Better Call Saul - Season 4 (AMC) (1 Viewer)

[ScottH]

Saul calls Walt "D.B. Cooper" in his first appearance. Cool callback.

How in the world do you remember crap like that?

 

[TravisR]

How in the world do you remember crap like that?

I can't speak for Josh but I remember it because I think it's a funny reference that maybe 10% of the audience might know. Like what kid watching every episode of Breaking Bad in three weeks on Netflix even remotely has a clue about D.B. Cooper?

Also, I'm a huge fucking dork with too much time on my hands.

 

[Walter Kittel]

Had let the last two episodes languish and finally caught up earlier this evening. I'm kind of tired so I'll keep this brief.

The scenes with Gustavo were incredible. His monologue to Hector about his childhood and how we (the audience) know how it informs his attitudes towards his response to Hector was just riveting. Man, what a great scene.

The second reveal regarding Gus involving his moving the physician out of the picture to impede Hector's recovery was the icing on the cake. Giancarlo Esposito just owned both of those scenes.

I was dazzled by the time lapse opening of Monday's episode, both in terms of its execution and its ambition. It was the last thing I expected to see, with the assumption that the show's season break would advance the timeline, instead of the extended opening we saw Monday evening. I really picked up a Tarantino vibe in that segment with the use of the split screen and the music choices in the episode.

What a great show. I can't think of too many things that I'm watching that approach it in terms of its execution and its attention to detail. (Maybe Fargo and Legion, maybe.)

- Walter.

 

[Hollywoodaholic]

Yes, great episode. When Hector kept pressing his finger down, we kept wondering if the nurse or Fring was going to suggest... "maybe get him a bell." And they really added a layer of evil to Fring for having him only concerned for Hector's improving welfare only enough to suspend him in a perpetual hell on earth.

I was also surprised that the end between Jimmy and Kim is not coming with a bang, but a whimper. And probably a much more realistic and organic development in the directions they are going. It wasn't going to be one thing. It's just the slow growing apart. But when you see it in one montage within an episode, the impact of what's lost is devastating.

Man, I haven't heard Burl Ives' "Big Rock Candy Mountain" since I was young enough to imagine climbing one. And I guess they didn't want to fork out the big bucks for Nancy Sinatra's original version of "Something Stupid." It probably doesn't matter since most of the audience might not know the difference.

 

[joshEH]

Kim stress-buying office supplies before making a rash-and-probably-idiotic decision is the most I've ever related to a character in the Breaking Bad-iverse.

More remarkable is that both the writer and director of the episode were both first-timers. Every shot, cut and performance was on-point. It felt a little weird not knowing what's been going on with Nacho in the ensuing nine months, but I assume he'll return next week. That opening montage was remarkable.

 

[davidmatychuk]

How in the world do you remember crap like that?

I absolutely count on my Home Theatre Forum friends for crap like that!

 

[Tommy R]

I absolutely count on my Home Theatre Forum friends for crap like that!

I mostly use this thread as a "Complete Idiot's Guide" to BCS.

 

[Ronald Epstein]

As you guys get ready to watch tonight's episode, I am just catching up on last week's installment.

I love the style of this show. That opening split screen where Jimmy and Kim are going through their daily rituals was just fantastic.

Sometimes the best part of SAUL is the way they lens it.

It's definitely starting to look like Kim and Jimmy are going their separate ways. The setup is starting for the big split.

...and I second that Burl Ives song as being fantastic! The music choices are just great every week.

 

[joshEH]

Gah. ABQ to HOU? That's a long-ass drive.

Also, Stuckey's! Home of the pecan log.


EDIT: Is Jimmy going to send letters of support for Huell from different locations?

Will Kim have them march huge bags of them into the courtroom like letters to Santa?

 

[joshEH]

OMG SHE BOUGHT ALL THE SUPPLIES TO GIVE JIMMY A FAKE PROJECT LIKE A CHILD SO SHE CAN REST EASY WHILE SHE DOES THE REAL LAWYER STUFF. Give him something stupid to occupy himself with so he doesn't fuck everything up. They're so about to break up.

Also, if Jimmy keeps licking those envelopes, he may not make it to the end of the episode, like George Costanza's fiancee.

 

[joshEH]

Krazy-8!! Workin' his way up the chain.

Ouchie wowchie, that dude Nacho cut. ("You had to do that, man. Dude's not gonna learn otherwise.")

Good old Domingo. Glad to see him back.

 

[joshEH]

This whole time, Nacho had a mansion and ladies waiting for him when he gets home?

...Well, okay then, Vince.

 

[TravisR]

Krazy-8!! Workin' his way up the chain.

And he's tougher than the last time we saw him but he's still not the killer he is when Walt runs into him.

 

[joshEH]

OMG Kaylee's really fallen on hard times. Workin' the Champagne Room with Pop-Pop watching and all that.

 

[joshEH]

So do the German workers use their own salary for the strippers? Or did Mike give them a stipend for the strip-club? I’m dying to know whose dollars are going into g-strings, here.

These are Germans, an American strip-club is nothing compared to the Frankfurt red-light district.

 

[joshEH]

Also, Germans will always correct your German, but always in the most-polite way possible. Facts.

Mike is obviously a Schalke-fan, which is why he's annoyed with the drunken Dortmund-fan.

INB4 Kai kills a stripper

 

[TravisR]

So do the German workers use their own salary for the strippers? Or did Mike give them a stipend for the strip-club? I’m dying to know whose dollars are going into g-strings, here.

With all the amenities that they have in the warehouse, I'd imagine that they got a stipend.

 

[joshEH]

Kim listens to Kraut-pop? This is the most-German show I've seen on TV outside of Secret Nazi Weapons re-runs on The History Channel.

 

[WillG]

Eerily timely, this episode.

 

[joshEH]

Prosecutor: You plan to open an officer's personnel file? Good luck with that!

Kim's Face: Try me bitch.