Steve Martin dated Anne Heche for a couple of years and then she got together with Ellen DeGeneres. Martin not so graciously included a character in Bowfinger based on Heche, who is promiscuous and desperate for stardom, and ends up with a barely veiled DeGeneres stand-in. This character is hard to watch knowing how…

According to the (fictional) University of American Samoa’s (real) Facebook page, Saul Goodman “donated” $5,000 to the school and received an honorary diploma.

That was very insightful.  He plays people for suckers then hates them for not knowing they’re being conned.  It’s the oldest excuse in the book. That people are complicit in their own victimization of the crime perpetrated on them.

It’s kind of weird that there’s so much confusion over this when we have an obvious parallel with Kim, who is clearly disgusted by what Jimmy has become but still cares deeply about him

I loved the Jesse scene, and I’ve heard some criticism that Aaron Paul feels like he’s playing a parody of Pinkman with these cameos, but I think he’s slipped back into the role with ease.

You can probably find a lot in my comment history discussing my father on a nostalgic level, but there are things I don’t necessarily like to air because, even though it was part of him, they’re not parts I want even random folks on the internet to think of when it comes to him, but they’re there.

It’s also a sad echo of his motto as an elder law specialist: “A Lawyer You Can Trust.”

You have to be a cynical, cold-hearted person to be a con man and this episode peeled it all back and showed what really lies beneath his cons. 

There’s also the suggestion that if Kim had remained a lawyer, Jesse might have brought Badger to HER instead, since he has the same sort of story about how she was a miracle worker on Combo’s case that he had in BB about Saul getting Emilio off.

Seriously. Imagine leaving someone because they’re apparently mismanaging their life (I forget when/why they split, but it seemed a symptom of Kim and Jimmy’s campaign), being always a little confused how that person became so erratic as to kill themselves amidst a coke bender, then receiving the sudden bombshell that…

Carol Burnett absolutely killing it at nearly 90 years old. 

Saul was way more influential in BB that we ever knew, and the original show is better for it in retrospect. That alone is a clear awesome payoff for any prequel. I dont even care how it all wraps up next week, in terms off specifics. Just excited. 

I watched a bit of Talking Saul afterwards (not really worth it, but) and Seehorn pointed out that if that conversation— or even Kim’s reply to Jesse asking if Saul was any good— had gone even slightly differently, the arc of Breaking Bad may not have happened.

Because there’s a difference between divorcing someone and burying them. And she didn’t even get the chance to do that. You can dislike someone and not want anything to do with them on a personal/intimate level and still feel grief when they die. Especially when you had previously been married to them.

Just because their marriage was on the rocks doesn’t mean she doesn’t think what happened to him was horrible.

I thought Kim in the courthouse was interesting. She sees the “new” Kim helping a client with his tie, prepping him for his hearing and appearing to care about the client just like Kim would.

Someone on another board mentioned this, and I think there are a couple of reasons:

Must have been a treat for Aaron Paul that they essentially gave him a whole monologue.

Jimmy may be a no-good lying con man, but at least he doesn’t say “Yep” over and over during sex. 

Much like the final breaking bad episodes, it’s remarkable how bold this show is with absolutely destroying any shred of goodness left in the protagonist. The series completely changes breaking bad for the better. I never would have thought the lovable wacky lawyer had such dark pits in his soul. Anchoring the final…