I was devastated to see that Donna wasn't on the beat for the final season at AV Club, and then immediately elated to find out she's covering it here! So glad to be closing out the ABQ Cinematic Universe all these years later just where I started: reading Donna's recaps immediately afterward.
Kudos to whoever dropped the link to come here in the BCS recap at the, tbh, smoldering wreckage of what was once the AV Club. Soon as I saw it I was over here and subscribed. If these two episodes are any indication of what the final season has on hand, it was worth my money.
I THINK the car following Saul and Kim was Mike's caddy...is that not right? Maybe Mike looking to enlist Saul in helping Nacho out?
One bummer of a prequel series is that I want someone to just unload a machine gun and preferably 5-10 grenades onto The Twins and I know I won't get the satisfaction. Those guys are scary as hell.
Lest you forget how scary Lalo was what with the passage of time, here he is, murdering a wife and her husband. A wife and husband who seem to love him, since he paid for hubby's dental work. Which it turns out he did to have a "break in case you need a corpse to prove you're dead" guy, who he even gets to shave his epic man-beard into a Lalostache! Yikes!
So glad I found this substack, and I rarely visited AVClub. Subscribed!
I don't recognize the car, but it is the type of car Mike would use: 80s V8 from a big three US automaker, nondescript but in good repair.
Shout-out for the car messaging! The Salamancas drive flashy American classics, but Lalo knows to give Don Eladio a Ferrari. Gus's fleet is contemporary, utilitarian but high quality. Gus's Volvo wagon from BB - the ultimate in hiding-in-plain-sight caution. Howard's douchey NAMAST3 Jaguar. Jimmy's Esteem. Saul's white LWYRUP Caddy. And Walt's cars, and Hank's, and Marie's... ok, I'm starting to overheat!
I don't speak Spanish, so I may have missed nuances with accent and vocabulary etc, but I think the couple aren't even from around there. From the closed captions I gathered that Lalo actually had the couple moved from wherever they were (he asks the woman if her goats have grown used to living away from the mountains), so it appears that at some point in the past he had his guys find a Lalo ringer, do his teeth up to match Lalo's, and stash him nearby just in case. I guess people like Lalo always need a spare decoy lying around as standard operating procedure.
Stretching my neck after that Gilligan-Gould Whiplash™. It is thrilling to watch them hit this vicious stride again; I predict I'll be sucking wind throughout the season.
Also wanted to say: I've read every single BB/BCS review you wrote at AV Club, and it's great to see you return here Donna. Just need to drag AA Dowd, Katie Rife, and Noel Murray in here and things will be feeling ever more wonderriffic! Y'all earned my annual sub.
I am also an ex-AV Club reader and so happy that these reviews exist here!
I did a quick speed watch of S5 and glad I did, as these episodes barrel straight in.
I’m not sure if the structure of S6 is known, beyond it being in 2 parts, but was cheekily thrown by the beginning of episode 1 fading into colour; I imagine we will not see the Gene postscript until towards the end of the run? Or do you think it will be more interspersed with the main narrative?
Also today was the first time that I thought there may be a possibility of seeing a Gene-era version of Kim, if she makes it out alive.
Haha, I love that observation about the black and white. I didn't make that connection but I do think it is a joke about our expectations of seeing the flashforward. In the last few seasons they have not put the Gene material as brackets around the season (first, last, middle), so I think it could come anywhere.
Yeah, I totally saw it messing with our expectations as (I think?) all previous seasons have cold opened with the Black and white Gene story, which is the only place we have so far seen that part of the story.
With that opening scene, plus the poster work for S6 with B/W Gene putting on his bright red jacket, I’m wondering whether colour will start to bleed into the Gene-era as we see more of that story play out.
Also, I think that opening scene plays as well as it does being in colour, to best capture how garish Saul’s palace and clothing truly are.
Double like this! Could write an exegesis of decent length about the tie montage as a visual and emotional parallel for the series structure as a whole — starting with how, viewed in black and white, everything's abstract and graphic and balanced and beautiful. Then the colours and shading start coming in and it's still beautiful but also awful and jarring and too loud.
Gene is in a quiet monochrome bit of his life right now, but full-colour life is about to start raining vivid silk nooses on him any minute now and it's going to be awful. (And we clearly find it beautiful; at any rate, we can't look away.)
I loved the scenes showing the differences between Gus' crew and the Salamancas when it came to getting into Nacho's safe. Mike and the crew used finesse, cleaned up after themselves and made sure everything looked as perfect as possible. The Salamancas used brute force, sawing the door off, even lighting the envelope inside on fire while opening it up.
Also, an echo between the initial walk through Saul Goodman's house being emptied and the cousins walking through the crime scene at Lalo's compound. The former was a bunch of people working together, weaving in and out. The latter was the cousins coming in and jus disrupting. Kicking over evidence markers. Everyone pausing and showing deference.
So glad to have found your new BCS home, Donna! One point I haven’t seen touched on much is Saul’s slip-up revealing Lalo’s name at the courthouse. I wasn’t sure whether it was accidental or not.
Since Jimmy is under the impression that Lalo is dead, I’d tend to believe it *is* accidental. After all, how would it be to Jimmy’s benefit for The Law to know not only De Guzman’s real identity, but that Saul knew it all along?
I definitely thought it was accidental. Jimmy is smart and always scheming but he's not such a super genius that everything he does is intentional and strategic
So cool to see the smart folk gathering here, and how great to be reading Donna's take again! Since y'all are really on top of things, I'll shoot you a question. Just watched the S6 opener and I don't see anyone commenting on this: at/toward the end of the Saul's House-Golden Toilet sequence, a jump-suited worker pushes open a door and enters a hidden room: a small bare space with recording equipment that's getting packed up. To me, this meant one thing: "Saul" has been working for the Feds, allowing them to tape conversations he was having (presumably, with drug dealers) in his house. By some plot twist that we have yet to see, Jimmy had to go to the Feds and turn state's evidence, helping them get the evidence needed to take down some cartel baddie or other. Maybe--just maybe--he had to do this in order, somehow, to save Kim. (Not sure how that might work.) So maybe all through the BB years, Jimmy (as "Saul") is a Federal informer. But something goes awry, he loses HIS witness protection deal, and he has to save himself by escaping via Vacuum Cleaner Man. Am I nuts? Did anybody else see the secret room? What else could account for it?
I just watched it after I read your comment. I didn't see any recording equipment. Clothing and a bulletproof vest are being picked up, but the only electronics appear to be a tv/monitor attached to the wall.
On the other hand, the "American Greed" in-universe tabloid show has audio at the end of Lalo asking Jimmy to get the $7M. Jimmy must have recorded that, perhaps as protection own the road for himself?
OK. I rewatched it. ("Better Call Saul Season 6 Episode 1 Opening" on YouTube.) You are right--there is no recording equipment per se. But at 1:31, a bearded man pushes open a mirrored door and enters a closet. On the back wall, top shelf, there is toilet paper piled up. On the wall at right is a computer display with wires handing down. There is a folding chair. Behind it is a water cooler. Against the back wall, 2nd shelf down, is a stainless steel coffee pot next to a bag of coffee. So... who needs to SIT in a closet watching a monitor and drinking coffee or water? This is a place from which surveillance was being done. To me it looks like the whole place, golden toilet and all, was staged, probably by the Feds because who else would have the money? It was staged to appear as Saul's home because Saul (eventually) is working with the Feds, helping them gather evidence to put away some bad guys. (Or to put away Kim? For her own safety? So she doesn't get killed by the cartel?) That's my story, kids, and I'm sticking to it.
It looks like a panic room to me, someplace for him to hide out when the shit goes down. Bulletproof vest, food supplies, toilet paper and toilet. The monitor is there so that he can observe security cameras he has in his house in order to determine when the coast is clear (or to report the situation to allies, if any).
Glad to get to read your reviews this season , Donna. You just earned Myles a subscription (though I look forward to reading his stuff too).
I'm glad I wasn't the only one confused by the whole Nacho business. I get that we're supposed to understand Gus as an unusually savvy and patient criminal, but sometimes it's okay to skip the nine-dimensional chess and just shoot somebody.
I agree that Gus’s implied plan here doesn’t make sense. If you want Nacho dead, kill him yourself—sure, it’s suspicious, but surely the Salamancas’ suspicions won’t be allayed just because their own men killed Nacho in a gun fight. As much as I love Giancarlo Esposito’s performance, I’ve long felt that both shows have a bit of a Gus Problem, ever since they had him do the silly “come at me bro” thing with the sniper outside his warehouse.
I just wish there were a few more signposts for the viewer. I was at first under the impression that Tyrus was playing both sides — the watcher at the motel, and then the Cousins immediately swinging in after Nacho makes the call. But I couldn’t find any hint of that, and Mike planting the envelope didn’t make sense with it. Not as clear as this show usually makes even its complicated plot points.
Re: Mike, I mean, he is reluctant to toss in the forged bank statement at the end of the safecracking. He doesn't want Nacho to die (Jesse parallel right here) but is becoming more okay with the idea of people inviting their own risk when they choose to be "in the game". (I saw someone do a YouTube video about this.) That's why he removes Nacho's dad's fake ID and puts his foot down when Gus tries to drag Manuel Varga into things. Manuel wasn't in the game.
Presumably the plan with the forged bank statement was to plant the idea that Nacho was paid by the Peruvians and let them know where Nacho was hiding out. Naturally someone like Mike would have eyes on Nacho's Albuquerque home to know exactly when Juan Bolsa and his crew went in. The guy watching Nacho at the motel would then either take Nacho out or tell whoever was assigned to do it. The Cousins, having been updated by Bolsa, would show up at the motel and find dead Nacho, and everything would just land squarely on the Peruvians. Caveat: Presumably.
You're right, you can see how it could fit together, but there are missing pieces that could have helped it make more immediate sense. There is the impression that Gus is sorely rattled (though still high functioning and maintaining an iron grip on all the threads he can hold) and perhaps slipping up where he feels that some aspect of the current situation (like Nacho's life/death status) do not merit his full quantum of consideration or subtle strategising.
The way he distractedly smashed a glass while pouring himself some water is very unlike him, but his methodical cleanup is top-tier Gus Ultra. Might be a stretch, but maybe foreshadowing of how it'll all play out? He'll slip up and things (lives) get smashed, but he'll make it all nice and neat again (minus the smashed thing).
After all, we know that Gus is still in Eladio's good books during BB and Hector has been mollified enough that he doesn't ding out a message to the powers that be about Lalo's "chicken man" theory.
Really happy to find your reviews here Donna! I can’t help but feel that Kim becomes a lot more of a player than I ever anticipated a few series ago. Her reaction in the car park after the scene with the Kettlemans is excellent, a real enjoyment of kicking their arses. I’d love to find out that the Saul mansion at the beginning is just part of the whole Saul persona, that Kim is really liaising between Saul and… whoever is using those listening devices, and they are still really watching black and white movies in the old apartment at the end of the day.
Hi! Another ex-AVClubber here. I stumbled on Breaking Bad just after Season 3 finished, and since then have always found your reviews (and Sepinwall's) to be an integral part of the BB / BCS viewing experience. I am really happy that you're going to finish it out. I also like what I've seen so far of the Substack platform, so I'll shell out for a subscription here.
As for the premiere, I think they may have been better served by airing it as two separate episodes. That was a BIG two and a half hours, without the usual slow-burn found in early episodes. I thought I must have missed something regarding the Gus / Nacho plot, but it seems the consensus is that it was actually a little confusing.
All that said, I know better than to judge an early episode of this show before seeing how all of the threads develop.
One additional thought regarding the opening. Is it possible that the activity there is happening concurrently with what we've seen so far with Gene? I feel like the timing could line up and the B&W opening had to have more than just artistic significance.
So glad to have this show back! And as many have said before me, it is great to find you here after missing you at the AV Club, Donna!
The only thing that could elate me even more would be a reprise of the Polite Fights videos on this show, which were amazing highlights for me after each episode...
Has anybody else picked up on Kim’s outfit in the scene with the Kettleman’s? If I’m not mistaken her wardrobe has been overwhelmingly blue hues and typically staid. I didn’t pick up on this pin-striped brown suit with a loud and colorful blouse until, after reading all the post-show commentary with the attached photo of Kim waiting by the car for Jimmy, it jumped out at me. After seeing that photo several times, it occurred to me that it looked like something out of the Jimmy/Saul wardrobe aesthetic. Nothing is ever random on BCS, so this struck a chord. Thoughts?
Am I the only one who think Saul and Kim's vengeance on Howard it unwarranted? I mean, Howard is an elitist knob, but he did try to turn things around after Chuck's death.
It's 2000 percent unwarranted. It's not just after Chuck's death Howard took the heat for Chuck's actions for years to spare Jimmy from knowing his own brother hated him that much. Howard never was the bad guy. It's all Jimmy and Kim's bullshit rationalizations and victim complexes. It's amazing to me that any viewer would think anything they're doing is remotely warranted at this point
I was devastated to see that Donna wasn't on the beat for the final season at AV Club, and then immediately elated to find out she's covering it here! So glad to be closing out the ABQ Cinematic Universe all these years later just where I started: reading Donna's recaps immediately afterward.
Kudos to whoever dropped the link to come here in the BCS recap at the, tbh, smoldering wreckage of what was once the AV Club. Soon as I saw it I was over here and subscribed. If these two episodes are any indication of what the final season has on hand, it was worth my money.
I THINK the car following Saul and Kim was Mike's caddy...is that not right? Maybe Mike looking to enlist Saul in helping Nacho out?
One bummer of a prequel series is that I want someone to just unload a machine gun and preferably 5-10 grenades onto The Twins and I know I won't get the satisfaction. Those guys are scary as hell.
Lest you forget how scary Lalo was what with the passage of time, here he is, murdering a wife and her husband. A wife and husband who seem to love him, since he paid for hubby's dental work. Which it turns out he did to have a "break in case you need a corpse to prove you're dead" guy, who he even gets to shave his epic man-beard into a Lalostache! Yikes!
Oh, BCS, I missed you.
So glad I found this substack, and I rarely visited AVClub. Subscribed!
I don't recognize the car, but it is the type of car Mike would use: 80s V8 from a big three US automaker, nondescript but in good repair.
Shout-out for the car messaging! The Salamancas drive flashy American classics, but Lalo knows to give Don Eladio a Ferrari. Gus's fleet is contemporary, utilitarian but high quality. Gus's Volvo wagon from BB - the ultimate in hiding-in-plain-sight caution. Howard's douchey NAMAST3 Jaguar. Jimmy's Esteem. Saul's white LWYRUP Caddy. And Walt's cars, and Hank's, and Marie's... ok, I'm starting to overheat!
I don't speak Spanish, so I may have missed nuances with accent and vocabulary etc, but I think the couple aren't even from around there. From the closed captions I gathered that Lalo actually had the couple moved from wherever they were (he asks the woman if her goats have grown used to living away from the mountains), so it appears that at some point in the past he had his guys find a Lalo ringer, do his teeth up to match Lalo's, and stash him nearby just in case. I guess people like Lalo always need a spare decoy lying around as standard operating procedure.
As much as they were indebted to him, the couple were also clearly terrified of Lalo, and it turns out with good reason.
Stretching my neck after that Gilligan-Gould Whiplash™. It is thrilling to watch them hit this vicious stride again; I predict I'll be sucking wind throughout the season.
Also wanted to say: I've read every single BB/BCS review you wrote at AV Club, and it's great to see you return here Donna. Just need to drag AA Dowd, Katie Rife, and Noel Murray in here and things will be feeling ever more wonderriffic! Y'all earned my annual sub.
I am also an ex-AV Club reader and so happy that these reviews exist here!
I did a quick speed watch of S5 and glad I did, as these episodes barrel straight in.
I’m not sure if the structure of S6 is known, beyond it being in 2 parts, but was cheekily thrown by the beginning of episode 1 fading into colour; I imagine we will not see the Gene postscript until towards the end of the run? Or do you think it will be more interspersed with the main narrative?
Also today was the first time that I thought there may be a possibility of seeing a Gene-era version of Kim, if she makes it out alive.
Haha, I love that observation about the black and white. I didn't make that connection but I do think it is a joke about our expectations of seeing the flashforward. In the last few seasons they have not put the Gene material as brackets around the season (first, last, middle), so I think it could come anywhere.
Yeah, I totally saw it messing with our expectations as (I think?) all previous seasons have cold opened with the Black and white Gene story, which is the only place we have so far seen that part of the story.
With that opening scene, plus the poster work for S6 with B/W Gene putting on his bright red jacket, I’m wondering whether colour will start to bleed into the Gene-era as we see more of that story play out.
Also, I think that opening scene plays as well as it does being in colour, to best capture how garish Saul’s palace and clothing truly are.
Double like this! Could write an exegesis of decent length about the tie montage as a visual and emotional parallel for the series structure as a whole — starting with how, viewed in black and white, everything's abstract and graphic and balanced and beautiful. Then the colours and shading start coming in and it's still beautiful but also awful and jarring and too loud.
Gene is in a quiet monochrome bit of his life right now, but full-colour life is about to start raining vivid silk nooses on him any minute now and it's going to be awful. (And we clearly find it beautiful; at any rate, we can't look away.)
I loved the scenes showing the differences between Gus' crew and the Salamancas when it came to getting into Nacho's safe. Mike and the crew used finesse, cleaned up after themselves and made sure everything looked as perfect as possible. The Salamancas used brute force, sawing the door off, even lighting the envelope inside on fire while opening it up.
Also, an echo between the initial walk through Saul Goodman's house being emptied and the cousins walking through the crime scene at Lalo's compound. The former was a bunch of people working together, weaving in and out. The latter was the cousins coming in and jus disrupting. Kicking over evidence markers. Everyone pausing and showing deference.
Just love the attention to detail in this show.
So glad to have found your new BCS home, Donna! One point I haven’t seen touched on much is Saul’s slip-up revealing Lalo’s name at the courthouse. I wasn’t sure whether it was accidental or not.
Since Jimmy is under the impression that Lalo is dead, I’d tend to believe it *is* accidental. After all, how would it be to Jimmy’s benefit for The Law to know not only De Guzman’s real identity, but that Saul knew it all along?
Wonderful piece as always!
I saw it as accidental; he got too lost in the moment and frazzled and I don’t see what purpose it would serve to out his real identity.
I definitely thought it was accidental. Jimmy is smart and always scheming but he's not such a super genius that everything he does is intentional and strategic
So cool to see the smart folk gathering here, and how great to be reading Donna's take again! Since y'all are really on top of things, I'll shoot you a question. Just watched the S6 opener and I don't see anyone commenting on this: at/toward the end of the Saul's House-Golden Toilet sequence, a jump-suited worker pushes open a door and enters a hidden room: a small bare space with recording equipment that's getting packed up. To me, this meant one thing: "Saul" has been working for the Feds, allowing them to tape conversations he was having (presumably, with drug dealers) in his house. By some plot twist that we have yet to see, Jimmy had to go to the Feds and turn state's evidence, helping them get the evidence needed to take down some cartel baddie or other. Maybe--just maybe--he had to do this in order, somehow, to save Kim. (Not sure how that might work.) So maybe all through the BB years, Jimmy (as "Saul") is a Federal informer. But something goes awry, he loses HIS witness protection deal, and he has to save himself by escaping via Vacuum Cleaner Man. Am I nuts? Did anybody else see the secret room? What else could account for it?
I just watched it after I read your comment. I didn't see any recording equipment. Clothing and a bulletproof vest are being picked up, but the only electronics appear to be a tv/monitor attached to the wall.
On the other hand, the "American Greed" in-universe tabloid show has audio at the end of Lalo asking Jimmy to get the $7M. Jimmy must have recorded that, perhaps as protection own the road for himself?
OK. I rewatched it. ("Better Call Saul Season 6 Episode 1 Opening" on YouTube.) You are right--there is no recording equipment per se. But at 1:31, a bearded man pushes open a mirrored door and enters a closet. On the back wall, top shelf, there is toilet paper piled up. On the wall at right is a computer display with wires handing down. There is a folding chair. Behind it is a water cooler. Against the back wall, 2nd shelf down, is a stainless steel coffee pot next to a bag of coffee. So... who needs to SIT in a closet watching a monitor and drinking coffee or water? This is a place from which surveillance was being done. To me it looks like the whole place, golden toilet and all, was staged, probably by the Feds because who else would have the money? It was staged to appear as Saul's home because Saul (eventually) is working with the Feds, helping them gather evidence to put away some bad guys. (Or to put away Kim? For her own safety? So she doesn't get killed by the cartel?) That's my story, kids, and I'm sticking to it.
It looks like a panic room to me, someplace for him to hide out when the shit goes down. Bulletproof vest, food supplies, toilet paper and toilet. The monitor is there so that he can observe security cameras he has in his house in order to determine when the coast is clear (or to report the situation to allies, if any).
Panic room. Interesting idea. But there's no toilet in there.
Black seat and lid, just to the right of the monitor.
Yeah, I see it now. Thanks, Steve!
I meant "Federal informant."
Glad to get to read your reviews this season , Donna. You just earned Myles a subscription (though I look forward to reading his stuff too).
I'm glad I wasn't the only one confused by the whole Nacho business. I get that we're supposed to understand Gus as an unusually savvy and patient criminal, but sometimes it's okay to skip the nine-dimensional chess and just shoot somebody.
(On TV. Not in real life.)
So delighted you’re back, Donna!
I agree that Gus’s implied plan here doesn’t make sense. If you want Nacho dead, kill him yourself—sure, it’s suspicious, but surely the Salamancas’ suspicions won’t be allayed just because their own men killed Nacho in a gun fight. As much as I love Giancarlo Esposito’s performance, I’ve long felt that both shows have a bit of a Gus Problem, ever since they had him do the silly “come at me bro” thing with the sniper outside his warehouse.
I just wish there were a few more signposts for the viewer. I was at first under the impression that Tyrus was playing both sides — the watcher at the motel, and then the Cousins immediately swinging in after Nacho makes the call. But I couldn’t find any hint of that, and Mike planting the envelope didn’t make sense with it. Not as clear as this show usually makes even its complicated plot points.
Re: Mike, I mean, he is reluctant to toss in the forged bank statement at the end of the safecracking. He doesn't want Nacho to die (Jesse parallel right here) but is becoming more okay with the idea of people inviting their own risk when they choose to be "in the game". (I saw someone do a YouTube video about this.) That's why he removes Nacho's dad's fake ID and puts his foot down when Gus tries to drag Manuel Varga into things. Manuel wasn't in the game.
Presumably the plan with the forged bank statement was to plant the idea that Nacho was paid by the Peruvians and let them know where Nacho was hiding out. Naturally someone like Mike would have eyes on Nacho's Albuquerque home to know exactly when Juan Bolsa and his crew went in. The guy watching Nacho at the motel would then either take Nacho out or tell whoever was assigned to do it. The Cousins, having been updated by Bolsa, would show up at the motel and find dead Nacho, and everything would just land squarely on the Peruvians. Caveat: Presumably.
You're right, you can see how it could fit together, but there are missing pieces that could have helped it make more immediate sense. There is the impression that Gus is sorely rattled (though still high functioning and maintaining an iron grip on all the threads he can hold) and perhaps slipping up where he feels that some aspect of the current situation (like Nacho's life/death status) do not merit his full quantum of consideration or subtle strategising.
The way he distractedly smashed a glass while pouring himself some water is very unlike him, but his methodical cleanup is top-tier Gus Ultra. Might be a stretch, but maybe foreshadowing of how it'll all play out? He'll slip up and things (lives) get smashed, but he'll make it all nice and neat again (minus the smashed thing).
After all, we know that Gus is still in Eladio's good books during BB and Hector has been mollified enough that he doesn't ding out a message to the powers that be about Lalo's "chicken man" theory.
Really happy to find your reviews here Donna! I can’t help but feel that Kim becomes a lot more of a player than I ever anticipated a few series ago. Her reaction in the car park after the scene with the Kettlemans is excellent, a real enjoyment of kicking their arses. I’d love to find out that the Saul mansion at the beginning is just part of the whole Saul persona, that Kim is really liaising between Saul and… whoever is using those listening devices, and they are still really watching black and white movies in the old apartment at the end of the day.
I am SO GLAD this series is back.
Hi! Another ex-AVClubber here. I stumbled on Breaking Bad just after Season 3 finished, and since then have always found your reviews (and Sepinwall's) to be an integral part of the BB / BCS viewing experience. I am really happy that you're going to finish it out. I also like what I've seen so far of the Substack platform, so I'll shell out for a subscription here.
As for the premiere, I think they may have been better served by airing it as two separate episodes. That was a BIG two and a half hours, without the usual slow-burn found in early episodes. I thought I must have missed something regarding the Gus / Nacho plot, but it seems the consensus is that it was actually a little confusing.
All that said, I know better than to judge an early episode of this show before seeing how all of the threads develop.
One additional thought regarding the opening. Is it possible that the activity there is happening concurrently with what we've seen so far with Gene? I feel like the timing could line up and the B&W opening had to have more than just artistic significance.
So glad to have this show back! And as many have said before me, it is great to find you here after missing you at the AV Club, Donna!
The only thing that could elate me even more would be a reprise of the Polite Fights videos on this show, which were amazing highlights for me after each episode...
Has anybody else picked up on Kim’s outfit in the scene with the Kettleman’s? If I’m not mistaken her wardrobe has been overwhelmingly blue hues and typically staid. I didn’t pick up on this pin-striped brown suit with a loud and colorful blouse until, after reading all the post-show commentary with the attached photo of Kim waiting by the car for Jimmy, it jumped out at me. After seeing that photo several times, it occurred to me that it looked like something out of the Jimmy/Saul wardrobe aesthetic. Nothing is ever random on BCS, so this struck a chord. Thoughts?
Also glad to have discovered your reviews Donna!
Changing the subject a bit:
Am I the only one who think Saul and Kim's vengeance on Howard it unwarranted? I mean, Howard is an elitist knob, but he did try to turn things around after Chuck's death.
It's 2000 percent unwarranted. It's not just after Chuck's death Howard took the heat for Chuck's actions for years to spare Jimmy from knowing his own brother hated him that much. Howard never was the bad guy. It's all Jimmy and Kim's bullshit rationalizations and victim complexes. It's amazing to me that any viewer would think anything they're doing is remotely warranted at this point