I can’t ever see a bag of those chips and not at least think to myself, “Utz are better than nuts.”

Mrs. F. and I discussed adding HoD to our weekly watches. I was non-plussed by it but when she asked “How much worse can it be than GoT,” she got me. We loved GoT right until that shit ending with Bran as king. But we’ll give this a spin. Also, it’s got dragons.

I want to believe he has one last masterpiece in him. But the last fifteen years disagree with me. 

Eastwood? Let the man rest. Can’t you find a young filmmaker with his aesthetics to satisfy your urges?

The time machine framing got down to what this show was about. Walter, in his own churlish way, pointed out the problem with a time machine premise. What use is such a device if you’re not able to make different decisions, if you cannot be a different kind of person? Jimmy got to remake his life several times over and…

Were they valid reasons though? Chuck resented Jimmy for what happened in his dad’s store but Jimmy was a child.

Hmm... I like this, but I would quibble with one thing. I think he was perfectly willing to take the deal until he found out about Kim.

Saul as Gene had to have this contingency in mind. Somewhere, deep in his scotch and doing the Cinnabon performance reviews at home, he had to think, “OK, what’s my defense if I got…

I loved it. I think the question this finale asks, to some extent, is what is freedom?

TLDR and spoiler warnings:

While Gene was always looking over his shoulder mixing the dough and dealing with customers at Cinnabon, quite figuratively in a mental prison, hiding out and masking his true self; in prison, Jimmy/Saul can be who he is, can relax, and is appreciated for his company and work. Going to prison set his identity free. 

Once Marie was brought into the room, I knew her dialogue almost word for word. Still very raw emotion now knowing it’s only been a year or less since Hank’s death.

I’ve been thinking about that scene between Kim and Jimmy all afternoon. Just like... The weight of the silence between them and how much is left unsaid. I was expecting a long conversation but after it ended I realized that wouldn’t have made any sense with either of their characters. I think the fact that she went…

This was such a cool effect that I didn’t really start catching until the last half of this season. The ‘tape’ containing still frames of the upcoming episode (Kim at the airport in Waterworks, Saul/Jimmy baking bread in prison in Saul Gone) was such a masterful little easter egg that worked so well.

-I was waiting for them to kiss one last time.

The finale was largely what I expected, but the way it played out was awesome. It was inevitable that Gene/Saul/Jimmy was going to get caught. His actions in Omaha ensured it.

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These shows present a moral world that is just off kilter — and perhaps a little too uncomfortably close — to our own. In a real way, Jimmy is the only native of the moral world that these shows inhabit. The idea that “you’re still just slippin’ Jimmy” is not only doubled down on, but it’s expanded into a larger…

They re-created the Seinfeld finale.

If Kim didn’t seem impressed and thought it was stupid, why did she happily visit him in prison using her old NM bar card which is illegal and would’ve gotten her in trouble herself?

They managed to do everything they needed to without a single wasted frame.

Bringing back Marie was a stroke of genius. It adds all the necessary context for just how much damage was done along the way. As much as the audience may want Jimmy to talk his way out of the consequences, doing so would have cheapened the…