Better Call Saul season 6

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Spoiler for guest stars making an appearance in the final season:

https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/27/entertainment/carol-burnett-better-call-saul/index.html

Legendary actress and six-time Emmy Award winner Carol Burnett will appear as a guest star on the drama in Season 6. Burnett will appear as a character named Marion, it was announced Monday.

She joins the previously announced Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul, who will appear as guests to reprise their “Breaking Bad” roles of Walter White and Jesse Pinkman on “Better Call Saul,” which is a spin-off of “Breaking Bad.”

Sorry, being super cautious on what folks know/don’t know/don’t wanna know.

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I ran across this yesterday.

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Burnett’s show regularly featured a soap-opera parody called As the Stomach Turns, and her character was named Marian (a not o).

Wonder if there’s any intended connection? If so, look for a baby stuffed into an umbrella stand…

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Geeze, I depend on others noticing the tiny details. It’s why I follow this thread.

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So open the spoiler boxes

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The news about Carol Burnett reminds me of a piece of trivia that I read about Breaking Bad. Apparently, for the “Gray Matter” episode from the first season (where Walter and Skyler go to the birthday party of Elliot Schwartz), the original script featured a cameo from Ali McGraw, who would have played herself as a guest at the party who the Whites would have been surprised to notice. McGraw is a longtime Santa Fe resident in real life.

Of course, those who have seen the episode can tell that Ms. McGraw ultimately did not appear. BB was probably just not big enough to be able to entice her during the first season.

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Problem is without knowing the topic being spoiled it’s hard to judge wether to open the boxes or not. A completely spoiler boxed post is pretty useless, imo

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That’s one of my pet peeves. Especially in threads that involve potentially spoiling a lot of movies (ie ‘best movie ending’ or ‘favorite movie death scene’). People will put the entire post in a spoiler box instead of just the necessary part, or at the very least, leaving the name of the movie unspoiled so we can decide if we want to read the rest of it.

Having said that, I’m still a believer that unless someone knows something the rest of us don’t, by definition, you can’t spoil episodes that haven’t aired yet (picking up info from cast/crew interviews being a gray area). But just speculating? Doesn’t matter (to me) how good your guess is, it’s not a spoiler.
Speculation based on tiny details? Finding those tiny details, especially in a show like this, is big part of these threads. Also, it’s still just speculation.

In any case, if you must put something in a spoiler box, at least provide some context as to what’s in there.

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Yes, to all of this!

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I watched the little Marathon the other day, and got caught up. Mildly entertaining, fully frustrating and thoroughly ridiculous. I really get the feeling the writers have zero respect for the audience. How do they do write this shit and expect anybody to buy into it? Oh, that’s right. It worked the first time.

The whole “Set Howard Up To Fail” was so silly they should have done all those parts with animated cats and dog or coyotes, complete with falling anvils and painted tunnels. Lots of Acme Product placement. Give it the treatment it deserved.

Whatever. Only watching out of boredom and desperation. You can only play so many games of Risk against the computer before starting to talk to the dishwasher.

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I think spoilering a pure speculation, that’s based on something that all of us could have seen in the show, smacks of intellectual elitism. Like your guesses are so earth shattering that the rest of us have to be protected from them. It’s the kind of thing that Chuck would do. Don’t be a Chuck.

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After years of telling us that Breaking Bad was actually the dumbest show ever and then telling us that Better Call Saul continued the tradition, and how dumb we all were for falling for such stupid shows, I thought you’d become smart enough to stop watching them over the last few years. We seemed to get a break from your standard “BB/BCS are so dumb, I can’t believe anyone thinks they’re not dumb! They must be dumb!” posts. Alas, you still seem to be heroically watching dumb shows you hate for the last 15 years so you could keep us apprised that, indeed, we are dumb for liking it. Thank you for your service.

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I’m sad and lonely, Man. Sad and lonely. Now everybody knows! I gotta do something to keep me from doing crime. I didn’t know this was the “Let’s Suck Vince Gilligan’s Dick” thread. Everybody seems to have their own opinion (quite a few similar to mine, by what I’ve read). But I’m not allowed? Feel free to ignore me. Most everybody else does. :dotted_line_face:

Thank you for your service.

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As far as wild speculation goes, I think Kim goes straight. And gets far, far away. Why? Her little monologue in the tailers with the Howard-blood-spattered candle about blah, blah, blah. Unless that is all a ruse…

Shit got real for her when she had to clean up his brains outta her house. Was all fun and game up till then.

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[Moderating]
@Gatopescado , surely in this era of eleventy bazillion streaming shows, you can find something you can enjoy watching and discussing? That’s my official recommendation.

Absent that… I’m not going to ban you from this thread, and I’m not going to ban you from criticizing the show, but I will say, at least, stop trying to turn this into a pity party for yourself.

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Got it.

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Not sure about that. I got instructed not to threadshit back on May 25th, and I was a LOT more fanboyish than Mr. Let’s-All-Suck-Vince-Gillegan’s-Dick here, which discouraged me, as was intended. I mean, I was claiming to have enjoyed the show overall, but critical of all the suspense that led to so many dead ends that I wondered if the writers were spewing them about recklessly with no goal other than generating controversies for controversy’s sake. But I was made to feel that if I didn’t have good things to say about the show, then why don’t I be a good fellow and fuck off? Which is NOT what I think this forum should be for, and I do NOT agree if you’re saying Cafe Society is only for positive comments. Some shows go through dead spots, some sharks are jumped, and if not here, then where would you suggest we post critical comments about TV shows?

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I very explicitly did not say that.

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No, you didn’t. But you and puzzlegal were very quick to rebuke posters who offered critical comments. I didn’t want to get into an argument about it, still don’t, but I felt that my critical views of the last few episodes were deemed to be threadshitting, which is not in line with an exchange of positive and negative comments.

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Ah. I just re-read, and realized I was NOT banned from the thread (I thought I was)

I agree with Roger on this

And as a serious response to Mr. Beef (I thought mine was suffieiently Tounge-in-Cheek, but it didn’t come out like that) as to why I watch a “show I hate”…

I’m a big Odenkirk fan, and to a lesser degree Banks. I remember Banks for the old Wiseguy show where he played a prototype ‘Mike’ character. In charge, calm, competent. I like the way he played it, and although I hate the character of ‘Mike’ as an Uber-Efficient Ultra-Competent Mega-Badass with near Invincibility (with a heart of gold), I like to watch Banks play it. Hell, his voice is just soothing. “Not my call”

But really, I watch Saul for Odenkirk. Been a fan of him since Mr. Show and nearly all he’s done since (with the exception of his involvement in getting Tim and Eric famous, God I hate those guys!)

Watching him weave comedy and drama, twist them back and forth is really worth the rest of the nonsense. That scene where he tries to get the shit-hook Waxmens, or whoever to sign the papers after hood-winking them, and they refuse. As he walks to back to his car, that grin comes over his face, and he pulls out his pen and clicks it… Brilliant! All on Bob. The story was shit, but the acting was fantastic! Just a case of the parts being greater than the product.

So, I watch 'cause I’m an Odenkirk fan. McKean was good, too. Never liked L&S, but Spinal Tap was all that! That dude was a true talent.

So, I guess I hate the play, but not the players.