The Official "Better Call Saul" Season 6 Thread (Final Season)

[Soymuscle Mike]

I usually make it a habit to never give my immediate reaction to a finished product, I'm always late as fukk in all the album/movie threads and for shows that have wrapped up. And for good reason.

Having slept on it I am more forgiving of the finale, which I never disliked. I'm still not a huge fan of the plane scene, and how quickly it's made clear that Jimmy is going to sabotage his deal. It feels too corny for this show, which is truly GOAT level for me (top 5, spot 5)..but the storyline itself works out, especially with the link made to his brother at the end which I loved.

The show was about brothers before it became about lovers.

I think I was still so in my head with how much I dislike (to this day) the BB finale that as soon as the plane scene happened I got too dismissive. It just needed a bit room to breathe imo, but it was nowhere near the level of BB which still comes off so disingenuous to me (feels like bad fanfiction rather than the goat level of Vince Gilligan).

 

[Mortal1]

Re-watching Breaking Bad now

 

[Spades Of Aces]

I’m wondering how many people that have seen BCS, haven’t seen BB yet. Man, I’m a bit jealous as they’ll have a heck of an experience

 

[MenacingMonk]

Honestly, I hope we get a movie on Gus' and his chicken brother's origins in Chile. I think AMC would dish out the dough for CGI young Giancarlo.

 

[R.E.N. Spells Ren]

Honestly I would have been cool with jimmy throwing himself under the bus for kim if she was facing much harsher punishment for him to being eating those 86 years the worst thing that would happen to kim is she get her wage garish by horwad wife but that does not seem like something worth eating 86 years for

Jimmy literally 86’d himself for some blue bell ice cream. If he never tried to play the Howard card, he would’ve never found out Kim confessed

But, Kim was just the straw that broke the camel’s back….

Like I said earlier I think it was part to save kim but the main reason was his guilt. We finally seen him show some remorse for what he did... Throughout this episode guilt played a big factor even if it was flashbacks.

When Saul finally admitted to everything and said "My name is Jimmy McGill" I took it as it was the end of Saul Goodman

Exactly, and all the time machine flashbacks, it’s like we were in Saul’s mind as he was remembering those instances. It was all building up in his conscience. I’d argue that Chuck was the biggest factor. He was at odds at Chuck who down to his core loved and respected the law and the fairness it was supposed to provide (highlighted in his final scene where he says even the almost certainly guilty of petty crimes deserve good legal representation). Jimmy cut corners and bent rules as he tried to rationalize the notion his acts weren’t really harmful (like stealing from his father is OK since his father was giving away money to strangers and going to lose the store anyways). Chuck implored him to be straight up and face the consequences of his actions. So hearing Kim actually did it, despite the fact that he knew nothing would likely come of it beyond a civil suit from Mrs Hamlin, made him realize he couldn’t live his life teetering this moral line any longer.

Jimmy didn’t sentence himself, so he didn’t trade 7 for 86. It wasn’t about the years, it was about finally owning up his actions and laying himself at the mercy of the court (which had originally offered him LIFE +180 years) like Chuck has been trying to get him to do his whole life.


Also, while I hated the Better Call Saul chant on the prison bus as it was wayyy too corny, it’s absolutely likely that a celebrity defense attorney attached to that wild ass story like Walter White’s would be a popular guy in prison. Especially since we’ve seen throughout the series that Jimmy/Saul has always blended in well with that low life crowd.

 

[R.E.N. Spells Ren]

Accomplice to murder after the fact. If you know someone murdered somebody and you don't turn them in, you get charged as an accomplice if it gets discovered by the cops. Jimmy knew that Hank and Gomez were murdered and Walt was related to it, and he didn't turn Walt in. Jimmy was helping run the criminal enterprise that ended up getting them murdered.

They do the same thing with smaller charges too. Drugs. RICO law. Similar stuff.

Yea Jimmy helping him run the criminal enterprise is what got him caught up on the accessory to murder after the fact charge, but there is no law requiring you to turn someone in for murder.

 

[Yayo Toure]

Man that shyt was GOAT tier.

To the people saying they don't get his logic...he literally did exactly what he told Walt to do in "Granite State", even with the same outcome he said would happen.


Death or jail was the only end for a guy like Saul. People talking about he should've took the 7....and then what, he works at Costco?

He would regret that choice as soon as he got out.

Jimmy is a John Milton "better to reign in hell than serve in heaven" sort of guy. He'd rather be jailed as Saul than free as Gene.

Fred.

Exactly. The man's life was the game, going to jail and getting out after 7 when everyone knows who you are, means you are out the game. Might as well take the life in prison.

 

[Nero Christ]

Man that shyt was GOAT tier.

To the people saying they don't get his logic...he literally did exactly what he told Walt to do in "Granite State", even with the same outcome he said would happen.


Death or jail was the only end for a guy like Saul. People talking about he should've took the 7....and then what, he works at Costco?

He would regret that choice as soon as he got out.

Jimmy is a John Milton "better to reign in hell than serve in heaven" sort of guy. He'd rather be jailed as Saul than free as Gene.

Fred.

it's like people didn't see how miserable he was working at Cinnabon...man jumped right back into scamming once he saw the opportunity cause he needed that fix

even working down that deal to 7 yrs was Slippin Jimmy pulling another one

I see why so much dumb shyt ends up being popular with these recent posts

 

[PlayerNinety_Nine]

Finale was

Started with Jimmy getting caught - because by that point, it was the only way it could have gone.

Marie popping up and getting a front row seat to Saul fukkery was

Man initially talked his way down from 'Life & 180 years' to 7 years in a white collar prison

The scene with Walt where Saul told him "You should have said about Grey Matter before, breh - I would have fukked their shyt up for you " and Walt reacting like was

The use of the shot over the 'Exit' sign when he started talking about Chuck was a call back to Chuck finding out that there was a battery in his coat pocket in Jimmy's hearing. Masterful shyt.

The bus ride to the prison let you know Jimmy was going to be OK at his new spot though.

Ended up with 86 years (fitting for a man who ran a lot of scams in bars), but he reconciled with Kim and it looks like at the very least she'll be back to smoke a square, at some point, given that her law license never runs out.

 

[Soymuscle Mike]

 

[LuuqMaan]

When he started to tell his story regarding the kidnapping again , in the court and had us believing he’s looking for sympathy.

Only for him to drop’ for a brief moment’ and proceeded to shyt on Walter White and that he created an empire.



So sweet for all fans of Saul Goodman.

 

[TheDarceKnight]

Also, while I hated the Better Call Saul chant on the prison bus as it was wayyy too corny, it’s absolutely likely that a celebrity defense attorney attached to that wild ass story like Walter White’s would be a popular guy in prison. Especially since we’ve seen throughout the series that Jimmy/Saul has always blended in well with that low life crowd.

Also they sent him to the "Alctatraz of the Rockies" which was full of people he had likely represented over the years. So a lot of the inmates there were either former clients of his, or at least people that knew his reputation for being a 'criminal lawyer' even before the Walter White stuff.

 

[Czerka]

Couple more observations:

in waterworks Kim tells saul to turn himself in…. He shoots back at her “why don’t you?”. When he finds out that she turned herself in that’s I think what caused him to do a 180….she finally talked the talk and now he Can do the same. its Not about saving her or simping

him and Kim were both in their respective prisons already, him in Cinnabon and her in dead end florida white bread life. Now they actually get to live with some relief… hell be a celebrity in actual prison and she can do legal volunteering

also loved the way this episode put a bow on the universe as a whole by bringing Marie back and making the charge against jimmy about hank and Gomez death (still the most iconic moment in this universe). And they did it while still keeping focus on the main character and the main storyline. This show has always been about scams/lawyers…. The drug cartel was just a plot device for that (mostly seen through mikes eyes)…. Leading up to Lalo and eventually Howard’s death, which causes jimmys breakup with Kim and finally turning into saul

i had issues with some of the cartel stuff earlier In the season (I didn’t understand what Gus was doing with nacho or why Lalo left Saul alive, which has already been discussed here) but more and more I’m beginning to see this as a brilliant finale


all these clowns making prequels these days need to study this and take notes

 

[TheDarceKnight]

 

[Formerly Black Trash]

So good
No reason for me to watch tv for a while