Better Call Saul

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

I never expected the arc they gave "Saul" on this show. But I'm happy they did.

Still in Season 3.

Wtf this isn’t on Hulu

afaik Netflix gets the previous season about two weeks before the new season, every time.

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!

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So Gus pinned the drug blame on Werner? It is a frame, right?

My unofficial broadcast finished suddenly with Kim in a stairwell--was that the actual end?

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.

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

Though i would love some gene each episode.

Highlight of the S5 opener was Robert Forster's presence (and the dedication at the end of the show).

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

I still have a hard time placing the prequel stuff on the timeline...A couple of years pre-Breaking Bad?

seems about right

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

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.

Had to check who the actor is--Nacho might be my favourite character is the whole series.

Canadian!

I thought he was great in Orphan Black, but he's even better in this show.

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

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.

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?)

Ah, I didn't realise there had been 2 eps. Cheers!

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

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

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.

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

A while since I watched BB: did Saul ever kill anyone?

not directly iirc

as much as I found the circus-tent-phone-store nice the use of Lee Morgan's "Sidewinder" was a nice touch

as I much as I found the circus-tent-phone-store *ridiculous* the use of Lee Morgan's "Sidewinder" was a nice touch

yeah the circus tent thing coulda been dialed down several notches + on the nose "criminals" casting

spoiler: this is apparently the plan for the two final seasons

A while since I watched BB: did Saul ever kill anyone?

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

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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.