That scene of Gene teaching her how to Google was no accident. Many think she'll be his downfall. I'm still holding out hope that she may be his savior.
On that note about it feeling okay for Bryan Cranston to return, I feel similarly about Aaron Paul. It was a very smart decision to bring him back as Jesse in his own standalone sequel film in El Camino, which wrapped his story up nicely. If he came back as Jesse after 9 years away in Better Call Saul, it would feel like unsatisfying fan service. But his story ended as well, which makes his return in BCS a nice victory lap too.
A lot of allusions to Frankenstein in the episode. Jimmy using “Viktor” as a pseudonym (although he’s used it before), Saul calling Jesse “Igor,” and even a mention of Frankenstein to Mike. Jimmy is Frankenstein and Walt is Frankenstein’s monster. It really forces you to realize that much of Breaking Bad plays out because Saul legitimized their business - scaled it by introducing Jesse and Walt to Gus, laundered their money with shell companies, and kept them out of jail. It’s a bummer we don’t see more of Saul during the Breaking Bad era, but I’m glad the writers positioned things this way as it feels like we’re not just skipping over that time period either.
And they might come back to it the next episode with Kim and Jimmy. You can argue that Kim is Saul Goodman's Frankenstein. Jimmy used her leaving to leap towards all his worst instincts, fully becoming a monster, and it happens again after the phone call. Gould and Gilligan are huge on how people face consequences. Kim has always met them head-on, Jimmy has always run away. I think that's going to be a major theme over the last 2 episodes.
The phone call kinda make a statement that Kim doesn’t have to return and the show is still completed. She cut all the ties with him now. She left him for good. She doesn’t want to do anything with him anymore. It answers EVERYTHING that fans had been asking about her. Where is she? And will she come back? The answers are Florida and a solid NO!
It really didn't rewrite anything. We already knew everything about Saul's involvement in Walt's rise to power. The only piece of new info was Mike's advice. That's it. Everything else is something anyone would know if they watched Breaking Bad.
That's the part I disliked most. It instantly made me feel like they were going back to the BB playbook - something they haven't done with this brilliant show for more than 6 1/2 seasons. Now they're gonna end it the same way by making him a dislikable Walter White in the last 2 1/2 episodes? Walt was already dying. Walt was not a good person, killing Mike, and putting hits out on Jesse, no love lost for him. We know Jimmy as an unethical but otherwise good-hearted soul who cares about people. Changing him into Walter the last 2 episodes feels cheap. I hope what we saw last episode was a one-off means to an end.
@@TrishD33LGK Saul should never have been loveable he's a pathological fraudster who takes advantage of people and the elderly. Charming yes but Saul has never been a good person.
@@TrishD33LGK I think we might get a pullback. Because yeah, Jimmy McGill has always been fundamentally different than Walter White. Walter White was, at heart, an egomaniac who wanted to be recognized for his brilliance. That was a cancer building in him his entire life, and when he got the real thing, he used it as an excuse to completely toss out his moral compass. Jimmy, OTOH, was seemingly born with a shaky moral compass, but never completely lost it, because he mainly wants to be liked and accepted. So there's always been a constant push and pull- Jimmy seems on a good path, then gets pushed back into something dark. Walter White was on a one-way street of all his worst characteristics, while it's never been as simple with Jimmy McGill/Saul Goodman. And I don't think we're going to get away from that at the end. I think Kim is going to convince him to turn himself in, and we get an ambivalent ending where maybe Jimmy has a chance to change, maybe Jimmy has a chance at parole somewhere down the line, and maybe he gets to reconnect, in one form or another, with Kim.
I think you're barking up the wrong tree. They just wanted to tie together his initial comments about Ignacio and Lalo in BB to something in BCS. He gets to clarify Ignacio in S6E8 and gets to clarify Lalo in this episode. We will not see more cartel activity, you can bet on it.
What if Saul ends up actually killing the guy with cancer, hence the cops turning up and he goes to see Kim one last time or even get her to represent him? Just to break even badder.
I’m here to just say that the voice of Jesse was sooo bad. Felt like Aaron Paul didn’t want to play the role and did it because he was forced or maybe it is because he was sick maybe? But it sounded so wrong and he also looked so tired (aside having aged of course)
Here's the last scene: A poorly attended funeral burial, perhaps in the rain, and of course with some great final music. In the distance is an aged Kim perhaps watching from behind a tree. She's crying, it's Jimmy's funeral.
Re: "I think there's a beauty in ending a story." And yet every time they announce a sequel or a prequel or WTF-ever, you UA-cam MFers are first in line to watch it. 😆 Personally I love that we got this and want MORE PLEASE. I don't want either show to end.
I can’t lie, I feel like they aren’t sticking the landing. Nippy was great and brought a lot of closure, but this last episode felt like they were both crawling and sprinting to the finish line simultaneously. It’s so meandering yet they are leaving important stuff out. I don’t think this is recontextualizing Breaking Bad like they are pretending it is. Also they doomed this show now, it won’t be able to stand on its own because it’s completely dependent on Breaking Bad. I wanted to see most of the story that Walt went through from Jimmy’s and Mike’s perspective even if only a montage, I want to see Jimmy react to Mike’s death, their relationship has been one of the building blocks of this whole show and now they are just neglecting that aspect. I don’t feel this is going to leave a good taste in my mouth when it’s all over, it just seems the writers were cornered on how to tie everything together and it isn’t giving me the sense that all six seasons of this great show are coming to a cohesive end. This last couple of episodes its becoming what a lot of people fears it would be all those years back, just a prequel to Breaking Bad.
Given Tom Schaunz' interviews I don't think I'm gonna like the way this ends now either. So many ways they could have gone with this and if they choose to repeat BB by trying to make us hate the lovable, though unethical Jimmy in the last 2 1/2 episodes of an entire series and universe in which we loved him, just so they can think they have made a plausible connection to have him meet a similar fate it's not gonna work for me.
Is anyone worried with these last few episodes ?this last season just proves why breaking bad is better that last breaking bad season was laser focused .
Yes, this past episode was very bad. Not because of the pace or anything but it didn’t feel like a progression of anything. And the BrBa flashbacks were cool but completely unnecessary and On the nose
I'm gonna be so bummed when it ends. Succession won't will the void until next year. I hope Vince and Peter got new tv shows up their sleeves.
14 Years of characters coming to an end 😳
That scene of Gene teaching her how to Google was no accident. Many think she'll be his downfall. I'm still holding out hope that she may be his savior.
She will sell him out to save her beloved Jeffie. But I can’t blame her at all. After seeing how despicable Gene has become, he deserves to be caught.
@@GiftSparks But he's got a few felonies on Jeffie. That's no small matter. He never went looking for Jeffie. Jeffie went looking for him.
@@TrishD33LGK Gene is a bigger fish than Jeffie- the feds will cut a deal.
On that note about it feeling okay for Bryan Cranston to return, I feel similarly about Aaron Paul. It was a very smart decision to bring him back as Jesse in his own standalone sequel film in El Camino, which wrapped his story up nicely. If he came back as Jesse after 9 years away in Better Call Saul, it would feel like unsatisfying fan service. But his story ended as well, which makes his return in BCS a nice victory lap too.
What a phenomenal Dayenu from Greenwald
I was waiting for this video since finishing the episode last night
A lot of allusions to Frankenstein in the episode. Jimmy using “Viktor” as a pseudonym (although he’s used it before), Saul calling Jesse “Igor,” and even a mention of Frankenstein to Mike. Jimmy is Frankenstein and Walt is Frankenstein’s monster. It really forces you to realize that much of Breaking Bad plays out because Saul legitimized their business - scaled it by introducing Jesse and Walt to Gus, laundered their money with shell companies, and kept them out of jail. It’s a bummer we don’t see more of Saul during the Breaking Bad era, but I’m glad the writers positioned things this way as it feels like we’re not just skipping over that time period either.
Saul could be the monster Jimmy created.
And they might come back to it the next episode with Kim and Jimmy. You can argue that Kim is Saul Goodman's Frankenstein. Jimmy used her leaving to leap towards all his worst instincts, fully becoming a monster, and it happens again after the phone call.
Gould and Gilligan are huge on how people face consequences. Kim has always met them head-on, Jimmy has always run away. I think that's going to be a major theme over the last 2 episodes.
The phone call kinda make a statement that Kim doesn’t have to return and the show is still completed.
She cut all the ties with him now. She left him for good. She doesn’t want to do anything with him anymore. It answers EVERYTHING that fans had been asking about her.
Where is she? And will she come back?
The answers are Florida and a solid NO!
She is definitely coming back.
@@MarkHogan994 Maybe not how we think though
Confirmed she's coming bavl
@@rigsby1454 there's a leaked photo with her we haven't scene in the show
It really didn't rewrite anything. We already knew everything about Saul's involvement in Walt's rise to power. The only piece of new info was Mike's advice. That's it. Everything else is something anyone would know if they watched Breaking Bad.
Exactly
Before it ends I want to know one thing, how did hector ended up in tuco’s house? Did he just take him from the nursing home?
They’re making Saul unlikeable … it’s brilliant.
That's the part I disliked most. It instantly made me feel like they were going back to the BB playbook - something they haven't done with this brilliant show for more than 6 1/2 seasons. Now they're gonna end it the same way by making him a dislikable Walter White in the last 2 1/2 episodes? Walt was already dying. Walt was not a good person, killing Mike, and putting hits out on Jesse, no love lost for him. We know Jimmy as an unethical but otherwise good-hearted soul who cares about people. Changing him into Walter the last 2 episodes feels cheap. I hope what we saw last episode was a one-off means to an end.
@@TrishD33LGK It's tragic. By design
@@TrishD33LGK Saul should never have been loveable he's a pathological fraudster who takes advantage of people and the elderly. Charming yes but Saul has never been a good person.
@@TrishD33LGK I think we might get a pullback. Because yeah, Jimmy McGill has always been fundamentally different than Walter White. Walter White was, at heart, an egomaniac who wanted to be recognized for his brilliance. That was a cancer building in him his entire life, and when he got the real thing, he used it as an excuse to completely toss out his moral compass.
Jimmy, OTOH, was seemingly born with a shaky moral compass, but never completely lost it, because he mainly wants to be liked and accepted. So there's always been a constant push and pull- Jimmy seems on a good path, then gets pushed back into something dark. Walter White was on a one-way street of all his worst characteristics, while it's never been as simple with Jimmy McGill/Saul Goodman. And I don't think we're going to get away from that at the end.
I think Kim is going to convince him to turn himself in, and we get an ambivalent ending where maybe Jimmy has a chance to change, maybe Jimmy has a chance at parole somewhere down the line, and maybe he gets to reconnect, in one form or another, with Kim.
He moves to albuquerque and works for William Oakley
Good insight on the Ozymandias refernce
I think you're barking up the wrong tree. They just wanted to tie together his initial comments about Ignacio and Lalo in BB to something in BCS. He gets to clarify Ignacio in S6E8 and gets to clarify Lalo in this episode. We will not see more cartel activity, you can bet on it.
I think the carol burnett character is going to use the internet and find that Gene/Saul is a wanted man and she's going to call the police on him.
I don't think it rewrote the past as much as expanded on it
Yo. Nice Ozzymandiaz Pull. Nioice to see someone else caught that.
What if Saul ends up actually killing the guy with cancer, hence the cops turning up and he goes to see Kim one last time or even get her to represent him? Just to break even badder.
3rd series for the bb universe. Kim wexler lawyering for beth dutton.
I'd rather die than watch a minute of that
Guy on right uses a million words and says nothing.
English majors in a nutshell
I disagree, I think he articulated his thoughts well
@@natepoch2416 yeah it was a joke. Guy on the right is goated. He dives so deep into the material.
I’m here to just say that the voice of Jesse was sooo bad. Felt like Aaron Paul didn’t want to play the role and did it because he was forced or maybe it is because he was sick maybe? But it sounded so wrong and he also looked so tired (aside having aged of course)
Is Jeff's friend the weird guy from ferris bueller?
Here's the last scene: A poorly attended funeral burial, perhaps in the rain, and of course with some great final music. In the distance is an aged Kim perhaps watching from behind a tree. She's crying, it's Jimmy's funeral.
Nice but probably too cliche?
cringe
Re: "I think there's a beauty in ending a story."
And yet every time they announce a sequel or a prequel or WTF-ever, you UA-cam MFers are first in line to watch it. 😆
Personally I love that we got this and want MORE PLEASE. I don't want either show to end.
I think Kim has cancer, that's why he smacks up the phone and ignores the victims "cancer concerns."
I can’t lie, I feel like they aren’t sticking the landing. Nippy was great and brought a lot of closure, but this last episode felt like they were both crawling and sprinting to the finish line simultaneously. It’s so meandering yet they are leaving important stuff out. I don’t think this is recontextualizing Breaking Bad like they are pretending it is. Also they doomed this show now, it won’t be able to stand on its own because it’s completely dependent on Breaking Bad. I wanted to see most of the story that Walt went through from Jimmy’s and Mike’s perspective even if only a montage, I want to see Jimmy react to Mike’s death, their relationship has been one of the building blocks of this whole show and now they are just neglecting that aspect. I don’t feel this is going to leave a good taste in my mouth when it’s all over, it just seems the writers were cornered on how to tie everything together and it isn’t giving me the sense that all six seasons of this great show are coming to a cohesive end. This last couple of episodes its becoming what a lot of people fears it would be all those years back, just a prequel to Breaking Bad.
What?
@@kyleabent ur response makes no sense, what, to what?
Given Tom Schaunz' interviews I don't think I'm gonna like the way this ends now either. So many ways they could have gone with this and if they choose to repeat BB by trying to make us hate the lovable, though unethical Jimmy in the last 2 1/2 episodes of an entire series and universe in which we loved him, just so they can think they have made a plausible connection to have him meet a similar fate it's not gonna work for me.
@@TrishD33LGK you forget that this isn’t the same Jimmy we know. This is Saul Goodman after all of breaking bad. He lost whatever soul he had left.
Is there a factory that pumps out pretentious tools that talk like these two?
Is anyone worried with these last few episodes ?this last season just proves why breaking bad is better that last breaking bad season was laser focused .
Yes, this past episode was very bad. Not because of the pace or anything but it didn’t feel like a progression of anything. And the BrBa flashbacks were cool but completely unnecessary and On the nose
No this season so far has been so perfect
@@anonymous4k4k I’m glad you think so but it ain’t been perfect .
@@nabetse1999 yea I need these next 2 episodes to bring it home otherwise this season was meh .
@@Anthonycheesman2024 exactly