@@Japan705 Earlier I'd say Nacho was the most tragic character in this universe... But now it's Howard, cuz Howard wasn't in the game while Nacho was from the beginning
It really is a cool thing to know when watching the show again. The pacing of the first seasons is slow but the characters go through so much. I love it
To think that while Walt was engaging in cartoonish hijinks chasing that fly around the lab, throwing shoes at the lights and falling off the balcony, the bodies of both the deadliest Cartel boss and the head of a prestigious law firm were right beneath him
Vince Gilligan wasn't lying when he said we'll never look at Breaking Bad the same way again,I'll never look at the meth lab the same,what a phenomenal episode
@@comeatmebro8120 nacho ended up being one of my favorites in this show. I was so invested in his storyline and tbh I really thought he would make it out and get a new identity from that vacuum guy
no, it wasn't Tuco and Nacho, it was Abuelita! she planned to counter-con Jimmy's car accident scam in order to get his brilliant criminal lawyer side working for the Salamancas. Abuelita has been the mastermind since day one
@@mp6640 Didnt Mike actually know Howard from when he was working at the parking toll booth? I thought that was the reason he said "Be careful" and looked sad cuz they shared a small history
@@mp6640 They didn't spend much time together, but I think Mike both recognized Howard from his time as the booth attendant, and was fully aware he was just an innocent bystander caught in the crossfire who they were going to have to do real dirty.
so happy Rhea finally got that emmy nom for her performance as Kim. love the shots of Kim in the street that are very close to those from the Breaking Bad episode "Thirty-Eight snub"
The music that played at the end while Howard was being buried was so good. It really set the tone of the scene, just makes you feel like you truly watched an innocent man lose everything.
yes. it made me tear up. Howard did not deserve that shit at all. and you could tell how much it was hitting Mike, maybe even harder than what happened to Werner.
According to the official podcast, the "heart attack" scene is actually in this episode. It's when Lalo is telling Jimmy to go and kill Gus. The coverage of Kim and Jimmy's reactions was shot before Bob had the heart attack. But Lalo's coverage was shot two months later, when Bob went back to work. Props to the editors, cast and crew for making everything look so smooth.
@@Ali-xs2ij i know the actors aren't their characters but it is weirdly funny that howard's actor saved jimmy's. so glad patrick was able to do that, what a badass
on the heat attack from a Variety interview w/ Rhea Seehorn: "That on-set and off-set camaraderie is also why Seehorn and Fabian happened to be in the right place, at the right time, when Odenkirk suffered a heart attack. “There’s so many things that day, and I know Bob feels the same way, that are just like gifts from the universe,” Seehorn says. “I don’t know how else to put it, because he didn’t go to his trailer. If he had, he would be dead, or significantly brain damaged. Thankfully, living together did not make Bob Odenkirk hate Patrick Fabian and Rhea Seehorn. Somehow my messy piles everywhere and thousands of unfinished jigsaw puzzles did not drive him to the brink of not wanting to be near me. So he came and hung out with us.” The actors would take breaks in an empty studio, in little plexiglass cubicles where they could get work done - or in Odenkirk’s case, watch a Chicago Cubs game while on his exercise bike. Seehorn and Fabian were chatting when they saw Odenkirk fall over. “We ran to catch him because it’s a concrete floor and didn’t want him to hit his head,” Seehorn says, “and then realized that something much bigger was going on. We realized that he was having some kind of cardiac arrest.” Seehorn and Fabian screamed for help, and soon staffers - including Rosie Estrada, the set’s COVID officer and former medic, took over."
I saw somewhere that Tony Dalton was also present, but he was omitted from all the accounts so it wouldn't spoil the fact that Kim, Jimmy, Howard and Lalo were all together in a scene.
And Rhea kind of giving an interview that Bob heart stopped beating and his body turned grey for like 12 minutes so Bob was clinically dead during that time. It really add a mystical element to Saul Goodman character. Bob was filming as this guy, then died, then came back to life to finished filming. A role of the lifetime, so to speak.
In the beginning Lalo tells Jimmy "You point and shoot and you keep on pulling that trigger until it's empty!" That's exactly how Gus kills Lalo! The writers on this show are brilliant! Better Call Saul Season 6 is already a Masterpiece!
I thought Poor Howard last episode, but this episode it intensified. We already knew likely the stories that Kim brought up in her plan will now stain his character, but how he was buried . . . Poor, poor Howard. He did not deserve it. :(
It wasn’t mike that brought jimmy into the cartel. It was Saul himself. He pulled the con with the skaters leading him to meet Tuco and Nacho where he offered them his legal services, coming back to haunt him later.
It’s a freak accident that caused a chain of events. About Mike, the thing that he felt guilty about was probably how he instructed Jimmy to get Lalo out of jail (in season 5 episode 7) which ended up causing Lalo to walk in and shoot Howard dead.
I love how Gus takes his tie off so nobody can strangle him with it. He also took it off right before entering the room with one of his guys there..don’t know if that means anything.
What really bothered me is that they buried Howard with his killer and that his reputation is totally ruined. You could tell Mike was really bothered by what happened to Howard, that he wished he didn’t have to do what he was doing. When they picked up his body he said “easy.” He was trying to show him as much respect as possible. When Mike starting searching Howard and getting his ring and shoes, that single Cello playing in lament to Howard's death was so heartbreaking. Howard didn't deserve anything that happened to him. He was a good guy, but he made the mistake of letting Chuck manipulate him and drive his actions. Such a great, yet complicated character. At the end, you could tell Mike was blaming Jimmy and Kim for what happened to Howard and rightfully so. If they hadn't been on their little crusade to ruin his reputation just so they could get a payout, he would still be alive. Now granted, there is no possible way they could have known he would die but still, they deserve the blame for putting him in that situation. I'm hoping that Lalo and Howard's bodies are the ones that were found when the lab burns down because if not, Howard will forever be considered a crazy drug addict that committed suicide while he is buried for eternity with his killer. But on the other hand, they may ask "sooooo why were they buried here together? Was Howard really that deep in with the cartel." No matter what Howard's legacy is tarnished. UNLESS if Kim somehow does somehow survive and after the lab burns down maybe she can show proof that this isn't who he was? I dunno man. It's just so dark.... Also sorry for the novel, that was just me word vomiting after watching the episode lol.
What a character Lalo was, insanely smart up to the point of plot armor, had Gus in the most trouble we'd ever seen prior to the moment of his death in BB. And he took out 4 of his men by himself.
I think the only bright light in this episode is Lyle and his dedication to his work. Despite Gus’ shady business, he trusted Lyle to run his chicken shop and was always nice to him (except the fryer scene).
Actually this is the episode Bob had a heart attack and it set them back for weeks, I think over a month. That’s why they split the season. Just up until two weeks ago they were still editing the final episode. So the break wasn’t due to Obi Wan or Stranger Things. It was because they were so behind because of the heart attack and recovery of Bob.
Definitely top 5 Breaking Bad verse episode! When one of the greatest TV villains of all time kills another one of the greatest TV villains of all time!
Something I noticed when I rewinded Jimmy with the muffler in his mouth - things could have gone very badly for Mike if Lalo let Jimmy talk. If you listen closely while Jimmy is gagged and Lalo is getting up to turn on the TV, you can make out that he says “I can tell you who helped him! I know where he lives, I can show you!”
@@LuigiGamesful of course he knew, but Saul was offering to literally take Lalo to Mike’s home. for all of his stalking capabilities, I’m positive that Lalo didn’t have Mike’s home address already.
Favorite part of the episode is Lalo chuckling with blood all over his mouth and face on his death, god what an amazing villain, I knew he wouldn't make it out of Better Call Saul, because just imagine the havoc he'd make in Breaking Bad.
16:32 "You shoulda taken it to Don Eladio first, bro" Thing is that was the whole thing Lalo was doing. He wasn't baiting Gus out, he was baiting his guards AWAY from the laundromat so he can take proof (which was his goal from the beginning) about Gus going behind Eladio's back and making his own secret meth empire, the laundromat isn't enough, he needed actual proof there was a lab under there and take that proof to Eladio so he can bring the force of the Cartel on Gus without opposition. So had Gus not gone to the laundromat despite extreme risks, he would've been skinned alive by the cartel after Lalo got evidence.
Mike telling Gus that it could have happened differently is a foreshadowing of Gus's death. Mike told him the next time he wants to go off script that he needs to let him know. Gus could've had his guys go to the laundry alone, but his hate of the Salamanca's forces him to act out of spite. So in Breaking Bad when he meets up with Hector, Mike is not there due to injury. He gets hot headed despite it being a possible trap and ends up getting blown up. He may have ended the Salamanca crew, but not before they took him down with them.
Didn't Mike know Howard from the days when he worked as a parking lot attendant? That's how Kim remembered Mike and I'm pretty sure he felt remorse knowing an officer of the court was killed because he blinked on Kim and Jimmy's protection.
As soon as Gus put the gun down there I speculated that maybe it would turn out that Lalo was buried under the lab all along. No idea where these last five episodes are going to go but I can't wait to find out.
Jimmy facing howard's dead body it's like when hank got killed and walter was facing hank's dead body. This show it's just brilliant. The only difference between hank and howard's death, it's because howard wasnt even in the game, just the wrong place at the worst fucking time.
I like to think that when Mike looks to howard body, and creates an elaborate story for howards "disappearance" he remembered Anita's husband also disappeared and she never had an closure, and mike made sn effort to find the good samaritans body in the desert, now he cover up howards death and everyone one who knew howard will never know what truly happened to him
I now have a whole new perspective on Kim shooting the finger guns at the end of Season 5. That scene is so damn ominous now considering that was the beginning of the plan to destroy Howard.
If you remember, Gus switched to clip on ties earlier in the season, I'm assuming for safety reasons. I'm guessing he switched back to full ties after he was tired of being scared, but clearly it entered his mind again when he took the tie off in this episode.
My opinion is that Kim had chosen the services of the Disappearer. She got a new identity, maybe after a mental snap that could happen soon. If I recall correctly, Saul says something like this in Breaking Bad: "I've only used his services in the past for one person." I bet that was Kim.
I have a feeling I will be emotionally recovering from this episode for weeks. Poor Howard really didn't deserve anything that happened to him. Likewise, I absolutely love Mike's character development in this series. He's clearly upset about innocent bystanders that are not in the 'game' being collateral damage and I can really understand why he's so cold and callous towards Saul in Breaking Bad. Excellent acting, as always.
man, Suraj has a wicked memory skills with that mike jimmy desert quote... i personally didnt remember that and i just rewatched the whole show in preparation to this episode....
LOL! You guys trying to predict what's going to happen next isn't nearly as annoying as you CONSTANTLY trying to point out plot holes that 90 percent of the time aren't even there.
This is the best show ever!! I totally forgot about the gun. Good remembering it! I thought Lalo would stay for a whole but he's already gone and we still have half a season to go!
Kim….You were supposed to be watching us, where were you? Mike….Lalo set us up he told Hector that he was coming here Early that day Mike to Gus we’ll pull all the guys off the low priority locations Lalo goes to lawyers and a lawyer gets shot in the face
I’m starting to think, and this is extremely unusual for prequel shows, that this show could be watched BEFORE Breaking Bad and work just as well. Like the fun of a prequel is seeing a lot of the elements in the original be backed up or Easter eggs, etc. In this case, there’s so much that could be like reverse referenced.
You guys should watch Erased. It’s a 12 episode anime that makes you feel emotion so that’s good lol. It’s about solving a crime and trying to prevent it from happening but has a big twist that makes it different. Highly recommend. I just watched it for the first time recently.
Possible that they unearth the bodies in future episodes, and running dental records they discover one body is Howard. Then it becomes a whole new ballgame for Jimmy being on the run from the law.
@@mp6640 He means post breaking bad with Eugene, his post-escape identity, obviously. No one thinks the bodies would be found until breaking bad is over.
I think Lalo outsmarting Fring in this episode really parallels how Walter White outsmarted Fring in BB, by luring him out and into his trap. Its just that in this case Fring is the one who prevails.
Coldest part of this episode was that Gus was willing to let 2 of his men die if it meant a chance at getting Lalo. Also the fact that Lalo tortured that dude for information just so he could impress Don Eladia with trivia lol I have the twisted suspicion that Kim might turn herself in or commit suicide. It'd be poetic for all the people that knew Jimmy McGill intimately, to no longer exist or no longer be in his life. Leaving no trace of who he used to be. Even his old scam partner kind of foreshadowed that with his passing.
The whole series is full of parallels and callbacks to BB. Knowing how detailed and precise Vince Giligan and Peter Gould are, it wouldn’t be a surprise it’s a conscious call back to that famous scene. So I think they might be right about this one now.
It's a shame that a villain as intelligent and industrious as Lalo had the misfortune to face a character with plot armor. It would have been great if he was the final antagonist of Breaking Bad.
Bob Odenkirk had the heart attack after they did that scene. What saved his life is that he went to go watch the cubs game instead of going back to his trailer.
32:12 guys!!! Jimmy was brought into the cartel when he ran a scam (with the skater boys) that inadvertently involved Tuco’s abuela! When Jimmy talked his way out of it Ignacio (Tuco’s right hand then) took Jimmy’s card which had his details as insurance. Nacho then hired him when he got arrested and later introduced him to Lalo.
Mike didn't introduce Nacho to Jimmy. Jimmy got involved with Tuco and Nacho saved him. That's how he became an unofficial "go-to-lawyer" of Nacho and Lalo (eventually).
Their names resonate with me because My name is actually Gustavo, but my mother was going to call me Eduardo which Lalo is the nickname of that name. I found it funny that Gustavo killed Eduardo kinda like My name triumphs the latter choice that my mother had which was Eduardo. She picked Gustavo instead.
The phone call Jimmy mentions in the episode that showed him leaving his office for the last time is probably kim calling him on his birthday. She gets disappeared but keeps in some contact with Jimmy.
Something that just occurred to me: In Breaking Bad, I was kinda rooting for Hector and Gus was the devil. In Better Call Saul I'm rooting for Gus and Hector (and by extension) Lalo is the devil. That's great writing and great acting.
NEVER would I ever predict when first watching this show, that Howard's fate would being buried underneath Gus' lab with a Salamanca.
same and how morbid for howard to be buried with his killer. what a tragic character
@@Japan705 Earlier I'd say Nacho was the most tragic character in this universe... But now it's Howard, cuz Howard wasn't in the game while Nacho was from the beginning
hundreds of years in the future, anthropologists will look at their remains and go "how sweet, they died together 🥰"
All this time, we wondered where Howard was in the BB timeline, and he was at the lab with Walt and Jesse the whole time
It really is a cool thing to know when watching the show again. The pacing of the first seasons is slow but the characters go through so much. I love it
To think that while Walt was engaging in cartoonish hijinks chasing that fly around the lab, throwing shoes at the lights and falling off the balcony, the bodies of both the deadliest Cartel boss and the head of a prestigious law firm were right beneath him
People will never rewatch that episode in the same way again
@@falconeshield I can’t rewatch ANY breaking bad episode the same now!! Haha
@@ChilledSoul216I can 😐
The fly was Lalo's ghost
Vince Gilligan wasn't lying when he said we'll never look at Breaking Bad the same way again,I'll never look at the meth lab the same,what a phenomenal episode
It made me really sad seeing those bodies together in the pit.
@@josiahmccallister3150Not me 😐
@vari_ares Yes you care. You care a great deal. More than you care about your own father. Sorrry and LOL that it happened.
@@jsmithers.Its a reaction to episode video, chill hot head
@@puyaaaa No. Cry. 🤡
“Who linked up Jimmy with the cartel?”
Mate that’s literally the first episode, Jimmy runs into Tuco and Nacho
Thanks for clarifying!!
It's easy to forget that Nacho has been in the show since the first season. He didn't really become his own character until around season 3
@@comeatmebro8120 nacho ended up being one of my favorites in this show. I was so invested in his storyline and tbh I really thought he would make it out and get a new identity from that vacuum guy
no, it wasn't Tuco and Nacho, it was Abuelita! she planned to counter-con Jimmy's car accident scam in order to get his brilliant criminal lawyer side working for the Salamancas. Abuelita has been the mastermind since day one
@@rudy_4ier
Final episode, I am The Breaking Bad
Damn, I really got teary-eyed at the end. Poor Howard. You could also see Mike felt bad for him as they buried him.
@@mp6640 Didnt Mike actually know Howard from when he was working at the parking toll booth? I thought that was the reason he said "Be careful" and looked sad cuz they shared a small history
@@mp6640 Yes exactly. He may have been scummy to Jimmy & Kim but he was not involved in this underworld.
@@mp6640 They didn't spend much time together, but I think Mike both recognized Howard from his time as the booth attendant, and was fully aware he was just an innocent bystander caught in the crossfire who they were going to have to do real dirty.
so happy Rhea finally got that emmy nom for her performance as Kim.
love the shots of Kim in the street that are very close to those from the Breaking Bad episode "Thirty-Eight snub"
But no nomination for Tony Dalton ☹️
“It’s like poetry, they rhyme.”
@@travisspazz1624 or Michael Mando or Patrick Fabian
@@travisspazz1624 he can still get nominated next year for the second half of the season
@@pyocopyocoultra2047He's not gonna get nominated for this 1 episode he was in.
Shooting him in the body armor was one thing. The moment he got Gus' suit dirty I knew it was over for him.
🤣
Gus was lucky, and he of course had the "plot armour" ;)
The music that played at the end while Howard was being buried was so good. It really set the tone of the scene, just makes you feel like you truly watched an innocent man lose everything.
yes. it made me tear up. Howard did not deserve that shit at all. and you could tell how much it was hitting Mike, maybe even harder than what happened to Werner.
According to the official podcast, the "heart attack" scene is actually in this episode. It's when Lalo is telling Jimmy to go and kill Gus. The coverage of Kim and Jimmy's reactions was shot before Bob had the heart attack. But Lalo's coverage was shot two months later, when Bob went back to work. Props to the editors, cast and crew for making everything look so smooth.
The official podcast? Like, the one with moist critical
@@iknowyouseeme3233 Who
@@iknowyouseeme3233 what?
@@iknowyouseeme3233 “the official podcast” isn’t the name lol It’s called “the better call Saul insider podcast”.
"I know. You're a lawyer, and not a killer. But, look, you can do this." Lalo should have been a motivational speaker.
he's so positive :D
This series makes me appreciate Walt on a whole new level. The fact that he knew how to play Gus into falling to his trap is mad genius.
“You thought you were building an empire, but this whole time you were building yourself a tomb”
On the insider podcast, Vince said the heart attack happened while they were filming coverage of Bob and Rhea sitting on the couch.
omg
which ep of the podcast was this?
@@efipx the one that JUST came out
Patrick Fabian was there and saved him.
@@Ali-xs2ij i know the actors aren't their characters but it is weirdly funny that howard's actor saved jimmy's. so glad patrick was able to do that, what a badass
on the heat attack from a Variety interview w/ Rhea Seehorn:
"That on-set and off-set camaraderie is also why Seehorn and Fabian happened to be in the right place, at the right time, when Odenkirk suffered a heart attack.
“There’s so many things that day, and I know Bob feels the same way, that are just like gifts from the universe,” Seehorn says. “I don’t know how else to put it, because he didn’t go to his trailer. If he had, he would be dead, or significantly brain damaged. Thankfully, living together did not make Bob Odenkirk hate Patrick Fabian and Rhea Seehorn. Somehow my messy piles everywhere and thousands of unfinished jigsaw puzzles did not drive him to the brink of not wanting to be near me. So he came and hung out with us.”
The actors would take breaks in an empty studio, in little plexiglass cubicles where they could get work done - or in Odenkirk’s case, watch a Chicago Cubs game while on his exercise bike. Seehorn and Fabian were chatting when they saw Odenkirk fall over.
“We ran to catch him because it’s a concrete floor and didn’t want him to hit his head,” Seehorn says, “and then realized that something much bigger was going on. We realized that he was having some kind of cardiac arrest.” Seehorn and Fabian screamed for help, and soon staffers - including Rosie Estrada, the set’s COVID officer and former medic, took over."
I saw somewhere that Tony Dalton was also present, but he was omitted from all the accounts so it wouldn't spoil the fact that Kim, Jimmy, Howard and Lalo were all together in a scene.
And Rhea kind of giving an interview that Bob heart stopped beating and his body turned grey for like 12 minutes so Bob was clinically dead during that time.
It really add a mystical element to Saul Goodman character.
Bob was filming as this guy, then died, then came back to life to finished filming. A role of the lifetime, so to speak.
Sal laying next to Howard looking at his dead body reminded me of when Hector killed Gus’s partner next to the pool.
In the beginning Lalo tells Jimmy "You point and shoot and you keep on pulling that trigger until it's empty!" That's exactly how Gus kills Lalo! The writers on this show are brilliant! Better Call Saul Season 6 is already a Masterpiece!
hate to compare but i love this show more than BB
Damnn that’s a good observation
I thought Poor Howard last episode, but this episode it intensified. We already knew likely the stories that Kim brought up in her plan will now stain his character, but how he was buried . . . Poor, poor Howard. He did not deserve it. :(
🤡
It wasn’t mike that brought jimmy into the cartel. It was Saul himself. He pulled the con with the skaters leading him to meet Tuco and Nacho where he offered them his legal services, coming back to haunt him later.
It’s a freak accident that caused a chain of events.
About Mike, the thing that he felt guilty about was probably how he instructed Jimmy to get Lalo out of jail (in season 5 episode 7) which ended up causing Lalo to walk in and shoot Howard dead.
When you think about it, Jimmy doing a scam is what started this
Lalo was a menace, I’ll miss him in the story. Best BCS/ BB villain! Curious what the last 5 episodes will be like.
We woke up.
We found him.
That's all we know.
The difference is that Jane was a junkie but not Howard
Again........Again!!
@@mohamedf4114 So? Addiction is a disease and it does not make you less worthy or less of a person.
I love when Saul says it was Ignacio
He said the thing!
Nacho interacted with Jimmy thanks to Tuco. Those twins called Tucos grandma a Biznatch & ended up in the desert. That was on the second episode
I love how Gus takes his tie off so nobody can strangle him with it. He also took it off right before entering the room with one of his guys there..don’t know if that means anything.
No it doesn't.
@@jsmithers. How are you so sure? Are you a writer for the show?
You liked your own comment.
@@MrFring13 No.
Lalo planned around Kim making it to Gus' door despite how hard Jimmy hinted for her to just peace out, crazy recognize crazy
What really bothered me is that they buried Howard with his killer and that his reputation is totally ruined. You could tell Mike was really bothered by what happened to Howard, that he wished he didn’t have to do what he was doing. When they picked up his body he said “easy.” He was trying to show him as much respect as possible. When Mike starting searching Howard and getting his ring and shoes, that single Cello playing in lament to Howard's death was so heartbreaking. Howard didn't deserve anything that happened to him. He was a good guy, but he made the mistake of letting Chuck manipulate him and drive his actions. Such a great, yet complicated character.
At the end, you could tell Mike was blaming Jimmy and Kim for what happened to Howard and rightfully so. If they hadn't been on their little crusade to ruin his reputation just so they could get a payout, he would still be alive. Now granted, there is no possible way they could have known he would die but still, they deserve the blame for putting him in that situation. I'm hoping that Lalo and Howard's bodies are the ones that were found when the lab burns down because if not, Howard will forever be considered a crazy drug addict that committed suicide while he is buried for eternity with his killer. But on the other hand, they may ask "sooooo why were they buried here together? Was Howard really that deep in with the cartel." No matter what Howard's legacy is tarnished. UNLESS if Kim somehow does somehow survive and after the lab burns down maybe she can show proof that this isn't who he was? I dunno man. It's just so dark....
Also sorry for the novel, that was just me word vomiting after watching the episode lol.
The best comment,thank you.
What a character Lalo was, insanely smart up to the point of plot armor, had Gus in the most trouble we'd ever seen prior to the moment of his death in BB. And he took out 4 of his men by himself.
8:45 Similar to Gus having to look into Max's dead eyes.
I think the only bright light in this episode is Lyle and his dedication to his work. Despite Gus’ shady business, he trusted Lyle to run his chicken shop and was always nice to him (except the fryer scene).
Actually this is the episode Bob had a heart attack and it set them back for weeks, I think over a month. That’s why they split the season. Just up until two weeks ago they were still editing the final episode. So the break wasn’t due to Obi Wan or Stranger Things. It was because they were so behind because of the heart attack and recovery of Bob.
We will never look at the lab the same way again.
@@mp6640 Yes, in BB season 5 episode 1.
@@mp6640 I was just thinking to myself "If there were 2 extra bodies when they searched the lab, it would've been perfect"
It was actually when Krazy 8 got arrested that Nacho introduced Lalo to Saul to defend him so the DEA would go after Gus.
I love how Lalo never explicitly threatens them once when he's telling them to kill Gus. He actually gasses Jimmy up a bit.
Definitely top 5 Breaking Bad verse episode!
When one of the greatest TV villains of all time kills another one of the greatest TV villains of all time!
Personally my favourite over other fan favourites such as Ozymandias. The whole night vibe and the creepiness of it really works
Something I noticed when I rewinded Jimmy with the muffler in his mouth - things could have gone very badly for Mike if Lalo let Jimmy talk. If you listen closely while Jimmy is gagged and Lalo is getting up to turn on the TV, you can make out that he says “I can tell you who helped him! I know where he lives, I can show you!”
You're acting as if Lalo didn't already know Mike's role in all this.
@@LuigiGamesful of course he knew, but Saul was offering to literally take Lalo to Mike’s home. for all of his stalking capabilities, I’m positive that Lalo didn’t have Mike’s home address already.
@@atree5688 Ah yes, my mistake
Yeah, for sure Lalo could've Taken another route, taking down the main man of Gus, before attacking him .
Favorite part of the episode is Lalo chuckling with blood all over his mouth and face on his death, god what an amazing villain, I knew he wouldn't make it out of Better Call Saul, because just imagine the havoc he'd make in Breaking Bad.
Man that was creepy what they did to Howard's eyes, really made him look dead with those nasty dead fish eyes, kudos to effects.
You guys are fun to watch with. It’s like watching with a group of friends
16:32 "You shoulda taken it to Don Eladio first, bro"
Thing is that was the whole thing Lalo was doing. He wasn't baiting Gus out, he was baiting his guards AWAY from the laundromat so he can take proof (which was his goal from the beginning) about Gus going behind Eladio's back and making his own secret meth empire, the laundromat isn't enough, he needed actual proof there was a lab under there and take that proof to Eladio so he can bring the force of the Cartel on Gus without opposition.
So had Gus not gone to the laundromat despite extreme risks, he would've been skinned alive by the cartel after Lalo got evidence.
Mike telling Gus that it could have happened differently is a foreshadowing of Gus's death. Mike told him the next time he wants to go off script that he needs to let him know. Gus could've had his guys go to the laundry alone, but his hate of the Salamanca's forces him to act out of spite. So in Breaking Bad when he meets up with Hector, Mike is not there due to injury. He gets hot headed despite it being a possible trap and ends up getting blown up. He may have ended the Salamanca crew, but not before they took him down with them.
Brooo that’s a great observation
Didn't Mike know Howard from the days when he worked as a parking lot attendant? That's how Kim remembered Mike and I'm pretty sure he felt remorse knowing an officer of the court was killed because he blinked on Kim and Jimmy's protection.
As soon as Gus put the gun down there I speculated that maybe it would turn out that Lalo was buried under the lab all along.
No idea where these last five episodes are going to go but I can't wait to find out.
24:42 Pretty sure Mike acquired his cleaner skills from his many years as a dirty beat cop
Jimmy facing howard's dead body it's like when hank got killed and walter was facing hank's dead body.
This show it's just brilliant.
The only difference between hank and howard's death, it's because howard wasnt even in the game, just the wrong place at the worst fucking time.
I like to think that when Mike looks to howard body, and creates an elaborate story for howards "disappearance" he remembered Anita's husband also disappeared and she never had an closure, and mike made sn effort to find the good samaritans body in the desert, now he cover up howards death and everyone one who knew howard will never know what truly happened to him
I now have a whole new perspective on Kim shooting the finger guns at the end of Season 5. That scene is so damn ominous now considering that was the beginning of the plan to destroy Howard.
25:35
"It's all fun and games until it's not."
The next episode is literally titled "Fun and Games". Well played, Normies
It might be first reasonble thing they said)
the shot from above Kim getting out of the car was same used when Jesse visited Gus.
Can we get Rhea Seahorn an Emmy already??
Well she's been nominated
Jimmy gave Tuco and Nacho a business card when Tuco broke the Skateboarders legs
A matchbook, actually.
If you remember, Gus switched to clip on ties earlier in the season, I'm assuming for safety reasons. I'm guessing he switched back to full ties after he was tired of being scared, but clearly it entered his mind again when he took the tie off in this episode.
He only wears clip on ties when he's in the restaurant.
My opinion is that Kim had chosen the services of the Disappearer. She got a new identity, maybe after a mental snap that could happen soon. If I recall correctly, Saul says something like this in Breaking Bad: "I've only used his services in the past for one person." I bet that was Kim.
that shootout in the dark.... superb
Patrick Fabian is such a good actor. His face looking all dead like that is just A+ acting.
I dunno, I thought it was kind of a lifeless performance.
@@MarkHogan994 lmao
@@MarkHogan994 imao
5:28 Lalo said one word and their heart dropped.
I have a feeling I will be emotionally recovering from this episode for weeks. Poor Howard really didn't deserve anything that happened to him.
Likewise, I absolutely love Mike's character development in this series. He's clearly upset about innocent bystanders that are not in the 'game' being collateral damage and I can really understand why he's so cold and callous towards Saul in Breaking Bad. Excellent acting, as always.
Nacho got involved with Jimmy before even Mike did. It all started at the desert scene with tuco. Then nacho reached out to him on his own.
I've seen Breaking Bad but I STILL thought some characters were in danger of dying
man, Suraj has a wicked memory skills with that mike jimmy desert quote... i personally didnt remember that and i just rewatched the whole show in preparation to this episode....
I love that he's wearing SKAM shirt. It's the GOAT teen show.
LOL! You guys trying to predict what's going to happen next isn't nearly as annoying as you CONSTANTLY trying to point out plot holes that 90 percent of the time aren't even there.
This is the best show ever!!
I totally forgot about the gun. Good remembering it!
I thought Lalo would stay for a whole but he's already gone and we still have half a season to go!
Nacho met Jimmy when he talked down Tuco "Operation: King-breaker"
I hope in the finale, Gene would track down Howard's wife and tell her what actually happened, giving her some closure, and redeem Howard a little.
That wasn't Gus, That Was Batman💡🦇
"You see, in their last moments people show you who they really are ~ Joker
Lalo : 😁
Kim….You were supposed to be watching us, where were you?
Mike….Lalo set us up he told Hector that he was coming here
Early that day Mike to Gus we’ll pull all the guys off the low priority locations
Lalo goes to lawyers and a lawyer gets shot in the face
This is the episode where Bob had his heart attack.
Specifically the couch scene. Thought it was weird that the scene contained Lalo, Kim, Jim and Howie didn't have high stakes.
still wondering how walt and jesse are going to be incorporated into the series finale. excited af
Probably flasback, like in El Camino
6:25 Jimmy is telling her to go. Dont come back. He is willing to die for her.
Seeing Lalo and Howard in that hole together made me think eerily of their skeletons under the lab throughout the BB timeline. Really sad.
I’m starting to think, and this is extremely unusual for prequel shows, that this show could be watched BEFORE Breaking Bad and work just as well. Like the fun of a prequel is seeing a lot of the elements in the original be backed up or Easter eggs, etc. In this case, there’s so much that could be like reverse referenced.
lol Jimmy falls to face Howard: "now it's worse"
Just the fact that Howard and Lalo’s bodies were right underneath Walt and Jesse’s lab that whole time is so unsettling god damn this show.
Remember that this is the episode where Bob had a heart attack. I mean I thought I’ll have one as well!
Best episode of the series so far
Gus didn’t know when but he knew there’d come a point and time where him and lalo would be face to face in that lab and he would need that gun
You guys should watch Erased. It’s a 12 episode anime that makes you feel emotion so that’s good lol. It’s about solving a crime and trying to prevent it from happening but has a big twist that makes it different. Highly recommend. I just watched it for the first time recently.
This is the darkest fucking episode ever.
So Howard IS in Breaking Bad
You just can't see him through the floor of the lab, lolol
great epi guys. man, Rhea bringing it, nice job. there is so much bad karma here tho, burying howard with lalo, that will bring bad mojo.
Possible that they unearth the bodies in future episodes, and running dental records they discover one body is Howard. Then it becomes a whole new ballgame for Jimmy being on the run from the law.
@@mp6640 He means post breaking bad with Eugene, his post-escape identity, obviously. No one thinks the bodies would be found until breaking bad is over.
@@mp6640 yeah obviously I mean post-BB timeline. After the lab has been destroyed by Walt and Jesse.
In Breaking bad Season5 Episode 1 the DEA finds 2 bodies under the Lab...they never explained who those 2 are...Now we know, this is too good 😭
It’s the 2 guards that Walt kills when he first enters the lab to save Jesse, not Lalo and Howard
27:54 what? This isn't in the episode on netflix for me.
I think Lalo outsmarting Fring in this episode really parallels how Walter White outsmarted Fring in BB, by luring him out and into his trap. Its just that in this case Fring is the one who prevails.
Coldest part of this episode was that Gus was willing to let 2 of his men die if it meant a chance at getting Lalo. Also the fact that Lalo tortured that dude for information just so he could impress Don Eladia with trivia lol
I have the twisted suspicion that Kim might turn herself in or commit suicide. It'd be poetic for all the people that knew Jimmy McGill intimately, to no longer exist or no longer be in his life. Leaving no trace of who he used to be. Even his old scam partner kind of foreshadowed that with his passing.
6:34 I think it's really not necessary to always make a parallel to another scene. You know, a scene can just be its own scene.
The whole series is full of parallels and callbacks to BB. Knowing how detailed and precise Vince Giligan and Peter Gould are, it wouldn’t be a surprise it’s a conscious call back to that famous scene.
So I think they might be right about this one now.
It's a shame that a villain as intelligent and industrious as Lalo had the misfortune to face a character with plot armor. It would have been great if he was the final antagonist of Breaking Bad.
If he lived, Walt would have survived less than he did in BB
Bob Odenkirk had the heart attack after they did that scene. What saved his life is that he went to go watch the cubs game instead of going back to his trailer.
Thank You Tony Dalton & Patrick Fabian🙏🙏I will never see the breaking bad superlab scenes in the same way now.....
WHAT A FUCKING SHOW
I would love to see Lyle expression when the news cover about Gus real identity...IF he's still alive
32:12 guys!!! Jimmy was brought into the cartel when he ran a scam (with the skater boys) that inadvertently involved Tuco’s abuela! When Jimmy talked his way out of it Ignacio (Tuco’s right hand then) took Jimmy’s card which had his details as insurance. Nacho then hired him when he got arrested and later introduced him to Lalo.
The fly was Howard 😔
Mike didn't introduce Nacho to Jimmy. Jimmy got involved with Tuco and Nacho saved him. That's how he became an unofficial "go-to-lawyer" of Nacho and Lalo (eventually).
Damn!!! You guys chattered all the way thru.
Lalo was a fox while walter was a tiger
Their names resonate with me because My name is actually Gustavo, but my mother was going to call me Eduardo which Lalo is the nickname of that name. I found it funny that Gustavo killed Eduardo kinda like My name triumphs the latter choice that my mother had which was Eduardo. She picked Gustavo instead.
24:00 My mouth the minute they started removing things from the fridge.
The phone call Jimmy mentions in the episode that showed him leaving his office for the last time is probably kim calling him on his birthday. She gets disappeared but keeps in some contact with Jimmy.
Something that just occurred to me: In Breaking Bad, I was kinda rooting for Hector and Gus was the devil. In Better Call Saul I'm rooting for Gus and Hector (and by extension) Lalo is the devil. That's great writing and great acting.
Yep, they’re all devils
Hector?
27:00 Victor was killed and put in a barrel..NOT buried in Lab.......l.