Better Call Saul ***Spoilers***

Just finished epi2 - goddamn i just love this show (Vince/Peter production team), every moment is a joy to experience/appreciate the details in it. This show makes me feel...calm when watching it, just beautiful.

So yes a little bit of 'dumb plot' on the safe and a phone number directly to the motel, ah come on...but i find it funny and scary at the same when the twins knew Nacho has no way to go - the whole thing happened so fast and brutal.

Kim/Saul side is amusing as always - ah please i hope Kim doesnt die in this. It is incredibly sad that this is the final season, every minutes passed i was like oh god please no dont let this finish😂

(and eh aha i see a fellow of boardsie from ER thread - not even in the slightest surprise because i actually know a couple who are into BB/BCS and souls games aha :))

That scene is the one that's playing on my mind since I watched the two episodes. Saul almost seemed remorseful or resigned as you say and on watching it initially I thought he gave the money over to the couple in order to ease that guilt.

Saw on Reddit then that the inflatable statue of Liberty is the one over his office in BB so he didn't give the money but bought the Inflatable statue on the cheap from them linking into his "wolves and sheep" comment. This wouldn't tally then with being remorseful as he took advantage of them. Maybe it's part of the final transition from Jimmy over to Saul.

With regard to Kim, she's the one pushing the agenda about Howard so I think she'll do something and go too far leaving her in jail and losing her licence. (I hope she doesn't die).

Rewatched ALL of BCS before the new series started, as I needed a refresh.

I was disappointed with the opener. Unless I've completely misinterpreted Bob Odenkirks brilliant acting, I always thought the Jimmy and Saul were separate people. I think the way 'Saul' is standing shame-faced in the background when Kim reads the riot act to Betsy is another in a long line of mask slipping events for Saul/Jimmy. I always see the put-upon Jimmy behind the mask - I think I'm too invested!! The 'wolves and sheep' quote was great, referring all the way back to little Jimmy despairing at his Dad's gullibility when he was handing free money to any shyster who passed by.

So... the opening scene showing the tacky living arrangements for Saul (and I don't recall any reference to Saul's home life in BB) doesn't really fit. If that had actually been the back of the office, where 'Saul' spends some down time, I'd have found it more believable. Of course, all was forgiven when the bottle cap fell off the truck. A poignant reminder of simpler, although close to the knuckle, times.

I completely missed the 'teeth' thing. Should have seen it coming when Gus was getting a report from Tyrus which even mentioned confirmation by dental records. I don't know about the rest of you, but I REALLY want to see Nacho and his Dad on the bus to Manitoba. But sadly, he's just a pawn in Gus's game. The envelope in the safe says that, to me. But I still don't get why they outed Nacho to the Salamancas, well I understand the need to distance Nacho from Gus, but risking getting him caught and tortured seems a bit odd. This needs a re-watch. The great thing is, I can watch an episode twice in one week and still enjoy spotting stuff I'd missed first time round.

On a completely separate note. Yesterday I was watching one of those programmes in which the 'TRUE' story behind UFO's is revealed. Thought to myself "that narrator sounds remarkably like Gus Fring!" IT WAS. So Gus's very precise way of speaking has opened up some new avenues for Giancarlo Esposito.

Need to savour every new episode of this show while it's on. When it's gone it's gone and the BB/BCS era has passed. Best TV shows ever made.

Also love it for the unique shots. Really adds a lot, for me at least

i believe the drip was from an air conditioner suggesting that someone was in the out building

Again, just another cool detail

Even Nacho rushing to get in the truck when it was locked and he had to quickly unlock it. Little details add up and really drag you in

I'm just waiting on Tuco Salamanca to make an appearance.

It took me like two days to figure out why mike put the letter in nachos safe... And that's why I bloody love this show. There's so much going on, it reminds me of one of those plate spinners.

I'm not sure if I could've used a recap but maybe not. I seemed to get back into the story ok.

6.1: This is starting to feel like a solid borderline between Better Call Saul and Breaking Bad. Still have no clue what happens to Kim. Feels a bit like maybe she'll be kept in a lie-low place after Saul ends.. or not I dunno.

When's the next episode out?

great to have it back, couldn't take my eyes off of it. Great show.

Nacho in the motel room, great TV...and all the rest

Yeah that's definitely possible too. Also remembered that the majority of BB takes place in the span of one year. First episode is his 50th birthday, and his 51st is early in Season 5. So Saul probably only knew and was profiting off his relationship with Walt for less than a year. So yeah, maybe he did have the house and gold toilet before the start of Breaking Bad.

At the start of ep1 Lalo shows up injured to a couples house where the man had the ZZ top beard. Lalo asks his wife about her husbands teeth (that Lalo paid for) and we see him with a scissors ready to use it to kill the couple though this doesnt get shown on screen.

Does anyone know was this couple in it before, I cant recall them. And if they were was there reference made to Lalo offering to pay for his new teeth? The insinuation seems to be that Lalo paid for his teeth and got the dentist to give him identical teeth to Lalo so that if he ever needed to fake his own death he would have a person with identical teeth to replace him. Later in the episode iirc Tyrus and Gus are discussing the forensics on 'Lalos' body (which is burnt to a crisp) and Tyrus says the forensic report say it is Lalo and everyone in the cartel thinks the same, presumably becasue of him having the same teeth. Was this a plot point set up in an earlier season or did it just drop into episode 1 of S6?

How did Gus know after talking to Hector that Lalo was still alive?

ah right thanks, I couldnt figure out if the teeth plot line had been referenced before, I dont even think that couple were in it previously. Pretty good plan by Lalo to have someone with identical teeth set up if he ever needed a body double.

Yeah the Mexican cops all went scrambling at the crime scene when the cousins showed up, Id say it was them who brought Lalos body double there to plant and to be photographed by forensics.