TV: Better Call Saul

[Jorge]

Huh

[Mecca]

This felt like a side quest

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[Ensign9]

I don’t care how fat you are, no one wants a goddam Cinnabon night after night after night. I buy everything else tho.

I think it was once a week. They talked about a Nebraska Cornhuskers game each time.

[Ensign9]

Unquestionably a good episode on its own but it felt jarring to go back to an earlier season 1/2/3 tone after the intensity of the last few weeks.

Someone on the subreddit suggested this episode would have fit better as an “interlude” earlier this season and I tend to agree. The obvious caveat being we don’t know what’s coming next. But BB and BCS have never depended on future episodes making previous episodes seem better in hindsight.

I will say it took a lot of balls to go this direction after what we experienced the last few weeks and I give them credit for that. Ultimately, in Gould I trust.

[Ensign9]

Huh

This is a much more concise but no less accurate recap of my reaction versus what I wrote above.

[elliseamos]

It's a set up for how Jimmy ultimately fails.

He's wanting his old life. The ring. The shirts, the ties, the suits...

We all know he's not disciplined enough to live the Gene life forever.

Now we know that Jeffy and his friend will be what messes this up. Jimmy told them to forget Gene, but didn't mention that they should forget Saul Goodman.

Or maybe it'll be Jeffy's mom bugging the shit out of him to have Gene over and for Gene to bring Nippy with him.

[Bammer]

I don’t care how fat you are, no one wants a goddam Cinnabon night after night after night. I buy everything else tho.

I think it was once a week. They talked about a Nebraska Cornhuskers game each time.

Yep those were weekly visits.

Say what you want about Taylor Martinez’s up and down career as a Husker: The guy has his very own episode of Better Call Saul and no one can ever take that away from him.

[elliseamos]

Haha. I enjoyed the Cornhusker chats.

And Jimmy clearly was enlivened by all this. But the "hanging it up" symbolism was great.

Also, the intro change was fun.

[Mecca]

No doubt that Nippy would’ve been an annoying little shit if it was real

[VinylGuy]

Loved it. The cinematography was great. I love that black and white.

Yeah, im not sure were this is leading...Jimmy seems to be back, even if he hangs that shirt at the end...also the promo posters with Gene and that red jacket...he could be putting that one again. Not just for this job.

Carol Burnett said she was going to be featured in more than one episode and she seemed noisy enough to actually get Gene in trouble.

[blueviper]

What bothered me was there was snow and the trees had leaves like it was summer.

I'm chalking it up to a freak snowstorm.

[4/5]

Based on the games they were talking about, he starts his Cinnabon-security-dates in mid-October 2010. So, early season snow? And that puts this only about 6-7 months since he was Hoover vacuumed out of ABQ.

[CopperTom]

He's wanting his old life. The ring. The shirts, the ties, the suits...

Or the final scene showed he is finally walking away from Saul Goodman.

[VinylGuy]

yeah, so far its open.

Do you guys think Jimmy-Saul- Gene will have more of a tragic ending? We know the Vince wanted to El Camino to give Jesse a ¨happy¨ending...Walter is dead....Maybe Jimmy goes to jail?

[VinylGuy]

I mean we really dont know if Walter is dead actually

[Jorge]

I enjoyed the episode but I'm disappointed in the characterization of Jeff. Back when he harassed Jimmy at the mall he seemed menacing and unpredictable, a real threat to his new identity. In this episode they turned him into a bumbling, naive doofus that Jimmy could easily outsmart. The whole "mutually assured destruction" crinkle also feels very forced, as if law enforcement would give a hoot about some tiny mall heist in comparison to capturing wanted fugitive and meth consiglieri Saul Goodman. And yeah, "Jeff doesn't know that!"-- sure. They made him dumb as a bag of rocks in this episode in order for that to work. I dunno. It all felt flimsy. Hopefully this isn't how the Jeff storyline ends up shaking out.

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[Jorge]

Did you watch last night's episode?

[The Argonaut]

I agree with Jorge. I had the exact same thought. It turns out that the need to re-cast was a good thing because this season's version of the taxi driver is a completely different guy.