Yeah, I never loved that BB was so comparatively quick, and then it tells us Gene was only in Omaha for less than a year, when it looked liked he’d been there for many years.

-Throughout the show, it didn’t really sink in to me that Saul was that much of a wanted man. Walter White I could see but not Saul. So when he started running, I kept thinking he was being a bit too paranoid. And when he was sitting in front of all those Federal agents, I was like whoa.

Which surprise flashback character cameo to love most

I’m pretty critical of the way images and headlines serve as spoilers around here but it’s the official image for the episode from AMC. So, anyone who streams it was going to see it before watching the episode one way or another. I do wish everyone would not use images that tip off the appearance of characters or…

Abigail Nussbaum had a really good blog post a while back discussing Better Call Saul, and she brought up this point when talking about how Kim contrasted with how the previous show wrote Skyler:

Are you also dropping by to let everyone know how stupid you are by intentionally on clicking articles recapping episodes you haven’t seen yet?

“Hey babe, check out my sweet crib---bunk beds, no privacy toilet.”

“With a brilliant shot of a courtroom exit sign brightly lit above Saul’s head,”

“Two years ago a guy walks into my office…”   Two year?  I couldn’t quite believe that the majority of the events in Breaking Bad plus Gene’s time in Omaha only took two years.   I had to spend refer to the BB wiki to confirm it   

In the end, Bill Oakley went as we all knew him:  trying and failing to be like Jimmy.  

This bugged me too and I can’t stop thinking about it. It seemed like the clear implication was that Jimmy was doing all this to save Kim. Except... did he? He can tell the feds that the Howard thing was all his doing, but Kim has already confessed to it in writing. Jimmy’s confession isn’t going to change that and…

Why are you here?

One little moment I liked was Kim going to the Legal Aid office to volunteer. I think I mentioned this in last week’s comments, but with her skill set I think any atonement/redemption she needs is better served by putting those skills to helping people again in some way, rather than hiding from the world writing copy…

And how come he looked YOUNGER in Breaking Bad?  PLOT HOLE!

I already posted this down in the land of the greys, but there was also a copy of The Time Machine in Saul’s house when the cleaning crew was clearing it out in the season premier.

But he didn’t tell the truth in either case, but a mix. He did happily take the benefits of making a shitload of money from Walter White but we do know, as the run went on, he became trapped and scared of him. We see that in their very last encounter in Breaking Bad most intensely where as soon as Walter has his…

Is...Is this a serious question?

Which makes the fact that, even in his big redemptive moment, Jimmy makes it clear that the Great and Mighty Heisenberg was actually, for the most part, haplessly out of his depth and would have wound up dead in a ditch or in a jail cell if not for Saul Goodman. One last little fuck you to Walter, it seems.

Sepinwall made what I thought was a very interesting point: "Sometimes, when spinoffs bring back characters from the parent series, it’s to remind you of why you liked them in the first place. Both of Walt’s appearances here have instead played up his most insufferable qualities, giving you the worst version of Walter…

Kim was the one juror Jimmy needed to convince. Saul utters one last “It’s showtime!” (à la All That Jazz) shortly before giving a word-for-word encore of his earlier performance to convince the prosecutor that Saul had a chance at a hung jury, then he zigs instead of zags and begins his confession to the judge—but…