Yeah, I hope this doesn’t mean that they scrap e.g. Rian Johnson’s planned non-Skywalker trilogy. What they should scrap is doing any more original trilogy nostalgia prequels that fill in some tiny blank that was best left implied in the original.

Yeah, it’s definitely the fault of the movie that was incredibly well received critically and commercially, and not the fault of the unnecessary, box-ticking “Star Wars Story” prequels that were diluting the brand.

The only real problem I’ve had with the show in the more recent episodes, is I just don’t care about Scott Michael Foster’s character.

Since he endorsed “Jim Gaffigan Pale Ale” by Steven’s Point Brewery, I think this is likely mostly tongue-in-cheek.

Yeah, “some ‘Atlanta’ crew member you’ve never heard of” seems pretty likely.

Yeah, I definitely thought the “my second wife” thing was just bluster, but then again they made the “managing a Cinnabon in Omaha” thing literal and that seemed likea hypothetical in Breaking Bad too.

Based solely on seeing that promotional photo before watching the episode, I thought “Oh, the ‘something stupid’ is that they’re going to get married on a whim to prove to each other that they aren’t growing apart,” which would tick the box of Saul mentioning that he’d been married on Breaking Bad (in addition to…

It’s definitely more of a fun, hang-out show than Breaking Bad. Like, I kinda want to live in the New Mexico/AQP of Better Call Saul, whereas Breaking Bad mostly made me want to stay very, very far away.

Gus also obviously has a shitload of overhead and is under cartel control, and can’t really spend his money on anything conspicuous without drawing legal/IRS attention.

It’s a real restaurant in Albuquerque and Kim met with the guy from Schweikart & Coakely there previously, but they did obviously frame the sign rather conspicuously in that shot.

Yeah, I don’t think she was supposed to be consciously trying to manipulate Mike. She was hearing things because she was paranoid and he felt responsible for unloading all the baggage of how Matty really got killed on her.

That line doesn’t really make sense to come after the concrete pouring story, IMHO. Why would the people regret asking him to talk if he just told a pleasant story about how Matty wrote his name in the concrete?

There is a difference between liking the act of cleaning and liking things to be clean.

They did include some pretty conspicuous shots of the drawer full of burners in the opening titles this week.

I also didn’t really understand the point of including the line from “present-day” Mike in the support group in the cold open, it could’ve just ended with the scene of Matty writing his name in the concrete and that would’ve been it.

The fact that everyone still has to do dishes and manually pick up trash is the biggest giveaway IMHO (upon rewatching).

“Confronting” is a weird term for what is essentially a mutual appreciation society. Not that that’s a bad thing, I love both The Good Place and the podcast and have listened to every episode, it’s just weird to try to sell this as combative when it isn’t.

I still feel like Saul mentioning his “second ex wife” in Breaking Bad could very believably just be bluster on Saul’s part and he might have never actually been married.

In “Marco” back in the first season they showed a scam where Jimmy and Marco unloaded some phony bills that had been “covered in ink” along with some special solution to remove the ink, I’m guessing Jimmy used one of those copiers to create the fake bills for that scam.

Weezer has a christmas album too, and it’s just the most blandly Weezer-y versions of all the most famous christmas songs. It’s impressively lazy.