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Better Call Saul, the TV series

Despite living in Albuquerque, I've never really watched this (or BB for that matter). But this season I'll be watching because my wife plays a non-speaking part lawyer in episode 5! woot!

Apropos of nothing, the Cinnebon where they filmed the opening scene from the season one opener has closed. The mall it's in here is dying and a lot of shops have closed up. Sad, really.
 
More tension between Jimmy and Kim:

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At last, a good and proper trailer, complete with an all-too-familiar bell and a certain DEA agent...

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^ That one’s unavailable in this part of the world. This one appears to have similar content:

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Season 4 is finally on Netflix.

Shouldn't Kaylee be much, much younger? Aren't we still 7 years before Breaking Bad, so she should be 3 or 4?
 
I always predicted Nacho’s fate would be to explain how Saul met vacuum guy.

I wonder how the story will adjust to Forster’s death. I guess if he appears in season 5 he could have filmed it before he died.
 
Season 4, episode 6

I’m finding it hard to believe his superiors haven’t noticed what’s happening...
 
I reached the episode where he saw potential in a troubled high school student. I saw a lot of myself in that episode
 
I like when he tells the student all the things he wish somebody told him, that nobody 'respectable' will ever see past his mistake, and to take what he wants outside the rules.
 
Even though it's more connected to El Camino, I figured I'd share this new short AMC released because this is the more active thread:

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Todd, still creepy, still not getting it, even if he thinks he does.
 
And now it's Bob Odenkirk, Rhea Seehorn, and Jonathan Banks' turn with A.V. Club, talking about how this season is the best one yet.

Something I learned here about Breaking Bad: Apparently Mike was created on the spot when Bob Odenkirk was busy with How I Met Your Mother. Originally, Saul was suppose to clean up Jane's death, but because Odenkirk was unavailable, Mike was created to serve that purpose.
 
Blimey that was lucky! Hard to imagine either show without Mike. I mean I know it's called Better Call Saul but I do sometimes thing of it as more of a Saul and Mike and Kim show
 
Great season opener! Looking forward to part two tonight.

It looks like Gene might be thinking of murder, a line even Saul never personally crossed (Though he knowingly enabled it). Kim looks like she's close to seeing Jimmy as a bad person, though she's still fighting hard to bring out good in him. That comment "How it reflects on you" felt a lot like "How it makes me see you" in disguise.

I loved that scene where Mike dismissed the German workers, and the one who said "Oh he kind of had it coming" got punched and the one who said a more classy "Screw you" didn't.
 
Robert Forster! That was a genuinely lovey surprise. After his death last year, I wondered about their original plans to have him show up in Better Caul Saul, and if they had been scuppered.

I eagerly await what will happen with Gene in season 6, and whether we'll have an episode, or a large chunk of an episode, dedicated to wrapping up that portion of his life.

Kim is genuinely worried about Jimmy's slide into Saul-dom. I think she and him make a sweet couple, but I'm beginning to wonder whether she will call time on it this season.

A more interesting twist of course would have her pop up in Gene's life - would they do that?
 
"And poof! Saul Goodman is there!"

There we have it, ladies and gentleman. Saul Goodman has truly arrived now. And poor Kim, despite her best efforts to stay pure, continues to get pulled into Saul's scams in order to deal with a very naive client so he'll take the best deal he can possibly get.

I dared to hope, after hearing the passing of Robert Forster last year, that we might get him sometime season...and lo and behold, he's in the very first episode dealing with an unnerved Gene! That was such a lovely surprise and it certainly leaves open the possibility that we might see him in the current timeline, too.

Lalo is sniffing around Gus' activities and we already know this is not going to end well. I can't wait to watch those two face off, even if Mike wants nothing to do with it, still angry about what happened to poor Werner.
 
I see Kim as kind of a gambling addict with regard to Jimmy. She’s no longer getting drawn in, she craves the adrenaline and can’t resist it. Then feels ashamed. She knows it’s wrong and dangerous, but she needs to chase the high.
Yeah, I can definitely see that, especially since we've seen signs of that in the past. However, I think in this case, she also did it because was so utterly perplexed as to how to convince her client to see sense in his situation.
 
Yeah, I can definitely see that, especially since we've seen signs of that in the past. However, I think in this case, she also did it because was so utterly perplexed as to how to convince her client to see sense in his situation.

I think that's how she justifies it to herself. Kind of like how you can say "I'm trying to quit smoking, I only smoke on weekends, holidays, when I have a stressful day at work, when I'm watching sports, etc..."
 
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