Nail Rat posted:

I'm loving that increasingly the Gene stuff is becoming more plot heavy and showing he can't hide forever. The shows final act should definitely be set in that timeline.

Nail Rat posted:

I will say this, and it's something I never thought I'd say in the first season: Howard may be the most decent person in this show aside from Kim. I feel pretty bad for him.

SpiderHyphenMan posted:

The Pollos reveal was the moment that familiarity with Breaking Bad became essential to enjoyment of Better Call Saul.

Insider Podcast is up, by the way.

SpiderHyphenMan posted:

They're both super protective of each other.

SeANMcBAY posted:

Do they still spend half the podcast constantly praising staff?

Baronjutter posted:

Does kim have much criminal background? Lawyers are generally pretty hyper-focused and kim seems to be more banking/finance focused.

Sierra Nevadan posted:

Was Kim crying because she read the letter beforehand and knew Jimmy was bullshiting?

It really said "Brother I have hated you since you were born and I am ashamed of you. gently caress you from beyond the grave."

quote:

What this excruciating final scene drives home is that Jimmy really does not understand the consequences of being in a relationship. He has dealt with his Chuck problem as if he is a free agent. But the way he reads that final letter — ice cold, brittle, flippant — shows that he’s turned his heart into stone. And he never even thinks that Kim, who cares for him, wants to be there for him, even tried to protect him from Chuck’s passive-aggressive last twist of the knife, might be hurt by his utter rejection of human feeling. He’s decided to go it alone when it comes to dealing with the past and moving forward. He doesn’t see that this shuts Kim out and makes her feel like a fool for caring, for trying.

Selachian posted:

Yeah. I suspect her preoccupied attitude after the meeting at Mesa Verde was more because she suspects that Good Ol' Kevin is up to something, with his sudden plans to build big elaborate branches in a dozen cities at once and then take over the entire West. And I'd guess she wanted to go to the courthouse to look into Mesa Verde's records and try to figure out what's really going on.

Rexides posted:

Judging from the way she looked at the Mesa Verde logo/cowboy/statue at the end of that scene, I think she is overwhelmed by a sense of accomplishment. In the last (few?) months she quit her job, had to fight against her old employer to keep her client, overworked herself almost to death, and it suddenly dawned on her that it was all worth it in the end and there is meaning in her work.

Cojawfee posted:

"Jimmy I have a confession"

"What is it?"

"I wrote that letter you thought was from Chuck."

"What? How could you do this?"

"I don't know?"

"Why not?"

"You see, I have come down with a case of explosive amnesia."

Takes No Damage posted:

I see no evidence or reason to believe Gus and Gail were ever romantic. Gus bankrolled his education as a way to have a PhD chemist on his payroll when the time came to set up The Lab, and for such a long-term project of course he wants to maintain at least friendly relations between them. Gail is just his hetero-lifemate guys

SeANMcBAY posted:

We’re starting to see the seeds of why Stacy seems so distant to Mike in Breaking Bad. He really wasn’t happy to hear that she’s not thinking about his son as much anymore.

massive spider posted:

We don’t know exactly what his orders were from gus. It’s probable that the Salamanca strike was “supposed” to be successful so they could hand over their territory to Gus, so when they went in like idiot cowboys and he saw reinforcements arriving he had to step in and make it so.

Nachos caught between two sides but the twins dying because of his failure pisses off both.

Ditocoaf posted:

Now I'm kinda hoping that they wrap up BCS in as few seasons as possible, so I can see the people behind the show move on to make new things. All this incredible talent, this stunning quality of writing, filmmaking and acting, built around a core spine of "man, it's too bad Breaking Bad had to end. Can we pretend it didn't end?".

Parakeet vs. Phone posted:

Either too cocky, or Gus was mad that he just dropped information on a past client with almost no prompting. He wouldn't want a guy who's going to talk about turning an industrial laundromat into a SUPERLAB in the future.

SeANMcBAY posted:

Huh? Can you explain? I’m curious and don’t want to waddle through 20 min of them saying how fantastic their staff is.

Cojawfee posted:

"Well, we're being given the signal to wrap up. I just want to get one quick thing in that I liked the superlab survey scenes. Ok, who's going to say "better call saul" this week?"

Data Graham posted:

This is the rabbit hole that I ended up down:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pouteria_lucuma

quote:

Its unique flavor in such preparations has been described variously as being similar to sweet potato, maple syrup, or butterscotch.

Zulily Zoetrope posted:

Kai put himself on Mike’s shitlist. People who get on there tend to end up proving that they deserve everything that’s coming to them. Jesse is the only one who made it off of there, and I guess we’ll have to wait and see how much loyalty lies beneath Kai’s disruptive behavior.

Fair Bear Maiden posted:

I know most people credit Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul's success to Vince Gilligan, but there's also a full writing room, and he's co-showrunner with Peter Gould on BCS. This is not really related to Kai or German prostitutes, just something that I thought was worth keeping in mind, especially considering how much these shows appear to benefit from ignoring the auteur structure.

DarklyDreaming posted:

Jimmy laying low in Texas for some reason

SpiderHyphenMan posted:

Data Graham posted:

Dr. Despair posted:

good ole slippin' kimmy

thebardyspoon posted:

Incidentally, anyone else feel like they've done a good job of showing that as a couple they're very... insular? Like, obviously TV shows very rarely have incidental friends who aren't relevant to the plot since that costs money and time and poo poo but like, early in Breaking Bad they had parties with lots of people and you got the impression Skylar and Walt had you know, lives outside of what we were seeing. Whereas I've kinda gotten the impression that Kim and Jimmy kinda don't have much else going on outside of their work and each other, also I feel like the actress who plays Kim sometimes plays her as the kind of person who gets on with people professionally but doesn't form friendships particularly easily. Just like, another reason why she's throwing so much in with Jimmy maybe.

timp posted:

Did they explain who the legal assistants (paralegals? junior associates?) with Kim were in the meeting with the Asst. DA? She couldn't have roped in actual time and resources from Schweikert and Cokely, could she? Were they more film students or something? Law students from the community college down the road?