Given the little I saw, he seems pretty well-regarded by the inmates in the kitchen. Slippin’ Jimmy is back! 
I’m just going to assume that when the Omaha police took Gene in, he was put in a holding cell with Jeffie. Comedy ensues.
Ending sucked. He got seven years. They could easily have made it 11 and have Jimmy leave prison and finally be free to be with Kim, as everything moves into full colour.
Or last scene is he is sitting in a LZ Boy with an ankle bracelet monitor and he looks at the screen and says “COVID eh? Never saw THAT coming”…
He got 84 years, he completely pissed away the 7 year plea deal when he changed his testimony. Does that unsuck the ending at all?
Yeah, my post isn’t clear. I didn’t like him pissing away his deal. I would have much rather he get a longer sentence which ends in the present day and he is free to spend the rest of his life with Kim.
If not, and he needed to throw it all away, wink and a nod to current events for why he is out.
I’m not sure I understand the math on that one.
The end of BCS takes place in 2011.
Two great articles, both of which provide insight:
Bob Odenkirk opens up about that ‘Better Call Saul’ finale: ‘I’m a little shattered’
Where does Kim end up after ‘Better Call Saul’? Rhea Seehorn reveals her theory
Perhaps as he’s leaving, he spots a too-familiar Trumpian silhouette newbie being processed in?
Or maybe Trump pardoned him?
But he was never going to get back together with Kim if he took the deal, and he knew it. That’s why they had the scene where Bill told him that not only had Kim confessed to the DA, but she also confessed and apologized to Howard’s widow. She didn’t just do the minimum possible to turn herself in, she went directly to the person she injured the most, told her what happened and why, and left what happened next in Cheryl’s hands. The Kim who did that would never, ever, forgive and take back the Saul who brought in the wife of one of his victims just so he could show off in front of her exactly how he would defend himself & likely get off in court, so he could then plea bargain his way down to nothing. Kim would never have anything to do with that Saul even after he got out of prison.
I thought we’d get a twist. I was wracking my brain thinking of satisfying ways they could do it. But it wasn’t really a twist at all, everything seemed somewhat inevitable in the end. Ironically, the non-twist ending was the twist, since everyone was expecting something different. Really great finale though, I thought.
Hands up everyone who thought Saul really was going to implicate Kim just to get a better deal. Because Gould sure fooled the hell out of me with that - I really thought that’s where things were going. I’m glad Jimmy got his redemption arc, even if it means he dies in prison.
I don’t understand that there wasn’t a twist. Gene is becoming more and more like Jimmy/Saul and even does a Saul thing where he gets 170+ years into 7 years at a cushy prison and then at that moment, just throws it away to confess to everything in front of Kim, and become James McGill. My jaw dropped.
Interestingly enough he ends up at ABX Montrose and it turns out the criminals there love him. Probably wouldn’t have really had any friends at the cushy place (the prisoners there may have thought he was beneath them) and after 7 year s he gets what? He’s got no money, Kim would never have seen him again, and he wouldn’t be able to ever practice law.
Except he’s never getting out of prison. He’d be over 130 years old by the time he finishes his sentence.
He means had he taken the 7.5 years, that Saul would have never been with Kim at the end.
Exactly. He wanted Kim to respect him even if it meant life in jail, rather than getting out in 7 years but knowing Kim still wants nothing to do with him. That’s why the scene where she visits him in prison (which apparently was the last scene Rhea and Bob shot together) is so vital to the ending.
It was ok. I wanted more of an ending but there wasn’t really anything worth following up on because everybody worth paying attention to was dead. I understand Jimmy wanted to confess all in front of Kim and take the max sentence, but that doesn’t amount to redemption for the things he’s done, nor does Kim’s confession either. I guess it was all better than the alternatives. I thought for a moment the prison bus might drive over a cliff or do the common trope and crash so prisoners escape, and I’m glad they didn’t do anything like that. So there it is, unsatisfying to me, but maybe the best outcome.
Same here. I was trying to figure out how he was going to use the noise they were making to escape. Presumably that was the intent (to make us think that), otherwise there would have been very little reason to even bother with that scene.
I really thought there was going to be a twist involving his call to Cinnabon. Cuz of the people in this thread who tried to weave a story about the Vacuum Guy inventing Cinnabon or whatever 
Me too! I kept thinking “please please let this bus just get to the prison and have all these prisoners be in prison and that’s that!” I’m so glad they didn’t get any weirder than the whole bus chanting.