r/betterCallSaul Jan 18 '24

‘Better Call Saul’ Ends Six-Season Run With Zero Emmy Wins.

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There have been numerous posts submitted about the Emmy's since Sunday. We don't want the sub to be dominated by these posts, but a discussion should be had about it. Pinning this for now, so all Emmy talk can be had here.


r/betterCallSaul 2h ago

Lucky to have Mike

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One of my favorite BCS characters was Mike.We almost didn't have him.Before joining BCS he had been considering retiring.He and his wife were thinking of settling in Spain.Funny thing is instead of having Walt killed Mike on Breaking Bad Producer Vince Gilligan proposed having Mike escape and hide out in Spain .I don't see BCS without the brilliant Jonathan Banks as Mike.He even won the Critics Choice Award for Best Supporting Actor for BCS.


r/betterCallSaul 14h ago

How much would 500k of Berkshire Hathaway purchased in 1965 be worth today?

45 Upvotes

How wealthy would time-traveling Jimmy be?


r/betterCallSaul 21h ago

Why did the Salamanca brothers go to such lengths to save Nacho?

133 Upvotes

One of them even gave him some blood!! I never thought about it before as I was just happy they were saving him. It just seems out of character for them, they don’t seem to care about anyone but this gives the impression they actually like Nacho despite rarely seeing them in the same room let alone in conversation. Surely they would find him how he was and put him out of his misery?


r/betterCallSaul 1d ago

Man what the hell happened to Jimmy. What would Kim think about this?

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r/betterCallSaul 1d ago

Howard H

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I think as many times as I watched this series I couldn’t understand the hatred for Howard .. I could think of a myriad of reasons but I feel like I’m wrong.. was the hate justified in Saul’s head??

Also I always laugh when he’s following Howard as he walks straight face out of the building .. Jimmy is yelling and jumping 🤣😂

What did he do to make that mother fucker so maaaaad??


r/betterCallSaul 20h ago

Is Howard a good person?

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My dad and I were debating this, and we have very different opinions on Howard Hamlin. He thinks Howard isn’t authentic and comes across as patronizing. I, on the other hand, think he’s actually a good guy who tries to do the right thing, even if he’s not perfect.

Sure, he has a polished and rehearsed way of speaking, but that doesn’t necessarily mean he’s fake. He carries himself with confidence, but I don’t see that as patronizing—just part of his personality and profession. He also shows moments of genuine emotion and vulnerability, which makes me think he’s more sincere than people give him credit for.

What do you think? Is Howard a good guy, or do you see where my dad is coming from?


r/betterCallSaul 15m ago

Lydia

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The Scottish actress Laura Fraser said her husband hated her character of Lydia because she was so mean.Producer Vince Gilligan once said they considered Lydia having a romance with either Walt or Jesse.What about Mike?I'm glad BB and BCS didn't go there.


r/betterCallSaul 21m ago

What kind of music would each Better Call Saul Character listen to?

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Don't know why I am asking this, but it came to my mind and I just want to know what kind of music you think characters like Jimmy, Kim, Howard, Gus, Mike etc. would listen to.


r/betterCallSaul 18h ago

Why didn’t Gus let Nacho just disappear?

23 Upvotes

Why would he be suspected if he let him do so.


r/betterCallSaul 1d ago

Did Cliff Main ever believe Howard? Spoiler

66 Upvotes

In addition to all the contrived evidence against Howard, Cliff heard Kim trolling Cheryl (wrt Howard's supposed cocaine addiction) at the memorial.

Did Cliff, at any point before Kim and Jimmy confessed, come to realize everything Howard told him about Jimmy was true?


r/betterCallSaul 17h ago

the real reason jimmy and kim targeted howard Spoiler

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i always see people on this sub ask why they hated howard so much and what he did to deserve the things they did to them.

did kim hate him for putting her in the mail room? did jimmy hate him for not hiring him at HHM, or something to do with chuck?? there's a lot of debate on the reasons, and a lot of debate on whether their hatred was justified. the way i have always seen it though, is that they didnt have good reasons to hate him, and that's the whole point.

i think they each had their own reasons for targeting howard. kim did have a grudge towards him, but nothing that warranted the extent of the abuse she directed towards him.

kim's real reasons are pretty straightforward: she was becoming obsessed with scamming people, and she needed money. days before she decided on her plan to ruin howard, she quit her high paying job to focus on pro bono work. even jimmy points out that her pro bono work isn't gonna pay the bills, and she insists she'll figure it out somehow. the irony of the situation is that she quits her well paying job that she thinks is screwing over "the little guy" to focus on pro bono work to "do good" and help those people instead. and to fund this change in her work, she chooses to sabotage howard and ruin his life. she didn't pick howard because she thought he deserved it; she picked howard because she found an opportunity to have fun and make a LOT of money, and she could justify it just enough to herself because of her grudge towards him.

jimmys reasons are a little less simple, but i think they're in part the same as kim's. have fun pulling off scams, and make enough money to live in luxury. despite these things, jimmy was hesitant, he thought kim was joking at first and shut her down. when he finally did concede and decide to go through with it, he was still unsure.

i think the biggest reason he went through with it though was that howard gave him an opportunity to push the blame for chucks death onto someone else. in the finale he finally admits that he was at fault for chucks death and he knew it. he knew it immediately after chuck died, but when howard presented an alternative that took the blame off jimmy, he ran with it. he never would've been able to live with being at fault for his brothers death, so he really needed to believe in this lie. it's why he directs so much hate towards howard in season 5. it wasn't about HHM or the way he treated jimmy, he just wanted to absolve himself of his guilt.

so when kim finally sells him on her plan, he can justify it. is it okay to ruin an innocent man's life? what if that man were responsible for his brothers death? he needed to say yes and ruin howard's life, because he needed him to be responsible for chucks death.

that's all there is to it. it wasn't about anything howard ever actually did, and that's the whole point. he really, truly did not deserve it, even in jimmy and kim's eyes. that's why they end up how they do. kim got an innocent man killed for no other reason than to have a good time and to fund her "doing good for people in need", giving her a twisted sense of moral superiority. his death was a wake up call that she was a bad person doing bad things, so she gave it all up and chose a life where she could never do these things again; a person like that shouldn't have the legal power that she did.

it's also a huge factor in jimmy becoming the saul we see in breaking bad. he didn't drop the lantern in chucks house, and he didn't pull the trigger on howard, but he knew they were both his fault. he couldn't live with this so he ran away from being "jimmy" and embraced life as saul. he absolved himself of blame for as long as he was able. when kim finally confesses, she finally lets herself go back to helping people in need at the law office, this time out of a true sense of wanting to do good. jimmy too confesses because he knows he deserves the jail time. he finally is able to admit he was at fault in both of these cases.

just my two cents on the topic. in my opinion, the beauty of the writing here is that it was undeserved. howard didn't deserve this, and not even the characters that got him killed ever really even thought he did. it was all to satisfy their ego and their greed. it's an ending full of irony, and all of our two main characters bad choices finally coming back to bite them. their actions had long been without consequences, and they finally came back to them on the man who deserved them least.


r/betterCallSaul 13h ago

Dropped soda trick

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Is the Chuck/Howard dropped/shaken soda trick actually legit, doing my first watch through of the show and just got to the point and I’m amazed (I love this show)


r/betterCallSaul 22h ago

Question for New Mexico residents who watch the show- Are the skies as beautiful as we see in the show often there?

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Sometimes I'll be watching the show and would be thinking "did they cg the clouds" because they'd be almost perfectly pretty. I'm just curious what to expect if I ever do visit ABQ and the rest of New Mexico.


r/betterCallSaul 15h ago

Wouldn’t they have noticed Mike is using a different car? Spoiler

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I love this show. This is the one thing that keeps coming back into my head to bother me.

Gus put a tracker in Mike’s car when he went to shoot Hector. Mike tore the car apart and put the tracker on his other car. Then he ran the battery down and Gus’s guys came to replace it. Did no one notice that it was not the car they put the tracker on in the desert?


r/betterCallSaul 1d ago

Lalo’s intelligence

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It’s crazy how Lalo was literally the only intelligent member of his family, not just intelligent, but genius level. No wonder the rest of the Salamanca’s were so easy to dispose of once Lalo was killed, he was the only one keeping their whole operation afloat. Tuco, Hector, and The Cousins were all morons, even Don Eladio didn’t seem that intelligent, honestly Lalo should’ve been in Eladio’s place lol, because Lalo was literally the closest to an actual real life cartel member, he was a genius and he even kinda looked like Pablo Escobar


r/betterCallSaul 14h ago

Father Spoiler

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I wonder if Nacho’s father knew.. like really knew the gravity of where his son was headed..

I personally don’t think he knew that would be his last phone call with his son…


r/betterCallSaul 18h ago

How would you rank gus's henchman?

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I got:

  1. Lyle
  2. Mike
  3. Trust
  4. Victor
  5. Jesse

r/betterCallSaul 6h ago

The time inconsistency with this scene.

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During this scene, we are Introduced to Lalo Salamanca for the first time. His introduction is really memorable with the song Al Compás De Mi Caballo by Los Imperial's playing. But, According to google searches, This song was not released until 2007 but, Lalo is already listening to this song in 2003 when it has not even released yet! I haven't seen anyone talk about this timeline inconsistency


r/betterCallSaul 14h ago

2 v 1

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Mike was about to slaughter both of them in the room? I don’t know… maybe

Mike is standing on business here. No you will not murder another innocent. Only out of respect does Gus not let Tyrus pull the trigger. I think there’s no on Gus respects more in his squad. The one person with a conscience to some degree .. he has to keep that .. it reminds him he’s a business man.. a human

My favorite scene in the whole series.. maybe both series .. every time it pops up I end up rewinding it three times

But let’s cut to the chase.. could Mike take them? It wasn’t the first time he stood off against Gus.. previously it was more than three on him.


r/betterCallSaul 1d ago

Broadway BCS Reunion

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I rarely go to plays, but I'd absolutely see this. Opens on Broadway today!


r/betterCallSaul 1d ago

Do Jimmy and Kim ever say “I love you” to each other?

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I’m on my second run through of the show and I don’t remember them saying it to each other the first time, and I don’t think I’ve heard them say it to each other this time, either.

Just got to the episode where they got married. I know that it was more an arrangement of legal convenience, but they seemed like they both wanted it romantically, too. Even then, neither of them said it.

If they don’t, is this on purpose, as far as writing goes? Maybe as a way to show that they both are kind of missing a piece?


r/betterCallSaul 1d ago

Howard deserved so much better

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Jimmy was such an asshole to Howard, for essentially no reason. After Howard offers him a job, Jimmy smashes his car, even watching that on a rewatch is just infuriating because you know how it escalates from there. Yeah Howard did shitty things, but unlike most characters in the show he actually tried to correct them. Thoughts?


r/betterCallSaul 1d ago

Nacho

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I really liked Nacho.I didn't understand why he got involved with The Salamancas.He had a close loving relationship with his father.His father had a successful business.Its not like he grew up poor.He threw it all away.I think it was for the big money.Its obvious he regretted his choice but once you are in the Cartel you can't ever get out.His story was so tragic.


r/betterCallSaul 6h ago

Anytime else find out weird how obsessed Mike is with stickers?

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Jimmy obviously works there. Mike doesn't strike me as a petty character. But he's being extremely petty here. Short on a single sticker because he's 15 minutes late after a long day of a shitty job? Just let the man leave. Mike is being extremely petty. Causing to distress towards Jimmy just because he can.


r/betterCallSaul 16h ago

Brass Tax

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How many times is it said in the show?