The lantern thing has been foreshadowed, so I would be surprised if there was no fire at some point, whether or not it kills Chuck.
Chuck has been abandoned. Jimmy has given him his last allotment of ice, bacon and fuel. He has to figure out a way to feed himself and have heat and light. It should be interesting.
Present-day Saul (who we’ve seen only in the first-scene flash-forward) fears EVERYONE. The cops, the Cartel, the Neo-Nazis, any of his former clients, the ghost of Walter White…anyone and everyone who walks into his Cinnabon could turn out to be the one that recognizes him and turns him in. But I don’t think that’s relevant to BCS in any meaningful way; it’s only there to serve as the link between the two shows. I think it will be a long time before we see Saul in all his Breaking Bad glory, and that’s fine with me. There’s plenty of backstory to go before Jimmy makes his transformation.
Going in to this show, I was looking forward to seeing how Saul met and interacted with all of the folks that we knew from Breaking Bad. Nine episodes later, I find myself hardly caring if we ever make it to ‘present day’. I have no idea what Vince Gilligan and crew have planned for the overall story arc, but I wouldn’t be shocked (or disappointed, based on what I’ve seen so far) if we didn’t meet “Saul Goodman” until the final scene of the final episode of the series.
A very good point.
That’s correct. He thought that he saw the guy staring at him but he was actually staring past him at his family. No one knows where he is but you never know who will show up in Omaha by chance. I was in a little bed and breakfast in a small town in Chianti and my then wife recognized a couple who were the parents of a good friend of hers from college. They hadn’t seen each other in something like fifteen years. It’s a small world.
That is certainly the way the show is going, and I had the same reaction. Someone posted earlier that Vince Gilligan himself said in a podcast that he started off worrying that we wouldn’t get to Saul soon enough, and now he thinks the danger would be getting there too quickly. All of which makes me think that the first three episodes of season two will all take place in the present-day Cinnabon store. Because that’s just how VG rolls.
Really well said.
Some very minor spoilers in this article lead me to believe that tonight’s final is going to be epic. I can’t wait.
What’s been foreshadowed with the lanterns? It’s certainly possible I’m not remembering something (ie something briefly catching fire or Jimmy mentioning something about airing the CO out of the place, Chuck falling asleep and knocking one over), but just their existence in the show isn’t really a foreshadow. A Chekhov’s Gun, maybe, but that’s it.
I’m pretty sure the danger was mentioned, probably by the doctor, when Chuck was about to be sectioned.
Now that you mention it, Kim might have actually been the one to say something when they were at the hospital, but I could be wrong.
Interesting side note. They have to pump smoke into the house to give it that dusty look. It gets so bad the entire crew has to leave the set for 15 minutes (OSHA/Union required, from what I could tell) every few hours to get some fresh air which makes filming on that set much harder than on the other sets. I’m not sure if they’re on rotating schedules or if they just shut the whole place down (since there’s not much to do when Michael and Bob have to leave).
Pretty sure the cops said something about all the cans, not only dangerous but also suspicious as their reason for busting into his house. It’s probably been mentioned once or twice elsewhere, too.
As for “Chicago Sunroof,” I imagine it to be some sort of urinating/defecating from a bridge or overpass into an open vehicle below, reminiscent of this Chicago incident (which when it was in the news I thought it was said this wasn’t the first time that had happened…)
Yes. That was their probably cause for busting in without a warrant. They thought that it was, ironically, a meth factory.
They made it up for the show. It didn’t have a meaning. They writers wanted us to speculate.
It does now, and, <gloating>I was pretty much right 
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There’s been a lot of discussion here about the actors and the roles they’ve played in various shows in the past, and I haven’t known any of them. I’m the right age to know Laverne and Shirley, but I never watched that. I’ve seen This is Spinal Tap a couple of times but don’t remember Chuck in that.
However, in this episode I recognized someone from a previous role, and it hasn’t been mentioned here yet. When I was watching The Pill Guy (“Price”), it was driving me crazy that I knew his voice but couldn’t place him. Then I pulled up that scene again last night and it hit me: he was Kenny Strasser, or K-Strass, the yo-yo guy. He went around the midwest a few years ago, getting on local TV shows by saying he was a yo-yo expert giving inspirational talks to area schools, and the TV stations, desperate for content, put him on the air. The appearances were comedy genius:
K-Strass the yo-yo man on KQTV in St. Joseph, Missouri
You don’t remember Michael McKean as David St. Hubbins, one of the two leads?
Uh… no. :o
I mean I saw the movie, saw the series, but never said “Oh, that’s the same guy who played one of the leads in Spinal Tap.”
Who never said that? CurtC or JohnT?
I also have seen Spinal Tap, at least two times (and I’ve seen many of the deleted scenes). But like JohnT, I didn’t see Chuck McGill and think “Oh, that’s the same guy.” I would have to go back and watch Spinal Tap again to see if I could pick out which one he was.
I agree completely.
I was thrilled to see Tuco, partially because I’m secretly slightly in love with Raymond Cruz (why, I have no idea) and it was cool to see Nacho too. It was good that they used some of the BB crew to set it all up and hook us in those early episodes, and I hope we run into a few more every now and then, but at this point, but I don’t care much either. I just want to know about Jimmy’s and Mike’s stories.