Better Call Saul

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.

This show is incredible. The scene when Kim went back Mr. Acker was done so well, I was anticipating one kind of horrible but it turned into a completely different kind of tension and outcome (purposefully being a little vague to avoid spoilers). I thought the last shot was kind of sweet and reminded me that those two really do like each other.

The guy from No Country for Old Men...As he listened to Kim on her second visit, his reaction was much different than I expected.

That's who he was! Couldn't place him, but it was nagging at me. Yeah that reaction was, in some ways, a more horrifying resolution than what I thought was going to happen. Just watching her intentions get so crushed was painful. The scene with Nacho and his dad was great too.

I think you mean the guy from Northern Exposure ...

Was wondering if any more Breaking Bad characters would show up in this show... these two make sense to bring in. Seems likely we will see them in upcoming episodes too

I can't remember--have Badger, Skinny Pete, or Combo shown up in BCS? They'd seem like sure things (having lots of time on their schedules, I'm guessing).

They have not as of yet

loved how the guys rampaging around yelling “fifty percent!” made Badger and Pete seem like complete geniuses in retrospect

The two guys from the bust? I actually thought they were Badger and Skinny Pete at first! They were in the car and you couldn't see them very clearly--one of them especially looked like Skinny Pete.

I’m a little behind and was thinking of the two guys who were rolling around town causing chaos in maybe ep2 of this season

jfc Rhea Seehorn is soooooo good why is she not getting other acting roles

she was criminally underused in the final season of veep as tom james' chief of staff

also loved Odenkirk's face when Lalo told him "not yet" about swallowing condoms full of heroin

I'm having fun guessing how Lalo is gonna get dispatched.

As far as who will carry it out, that's fairly obvious

Hank and Gomie warmed my heart

it's weird watching this show and wondering how p much every character is going to die

I had completely forgotten until this last episode that Crazy-8 was revealed to be an informant in Breaking Bad. Cool idea to use that for BCS.

Speaking of BB, we know that Lalo is still in the picture (or at least Saul thinks he is) when Saul first meets Walt and Jesse. So he surely won't be killed off in BCS unless the timelines start overlapping heavily.

huh really? I've completely forgotten so many incidental details.

I had to double-check real quick on a fan wiki but yeah!

“seven thousand... nine hundred... twenty-five?”

lol someone really doesn’t yet know the scale of who he’s working with

"jfc Rhea Seehorn is soooooo good why is she not getting other acting roles"

she is amazing, I'm completely in awe and in love with her and her pony tail. Actually I'd just remarked to my wife about her amazingly curled pony tail and about two minutes later someone on the show mentioned it.

holy shit how is the old man delivering the line “a man.... fuckin’ a horse!” not a viral clip by now

“picture me as the man, and mesa verde as the horse”

holy shit, i am dying

Loved that grumpy old obstinate guy, you could tell Kim was trying to pull at his heartstrings with her story but he was having none of it

Oh shit I think I'm an episode behind... Carry on

So was Kim's story true?

The one about her upbringing that she told Maurice from Northern Exposure? Probably, but it's good that the writers of this series enjoy ambiguity imo

Totally. Her making it up would be just as heartbreaking in a completely different way.

The horse line was brilliant.

When Howard gave his big pitch to Jimmy, I have to admit I was at a loss trying to remember how everything ended with Jimmy and his brother's firm--couldn't remember a thing.

I also wondered after the fact if Kim's story was true. She's caught a bad case of Slippin' Jimmy, and I fear it will be her downfall.

good catch on identifying the actor, sic. didn’t quite place him or know he was still acting

still stuck on the absurdity of Saul just handing a dude a picture of... that

I had no idea either! but I looked him up after ep 2 and he's super-busy for anyone, let alone a 79-year-old.

Yeah, you want to assume she's telling the truth, since she's going out on her own time and dime to try and sway him into acting in his own interest. But we've already seen her refuse and then slip into dissembling for a good cause this season, and her brooding & bottle-tossing on the balcony could just as well be at herself, as at Mesa Verde or Everett Acker.

(also my very lapsed Northern Exposure memories have been lightly stirred by visiting Roslyn, Washington Cicely, Alaska twice in the last year, and recently watching the first ep of Man In The High Castle to see it playing "Canon City, Colorado")

I would regularly have to rush out the door to get to a class during my freshman year of college because it followed reruns of Northern Exposure and Night Court, which I couldn't not watch

the Gus Fring/meth plotline continues to be a total drag on this show

Nahhh

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

I just don't care about it. We know where his story goes, we aren't learning anything about the character, it just feels like fan-service wheel-spinning.

Mike is at least a little more interesting, his internal morality+guilt struggle is a new wrinkle

No way, the Fring stuff this episode hit pretty hard for anyone that's spent time toiling in a minimum wage job for a manager/boss with very specific requirements for how he (ime, it's always a he) wants his ship run but in no way intends to actually tell his staff what that is, preferring to browbeat and insinuate that everything you do is incorrect.

we already knew Fring was an asshole boss

his single-minded sense of purpose is kind of his defining characteristic

Well, yeah. It's also true that this particular episode landed in a very particular way, but maybe just for me.

Man Patrick Fabian is always so good as Howard, such a finely-tuned character. In the lunch scene - basically sauls grey matter moment - you can see that his regret over how he treated jimmy is real, as is his sleazoid admiration. Unlike Walt tho Jimmy’s tantrum isn’t just about resentment at being patronised, it also parallels Mike’s response to Kayleigh talking about her dad being killed by “the bad guys” in that the lashing out is more about his own guilt & self-loathing than anything

xp this whole show is about inevitable outcomes tbf. We know mike dies and Jimmy becomes an amoral criminal, who cares

Better Spare Kim

it's the journey, not the outcome re: Mike and Jimmy. Gus isn't on a journey, he's already at his end-state.

Maybe his identical, ne'er-do-well cousin is about to come to town and inadvertently instigate wacky hijinx, bet you never thought of that.

lol