Better Call Saul

Armadon said:

Shouldn't Mike's tail on Jimmy notice someone is following him? Wonder if Mike will whack Howard and his investigator.

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That's what I thought too

I liked this episode, it was good to finally see what Lalo is hatching.

Gus' plan is still weird, he puts a gun in a hidden spot, and figures out a way to cut the lights to the room. He plans to... ambush Lalo in the dark after some sort of meeting where he goes in unarmed? weird

The Howard/Kim/Jimmy stuff is also interesting, goes back to a Vince Gilligan aphorism, "mystery is good but confusion is bad". Kim and Jimmy don't seem phazed at all that Howard knows they are behind his recent troubles, in fact, Kim says something along the lines of "you don't feel bad losing [boxing] because you know what's coming". So in fact Howard finding out is PART of their plan. As is finding out who the Judge is in the sandpiper case and they are gonna impersonate him or something? We have a mystery of what exactly Kim's plan is, but its not confusing, we know they have a plan we just don't know what it is.

A lot of foreshadowing now that Kim may not be killed but instead lose her legal license, maybe along with Howard, which is a fate worse than death for two characters whose lives revolve around their work. Also a bit nuts now that two groups are gonna be following them, Howards PI and Mike's men but Kim thinks anyone following them is Mike's men, while Jimmy doesn't know anything about either.

The speech at the retirement home also seemed to be written to viewers, "when is this gonna end? This is going too slow. Don't worry, the best payoffs require extra time."

You really start to feel bad for Howard. He always seemed like a decent guy who was just straight forward and Jimmy just keeps wanting to fuck him over and hold a grudge.

this weeks was also I believe the director debut of Giancarlo Esposito (Gus Fring), last weeks was Kim's debut. Cool they are letting the actors do that and it points to an extremely well oiled crew since you can't tell at all its different people. and yeah, next weeks episode is the "finale" for the half but the show returns with the final 6 or 7 episodes July 11th.

Some interesting shots, like they cut from Jimmy/Kim kissing to the German guy chopping wood with an axe, and the overhead shot of Jim/Kimmys apartment has a giant X by their place.




I think the point of this whole episode isn't that Jimmy wants to fuck over Howard, he is fully ok with bailing on the plan and sorta has been pushing for that for a while now. Its Kim who keeps pushing to execute D-Day, and in fact she abandons her DREAM JOB to go back and improvise. Kim has fully broken bad at this point, and the only question is who are all the people who are going to suffer.

Lanx said:

opening act really got me antsy, this time period is supposed to be 2004ish, that espresso machine the 870 didn't even come out until 2010 (honestly thought it was newer actually)

then i was like, what else are they gonna mess up?

the bitch pours the coffee into a yeti cup, yeti wasn't even a company until 2006

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I dozed through this episode. Leg chop was alright. Rest was so utterly boring.

Lanx said:

opening act really got me antsy, this time period is supposed to be 2004ish, that espresso machine the 870 didn't even come out until 2010 (honestly thought it was newer actually)

then i was like, what else are they gonna mess up?

the bitch pours the coffee into a yeti cup, yeti wasn't even a company until 2006

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Anachronisms are always such a pain in the ass to control for TV shows but yeah, it's super distracting when there's things you know shouldn't be there without even having to look it up

part 1 finale tonight, part 2 (end of the show) restarts July 11th

here's something SUPER weird though, a series of animated shorts will also start on AMC+ tonight called Slippin' Jimmy about young Saul. da fuq is this, sounds like an April Fools joke but I guess its real

Lanx said:

the bitch pours the coffee into a yeti cup, yeti wasn't even a company until 2006

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I mean was it a yeti? Couldnt have been a thermal cup of some sort of brand of the time?

Solid mid season ending. Not unexpected, but a little surprising.

slow (half) season but those last 2 minutes goddamn