Better Watch Saul

"50% discount! Hey man, that's pretty good. That's like almost half off." Saul is so bad.

 

“What day is it?” “Tuesday?” “Half off!!”

 

Getting closer and closer to intersection of Saul with Breaking Bad - Hank showed up last night. Mike is such a bad ass for an old man. Overall, feels like it's dragging a bit, almost like the writers are getting worn down a bit as it edges closer to BB.

 

My favorite character!

 

Why'd he lay down for the hood boyz this week and where the hell is he recuperating? I'm thinking Gus is involved somehow trying to pull him back in. I can't remember, have Jimmy/Saul and Mike crossed paths yet in BCS?

 

I haven't seen the latest episode. Didn't they cross paths in the first season? Mike was an attendant in the parking garage?

 

Si si. Oldtimers syndrome setting in.

 

Watched the episode last night. I think you're right about Mike. It's gotta be a Fring compound!

 

Sorry about the spoiler, I'll hold off any commentary from now on until later in the week. Easy since it looks like it's just the two of us viewing at this point. Get the feeling that Jimmy's involvement with the Mesa Verde holdout will work initially but will come back to bite everyone later on somehow and serve as one more dagger in Jimmy and Kim's relationship even though Kim most likely put Jimmy up to it directly or indirectly.

 

I keep getting a feeling that Gus is somehow tied to Mesa Verde and Kim is going to be collateral damage.

 

Or the Salamancha's? What better place to launder money than through a bona-fide bank. That's essentially what was going on with the Savings & Loan debacle back in the 80's except with phony or sub-prime loans. But you're right, this entire show as well as BB are all concentric circles of ironic associations. What would be helpful, at least to me, would be if AMC would post an evolving family tree of sorts showing plot and people connections obviously with spoiler alert warnings for those not up to speed.

 

I loved that part. I watched it like 5 times. Those two knuckleheads did a great job acting.

 

I wonder how things would have went if BCS was shown first followed by BB. I know a lot of people who loved BB but not BCS so much. I like BCS but BB was way better for me.

The actor who plays Fring is in a series on Epix about that Harlem gangster who ran Harlem in the 60's, Bumpy Johnson. He plays Adam Clayton Powell. he does a great job.

 

Haven't seen the Epix series, not one of my channels. Giancarlo Esposito started out way back on Sesame Street and Electric Company and then graduated to a few Spike Lee films (remember Bug Out!). He's been in a ton of movies and various TV shows over the years. He is so masterful as Gus Fring. He was born in Denmark to an Italian father and a Black mother from Alabama.

 

"Revenge". A whole village dedicated to the other "Pollo Hermano"

 

This right here sums up the secondary theme running through BB and BCS. But (SPOILER ALERT) knowing who took out Gus in BB sort of makes this a moot point.

Have to say one of my my favorite parts of BCS is when Jimmy and Kim (Gizelle) do their various role playing schemes. Last night when Kim was the chief dude at Mesa Verde and Jimmy was Kim was so hilarious.

 

Agreed. "Friend of the Cartel" is going to cost him!

 

OK - now Lydia enters the picture. What a psycho. The walls are closing in on BB. Only 3 more episodes.

 

I think Kim might go but wouldn't bet on it.

 

Little help please. I only started watching, "Better Call Saul" a season back. Loved Breaking Bad! In the most recent episode Saul told that guy he'll never work for him because he killed his brother. Did that guy literally kill Saul's brother????? Also I assume when Gus told Mike he wanted him to work for him so he could get revenge that is for Gus's friend that the guy in the wheel chair killed on a BB episode.

 

You can probably get more details from the AMC BCS website as to plots and names but, no, the blond guy didn't directly kill Jimmy/Saul's brother (Michael McKeon), he was his brother Law partner and perhaps overworked his brother because he sort of went crazy with weird phobias which led to his death in the end (we really need Blunt Force right now to recreate all the nuances and details but Santee could probably add plenty that I forget already). As far as Gus's revenge, I was never clear if it was Gus's friend or brother that the wheel chair guy had killed - since the chicken franchise is "Los Hermanos".

 

They intimated heavily that the one who got killed was Gus' "special friend".
Didn't the law partners force Jimmy's brother to step down as a partner? Too long in between seasons to recall exactly.