OT: Better Call Saul

[1msucub]

I’m a little surprised there isn’t weekly discussion about this show. I’m telling you, fellas....if you aren’t watching it, you are missing out on one of the best. The season finale was tonight, and the BB backstorylines are really coming through. It’s a phenomenal show on its own, but if you’re a BB fan, it’s hard to oversell it. Smart, well-done stories are like unicorns these days.
Just my thoughts.

 

[The Fatboy]

Agree very underrated series.

 

[mcdawg22]

Problem with me is I am getting increasingly bored with the Jimmie angle. I look forward to Mike and Gus though.

 

[Bulldogg31]

Great show. Bordering on Breaking Bad excellence

 

[The Fatboy]

Jimmie is no more now. Saul Goodman finally chose the darkside.

 

[Shamoan]

It's a great show. Charles pushing Jimmie to the brink was amazing tv and Jimmie turning full rotten was great. Kim is in the drivers seat watching it all with her own guilty pleasures...now I have to wait out another season.

 

[61dawg]

Only bad thing is we have to wait another year for more!

 

[Dawg1976]

I dvr'd last night's episode. Will watch today. I've enjoyed the series. I thought the first 1/2 of this years series was slow tho. All these 10 episode seasons are a little short to me. They used to do 13 on other shows. Wish they would go back to that.

 

[SwampDawg]

One of the few bright spots on regular tv.

 

[PBRME]

Now I’m bummed out. Didn’t realize that was the season finale.

 

[Deen.sixpack]

Now I’m bummed out. Didn’t realize that was the season finale.

Same here. Watched last night with zero knowledge of it being the finale. Slipp'n Jimmy time

 

[MadDawg.sixpack]

Jimmy is the ultimate con man. Even when you know he's conning you, you start to believe him. The way he was bragging to Kim about how he had them all fooled was brutal. I kept expecting someone on the committee to come around the corner and hear him. It's all good, man!

 

[Dawgzilla]

Jimmy is the ultimate con man. Even when you know he's conning you, you start to believe him. The way he was bragging to Kim about how he had them all fooled was brutal. I kept expecting someone on the committee to come around the corner and hear him. It's all good, man!

That's EXACTLY what I thought was going to happen. At least get out of ear range before bragging about your con! I was also surprised that Kim didn't know it was a con -- at least it looked like she didn't know.

Really excited to see him build up his clientele as Saul Goodman.

 

[MadDawg.sixpack]

I was also surprised that Kim didn't know it was a con -- at least it looked like she didn't know.

She obviously knew he was bullshitting the committee. I mean she helped set up all those fake events to try and sway their opinion. But I think when Jimmy broke script and starting going a different direction, I think Kim thought that was genuine. Hell I even thought some of it was genuine. When he started talking about how he fooled those gullible sumbitches, I was a little shocked. I think Jimmy and Kim's days are soon coming to an end.

 

[Seinfeld]

I gave up on it a couple episodes into season 2 because it was just too slow for me, but I've been thinking about going back to is since I'm a huge fan of BB, and I keep hearing about how good it's gotten. I just started Ozark, but I'll have to pick up where I left out with Saul over the holidays

 

[HumpDawgy]

Problem with me is I am getting increasingly bored with the Jimmie angle. I look forward to Mike and Gus though.

Ditto. More Mike the badass.

 

[Dawgzilla]

That's what I meant....I think Kim thought his speech about the letter was genuine, but it surprised me a little that even she was fooled since she knew the whole thing was a con to begin with.

I don't think Kim is going away for a while (mostly because everyone likes the character too much)...but at some point she is going to have to make an ethical choice.

 

[The Fatboy]

I can see a future episode where Kim gets disbarred for something he does that blows back on her.

 

[The Fatboy]

His speech to the high school kid was really his own recognition that he can never be Jimmie McGill. He has to be Saul Goodman.

Not sure if Kim will stay with him now. She does seem to like bending the rules. She gets off on it when the stakes are low but I have a feeling she is going to get burned by him real soon. He wont mean to kill her career but he is

 

[HumpDawgy]

My guess at the end was the committee already had a copy of Chuck's real letter to Jimmie and when Jimmie read the letter (I thought Kim had rewritten to make Jimmie feel better) would be found out by Jimmie and cause them to break up. It didn't go that way obviously.

 

[Shamoan]

i think that kim getting disbarred is the ultimate play for the show. she has been grooming herself to be an elite and competent attorney, but her dark side magnified by Jimmie will be her undoing. thats when saul goes full dark side.

 

[1msucub]

Jimmy is the ultimate con man. Even when you know he's conning you, you start to believe him. The way he was bragging to Kim about how he had them all fooled was brutal. I kept expecting someone on the committee to come around the corner and hear him. It's all good, man!

Man, me too.... I just knew that’s what that lady was about to do when she walked up. It’s amazing how many times they know what the audience thinks is going to happen next......and then it doesn’t.
It’s just a brilliantly written show.

 

[DawgInThe256]

It's a fantastic show. The bummer for me is that the transition to Saul Goodman means we're getting closer to the end of the story.

 

[hdogg]

I gave up on it a couple episodes into season 2 because it was just too slow for me, but I've been thinking about going back to is since I'm a huge fan of BB, and I keep hearing about how good it's gotten. I just started Ozark, but I'll have to pick up where I left out with Saul over the holidays

You did the right thing. It hasn't gotten any better, and I wish I stopped watching after season 2. I'm obviously in the minority w/ my BCS opinion. I loved Breaking Bad and enjoyed the first 1-2 seasons of Saul, but these past few seasons have done almost nothing with the story line. It's like watching grass grow through molasses.
There is a difference between "setting the tone" and just dragging it out, and they are doing the latter. And I do enjoy some of the cinematic stuff, but need SOMETHING to happen.

Here's what has happened in 2 seasons :
(very minor SPOILERS next, but not giving away anything exciting, because only 1 exciting thing happens that I'm not mentioning ) :
Mike goes full-time w/ Gus and stops going to church group, Gus and Mike build a basement, Jimmy gets disbarred, Jimmy gets re-barred. Hector gets poisoned, and Nacho is still alive. Jimmy and Kim have issues, then work them out. Oh and then there's a thing w/ Chuck which I won't divulge just in case you really don't want spoilers and haven't seen it.

That's it - 20 episode and 6 things happened. I'm reluctantly giving up on it.
You know I'm right... you may not want to admit it, but you know you fall asleep every episode.

 

[Dawg1976]

Four seasons in the books. Breaking Bad lasted 5 season so based on that next year could be the last. Could stretch it but doubt it.