Official Better Call Saul Season 5 Thread

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Dis HIV commercial.

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"Not for those assigned female at birth" :heh:

Mike the magical white man at it again.

I hate these scenes.

At least he actually got beat this time.

I'm glad he took an L for once, but they still let him get a couple Geriatric Terminator hits in.
 

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Saul with the Bella Twins switch. :dead:

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Poor Lyle...how desperate is he for cash? I'm not saying I would've quit on the spot but at least ask him what the fcuk is wrong with the frier?

That was no alibi. He lost 1 mil, he's torturing the poor fella :francis:
 
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Loooooved the method Fring used to create his alibi. Gus plays multi-dimensional chess.

Lalo is a wild card who had proven he wants him out of the picture and had just executed a darn smooth plot against him. It would not be a stupid assumption by Gus to expect Lalo to implicate him to the Feds.

I actually think Mike wants to die, and was attempting suicide by neighborhood thugs. I suspect Gus had Mike under observation, which is why Mike survived. It really gives Mike's eventual death scene and dialogue with Walter White, on the banks of the Rio Grande, a different perspective.

To watch Kim recklessly risk her career, for an old man who treated her so rottenly, is hard watching. Kim tries to stick up for Acker, but gets pushed aside, so she ends up asking Jimmy to represent him. I don't see how the Mesa Verde gang won't put the pieces together, with them dating and all.

I completely get why Jimmy won't take Howard's offer. The psychological pain working where he worked in the mail room for, desperately seeking Chuck's approval and respect. It's still a bitter thing to watch. There was a time when all Jimmy wanted in the world was to work as a lawyer at HHM with his brother, and to be around Kim. That guy is dead. Also, I definitely came away with thinking Jimmy was being a dikk and felt bad for Howard. Howard wasn't and isn't perfect, but I think he is sincere about his regret over the way he handled things and wants to do right by Jimmy.
 

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Saul when he pulled that shyt in court with the “defendant” it was :ohlawd:

Made the judge and the witness look like fukking idiots.

fukk working for HHM when you can be your boss

I can appreciate that Vince isn’t going to heavy with Hank and the DEA stuff so that things don’t feel too much like BB. at some point I know we have to bridge the two shows in a very obvious way but Saul’s universe feels more fun and interesting right now. Even Gus being the hard ass that he is in this series, is nothing compared to the beast that he is during BB.

I almost felt “sorry” for that dude having to stay at Pollos cleaning the same shyt over and over again.

WTF @ Mike back on his Gran Torino shyt again. Motherfukka feeling hurt over not being able to babysit lol and got himself poked for no reason.
 
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Mike is really struggling. :sadbron: I guess that would happen when you're forced to kill a good person.
 

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Few things:

1. The Saul and Hamlin meeting was basically Elliot offering Walt a job.

2. Gus wasn't looking for an alibi. He was worried things were spiraling out of his control, which is why he was obsessing over an extremely minor detail he could control. Like Walt in "Fly".

3. The "man fukking a horse" line was in reference to Mesa Verde's logo. They briefly show it on a billboard directly after Saul talks to Acker. It's a man on a horse.

Mesa Verde Bank and Trust
Saul literally gave dude a pic of a man fukking a horse. :dead:

4. Can't help but think Mike is trying to die but don't want to commit suicide. I'm assuming this is the point in his character arc where Gus gives his life purpose.

Fred.
 

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Slippin Kimmy, even tho its for a good cause:mjcry:

Is this Mesa Verde shyt how we gonna see her go down? Always wondering how they gonna do her character to explain why she aint in Breaking Bad:lupe:

sidenote: Gus need to get a deal from Saul with all the burner phones he breaks:ehh:
 

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Poor Lyle...how desperate is he for cash? I'm not saying I would've quit on the spot but at least ask him what the fcuk is wrong with the frier?

That was no alibi. He lost 1 mil, he's torturing the poor fella :francis:

Imagine you're Lyle and it's years later and you find out Gus got blew up in a retirement home, was a drug lord, and had cartel ties.
Dude probably had a flash back to that night with the fryer like
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Fred.
 

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Interesting notes:

Last episode was giving some clarity with the ice cream/ant metaphor. In this episode, Kim says that the day before was bad, but today she's going to fix it. She sees the shattered beer bottles on the ground and proceeds to clean it up despite Saul telling her to leave it there. That's the biggest contrasts between Kim and Saul, Kim still is trying to clean up her mess both literally and metaphorically whereas Saul just accept the mess as it that he created. That's what the ice cream metaphor comes into play, because Saul sees the ice cream and it is swarming with ants destroying the ice cream and instead of cleaning it up he allow it to be left alone and it be swarming with ants. Saul is the type who will create a mess and allow it to manifest into chaos eventually. Kim is resisting hard not to be part of that manifestation of Saul, but eventually she relents. I am concern how bad this may end up for her.

Saul also is protective of Jimmy. Saul's outer-ego was the one what prompted to throw those bowling balls as Hamlin after the meeting, sorta of a defense mechanism knowing that Jimmy inside him still is seeking acceptance even if it is hollow.

I saw the title weeks about about episode 5 which is titled Wexler v Goodman and legitimately thought they are going against each other over a case that'll decidedly ruin their relationship. I am so wrong know it is in context. I'll still going to be devastated over the inevitable of their breakup because it seems like they're made for each other. But Saul is way too far gone at this point.

Gus is always ever so cautious. Of course he had to use his employee as cover for an alibi just in case things didn't go as planned.

Lastly, Gus isn't going to let Mike die. Gus is so much of a control freak, the same way he control Nacho's fate out of spite, he is controlling Mike's due to still needing him and willing to accept him reach that lowest point to where Mike may not have no choice but to work for Gus.
 

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Waiting for that call, that scene made me anxious, I know that kind of wait, staring at the phone, everyone does, one way or another, but when it's drugs and money and life or death, it's just wrenching.
 
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