Very true.
Anyone who gets into that point in their life has been an absolute fucking idiot.
In real life it is sometimes possible to buy your way out of that position. (I know someone who has.)
In this show? With Gus? It’s going to be much harder. But I suspect we’re only going to find out in the final black and white portion of the final show.
At least, that’s how I’d write it.
Ah, good point. I was assuming the bench was part of a bus stop.
The thing about Vince Gilligan (and for this series, Peter Gould): they hire actors of high intelligence.
I would imagine that getting cast for a Gilligan/Gould production would be a dream come true for a serious actor.
I had the same thought, but then sort of answered it to myself. I think it’s probably a combination of:
If your face is close to the plastic it will fog up even if there’s plenty of air in the bag. There’s no need to actually block air getting in for the shot to look realistic. You could even have an air tube round the back, as long as it’s not pumping in so much as to inflate the bag :).
They have medics on-site, and also they agree some kind of signal the actor can give if they are in genuine trouble.
Well, that was fraught with woes to come.
Gus really does own Nacho. Phew!!
Nice to see Gale and hear some great Tom Lehrer music.
And that was a different ending. Just why was Kim so upset? Because Jimmy was so blase?
Considering the slow burn nature of the show, I assume they’re going somewhere with it Better Call Saul isn’t exactly known for it’s set 'em up and knock 'em down scenes.
During one of the scenes when Ira was in the office stealing the Hummel figurine, I noticed this.
Upon looking it up later I read that it’s just a [regular] glove that he left there. However, when I first watched it, it appeared to be a giant glove. It looked like a bean bag on the floor in front of the recliner.
Perhaps this was just an accident, I’m guessing Vince used some forced perspective to make it look that big as a direct reference to Uncle Jack in It’s Always Sunny.
For those of you not familiar with It’s Always Sunny, Uncle Jack, played by the same person that owns the copy machine store in Better Call Saul is very self conscious about the size of his hands and does bizarre things to get people to think they’re bigger…hence the “giant” glove.
“Just a large cheese…yes, sliced.”
A good episode, very reminiscent of Breaking Bad at the beginning (and at the end). The complications associated with stealing the Hummel were quite funny, and the note Chuck left for Jimmy was surprisingly upbeat.
What if Chuck didn’t write that letter? Maybe Howard did.
That falls in with Kim’s reaction - she is realizing Howard did that for Jimmy, not Chuck. I couldn’t imagine Chuck writing that letter after working so hard to undermine Jimmy for years though …would Howard know about their mother’s preference for Jimmy?
I almost thought Kim may have written it. Chuck never would have written a letter, to Jimmy, along the lines of ‘hey bro, how’s it going, I’m good’ As Kim stated, we all expected that letter to be one final fuck you from beyond the grave.
Either someone other than Chuck wrote it, or there’s more to it that hasn’t been revealed yet.
I don’t explicitly remember Kim’s reaction, but I think she’d understand and/or be okay if it was re-written by Howard to sound positive. Of course, Jimmy would have known right away that that’s not his brother’s attitude for him.
As for what Howard knows about Jimmy’s relationship with his mother, I think it’s safe to say he knows a good bit. Don’t forget, Chuck and Howard’s dad worked together for years, then and some point Howard’s dad retired and Howard took over, again, working side by side with Chuck. All those hours together and people chit chat. Add to that, dinner meetings, unwinding with drinks, knowing each other’s families etc. At some point, probably lot’s of points, Chuck has probably brought it up.
Something to be remembered about Howard, though, is that he’s not a bad guy. He comes off as a bad guy when seen through the eyes of Jimmy and Vince probably made him a bit smug to help drive that home. He’s portrayed as an antagonist, but he’s done very little that would give him the title of enemy, yet that’s how we see him.
I don’t recall where I saw it (the aftershow, maybe?) but there was an interview/discussion with Patrick Fabian when he had just a few episodes under his belt. He said that (and I may be mis-remembering this) that fans of the show hated him, called him names on the street etc, yet he’d done nothing wrong. He was essentially a good guy, but Jimmy didn’t like him and that’s the only POV you saw him through.
I’ve got a million possibilities for this one:
Relief - the letter could have been a lot worse and she has been desperately worried about this for days.
Concern - Jimmy is still subsuming his emotions around the whole Chuck thing and this is beginning to scare her.
Horror - That really was the worst thing Chuck could have done. The letter has the power to drag Jimmy back into the yearning for closeness which had finally been starved to near extinction. That would make the whole nightmare 10,000 times worse.
Self-hate - if Chuck was basically a good person then her justification for everything she’s done to help Jimmy crumbles.
Cognitive Dissonance - The letter is nearly impossible to reconcile with the “Fuck-you” five thousand dollar bequest.
You have to give Chuck credit, he never does anything half way.
Speaking of cognitive dissonance, I’m having a hard time rewiring my understanding of Nacho. Realizing that all that time he was taking care of Salamanca in the that little cabin out in the woods, he was doing it at Gus’s behest. Urk?!
Oooh, #3 is good. That’s pretty damn manipulative and if there’s anything Chuck was, it was manipulative.
It should be interesting to see the reason. If Kim had never given it to him, if she had destroyed it, we never would have thought anything of it, in fact it would even make sense. Her giving it to him was a plot device that, no doubt, they have plans for.
Wasn’t it his grandson, Tuco, that was taking care of him in Breaking Bad?
Correct. Nacho did not appear in “Breaking Bad”. Though Saul mentioned him at least once during that series.
I don’t understand why Gus goes through all that trouble to keep Nacho on the payroll. Why not just shoot him dead in the desert?