!)

omg i forgot he was THAT guy

he’s so great

I love how on both this show and What We Do in the Shadows they were like "we love this guy but he doesn't fit into the show at all, we're gonna make some weird little character for him"

Thanks for letting me know he is in What We Do In The Shadows. Saying goodbye to the next week of weeknights.

Didn't watch the U.S. office post Steve Carrel, but did enjoy some good YouTube comps of all Mark's scenes. He is so good in everything he touches

https://www.rollingstone.com/tv/tv-news/better-call-saul-premiere-date-final-season-1297994/

My hope: Pt. 1 wraps up the pre-BB years and Pt. 2 deals with Gene in Omaha.

that makes a lot of sense from a structure standpoint. we haven't seen any of the other characters in omaha ... would be sad if all they all go away in the arizona component

could also be some stuff concurrent with BB, particularly what happened with Kim while all that was taking place

as much as I like the idea of doing a half-season in Omaha (and iirc they've revealed that he got recognized in the last season so there's obviously something there) you're kind of abandoning nearly your entire cast in doing that

I thought in BB Gus mentions something about wiping out the last of the Salamancas which imples that Lalo dies at some point. Or maybe he survives and Gus just thinks he's dead. idk. I was not expecting them to end the last season the way they did

Yeah lalo is dead by bb season 4 guaranteed

iirc the thing with the taxi driver recognising gene was he was about to go to Robert Forster again but at the last second got a steely look & was like “forget it, I’ll deal with it myself”

ok yeah I'm trying to remember this I thought they implied the driver was from Albuquerque and recognized him because he was on TV all the time. I guess it's not really clear if people from there might've known that he was connected to the thing that was going on with Walter White at the end of BB

Yeah he had some kind of New Mexico themed air freshener or something in the car, which was the cliffhanger reveal like 2 seasons ago I think lol

Right I guess the question is if it’s someone specifically looking for him who hung that up to let him know the jig is up or if it’s just some coincidence, but that Saul is a known fugitive

If you recall in the last season the guy was like “hey you’re that guy!” & then showed up at the mall next day - I think (although it’s fuzzy) it was heavily implied he was putting on some kind of squeeze but kept just this side of ambiguous

Man I need to rewatch this series

I would love a lot of gene stuff. The most interesting things in the other stories imo are Kim breaking bad, nacho & lalo but I love the milieu so much, give me more howard, give me fring and hector, give me all the Mike

lol I forgot it was in New Mexico not Arizona. Too long between seasons.

I don't know what I'm hoping for specifically, but, as I've mentioned in other contexts, I like the a-ha moment that many people don't. There's no mystery proper here (like in Zodiac, for instance), so I don't know if that's possible, but some moment where the Saul you meet in Breaking Bad makes perfect sense--which means, among other things, the Saul that never so much as alludes to Kim.

This was a good a-ha moment--this is what I mean.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HgdHzoWqgc

new trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meb8ksPgJ5M

lol @ Mike "it's not gonna go how you think it will go", wink wink wink **WINK**

Just saw Odenkirk on his book tour. Seems like a nice dude, but he was definitely filibustering over the interviewer with pre-canned stories, etc.

Oh man, that trailer has me hyped up. So many gorgeous shots.

The uploader has not made this video available in your country

>:(

looks great. can't wait for more Kim. if kim doesn't die I want a kim spin off.