Is there really that much? There’s Gus & Mike vs. Lalo, and Kim & Jimmy vs. Howard. I don’t find it to be too much, especially now that Nacho’s story is done.
Yeah, I’m not looking forward to it as I once did.
And what happens to Kim and what’s going to happen with Gene?
The Gene stuff I figure is just a type of epilogue, with the last section of the season dedicated to that story. Maybe the last 3 episodes, since this season has 13 episodes instead of 10.
The question of what happens to Kim isn’t what I’d call a ball in the air - it’s just the end of her part of the story. Same with Lalo - he has to end up somewhere (maybe buried under the laundry meth lab) but there’s plenty of story time left for that.
It’s not so much the total lack of resolution that bothers me–more the amount of understanding we’re getting as the stories resolve. I want to know more certainly, for example, what Kim and Jimmy are trying to do with Howard. Having no understanding of their goal here is not entertaining me–it’s boring me.
You mean the mechanics of their plan? Because they’ve explicitly stated both the end goal and the broad strokes of the plan. Do you hate mysteries? Heist movies? It’s not an uncommon way to build some suspense.
Nacho’s conclusion was great, but the rest of season 6 has been a little wanting so far IMO. Still good TV but quite far from the highs of the series.
I didn’t enjoy Lalo being in Germany. I mean, I did enjoy it, in the moment, but later it felt like fanservice. In universe it doesn’t make much sense for him to take an international flight. And I knew nothing would happen to the wife because that would be too painful given Werner’s arc…so there’s a feeling of the show becoming more predictable.
Absolutely.
There have already been times where the show has reminded us that Jimmy is not a protagonist. (I liked for example the fun montage of him engineering his firing from Davis & Main, followed by crashing the viewer back to earth with Cliff’s reality check: “You’re an asshole”).
But this is the clearest-cut example so far, and definitely the clearest sign that Kim is “breaking bad” too. We’re not supposed to be cheering them on in hurting Howard.
Well, I hate overly mysterious mysteries and convoluted heist movies. You know, the kind where you have no idea what they’re trying to heist, or why they’re motivated to do it, or the reasons they’re trying to seem like they’re screwing things up that they act pleased about when they screw up. It’s a matter of quantity here that bothers me-=if you overload me with complications, I don;t get more into it, I just get bored.
He’s definitively the protagonist, he’s not the hero, but he’s the protagonist.
Yes, I felt it was really strange that he’d just hop on a plane to Germany. It seems like this is what Lalo might do before Gus tried to kill him, but now?
Ah right you are. I’d always thought of “protagonist” as implying hero of the story, but on googling it just means the main character.
Yep. I can buy him biding his time, and wanting to expose / ruin Gus, not merely kill him.
But he has to send or pay someone else to dig into the Werner stuff.
The risk-reward just isn’t there. It’s all over if his fake passport gets flagged.
Yes people flee to other countries, but that’s a one-time risk to live in relative safety for years or decades. Versus taking a massive risk just to play blues clues: euro edition for a weekend. He didn’t even visit cougar town 
What the writers are doing is taking “Show, Don’t Tell” to the extreme. In Lalo’s case, they’re simply presenting him in Europe as a fait accompli, but by not giving us any interiority (access to his thinking–having him discuss his plans with someone else, for example, or arguing his plans with a confederate) they’re either trying to cover up a lack of thinking on his part or on theirs.
It’s kind of Opera level implausible.
Hopefully we will be rewarded with excruciatingly clever resolutions of all plot lines.
Hehe, my son got very angry with me when we were watching the first seasons because I kept pointing out that Jimmy was an asshole.
I simpatize with him, but he’s that kind of people one is better out knowing about instead of knowing personally.
I’m not enjoying this season much. I guess I’m a simple-minded ninny who can’t follow all this Howard-centric storyline. So much time elapsed since the previous seasons. I find the show kind of tiresome and am just going with it, to see it to its conclusion. (I hasten to add, I was really sad to see Nacho go, his story was the best part of the season.)
Agreed that it’s over if Jorge DeGuzman’s fake passport is flagged. But isn’t it possible he had a different fake passport and identity stashed at his place in Chihuahua?
Which is kind of a strange reaction considering when we first saw him in Breaking Bad… he was definitely shown as an asshole. It was part of his charm .
I wasn’t thinking of the specifics of what identity he was using. I just mean if something went wrong, he could spend the rest of his life in jail wishing he’d gone for Gus directly. It’s an (unnecessary) risk no matter which passport he uses.
Also, it now occurs to me that him having a gun, in Germany, is no trivial thing either.
But if it were just that I’d be prepared to suspend disbelief and assume he has Mike-like connections in Europe, or stole it from a gun range…it’s just about plausible, particularly if he’s been there for weeks.
But we didn’t watch Breaking Bad until after we watched the first seasons of Better Call Saul 