She won’t appreciate him changing to Saul. She might see it as a dumbass-cuss thing to do.
I have been in more industrial buildings than I can count and I have never in my life heard of such places being routinely subjected to electrical or building inspections; I don’t even think that’s a thing that happens anywhere. The only building and electrical inspections I have ever heard of in my life were ones following new construction or refits, or some other work requiring a permit. I’ve never heard of a plumbing inspection.
Fire inspections do happen, but not all buildings get them as regularly as they should.
Finally got around to seeing it:
Overall it’s a B.
I enjoyed the opening, Saul getting his license back and tracking down Werner (and I a big fan of Lalo; definitely more entertaining than most of the cartel characters). But as a series finale it showed how it has been a slow season. And two scenes weren’t quite right for me:
Werner’s execution. I would have preferred to see him at least try to escape first, or beg more for his life.
Otherwise you have him going from “They’ll be mad, but I can reason with them” to “They will certainly execute me, and they are so good at doing so, and so resolute, that there’s absolutely no hope” in an instant and I couldn’t buy it.
Saul celebrating. The concept is fine, I just thought it was over-egged: somewhat overacted, and they had to make sure we saw Kim’s disapproval for a long time. They don’t normally telegraph things this obviously in BCS.
I went back and watched a couple of early episodes, and I highly recommend it. If you enjoyed the dramatic irony in S1 of watching Saul antagonize the old ticket booth guy while knowing he’s actually a certified badass who outfights assassins sent after him, you’ll have a lot of fun. Seeing Howard presented as the obnoxious villain keeping Jimmy down and trying to take advantage of poor Chuck, Chuck presented as the once fantastic older brother who’s now gone crazy and helpless with Jimmy the only person who cares about him, and Nacho presented as this scary tough guy drug dealer who runs his own schemes on the side feels really different when you learn what they all go on to do.
And I’ve never heard of a fire inspection that was thorough enough to find a secret entrance concealed inside of machinery, they’re usually just looking for whether exits are blocked, that fire suppression systems are installed, that flammable material is properly stored, and the like, not spending hours trying to move each piece of heavy equipment to see if it conceals a hidden underground lab. I think a decent number of people in this thread have a really skewed idea of how much detailed inspection gets done to buildings, how hard it is to get around a building inspector, and how much attention low-wage employees pay to nearby businesses. And, of course, the whole sub-five-minute police response time thing.
What new faces are you wondering about? Other than Gus’s henchmen and Gail (I can’t remember if any of them turned up in S3 or not) I don’t think any of the new faces did make an appearance in BB. Lalo definitely doesn’t, he was always a mystery in the BB timeframe who got one mention from Saul in Saul’s first episode.
The only “new faces” who have turned up for the first time in this season and who are also in Breaking Bad are Gale, Ira (BCS Hummel figure burglar, BB owner of Vamanos Pest), and Nick, a member of Mike’s security detail who was only in one episode of BB. There were a bunch of “new faces” from BB who first showed up last season. As you say, Lalo is only mentioned once in BB and his status is unknown even at that time.
I see what you did there.
I was inferring from some of the comments that Lalo had a role in BB. I didn’t remember it but figured I’d forgotten. Also, wasn’t really sure when Nacho and Gus’s other lackies showed up in the BB story line.
Like Lalo, Nacho never shows up in BB, only being mentioned by Saul in his first episode.
In BB, Victor is Gus/Mike’s main enforcer before Gale is killed. After Victor is killed Tyrus shows up to become the main enforcer. BCS makes it clear both had been working for Gus for a long time.
Nacho and Lalo never show up in BB, they’re both just referenced by Saul during his first episode when he thinks that Walt and Jessie were sent by Lalo to kill him for something that Ignacio (Nacho) did. Nacho is definitely not working for the Salamancas in BB, he would have shown up when Tuco, Hector, and the Cousins were active if he was. He is probably either in hiding or dead, that’s what S5 of BCS will show us or start to show us. Gus’s other henchmen show up during S3-S4 after Gus comes into the show but IMO are really more background than full characters; they’re enforcers for Gus who end up being involved in events, but don’t really drive any on their own.
Damn! I recently discovered this show, and have been binge watching it on Netflix the past two weeks. Last night I watched the finale of Season 3. Just now I went to watch the start of Season 4 . . . and it’s gone! Utterly, wiped away. They list the episodes of the first three seasons, but 4 has apparently been cornfielded. 
Why do they do this? Why? It’s their show, it’s not like some rental period ran out or whatever.
Netflix has to wait until Season 5 starts airing on AMC. And since they’ve decided to delay airing the next season until Judgment Day (it seems), you’ve got a while to wait.
Huh. Do you mean I would not have been able to watch Season 4 even if I’d been quicker? The little ‘show info’ thingie used to have tabs for all four seasons (though I don’t think I ever clicked on the fourth season, so maybe they didn’t list the titles/recaps of those episodes at all) while now it only has tabs for 1, 2, and 3.
VERY annoying. (Yes, spoiled rotten First Worlder.)
So could someone at least tell me, in a spoiler box if appropriate, did they ever reveal what was mysteriously sucking up the electricity that Chuck never found?
It’s not a Netflix show, it’s an AMC show. The easiest way to tell is that it’s structured to have commercial breaks, while Netflix originals do not because there are no commercials on Netflix.
Unlike, say, hulu, which annoys me with their commercial television episode structure.
You can pay the extra six bucks a month for ad-free, although it isn’t actually 100% ad-free, it’s more like 90-95%.
Oh. I didn’t know that, though I did often think to myself when the screen would go black for a second, “Here’s where a commercial would go.”
Okay. I will redirect my ire at AMC.
Back when TV shows were released on DVD (and later Bluray), the immediate past season was not released on DVD until the new season was just about to premiere. So the late availability of Better Call Saul on Netflix is nothing new.
I started watching Breaking Bad on DVD when the series was on its fourth season. I eventually caught up, only to have to wait to get the last ones until the next season premiered.
This seems to suggest TV shows are no longer released on DVD. Not only have all 4 seasons of Better Call Saul been released on DVD, you can get them via Netflix. I just watched Season 4 very recently via Netflix.