# Better Call Saul season 6 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** tv-shows-scripted\ **Created:** [April 19, 2022, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-6/963063 "2022-04-19T17:04:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 40
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2022, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-6/963063/781 "2022-07-14T14:16:28Z")
> [@SmartAleq](#): > > I think to Lalo at that point Jimmy was a bug not really worth swatting. Also, Saul made a good point when Lalo first showed up - Saul has done good work for Lalo in the past. And he’s clearly terrified of Lalo, and so it will be very easy to push him to do even more work in the future. Having a useful guy in the right place can make a big difference. Lalo’s plan is to destroy Fring, and once he’s destroyed, Lalo or one of his family can take over Fring’s operation. Having a good lapdog already available could be very valuable. There’s little that Saul could do to stop Lalo, and he might be useful in the future, so why kill him? ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2022, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-6/963063/782 "2022-07-14T14:30:02Z")
> [@Munch](#): > > Prime doesn’t have next week’s BCS - AMC+ does You can get AMC+ if you have Amazon Prime. Chefguy paid 99¢/mo for two months on Prime Day. It’s currently $8.99/mo (on top of a prime subscription). ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2022, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-6/963063/783 "2022-07-14T14:35:03Z")
Correct. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2022, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-6/963063/784 "2022-07-14T14:37:13Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > There’s little that Saul could do to stop Lalo, and he might be useful in the future, so why kill him? I feel like Saul (and Kim) have a decent amount of information on the cartel that, should they ever need to, they could make a deal with [whatever law enforcement agency would make sense] in exchange for immunity and being put into witness protection. While we know Saul disappeared himself, he didn’t do it that way. Kim could still do something like that. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2022, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-6/963063/785 "2022-07-14T14:38:13Z")
I read that as “Prime doesn’t have BCS, AMC+ does”. Missed the “next week” part. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2022, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-6/963063/786 "2022-07-14T16:30:42Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Now I can watch next week’s BCS today and spoil it for you all! Are you sure about that part? I believe you are mistaken. I can see from the wording why it would appear that way. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2022, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-6/963063/787 "2022-07-14T17:48:27Z")
I’m not sure of anything anymore. Well, I won’t have to see ads, so nyah-nyah. ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2022, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-6/963063/788 "2022-07-14T17:53:32Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > I feel like Saul (and Kim) have a decent amount of information on the cartel that, should they ever need to, they could make a deal with [whatever law enforcement agency would make sense] in exchange for immunity and being put into witness protection. Yes, but that’s ultimately true of _anyone_ who works for the cartel. At some point, they need people to do things, and that always entails a risk. That’s just part of the environment in which they operate, and having detail-oriented psychopaths like Lalo on staff to keep people in line is just how they do business. Lalo knew there was a risk, but he judged it to be low enough to be worth the gamble. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2022, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-6/963063/789 "2022-07-14T18:06:25Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > Yes, but that’s ultimately true of _anyone_ who works for the cartel. At some point, they need people to do things, and that always entails a risk. That’s just part of the environment in which they operate, and having detail-oriented psychopaths like Lalo on staff to keep people in line is just how they do business. Lalo knew there was a risk, but he judged it to be low enough to be worth the gamble. I agree with that 100%, but it doesn’t change anything. Everyone else being able to do the same thing doesn’t mean Kim or Jimmy won’t. However, I’d wager that most of the people involved in cartel business are a lot less likely to voluntarily go to the authorities than Kim and Jimmy are. Plus, they have a considerably deeper understanding of the legal system than the others, along with countless connections in the legal world. They’re the most likely candidates, IMO, for crafting a rock solid deal to ensure their ongoing safety and doing it all without tipping their hand (too much) before everything is signed. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2022, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-6/963063/790 "2022-07-14T18:55:26Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Well, I won’t have to see ads, so nyah-nyah. And absolutely worth it for $1.98. I don’t have cable so I bought the season for like $25 before it started which I have done for the last few seasons. I don’t see commercials either. It’ll show up in your Amazon Prime queue some time after 9pm local time. Usually it’s at around 9:20 to 9:30. I have had it show up right at 9:01 and one horrible time it didn’t show up until like 4am so I watched it the next morning. ---
**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2022, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-6/963063/791 "2022-07-14T20:26:27Z")
> [@Staggerlee](#): > > I can’t believe though that Lalo would send Kim on a phony assassination mission to keep Mike tied up, with the intention of filming the laundry, then returning and interrogating Jimmy in the now-Mike-infested apartment. Why would he return to Jimmy? ---
**Author:** ![Staggerlee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/staggerlee/32/3134_2.png) [@Staggerlee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Staggerlee)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2022, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-6/963063/792 "2022-07-14T21:07:13Z")
Exactly; he wouldn’t return to Jimmy. Thinking about it more though, it would lend weight to Lalo’s ruse (that he was attempting an assassination by proxy on pain of death) if he kept Jimmy alive. Phew! ---
**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2022, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-6/963063/793 "2022-07-15T21:37:16Z")
Why would he need to continue the ruse? Once he’s successful (got his pictures and possible killed Gus), the ruse has done the job. No need to keep selling it. ---
**Author:** ![de\_Worde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/838e76/32.png) [@de\_Worde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/de_Worde)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2022, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-6/963063/794 "2022-07-15T23:28:29Z")
I have a bad feeling about Jimmy and Kim’s fish, since it isn’t in Breaking Bad. ---
**Author:** ![Fish\_Cheer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fish_cheer/32/17179_2.png) [@Fish\_Cheer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish_Cheer)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2022, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-6/963063/795 "2022-07-16T18:06:09Z")
> [@Snarky\_Kong](#): > > I usually like Kim’s acting, but in the opening scene especially all I could see was an actor playing scared and not the character Both of them, actually. I’m usually not bothered by bad acting at all, and Rhea Seehorn and Bob Odenkirk are excellent anyway. But in these first couple of seconds I had the exact same reaction as you. Didn’t work for me at all. The rest of the episode was great as always. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2022, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-6/963063/796 "2022-07-16T18:21:23Z")
I actually disagree. I thought they reacted the way real people would under those extreme circumstances. ---
**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2022, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-6/963063/797 "2022-07-16T18:29:29Z")
Yes, I think their acting was realistic. We’re just used to watching entertainment where people witness horrific violence and destruction and act a little bit sad or horrified but not the pants-shittingly, freeze up like deer in the headlines, go into shock trauma reaction that real people would have in such extreme circumstances. Their acting seems out of the norm because they were trying to portray how realistic people who haven’t lived a life around violence would react to such an extreme situation. But the error is that most actors underact in such situations, not that they’re overacting. It’s refreshingly realistic. ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2022, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-6/963063/798 "2022-07-16T19:17:49Z")
> [@de\_Worde](#): > > I have a bad feeling about Jimmy and Kim’s fish, since it isn’t in Breaking Bad. Sure it is, after a lot of character development. No origin story is left untold. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/3xwY5ciOOC0/maxresdefault.jpg "Walter White and Gus Fring eat Fish Stew | Clip from Breaking Bad Breakdown") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xwY5ciOOC0&t=62s) ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2022, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-6/963063/799 "2022-07-16T20:59:40Z")
This is why I read The Dope. ---
**Author:** ![iamatractorboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iamatractorboy/32/21261_2.png) [@iamatractorboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamatractorboy)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2022, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-6/963063/800 "2022-07-16T21:38:22Z")
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