Better Call Saul

That's why I put momentum/interest--I simply meant that if you stay away long enough, people lose interest. They went 2015/16/17/18; I thought they'd resume this fall.

no you didn't!

update: no new eps until 2020.

― blokes you can't rust (sic), Saturday, April 6, 2019 7:28 AM (four months ago) bookmarkflaglink

Sounds like it's driven by cast members with commitments elsewhere:

http://theplaylist.net/amc-better-call-saul-season-5-2020-20190405/?fbclid=IwAR10afGkHuYJr495KPzkVcQH8ZWmsi7Rj-zYE5MVjDGkJYq0Dyxp2Sh6atMVjNE10nsTxUhLWe495XCmxIpDU8MJzfv7Ew-mLR5ZIwQTxWLd0Qlkc2Fu6ngZZƃu9nℲᄅɔʞlQ0p˥Mx┴QʍIZϛɹ˥ɯ-ʍƎㄥʌɟzſW8∩pdIxɯƆXϛ6ㄣǝM˥ɥ∩x┴su0ƖƎNɾΛMƃh9aℲᄅɔʞyD0c˥Zk┴DʍVMϛɹ˥ɯ-ʍƎㄥʌɟmſJ8∩cqVkɯƆKϛ6ㄣǝZ˥ɥ∩k┴fh0ƖƎAɾΛ

― clemenza, Sunday, April 7, 2019 4:38 AM (four months ago)

Financial backing of television seasons is kinda like the structure of family feud - nothing really matters because the final round is triple bonus anyway

even if Better Call Saul ended up doing nine seasons to get to 88 episodes, AMC's not going to be selling it stripped to local FTA stations 13 years after it launched

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbNCUfL56b8

via the Atlantic

NOBODY (AUGUST 14)
Bob Odenkirk (Better Call Saul) is currently filming a John Wick–esque action film about a man who is sucked into a mob war against a vengeful drug lord? Nobody is written by Derek Kolstad, who scripted every entry in the Wick series; Odenkirk is playing a character called “Hutch Mansell.”

Couldn't possibly be more out of character than the lovable dad in Little Women.

Season 6 ordered and will be final one

Better Call Saul will end with season 6 https://t.co/YtFOICyTqp pic.twitter.com/6o5l7350TR

— Den Of Geek UK (@denofgeek) January 17, 2020

Good to hear, will stop me having morbid concerns about banks maybe snuffing it before they can finish

(Although if they end up spending a lot of time in the gene years he won’t be in it anyway

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We have a trailer:

https://youtu.be/qLbdg4WM8qc

Avert yr eyes if you would prefer to not be SPOILERized re: the BB character making their BCS debut.

Looks great. Have no recollection of where they left off, so I'll have to rewatch the previous season (or at least a few episodes).

content glut has scrambled my ability to remember what was happening in even my favorite few shows

Mike oversaw the guys building a meth bunker and then killed the one German guy that tried to get away
Nacho got co-opted by Gus
Jimmy ran some cellphone scams and managed to get reinstated to the bar

honestly couldn't care less about the Nacho/Gus storyline and wish the show was 90% Jimmy w/occasional Mike content

ha thank you

I'm gonna run with it

And Saul/Kim? Basically finished, right, at the end of S4?

yeah

I think Kim's fate--how she gets written out--is the most intriguing thing for most viewers at this point.

I don't think they were necessarily finished but Kim definitely was starting to have her doubts

I'm not sure they really need to explain why she's "written out" of BB, I don't know exactly what scenes she would've fit into. but yeah it seems pretty likely that relationship won't last.

She had no place in BB, I agree, but it's more that--unless I've forgotten--Saul never even alludes to her; how did he so thoroughly erase her from his life? On the other hand, having just rewatched the entirety of BB, it struck me that Saul is almost a different character; kind of one-dimensionally funny, but not much more beyond that. So there's a disconnect that you probably just take as is, without requiring much explanation re Kim.

she's either going to find out how much of a criminal jimmy and never speak to him again or is going to get killed imo

did jimmy get reinstated? why do I remember it not working out

It didn’t initially but then they staged an event to make jimmy appear more human and sincere re chuck’s death (some kind of benefit and “anonymous” donation iirc?)

aw yeah, I remember that now

high point of the show was that hearing w/ the cellphone slipped in Chuck's pocket, they telegraphed that plot point from S1 but it was still really well done

anyway I really doubt they're gonna kill off Kim, she's really the one and only character in this series that you can root for

is this the last season?

no they announced 6 would be the last

well maybe they can kill her in the next season then

Watching this again from the start. It might be a weird thing but I love the sound in S1, like just background sounds are a little heightened so the non-dialogue parts are really noticeable.

Also it's just a darn good show.

Oh god I forgot about the scam montage in S01E10 so good

If you're really interested in and attentive to sound, keep an eye open for Making Waves, a new documentary about sound design in movies--I posted about it in the documentary thread yesterday.

tempted to re-watch as it's such a delight. But there's a lot of it

xp will do!

it's a minor thing but god bless whoever decided "our intro will be 20 seconds long." after watching Man in the High Castle, Westworld and The Expanse and feeling like i was being subjected to Art someone thought was Incredibly Important via their intros it's a nice change.

finally watching this for the first time.

Jimmy is taking on Sandpiper.

I enjoy all the micro-details that Gilligan and company get right in both this and Breaking Bad. the mundane bits are interesting.

this is a wee bit more dramatic than I expected but Odenkirk is always entertaining.

Barry Shabaka Henley!

I just finished seasons 1-4 for the second time and I think I actually like it a little more this time around.

Lol at Ehrmentraut throat-punching tall douchebag at the meet.

That tall guy did the voice for Trevor in GTA V, I feel compelled to point out despite general lack of interest.

Oh cool!

Back next Monday!

i had no idea Mark Margolis was Jewish and born in Philly in real life.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TAPSpNI3SQ

love this show but "Saul" in heavy doses sometimes stresses me out. I actually am uncomfortable with people that lie a lot, even fictitious ones. it's a me thing - i'm the worst liar in real life because the concept is alien to me

fascinating character he is though.

love seeing the slow, building incidental connection between Mike and him as well.

holy shit that video, classic "acting is a job I do" interview

out of all the voices I expected to come out of him.....

and lol at the "when I blew Giancarlo and myself"

digging that guy's energy

lol that is not at all what I thought he would sound like

"Here's what's gonna happen. One day you're gonna get sick – again. One of your employees is gonna find you curled up in that space blanket, take you to the hospital, hook you up to those machines that beep and whir and hurt. And this time, it will be too much. And you will die there. Alone."

Ho...lee....shit