Better Call Saul

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Originally Posted by sonatine

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i fast forwarded through a _lot_ of jimmy scenes.

also they kinda got realllll deep into their opening/establishing shots to the point where i was fast forwarding through those as well.

season 5 is signed and should be back in august 2019 more or less. id be kinda surprised if this show goes a 6th season but i know they want to, which is frankly a little weird given how close we are to sync'ing with BB-world.

also its getting a bit weird because we are running out of ways to introduce new characters, and its difficult to imagine a place for kimmie to go on the show for example, it makes a lot more sense to just time jump to a point where she's washed her hands of her definitely and its not even close sociopath boyfriend. because at this point there really isnt a lot of room for her in that universe. also with 'jimmy' basically fully morphed into saul in front of our eyes, it makes sense that he wouldnt really care of she bounced. im guessing she uncovers the details of the insurance drama source and goes back to her home planet with poochie within the first 2 or 3 eps otherwise.

in either case, i think we are going to see a return to the season 1 dynamic where its just kind of a verite slice of life piece about jimmy/saul complete with a bunch of new characters rotating through his office for laughs, which honestly im looking forward.

chances are season 5 (maybe 6 as well) in gustav land is going to be getting the lab finished, gale faceplanting, and chasing down the source of the blue meth.

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Anything good you're on right now?

I just wrapped The Deuce S2 and rate it a hearty meh.

i really liked the finale of deuce this season and found the rest to be kinda insufferable.. but the subject matter / period resonates so its going to take a lot to get me to bail on it at this point.

i dipped a toe in Maniac and found it exhaustingly ambitious. might finish it. might not.

mostly im just locked and loaded for narcos, then ill probably skim house of cards, and then ill probably fuck with red dead redemption 2 with a pinch of Vikings until GoT in spring, more or less.

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Originally Posted by Daly

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Originally Posted by JohnCommode

Enjoyed season 4, but then I'm addicted to the Breaking Bad/Saul franchise. Others less addicted may find many episodes overly coy and cryptic. I think that Mike and the cartel are more compelling than Jimmy's tortured legal career.

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Agree to all of this.

Episode 8 of season 1 (think it was 8) when mike opened up to his daughter-in-law was my favorite show of the whole series.

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:this

i've watched that a thousand times on my dvr... "I made him debase himself"


jonathan banks steals every scene he is in

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYkrXFq3U9g

oh weird is it last week again grandpa

also shows great but did any of you dick sucks watch get shorty on epix

IM GONNA GUESS THE ANSWER IS NO BECAUSE TODGE POKER = TRASH PEOPLE

Get Shorty is great. I haven't seen season 3 yet though.

Yes, this "dick suck" has seen all 3 seasons and I totally endorse all 3. You have to get past the fact that this is not the movie or the Elmore Leonard novel. Really, the only similarity is that the Epix series and the others involve the movie industry.

todge i take it all back this guy putting dick suck in quotes is one of the funniest moves ive ever seen

Not sure how this hasn’t gotten a bump yet this season.

Love the continued slow pace and build.... except with the Kim parts.

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Originally Posted by Daly

Not sure how this hasn’t gotten a bump yet this season.

Love the continued slow pace and build.... except with the Kim parts.

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I keep waiting for the ep when she dies.

Show has been good this season for sure.

show has been great this season

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Originally Posted by Daly

Not sure how this hasn’t gotten a bump yet this season.

Love the continued slow pace and build.... except with the Kim parts.

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Kim is the nuts compared to skylar and Walt jr.. They were the absolute worst. At least Kim gets turned on by Jimmy’s hustle. She just hates that he only has one gear. Still far more interesting watching her work through her internal battle of corporate lawyer with who she wishes she was. Skylar was deer in the headlights boring and vanilla. I have to skip through the scenes with her and Walt jr when I catch an old episode.

thoughts.


kinda happy this ends in one more season. it never came close to sucking.


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kim gets in WAAAAY tf over her head going after howard and ends up being our introduction to the vacuum salesman character. saul pays for her vanishing with most if not all of his cartel earnings.

1) that explains why shes less than a ghost once BB starts.

2) it introduces a very comfortable sort of symmetry between her arc and jimmy's arc.

i think its actually possible but not likely that the final scene is jimmy relocating and somehow reuniting with kim under his new assumed identity, or he sees her and decides not to because shes in a new relationship/has a family or some shit like that.

its nice to now that no matter how wrong i am, i likely wont be disappointed.

13 eps for final season starting in 2021 providing they can start shooting soon (covid concerns).

Your read feels possible.

I was kind of surprised the character who avoided death has lasted until last season. Strikes me as a character who nailed the role so hard they probably extended his run.

Still can’t find spoiler tags, so attempted to be as vague as possible.

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Originally Posted by BCR

Your read feels possible.

I was kind of surprised the character who avoided death has lasted until last season. Strikes me as a character who nailed the role so hard they probably extended his run.

Still can’t find spoiler tags, so attempted to be as vague as possible.

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like so:

I was caught off guard by the last couple of episodes because I totally thought that season 5 was to be the last season. I thought I read it somewhere but it was obv wrong.

It was a nice surprise to see there would be a 6th season. Let's hope we won't wait for a ridiculous amount of time because of rona

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Originally Posted by Gordman

I was caught off guard by the last couple of episodes because I totally thought that season 5 was to be the last season. I thought I read it somewhere but it was obv wrong.

It was a nice surprise to see there would be a 6th season. Let's hope we won't wait for a ridiculous amount of time because of rona

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I don’t mean the following as to say the show has fallen off but I’m glad they are going to wrap it up next season. It’s time.

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Originally Posted by Gordman

I was caught off guard by the last couple of episodes because I totally thought that season 5 was to be the last season. I thought I read it somewhere but it was obv wrong.

It was a nice surprise to see there would be a 6th season. Let's hope we won't wait for a ridiculous amount of time because of rona

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I don’t mean the following as to say the show has fallen off but I’m glad they are going to wrap it up next season. It’s time.

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Oh definitely. 100% agree

interesting breadcrumbs re final season:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaI8bR_rXWY

ignacio = nacho

lalo = lalo salamanca

and when gus visits hector in season 4 he says every other salamanca is dead...

wow great job explaining that you absolute fucking cracker

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wow great job explaining that you absolute fucking cracker

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How do you not get what he posted?

Holy fuck how stupid are you that you need fattlepuss here mansplaining that a character named lalo = lalo you fucking all around rube piece of shit

Todge I hate how dumb ur posters are

Also to set the record straight tine knows hes a mansplaining cracker and we also know ur a fucking idiot

mod please move thread to stockamets

lololololo

Shit.

The lightbulb just went off in my head...ok, obv it took a while, so sue me.

After several minutes of contemplation, I suddenly have a strong feeling that I'm probably one of the few here that didn't realize lolwow is a Tine dupe.

Ugh

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Shit.

The lightbulb just went off in my head...ok, obv it took a while, so sue me.

After several minutes of contemplation, I suddenly have a strong feeling that I'm probably one of the few here that didn't realize lolwow is a Tine dupe.

Ugh

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sadly no

it's a mama luigi dupe

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Originally Posted by Gordman

Shit.

The lightbulb just went off in my head...ok, obv it took a while, so sue me.

After several minutes of contemplation, I suddenly have a strong feeling that I'm probably one of the few here that didn't realize lolwow is a Tine dupe.

Ugh

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absolutely not my dupe.

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Originally Posted by sonatine

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Originally Posted by Gordman

Shit.

The lightbulb just went off in my head...ok, obv it took a while, so sue me.

After several minutes of contemplation, I suddenly have a strong feeling that I'm probably one of the few here that didn't realize lolwow is a Tine dupe.

Ugh

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absolutely not my dupe.

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of course you were gonna say that...

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Originally Posted by Gordman

Shit.

The lightbulb just went off in my head...ok, obv it took a while, so sue me.

After several minutes of contemplation, I suddenly have a strong feeling that I'm probably one of the few here that didn't realize lolwow is a Tine dupe.

Ugh

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I’ll admit to having thought that in moments of the past.

I have chosen to surpress that inclination because I’ve seen a few too many 1-2 page back and forth sassy remark arguements between Tine and Lolwow. If it ended up being the same person it would be time for a intervention.

holy fuck y'all niggas is slippin, cant believe they just showed the series finale and not on peep

I thought it was excellent, a very worthy follow up to breaking bad. gonna go back and rewatch both shows now

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holy fuck y'all niggas is slippin, cant believe they just showed the series finale and not on peep

I thought it was excellent, a very worthy follow up to breaking bad. gonna go back and rewatch both shows now

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Which order?

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holy fuck y'all niggas is slippin, cant believe they just showed the series finale and not on peep

I thought it was excellent, a very worthy follow up to breaking bad. gonna go back and rewatch both shows now

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Which order?

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well there is a couple of ways you could approach it but personally I look at it like Star Wars, watch them in the order that they were released because that makes the most sense.

It was better than BB.

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It was better than BB.

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Agree, more polished and nuanced across the board with vastly superior writing.

I haven't seen Breaking Bad in years so may be off here but for me it's the TV equivalent of BB = Godfather 1, BCS = Godfather 2.

Final season was tonally perfect in terms of when to snap off story lines, was mostly fine with BB callbacks, etc.

ive seen well regarded art films that had worse shot composition and photography than that finale.

 

im honestly not fucking happy that saul (jimmy?) just kinda threw away the rest of his life tho. i liked the 7 years and then he can make amends or whatever possibility and him swapping it out for integrity plus literally dying in a fuckin cage with no hope of ever going free... like i was hoping kim would be like 'dude i think i can get you out in 12', i wasnt fucking emotionally prepared for eighty cocksucking six years plus a wakeup. and honestly i dont really understand him offering to take that pinch. like its basically a death sentence. and i get that him menacing carol burnett with a phone cable stretched between his hands is where i should have known that retribution was coming but EIGHTY SIX YEARS??? i dont know man, its a bit over the top tbh.

 

so apparently in interviews, bob and rhea elaborated on the jimmy/kim situation and both agreed that they played it with the knowledge that kim would be visiting jimmy every year in jail basically. which is nice.

also i think its reasonable to assume that jimmy realized at some point that if he goes free in 7 years, hes going to be totally incapable of staying out of trouble / prison, just like he was this time, and by doing this hes finally taking his brothers advice and changing paths because he doesnt like where the saul goodman one is going.

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Originally Posted by sonatine

ive seen well regarded art films that had worse shot composition and photography than that finale.

 

im honestly not fucking happy that saul (jimmie?) just kinda threw away the rest of his life tho. i liked the 7 years and then he can make amends or whatever possibility and him swapping it out for integrity plus literally dying in a fuckin cage with no hope of ever going free... like i was hoping kim would be like 'dude i think i can get you out in 12', i wasnt fucking emotionally prepared for eighty cocksucking six years plus a wakeup. and honestly i dont really understand him offering to take that pinch. like its basically a death sentence. and i get that him menacing carol burnett with a phone cable stretched between his hands is where i should have known that retribution was coming but EIGHTY SIX YEARS??? i dont know man, its a bit over the top tbh.

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well,

 

that was the whole point though, he was 2nd best lawyer in the land, he negotiated his sentence down to 7 and a half years, the whole thing with Kim was that she was absolutely done with him though. If he would have taken the 7 year deal then there is no way Kim would have ever been involved in his life. His whole life was worthless without her to share it with, he has no friends, he has no family, and I think the flashbacks to Walt and Chuck were brilliant because they foreshadowed what he was gonna do - instead of doing more Saul Goodman shit he owns up to EVERYTHING, does a full confession like Kim told him to, changes the course of his life like Chuck suggests, and even breaks the curse of Walt by doing something that is not selfish (oh so you were always like this).

It's the only way for salvation in his eyes, and if it means sitting in prison for the rest of his life, so fucking be it. Being on the run for that long warps your brain, once people are caught after a long time running the biggest feeling they get is relief because they don't have to worry about being caught anymore. Everything about Saul after being caught suggests that his main feeling is now relief, he can unload the emotional baggage and deal with the death of his brother, which he was directly responsible for, he can make amends to Kim, and he can now live his life without the stress of worrying about being caught. Ironically enough even though he is in prison he is finally free.

You just know that they are not going to leave this shit alone. Expect another "Breaking Bad" sequel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoKwmva-t8g