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.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 3 March 2020 15:59 (four years ago) link
I think you mean the guy from Northern Exposure ...
― Fantastic. Great move. Well done (sic), Tuesday, 3 March 2020 18:41 (four years ago) link
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
― Vinnie, Wednesday, 4 March 2020 01:28 (four years ago) link
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).
― clemenza, Wednesday, 4 March 2020 01:48 (four years ago) link
They have not as of yet
― sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 4 March 2020 02:34 (four years ago) link
loved how the guys rampaging around yelling “fifty percent!” made Badger and Pete seem like complete geniuses in retrospect
― mh, Wednesday, 4 March 2020 03:03 (four years ago) link
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.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 4 March 2020 03:09 (four years ago) link
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
― mh, Wednesday, 4 March 2020 13:10 (four years ago) link
jfc Rhea Seehorn is soooooo good why is she not getting other acting roles
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 4 March 2020 15:53 (four years ago) link
she was criminally underused in the final season of veep as tom james' chief of staff
― ooga booga-ing for the bourgeoisie (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 4 March 2020 15:56 (four years ago) link
also loved Odenkirk's face when Lalo told him "not yet" about swallowing condoms full of heroin
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 4 March 2020 16:02 (four years ago) link
I'm having fun guessing how Lalo is gonna get dispatched.
As far as who will carry it out, that's fairly obvious
― sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 4 March 2020 18:43 (four years ago) link
Hank and Gomie warmed my heart
it's weird watching this show and wondering how p much every character is going to die
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 4 March 2020 18:46 (four years ago) link
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.
― JRN, Wednesday, 4 March 2020 19:21 (four years ago) link
huh really? I've completely forgotten so many incidental details.
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 4 March 2020 19:22 (four years ago) link
I had to double-check real quick on a fan wiki but yeah!
― JRN, Wednesday, 4 March 2020 19:25 (four years ago) link
“seven thousand... nine hundred... twenty-five?”lol someone really doesn’t yet know the scale of who he’s working with
― mh, Thursday, 5 March 2020 00:21 (four years ago) link
"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.
― akm, Sunday, 8 March 2020 15:48 (four years ago) link
holy shit how is the old man delivering the line “a man.... fuckin’ a horse!” not a viral clip by now
― mh, Wednesday, 11 March 2020 00:01 (four years ago) link
“picture me as the man, and mesa verde as the horse”holy shit, i am dying
― mh, Wednesday, 11 March 2020 00:02 (four years ago) link
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
― Saxophone Of Futility (Michael B), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 00:04 (four years ago) link
Oh shit I think I'm an episode behind... Carry on
― Saxophone Of Futility (Michael B), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 00:05 (four years ago) link
So was Kim's story true?
― DJI, Wednesday, 11 March 2020 00:45 (four years ago) link
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
― Fantastic. Great move. Well done (sic), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 01:11 (four years ago) link
Totally. Her making it up would be just as heartbreaking in a completely different way.
― DJI, Wednesday, 11 March 2020 01:28 (four years ago) link
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.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 11 March 2020 01:55 (four years ago) link
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.
― Unparalleled Elegance (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 02:07 (four years ago) link
good catch on identifying the actor, sic. didn’t quite place him or know he was still actingstill stuck on the absurdity of Saul just handing a dude a picture of... that
― mh, Wednesday, 11 March 2020 03:32 (four years ago) link
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.
― Fantastic. Great move. Well done (sic), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 04:39 (four years ago) link
(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")
― Fantastic. Great move. Well done (sic), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 04:44 (four years ago) link
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
― mh, Wednesday, 11 March 2020 15:49 (four years ago) link
the Gus Fring/meth plotline continues to be a total drag on this show
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 11 March 2020 15:55 (four years ago) link
NahhhThe way gus is filmed and portrayed in this series is ridic, somewhere between a terminator and Satan
― Garu you just posted flange (wins), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 16:03 (four years ago) link
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.
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 11 March 2020 16:07 (four years ago) link
Mike is at least a little more interesting, his internal morality+guilt struggle is a new wrinkle
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 11 March 2020 16:14 (four years ago) link
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.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 16:15 (four years ago) link
we already knew Fring was an asshole boss
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 11 March 2020 16:16 (four years ago) link
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.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 16:17 (four years ago) link
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
― Garu you just posted flange (wins), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 16:20 (four years ago) link
Better Spare Kim
― nashwan, Wednesday, 11 March 2020 16:22 (four years ago) link
it's the journey, not the outcome re: Mike and Jimmy. Gus isn't on a journey, he's already at his end-state.
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 11 March 2020 16:25 (four years ago) link
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.
― Unparalleled Elegance (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 16:29 (four years ago) link
lol
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 11 March 2020 16:31 (four years ago) link
His end state is dying having killed every member of the Salamanca family*, as a journey that frickin operatic! Not much personal growth tho true*this is why lalo doesn’t survive the show btw
― Garu you just posted flange (wins), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 16:31 (four years ago) link
Gus isn't on a journey, he's already at his end-state.
I'm not sure that I agree this is his "end-state". I mean, he's clearly already in a position fairly similar to where he is when he enters BB, but surely there are moves for him to make yet that can play out in an interesting, unexpected way.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 16:33 (four years ago) link
*this is why lalo doesn’t survive the show btw
I don't understand Lalo's deal - some fan wiki cited upthread noted that he was referenced as still being alive at the start of Breaking Bad, but i don't recall anything about him from BB at all
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 11 March 2020 16:36 (four years ago) link
I thiiink that might be Saul’s intro where he says “it wasn’t me, it was Ignacio” or something which is the basis for the character of nacho - maybe he refs lalo as having sent them to kidnap him but I don’t remember
― Garu you just posted flange (wins), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 16:39 (four years ago) link
ie it would be a throwaway line
― Garu you just posted flange (wins), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 16:40 (four years ago) link