# 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:** 55
**Author:** ![zbuzz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e19b73/32.png) [@zbuzz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zbuzz)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2022, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-6/963063/1081 "2022-08-02T22:43:19Z")
> [@Smid](#): > > I read into that call was whether they’d found all his hidden money. I think he was running low and was hoping some overseas accounts got past the DEA. With those gone, he had to go back to making money again. Well, he’s still got a bandaid box filled with diamonds. I don’t think it’s a question of “running low” on money because he’s been living the comfortable-enough life of a Cinnabon manager. (I mean, unless he was living the highlife somehow all this time as Gene that we’ve never seen?) It’s boring and black and white, but it’s a living. The thing is, Gene needs more than a living. This also explains why he took the risk of going back to Stuart’s house—he doesn’t need the money from this one particular con, but he does need the action. Just look at the shot of Gene being zombified watching the Cinnabon dough mixer. And in case anyone is wondering how Stuart made enough money in the stock market so that he’s now a juicy enough mark for Gene, it’s because he finally learned to push Webistics. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/V0UYoDtZMHc/maxresdefault.jpg "The Sopranos - Webistics") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0UYoDtZMHc&t=82s) (skip forward to 1:22 if the link doesn’t start there) ---
**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:** [August 2, 2022, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-6/963063/1082 "2022-08-02T23:00:00Z")
> [@zbuzz](#): > > This also explains why he took the risk of going back to Stuart’s house—he doesn’t need the money from this one particular con, but he does need the action. Just look at the shot of Gene being zombified watching the Cinnabon dough mixer. Yeah, he’s off the wagon and feeding his addiction big time. That first mark was a loathsome dickhead who deserved to be fleeced. The last guy didn’t do anything to deserve getting ripped off. Gene probably wouldn’t have chosen him for the first con but he didn’t want to wait to find someone deserving. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2022, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-6/963063/1083 "2022-08-02T23:37:44Z")
> [@hajario](#): > > Yeah, he’s off the wagon and feeding his addiction big time. That first mark was a loathsome dickhead who deserved to be fleeced. The last guy didn’t do anything to deserve getting ripped off. … And we see Jimmy/Saul/Gene lying baldly and without finesse to his confederates to motivate them to rip off strangers. That’s something that didn’t really feature in his cons before; he may have over-emphasized to Kim that Howard deserved to be targeted, but she had her own reasons for going along with that. Everything we saw in “Breaking Bad” (the BCS episode) emphasized how far downhill J/S/G has gone. Conning is now a joyless exercise for him; he has no patience for manipulating his co-criminals, instead barking orders and threats at them. That’s another thing we never saw from him before. > > [@de\_Worde](#): > > … It emphasized just how Saul launched Walt and Jesse into The Game, despite Mike’s observation that they were just bumbling amateurs. It also emphasized Saul’s arrogance, and lack of judgment. His line about being able to “mold” Walt rings very much of hubris. He completely underestimated Walt. > > [@muldoonthief](#): > > Yeah, I think he’s in pure self-destruct mode. He talked to Francesca, and found out that Albuquerque is still way too hot for him, and always will be -… So his last hopes of either getting his SG/BB life back, or getting back with Kim, are gone forever, so he’s just flaming out. ^ This. He’s lost all judgment, thinking that he can impose his will on the world by virtue of yelling and threatening and acting in defiance of common sense. Whatever happens at the cancer-victim’s house is likely to prove a rude awakening for him. > A nice ironic line from the BB flashback: Saul commenting about Walt that a “_guy with that mustache probably doesn’t make a lot of good life choices_”----- -----and then growing practically the same mustache as Gene. ---
**Author:** ![SwissMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e79b87/32.png) [@SwissMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwissMan)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2022, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-6/963063/1084 "2022-08-02T23:42:03Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > He’s lost all judgment, thinking that he can impose his will on the world by virtue of yelling and threatening and acting in defiance of common sense. Hmmm…who does that remind me of in this fictional universe? ---
**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:** [August 2, 2022, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-6/963063/1085 "2022-08-02T23:57:29Z")
Tuco? ---
**Author:** ![Dag\_Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@Dag\_Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dag_Otto)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2022, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-6/963063/1086 "2022-08-03T00:44:44Z")
> [@muldoonthief](#): > > I think he means when Saul said “Are they gonna find us buried in a sandstorm a thousand years from now.” That was followed by the overhead shot of the grave with Gene in it as the transition to the next scene. That was fantastic, and I think it tells us all we need to know about his fate. ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2022, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-6/963063/1087 "2022-08-03T00:47:14Z")
It occurs to me that in _Breaking Bad_ we were watching a man die of physical cancer and _Better Call Saul_ is watching a man dying of spiritual cancer. ---
**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:** [August 3, 2022, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-6/963063/1088 "2022-08-03T01:23:17Z")
> [@muldoonthief](#): > > But it was obvious 30 seconds into the second part of the scene that Saul was way ahead of Walt & Jesse in criminal knowledge, and he knew it. For someone that’s never seen Breaking Bad, you almost explicitly summarized [his introduction into the show](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNMQqh1ovlM). ---
**Author:** ![SwissMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e79b87/32.png) [@SwissMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwissMan)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2022, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-6/963063/1089 "2022-08-03T01:39:08Z")
I was thinking of Walter. By the end of Breaking Bad, Walter believed that he could achieve anything he needed by simply threatening people enough. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2022, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-6/963063/1090 "2022-08-03T01:56:52Z")
Didn’t the scheme that Gene and Buddy were pulling with the drunks depend on their victims living alone? Had anyone of them had a wife, children, a roommate or even a dog, the scheme might have fallen apart. ---
**Author:** ![dummygladhands71](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c0e974/32.png) [@dummygladhands71](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dummygladhands71)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2022, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-6/963063/1091 "2022-08-03T02:01:41Z")
What was the Igor comment??? ---
**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:** [August 3, 2022, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-6/963063/1092 "2022-08-03T02:03:42Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > Had anyone of them had a wife, children, a roommate or even a dog, the scheme might have fallen apart. When Gene was yelling at Jeffie’s friend for not robbing the cancer guy, he said that part of scouting out a mark is making sure they live alone. ---
**Author:** ![ISiddiqui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/97f17d/32.png) [@ISiddiqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ISiddiqui)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2022, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-6/963063/1093 "2022-08-03T02:21:13Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > It also emphasized Saul’s arrogance, and lack of judgment. His line about being able to “mold” Walt rings very much of hubris. He completely underestimated Walt. Yep. Mike warned him, but Saul had a feeling and basically ruined himself by raising up Walter. In the same way he’s continually being warned not to go back to the guy’s house, but he doesn’t care. I also really liked seeing Walter and Jesse. ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2022, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-6/963063/1094 "2022-08-03T03:01:01Z")
Not only ruined himself by helping those knuckleheads succeed but also directly led to Mike’s death too. ---
**Author:** ![Esprise\_Me](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/esprise_me/32/2947_2.png) [@Esprise\_Me](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esprise_Me)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2022, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-6/963063/1095 "2022-08-03T03:14:39Z")
I thought the Walt & Jesse cameo was justified and added to the show, but damn. They did a good enough job on Bob Odenkirk and the other characters’ makeup for me to buy into the timelines, but Aaron Paul… it’s mostly his voice. He’s clearly much older here than he was in BB. It took me out of the scene. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2022, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-6/963063/1096 "2022-08-03T03:48:26Z")
> [@Esprise\_Me](#): > > but Aaron Paul… it’s mostly his voice. He’s clearly much older here than he was in BB. It took me out of the scene. Yeah, who knew a man’s voice changed so much from the age of 29 to 42? I thought maybe he had a cold when he filmed this ep. ---
**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:** [August 3, 2022, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-6/963063/1097 "2022-08-03T15:51:53Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > Yeah, who knew a man’s voice changed so much from the age of 29 to 42? I thought maybe he had a cold when he filmed this ep. They also kept the scene mostly in shadow. Last I saw Aaron Paul, he had put on some weight and it really showed in his face. He’s also a smoker (or was) which can affect your voice. Or he may just be showing some aging that doesn’t jibe with his youthful appearance in BB. ---
**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:** [August 3, 2022, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-6/963063/1098 "2022-08-03T16:21:11Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > They also kept the scene mostly in shadow. I also worked on the assumption that they never fully took the ski masks off so Bryan wouldn’t have to screw around with shaving his head or putting on a bald cap for a few minutes of screen time. It wouldn’t surprise me if he had a bald cap hastily put on in case the ski mask rides up above his hairline, but I doubt he was in makeup for an hour making sure it was just right. Someone mentioned that they’ll each have a 1 on 1 with Saul. I assume he’ll be wearing the bald cap for that. IIRC, at some point in BB he switched from the bald cap to shaving his head. I don’t think he’d be able to shave for this since it would have spoiled the reunion as soon as he was spotted in the wild without any hair. ---
**Author:** ![Briny\_Deep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/briny_deep/32/17188_2.png) [@Briny\_Deep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Briny_Deep)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2022, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-6/963063/1099 "2022-08-03T16:41:50Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > A nice ironic line from the BB flashback: Saul commenting about Walt that a “_guy with that mustache probably doesn’t make a lot of good life choices_”----- > > -----and then growing practically the same mustache as Gene. Yeah, and there are other parallels between Gene and Walt going on. Those terrible Gene glasses are extremely Walt-ish, aren’t they? This is emphasized in a number of close-ups. And the manipulative, ruthless way he’s treating petty criminals is Walt-like. At this point I won’t be surprised if Gene gets cancer, shaves his head, and dies. ---
**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:** [August 3, 2022, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-6/963063/1100 "2022-08-03T17:09:27Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > Someone mentioned that they’ll each have a 1 on 1 with Saul. I assume he’ll be wearing the bald cap for that. Or maybe that scene will be when Walt is wearing the Heisenberg Hat. Saul: “I made you, even though Mike told me not to waste my time.” Walt: “Say my name.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-6/963063.md?page=54) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-6/963063.md?page=56)