“Meet Me In St. Louis!”

It’s surprising not to see it mentioned, but one of the reasons for St. Louis being the host is that the 1904 World’s Fair (with exhibitions from over 60 countries) was also exhibiting in St. Louis that year.

It was really good for sure. I was maybe a little less engaged than I would’ve liked to be, because while the prequelness of this show so often works in it’s favor putting Mike or Saul into life and death scenarios is the one time the prequelness works hard against it. IMO

Him making sure to get the mug was such a great character moment and something most shows would ignore. They’d have the character “forget” the mug just to play the sadness/metaphor of it being gone later.

Three big and symbolic losses in this episode as part of the transition to Saul: the salmon shirt, the mug, and the Suzuki. Everything that was Jimmy was destroyed in that scene. It was the metaphorical death and end of old Jimmy McGill.

This episode is the most terrified I’ve been watching a show from the Breaking Bad universe since Ozymandias. Especially the second half, once it became clear that Kim was going to know he was missing.

I interpreted it as a bank statement showing the 100k being deposited but that would've been the world's fastest bank statement delivery. 

This is a really good review.

If I was reminded of any BB episode, it was another favorite of mine, “4 Days Out”, which also saw its two leads stranded in the desert.

By miles the best episode of the season and a likely destined for the shortlist for best of the series.

Having mentioned it in my post in here as well, I’d forgotten Rian directed ‘Fly’! I knew he did the flat-out masterpiece ‘Ozymandias’ and one other that season, but yeah, that one totally slipped my mind. It’s weird to think about how that bottle episode was really only done because of how over budget they were at…

Mike does dance on the edge of “Mary Sue” territory sometimes, and the number of bullet/knife wounds he has “shrugged off” in BB and BCS makes that worse, but I think this episode does a fine job of demonstrating that Mike knows his limitations (“I can’t carry this money myself”).

The problem is that Johnathan Banks is…

I think it might have something to do with the Bond for Lalo as right after that she approached Jimmy about his pulling off getting the Bond option for Lalo. It seems like that is how she learnt that he did it.

I just looked at that moment again. We actually can’t see her expression while she’s looking at the piece of mail. The cresftfallenness happens when Jimmy says he has “business news”.

Was she crestfallen by the mail, or that she immediately realized Jimmy had decided to be a “friend of the cartel”? 

Wow. Amazing. I really appreciate the theological references/comments, Donna. I keep thinking we are waiting for a Saul/Paul moment, and maybe we are there? If Saul gets blinded briefly by a flash of light in the beginning of the next episode, that would be interesting.

And he failed at what he was actually trying to do, which is to take out the bandit so they could steal his truck and his water. Flipping the car instead might’ve looked badass, but it was completely counterproductive.

Well, it did take him two whole shots to get the guy at the end.

It's not unbelievable. Mike's got military history and years of being a cop behind him.

Saul mentions both Lalo and Nacho in his first scene in BrBa, so it's probably a pretty safe bet that they both live to the end of this series (although I suppose they could die but just without Saul's knowledge).