TV: Better Call Saul

[spike]

Sounds solid too me.

a little to solid

*too

Great job, Spike.

*McJob

[Coach]

This show, fellas. This show. So freaking good when there's so much crap out there.

[Norah]

Oh shit.

[Mecca]

Spoiler: show

million dollar chucky

[Jorge]

Oh.

[Jorge]

Oh, that is so much better.

[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.

[The Argonaut]

How involved is Gilligan on this?

[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]

It's his baby along with Peter Gould's, who was the writer in Breaking Bad that actually created the Saul/Jimmy character. They developed it and produce it together. Both BCS and BB had a bunch of screenwriters.

[numbers]

The scene where Chuck confronted Jimmy and Kim was fantastic.

[spike]

mike buying a round for the bar is totally out of character; he wouldn't flash money around like that. i'm guessing that was in there as an eventual clue for the cartel, but i hope not.

[Norah]

mike buying a round for the bar is totally out of character; he wouldn't flash money around like that. i'm guessing that was in there as an eventual clue for the cartel, but i hope not.

Eh, in a bar like that it could just mean he hit on keno that day.

[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.

[@SkitchP]

mike buying a round for the bar is totally out of character; he wouldn't flash money around like that. i'm guessing that was in there as an eventual clue for the cartel, but i hope not.

Eh, in a bar like that it could just mean he hit on keno that day.

I loved that scene. I agree it was out of character, but that doesn't mean it was unbelievable. He had just stolen this money, which he ostensibly did to get the cops on Salamanca's tail, also probably a little out of spite; I don't think he did it because he wanted the cash. So why not go to a dive bar and buy everyone a drink? He's been a blue collar stiff all his life, probably felt great to do that just once.

Yeah. Out of character. but it was supposed to be. A guy like Mike never took a job for the crazy money. Having that amount of money was out of character.

Very well done scene.

[The Argonaut]

I don't think he was celebrating. That is far too reckless for someone like Mike, especially with his DIL drama. I think he is purposefully looking for Salamanca attention, though I don't know why.

[epilogue]

Just finished the first episode.

This is way better than I expected. I should have checked this out way sooner!

Great premier.

[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.

[Norah]

Just finished the first episode.

This is way better than I expected. I should have checked this out way sooner!

Great premier.

Nice! Enjoy. S1 takes its time setting up the story, but it's great. S2 is just A+ all the way.

I thought S1 was pretty great from the start.

[Jorge]

I don't think he was celebrating. That is far too reckless for someone like Mike, especially with his DIL drama. I think he is purposefully looking for Salamanca attention, though I don't know why.

No, I definitely think he was celebrating and I think it's supposed to be out of character. We're seeing a side of Mike we'd never seen before; he's being sloppy, driven by pride and revenge after his family was threatened, picking the half-measures, messing with the cartel when they'd already discarded him, unwittingly getting an innocent civilian killed. When Mike bought a round for the house, I saw a bit of Heisenberg hubris in him, and I think this really colors his frustration with Walter in Breaking Bad.