re: (OT) Better Call Saul final season...April 18th

American Greed: James McGill

Basically a summary of Jimmy/Saul during BCS and Breaking Bad in an “America’s Most Wanted” type of format.

Don’t know if this extra will be considered canon or not but it’s great.

I'm hoping that I can buy the episodes the day after on Amazon and watch it commercial free. Watching the show on AMC with commercials is quite painful. For season 5 the show would be available for purchase the day after it aired and I would just buy it.

Only three days left until Oughta Call Kim


I watched some of season 5 to try and get reacquainted and honestly wish I hadnt. Not trying to be negative (because I really am excited about this), but season 5 minus the finale is probably the second weakest season of all. After seasons 1 and 2. Which are tied for weakest. The last minute decision to turn Kim into Slippin Kimmy is just too desperate. They slow burned us for nearly a decade, and when they finally have their feet to the fire to wrap tjings up, Kim breaks bad on a dime?? Gay.

After re-glancing 5, I am now up from 71% to 96% confident that Kim survives now. Think of the times we’re in. This show isn’t really even about saul anymore. Its the Kim show

Can you do a free trial of AMC to watch season 6 or do you have to pay?

NumbNuts9 aka DeepRig asked me to let you guys know that he will not be able to participate in tonight's better call Saul discussion because he has been banished from the rant for some disparaging remarks about the the the ethnicity of the romans who killed Jesus.

oh no

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NumbNuts9

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Raise a clinched fist or nod your head or something when the lines are freakin everywhere.

Even if you weren’t banned, you’d never admit I’m right. But I know that you know I am.

Just including the above as a reminder about the visual component to the story telling with this thing that they painstakingly keep hidden in plain sight. The lines aren't something I'm making up to try and sound mystical or cool. THey are real, and they have purpose.

WIth that said, congratulations to whoever it was that predicted Kim would go to jail this season to explain why she isn't seen in Breaking Bad. It's pretty clear now that it's her final trajectory. Because did you notice a few changes behind her in these first two episodes?? Especially and specifically whenever it was a scene about the HOward destruction plot? For instance, at the El Camino dining room where Kim was scarfing soapapia's like she's out on bail (more on her new gross eating habits later)....did you notice all the bars lined up around her in lines like she is in a prison? In jail?

Did you you notice the shadow of the window security bar lines (the kind on a liquor store in the ghetto) cast behind her the whole time (instead of the usual horizontal window blind lines)? DId you notice when the conversation turned to the plot against Howard, the camera moved outside of the restaurant and showed Jimmy and Kim both behind bars where we couldn't hear them speaking anymore? Looking just almost exactly like an attorney talking to his client who is locked up? Framed by the lines made by the bars surrounding them? ALso, did you notice during her covert surveillance of HOward and guitar lawyer all the security fencing lines? Big tall sharp industrial -grade vertical line securiity gating, and line infested chain link fencing? (at a private country club? Sorry, nope)

Anyway, there's more. I'll get into Kim's new gross eating habits later (seriously, wtf is up with that gum chew scene and she's scarfing raisin bran and talking and chewing simultaneously with her mouth open cheeks packed and c=cereal shards are flying everywhere?) and what it could mean. Was very disappointed that they blew the symmetry of the entire series and skipped the black and white Gene season intro, but whatever. Lots of interesting stuff to get into on the opener scene though at Saul's Maralogo. He even has a secret Epstein room complete with a makeshift toilet/bucket to shite in on long survelillance jobs. What the hell

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it's kinda weird to me the hate boner she has for howard.

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The whole slippin kimmy things is weird, to be honest. Just going to have to suspend some disbelief in order to enjoy it to the end. It almost looks like they're going to make it to where Kim creates the Saul character for Jimmy. SHe's picking out his future Saul cadillac car, his future cathedral of justice office, his clothes, etc. While she turns evil. Oh well.

Howard's whole role is to represent the good and honorable man. And so this is suppose to be like when Tyler Durden beat the blonde pretty boy to a pulp and disfigured his pretty boy face. Kim just wants to destroy something good and honorable. I don't really understand her motivation to do it though. I think her developing some gross table manners is suppose to explain some of it,but it's going over my head

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lol

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Seriously dude. How would you describe the way she horked that piece of chewing gum while spying with the binoculars? Not sure 'hork' is even a word. WHich actually goes to the point. It was so out of character and weird the way she so aggresively gnawed down on that thing that you have to invent words to describe its bizarness.

hork (verb) - to aggressively gnaw

Please go back and watch it. It made me laugh so damn hard

And this is tv, so a writer wrote it that way, and then a director instructed her on how to do it that way, and then she, the actress, acted it out that specific way. And I just want to know why. And it wasn't a one-off. She's scarfing raisin bran with packed cheeks and talking and ordering enough for a family of 5 at el caminos too. What in the heck??!

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I think it was kinda cool to at long last see what kind of house saul goodman has in the breaking bad era, but man I wanted gene.

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It answered a few questions. But raises several more. There were zero signs that Kim ever had or ever would eventually live there (except for the tequila bottle top from their first scam which fell into the gutter at the end of the scene to symbolize how Jimmy dragged her down into the gutter with him - Man, they love that goofy bottle top thing). It showed he's taking Viagra to bang someone that isn't Kim, so we know the relationship is severed completely. Thi biggest question I have though is that the revealing of Saul's Maralago and it's contents makes him even more Saul Goodman than we thought him to be before. I mean, he lives like a saudi arabian oil shiek then goes to work everyday in that shitty strip mall office? But here we are 2 seasons into the last season and he doesn't seem anywhere close to that version of Saul Goodman. WHen does the switch flip? And how could it happen so fast? I mean I think we're only about a year away from the start of breaking bad

I really liked episode 1 & 2 of season 6. Really suspenseful. I may go the route of buying the episodes the next day however. It was 110 minutes of show and 40 minutes of commercials. I really don't have any predictions of how it ends but I hope Nacho and his dad make it out; Lalo gets whacked, Kim survives, and Kim and Saul reunite.