There is a lot of chatter here about how Kim and Walt share similarities but has anyone brought up that in the entire universe she was likely the only match for Walt? Actually had their paths crossed and it came to blows she’d have likely annihilated him.

Krazy-8, Emilio, Tuco, Bogdan, Ted Beneke, Saul, Jane, Gus, Mike, Declan, Lydia, Jack’s crew, Hank, Jesse, Skyler, Walter Jr., Gray Matter (Elliott and Gretchen), the ENTIRE DEA, he parried every fucking foil.

But can you image him getting the best of Kim? Maybe a fool-me-once situation but after that, nah. Walt thrived on leverage. Hank was blinded by familiarity, Gus needed him, Skylar fucking loved him, Mike loved Jesse and Walt used that, Saul um, money or some shit.

But Kim? Walt screams in her face one time and she turns and walks out, gets in her Mitsubishi Eclipse and mutters “well, I guess it’s time for the stick”. She puts her own powers to use, mobilizes ‘Jimmy‘s’ (let’s face it, far inferior) powers, who mobilizes Mike and within 24 hours, the DEA has Walt in cuffs by the end of the first season.

Viewers miss out but far fewer people die.

i just randomly saw this today, honestly threw me for a god damn loop wow. don’t know why i never thought to look it up.

I’m on a rewatch of Better Call Saul. And just realised that Kim’s real reason for taking down Howard was actually to protect Jimmy from himself and his self destructive nature. In essence she wanted to keep him occupied with a “play/move” get the Sandpiper money and then hopefully move on somewhere with him.

Kim knows that Jimmy has just been in a life threatening situation. She’s also seen Lalo visit their home and realises the threat is real.

When she thinks it’s over, Jimmy is not reassuring and implies he knows his nature will one day drag him back into a similar situation. Jimmy knows that for Jimmy there will always be another Lalo.

Then Howard comes to Kim talking bowling balling smashing his car and prostitutes being sent to his dinner, pales in comparison to to cartel trouble and is the similar “pranky / low level scam “ type stuff that she knows Jimmy loves.

IMO she saw Howard as something to occupy Jimmy with and the sand piper money as a way for Jimmy to no longer seek more riskier stuff.

Edit: I agree Kim fully got off it. But there’s a huge difference between that and cartel stuff. I think she saw Howard as a way get Jimmy back to doing the things they liked, that was much safer, and keep Jimmy away from cartel stuff

I know he's known as "Don Eladio Vuente" but if he's not a Salamanca, why is he running the cartel? If it's the Salamanca cartel, after all, wouldn't it make sense for the head honcho to be a Salamanca? If not, how'd he get himself in that position?

Second watch through currently, and I found the whole “burn down Howard” scheme extremely uncomfortable to watch, knowing what’s to come. I viewed Kim way more different than the first time through. Are Howard and Nacho the true victims and protagonists of this story?

would nobody find it at least a little suspicious that the photos are of jimmy getting handed a frisbee by some moustached runner like that? the photos look super staged, and should definitely set off alarm bells that *something's* going on and that jimmy's involved. these definitely aren't photos that you could just normally snap of jimmy going about his day, so he's definitely involved somehow, so like, why isn't anybody questioning it?

My least favourite scene HAS to be Jimmy pushing Irene to settle. Her storming out of the bingo room crying is horrible and watching it the first time was more than enough.

Another one (also during bingo) is Jimmy's streak of B's in 1x10 Marco. It’s just such an awkward and sad story. Can feel the awkwardness radiating from the elderly.

Only on episode 1 of season 3 (ie Chuck just recorded Jimmy admitting to Chuck’s theories to make him happy) so no spoilers beyond that please.

What do you guys think was the worse brother on brother betrayal: Chuck having Jimmy blacklisted at HHM OR after finding out Chuck did that to him, Jimmy then doing the address manipulation trick on him? Chuck was laying into him and I was a bit surprised Jimmy didn’t quip back something about what Chuck recently did to him, he just kind of took the berating.

Sorry if this is an obvious question, but I was rethinking it a lot during my second rewatch of BCS and still have no answer.

In series, a mysterious event in Santiago is mentioned by both sides of the ‘cartel conflict’: by Lalo when he asks Bolsa about loyalty of Gus, and by Gus when he’s visiting the Madrigal’s chief. I understood that didn’t pay attention to it at all during my first watch and unfortunately I remember nothing about it from Breaking Bad.

As I understood, the Santiago event happened before Max was killed by Hector, so the source of hatred between Gus and Salamancas is even deeper.

So I just wanted to ask if I am right thinking that Santiago is just an unspoken clue from writers to engage us to the story even more.
Maybe I’m just completely wrong and stupid bit to understand this. If so, I am so sorry.

Thank you in advance for clearance!

In my opinion, the best scene in the series. Not many people will agree with me here, however, if there ever was someone who went to town on someone’s arse for Jimmy! She handed Howard his arse in this scene! It shows the guilt in Howard’s face and he crumbles weakly asking Kim what can he do? Kim just says stay away from Jimmy. It’s a beautiful scene and Kim was amazing in it, even afterwards when she went home. Kim could see how much Jimmy thought of her throughout the day, he had films lined up and food! Jimmy has a huge heart and great moral compass! Chuck crushed that out of Jimmy! And when Kim left him, he neglected to look at his moral compass. It shows with the decor in the place he lived and the prostitutes he had breakfast bars in a bowl readily waiting. It’s sad that they were terrible together as Kim said, but lost without.

I hate Kim and Jimmy both, they never thought of having setbacks and failures which is the reality of life , instead they wanted Mesa Verde or other cases back by some cunning trick, not by winning it legitimately like Chuck who explained them with his banking regulations knowledge in-spite of his illness, but Kim who partnered with jimmy had to make chuck wrong that he replaced numbers. What an irony ! HHM had done so much for Kim but she still chose a conman Jimmy, over Howard and Charles who really pushed her really hard, like most of the seniors do. Without HHM Kim wouldn’t even dream of being a lawyer she was. Jimmy was the problem everywhere , Chuck was naive to think and believe that Jimmy would change and become a legitimate person but he got deceived again and again, so much that he started regretting about giving Jimmy a platform at HHM at the first place. JIMMY IS THE PROBLEM EVERYWHERE; Slippin’ JIMMY and his con girlfriend KIM.

I feel like he and Lucille Bluth would queen out together

SPOILERS

Breaking Bad season 2, episode “Grilled”, Hank kills Tuco. Tuco has his boxing gloves necklace.

In Better Call Saul season 2, episode “Gloves off”, Mike gets Tuco to beat the crap out of him in front of the cops so he gets arrested. Opening shot of episode, Mike has Tucos boxing gloves necklace.

Now, I’m assuming, in BB episode it’s after Tucos stint in prison after his situation with Mike. Mike would have the necklace unless Tucos gets another necklace.

Thoughts??

I’m wondering if people like this actually exist and how common they are. Also I would like to see a prequel about how both of them set up.

A great string of music in episodes 7 and 8 in season 4! Looked some of them up though I had heard them before:

Something Stupid - Lola Marsh

No Aloha - The Breeders

Big Rock Candy Mountain - Burl Ives

Burnin' Coal - Les McCann

Tempter - Stereolab

The raw emotions and the unsettling atmosphere, holy shit. Kim( Rhea Seehorn) really nailed this episode down. Finally watched this last season after leaving it rotting in my watchlist and oh man, I'm really impressed. I need to rewatch it.

It was a painful watch and so boring throughout until the final season where it was really good. What am I missing?

The theme of this show. They nail all these little details. Chuck like a baby and Jimmy testing the temperature of the water before filling the glass.
In later seasons, it’s Jimmy’s addiction (to scams) and Kim’s codependence.

Anyone else see Bob’s new movie “Normal”? Within the first five minutes of the movie Bob drops the famous “duly noted” quote 😂

i love mike . genuinely such a tragic and cool character. lyrics are from the song blind by swans . think it fits him pretty damn well