he was also Dr Daniel Whitehall on Marvel’s agents of SHIELD

Someone on twitter pointed out that the blown up photos of Howard at his memorial are just directly lifted from Patrick Fabian’s own instagram account

There was a brilliant bit of subtext at the funeral/wake, when Jimmy and Kim were catching up with Rich (I’ll paraphrase):

According to the BCS podcast, that is the same Statue of Liberty inflatable that the Kettlemans used for their tax office. 

one thing that really hit me this episode was how long i’ve been watching these characters and how much the world has changed.

“I love you too...but so what?”

I’m willing to bet now there’s a significant chance Tuco Salamanca is coming back in the next episode or two.

Is there something special about them I’m missing?

Jimmy lied but did it with a soft touch and did it in a way that comforted Howard’s widow. Kim just dug the knife in. That’s pretty much what their relationship has been like for the past season or two with Kim being the cold blooded and Jimmy still having a bit of a conscience about things

It was, but it didn’t fetishize it’s own misery*. As the review indicated, this is a prequel and we all knew this was going to happen in some form or another. This episode was the Revenge of the Sith of the BB cinematic universe.

Depressing, yet entertaining.

That was an immensely depressing hour of TV.

Man watching Kim bid farewell was rough.  She was completely right and yet Saul genuinely cared and isn't faking his emotions and pleads.  Made me feel bad just watching. 

I best know him as the guy from Dollhouse.

That whole closing montage was something else, wasn’t it? It reminded me of Anakin Skywalker becoming Darth Vader in “Lord of the Sith”.

And, “point and shoot” refers to a camera. And we have two shooters with both gun and camera in the episode.

Minor thing but Lalo tells Jimmy to just point and shoot until he runs out of bullets

I’d say the “Gene” timeframe is still a pretty big “spinning plate.” It’s just that we haven’t visited it in quite some time. I’ve expected for a while that we’d get at least one full episode set then, very possibly the finale, but with so many episodes left I’d be willing to bet on it being multiple. 

Its almost a shame to lose Dalton, he was a series MVP from the moment he was introduced.  But like Nachos, it felt right and now makes the last five episodes completely unpredictable.  There aren't any massive spinning plates left to guess an overall direction and I love that.

Damn that was good. Even though you know the outcome with Gus, Mike, etc, I was still on the edge of my seat with the Lalo story. Fantastic work by all involved.