OT: Better Call Saul season finale
As in I hope that biopsy comes back benign!!
that finds Mike's storyline more interesting than Jimmy"s? Not that the whole Jimmy to Saul transformation hasn't been worth the watch, but something about Mike's character has always been fascinating to me.
Mike is easily the best part of the show. Somehow I think he works best as the part you yearn for more of. Too much would get old at some point. Wish he had a part this one, but that makes the next time that much better.
More Breaking Bad esque. Chuck really lost his shit last night. Can only assume he didn't make it out alive. I didn't watch "Talking Saul" because it was too late. I'll catch that tonight.
Seems unlikely. They're still haggling over season 4 last I checked, much less 5/6/7. And story wise, the drug half is getting perilously close to the status quo when we meet Gus in BB. Which means it's just Jimmy -> Saul and the last couple episodes accomplished a lot of that transition, though the finale tried to put that genie back in the bottle at least a little.
I think a lot of what makes it interesting will fade away after he's Saul. We know how that story ends, what we don't know is why a well meaning but ethically shaky guy named Jimmy McGill becomes criminal lawyer Saul Goodman. That's an interesting story and what leads him down that path is what I want to see. Though I guess I'm kind of anti-heroed out at this point so when Jimmy becomes a genuinely bad person I won't be as invested. Except for rooting for Kim to escape.
I read on another site that there was roughly 7 (fictional) years between where they are at right now with Saul and the start Breaking Bad. Not sure how true that is, I didn't bother to put the clues together myself, but I hope so. Love the show. More Mike and Gus, though.
Jimmy dates the "present" at 2003 in last night's show. Breaking Bad debuted in 2008 and set in the then present. So we've got 5 years.
I remember an earlier episode this season where someone referred to a bottle of Tequila as being 25 years old and when they showed the bottle it said 1976 on it but I could be wrong.
but you still shouldn't screw him because you feel bad for him.
Clearly, Chuck wasn't right. But ouch.
Not a single sighting of Mike Ehrmantraut in the entire episode. Smh Moar Gustavo & Mike scenes in S4 please.
He did, but not before the damage was done. And on "Talking Saul" after the show, they drew a distinction in the evolution of the Jimmy character. Before, the victims of Jimmy's schemes were either jerks/kind of deserved it or the victims were unintentional consequences of his actions. In the Irene case, it was still an OK goal (yes it helped him, but it was also getting the money into the old folks' hands when they could still use it), but the damage was absolutely purposeful to theoretically achieve OK but not terrible ends.
The final phase would be to cause damage to just help himself only, with no real veneer of nobility or positives for anybody else.
And when he did try to put the toothpaste back in the tube, he did it in a self-immolating kind of way. It's like he's got this self-hatred thing going on.
and I tried so hard to get into this series but I just couldn't. I find myself screwing around on my phone half way through every episode.
I hadn't realized until today that the secretary was the same one he has in Breaking Bad. Duh.
During the scene in which Chuck was trying to find the source of the stray electricity, I kept thinking back to the episode where Mike pretended to be a handyman to fix Chuck's door. In the episode recaps, they mention that Mike snuck in to photograph how miserable Chuck's living conditions were. But I seem to remember Mike doing more than that. Like, what if Mike installed a recording device in the walls and that what was drawing the excess energy? What if Jimmy was the reason Chuck committed suicide? Losing his career and the respect of his peers is pretty bad, but what if Jimmy drove him to suicide? If I get a chance, I'm going to re-watch episode 4 to see exactly what Mike did. It was strange that Mike wasn't in the finale at all, but his "presence" or lack thereof haunted the episode for me because of episode 4. But I could be just imagining things.
Still, great show. I was also struck by how different this show is than Game of Thrones, yet I'd say those are the two best shows on TV right now. When someone asks, what kind of show do I like, I respond "good shows." And nothing better exemplifies that than a list that includes BOTH GoT and Better Call Saul.
I was thinking the exact same thing.
I think it will be worse than that...no clue but I feel like something much, much worse is going to happen to Kim.
Like Chuck said in last night's episode, Jimmy hurts everyone he cares about, which has been the case thus far in Better Call Saul.
Yeah, that's my concern too. It's possible it's just ethical drift, but the accident really seemed to shake up Kim. She could just decide to re-evaluate her life as an attorney and leave the show that way. Or they could drift apart ethically.
Another possiblity is that Kim ends up being inadvertently victimized by one of Jimmy's scams/behaviors. Like, they both pull off one of those con-man scams at the fancy bars, but Kim gets caught whereas Jimmy doesn't. Kim loses her license/goes to jail whereas Jimmy goes scott free becasue she protects him or something--thus causing the break-up.
Anyway, jettisoning the senior citizen business model is another step towards Jimmy--> Saul.
I could see the way Jimmy converting to Saul is that he finally gets his license back, the Sandpiper settlement comes in, and in a fit of desperation, Jimmy uses the settlement money for big burst of advertising as Saul Goodman. And ironically, he decides that chanigng his name to Saul Goodman is BETTER for his legal career becasue people won't compare him to his brother and/or get tied up in the controversial nature of his brother.
I'm hoping this show ends next season (it's likely to be the last) with Kim stopping at the Cinnabun. Happy endings don't tend to be a thing there, so I'll be happy with just a great season.
The first one inspired the famous "Chicago Sun Roof".
I really have gotten attached to Kim and Nacho this past season. It's odd but entertaining knowing the fate of characters but not knowing how they get there... yet.
Season 1 was pretty good. The show has gotten worse in each season since that first season. Take a step back. Then re-watch the first 2 seasons in order. You'll see the regression of the writing. Its almost un-watchable now. Also, watch any season of Breaking Bad. Then compare that to this current season of Better Call Sall. You'll notice a huge decrease in the quality of the writing. Its sad.
Haven't had a chance to sit down for season 3 yet but hopefully the pace picks up a little bit. The first two seasons were a bit of a snooze fest.
Little slow picked up a bit this season