I never noticed how Chuck's space blanket and mylar lined suit are a kind of inverse to the Saul Goodman suit. One is unabashedly flamboyant and acts like a kind of armor for Jimmy's feelings and with the other, and the flashy part "protects" Chuck, but its meant to be hidden and is seen as shameful when brought out in public
Fun fact: the exotic car garage you see at the start with the twins has a blue car with white stripes if you notice. That’s a real life replica of the famous car “Banshee” from the GTA Series. Rockstar Games, West Coast Customs, and GameStop gave it away in 2013 during GTA 5’s launch and a collector bought it in 2018. Funny enough that might also be the reason you were getting GTA Garage vibes. 😆
Mike's line about doing everything he can for his family hits differently knowing that everything he worked for was confiscated by the DEA before he was unceremoniously murdered by Walter.
Out of all the major characters in the Breaking Bad universe, Mike definitely had the worst ending. Died in vain, couldn't get money to his family and didn't even get to say goodbye to his granddaughter. The money that Jesse sends to Kaylee in El Camino is probably not even close to what Mike had saved up.
I love how the presence of Chuck is constant in the show through props, cinematography, and dialogue. Even if they never mention his name, his presence is felt in what is a masterclass of "show, don't tell".
I like how they used two different glow stick colors. Mike uses green (breaking bad colors), while Jimmy uses yellow (BCS colors). You could see that as Mike is fully committed and he already crossed that line, he's basically the same character he was in BrBa timeline, while Jimmy is still in the "BCS timeline", he stil didn't fully committed to being Saul Goodman we know
Yeah Americans say a lot of things about Britain with certainty and yeah we have one pound and 2 pound coins then 5 pound 10 pound 20 pound and 50 pounds are all notes
@@DovahFett i was actually commenting on a factual statement about British notes being incorrect not a generalized statement and you can say the bit about Americans saying things about Britain with certainty is generalised (though I thought it was clearly hyperbole) and i can even agree with that to an extent but i definitely havent said anything uninformed there other than my opinion and then literal facts
This is probably my favorite episode of the show. So good. This is a Pine Barrens situation where two characters are stuck in the middle of nowhere trying to find their way out and self reflecting.
One of my favorite episodes, Vince Gilligan returns as director and gives another excellent episode of BCS in the flavour of BB. Everything in this episode is just perfect.
People tend to point to the moments where Jimmy becomes Saul, and there isn't one single moment. But it sure is interesting seeing how, when hes about to be killed he starts shouting Abugado(lawyer) but then switches to "friend of the cartel". And with the space blanket also. Jimmy denies it because it reminds him of chuck and he doesnt wanna be wrapped in chuck's shadow, but to Saul it doesn't mean much in relation to chuck. For him its a flashy shiny armor to be used for his success. I love reading into stuff with this show, best written show ever imo
Eric joking about Jawas made me think about Johnathan Banks in Star Wars as an officer under Space Gus. I unironically want that now. I don't care if it's on-the-nose.
The last scene makes me tear up every time, there are so many layers to it. From Jimmy’s recklessness for a quick buck, stepping on the space blanket, Chuck’s theme played with the instrumentation of Heisenberg’s theme…. I just love it.
Rick was very on the money to say that word of the gunfight would get back to Lalo. I won't say how, but Lalo himself is so cunning that he can just tell when something is up. He figures it out
Oh boy I can't wait for them to get to that episode, but honestly every episode from here on out will make for classic reactions from Blind Wave. Especially that arc in Season 6. Episodes 7-9.
25:30 Shilling is old money, not used since the early 70's due to the new decimal system being introduced. Pound is a coin, as is anything worth less than £5. Notes for the pound did exist but were withdrawn in '88 due to inflation.
Walt’s motivation was never really his family, even from the start. If it was really about his family, he would have accepted Gretchen and Elliot’s money and/or job offer. His ego was driving him for the entirety of Breaking Bad. HE had to be the earner, HE had to be the big deal. That’s what his “I did it for me” in the last episode was about. He just used providing for his family as a deeply internalized excuse so that he could feel like a badass, without accepting responsibility for the fact that by doing so he was risking putting his family in danger. Mike is more genuine, and if anything is in stark contrast to Walt. Mike isn’t doing this stuff out of an ego trip. He’s genuinely doing it for his family, unlike Walt.
If Mike was a genuine guy, then he should have went on a different path of “providing” for his family. The same path that got his son killed so clearly he’s not that much different from Walt when he also put his own family at risk when messing with the Salamanca’s or joining Gus.
I. Love. This. Episode. Easily my favorite in the whole series, the imagery, symbolism, acting, characterization, all of it is so well done and has so many little details that make it really great on rewatch. Even the tension for a prequel is all so well done, that whole last scene with Jimmy on the road and Mike with the gun had me so invested, to the point I had to remind myself 'oh wait, it's a prequel they'll be fine'. That's the sign of great television right there. Definitely the 'Pine Barrens' of this series.
Oh boy one of the best episodes of Better Call Saul and easily the most Breaking bad like episode in terms of tension, action, and cinematography, but the craziest thing is this might not even be a top 5 episode in this show. Let alone the best episode in the season. You guys better buckle up cause the series just gets crazier from here on out. Also I like to call this The Pine Barrens of this show. Since it is very similar to that episode from Soprano's. Just a simple job going very wrong. Also next episode pretty much sets up the beginning of the end of the series and is easily one of best hours of television ever and my 2md favorite behind "Plan and Execution". Gonna be brutal waiting a full week for "Bad Choice Road".
Looking back from after the series finale, this is really the beginning of the end. The events of this episode will send Jimmy and Kim down a road that there's no coming back from
We got rid of the penny in Canada, but prices are still down to cents. So if you pay with cash, the price is rounded to the nearest 5 cents, but if you pay with credit or debit or whatever else, it's not.
I don't know why Jimmy's first thought wasn't to hire Mike to come with him... I know Mike saves him and all, but Mike would have had valuable insight and could have helped Jimmy get it all done.
The Euro has a 1 and 2 euro coin the first bill is a 5 euro, they are different sizes and colors for each. Makes it very each to know what you got easily. Basically the one reason we still have the penny is Abraham Linchon .
The color green in BB represented Walt's transformation into Heisenberg. It's the most prominent color he wears. Green represents greed, eveny, and money. Yellow represents anyone associated with the meth business. Walt has a light yellow shirt when he kills Krazy 8, and does it with a yellow bag. The plate is yellow. The hazmat suits are yellow. So I think here, Mike wearing the green represents his greed and desire to make sure his family is financially taken care of while out in the desert protecting literal bags of cash. It's the first time in the show where we see Mike transform and straight up murder dudes to protect Gus' interests. The yellow represents Jimmy further transforming into Saul. He even drinks his own yellow pee to survive. This path eventually leads him into the drug business. It's foreshadowing his interaction with Jesse and Walt in the desert where he solidifies his dealings in the meth business.
Concerning the mylar blanket, I saw it as Jimmy rejecting the notion of being helped by something that acted as a stand-in for his brother. It's interesting, though, that, in the end, the blanket plays a big part in saving them. It's as if Chuck intervened from the afterlife to help his brother stay alive. ;) Cool stuff. This is one of the best episodes taking place in this universe (it was directed by Gilligan). There's a lot of fun behind-the-scenes stories about the filming of the episode. You guys should look into it on your own personal time!
It's quite a reach with the afterlife stuff. I always seen it as Jimmy trying to do everything he can not to think about Chuck, that includes avoiding the blanket
@@MLennholm I was thinking about that when I wrote this post... but yea I just assumed that they knew the difference between old days and nowadays...so to be ckear...post 1990, most of the music is sampled. Lol
spoilers: eric does not know relevant the thing he said about investing in a future successful company with the money from the desert is, given the finale of the show and what saul says to mike in this exact time period, lol.
In my opinion this is a writing floor. Metric a television however, I cannot see how a big time truck dealing cartel member with this kind of money. Would that make sure that Jimmy had an escort of security in both directions. It’s just not realistic.
I think the point of the Mylar is not necessary any elaborate symbolism. I think it's more about Jimmy being stuck in the desert with nothing to distract himself with, he just had a near-death experience and the Mylar is reminding him of Chuck. I think he is forced to think about Chuck and his death and he can't just pretend it never happened like he was stubbornly doing until now. Maybe it will lead to some internal change in him.
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@@ItsShaz1 You can't lick a dead fish.
We haven’t had pound notes Since 1988 we use 1 pound and 2 pound coins and 5,10,20,and 50 pound notes,and the shilling got phased out in 1971 😂
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Man, I don't think next week's reaction is going to be as great as this one.
Lalo: "Tell me again".
I payed a lot a money for that story
@@Henry_Red "Let's talk."
@@Henry_Red Want my advice? Find better lawyers.
@@Conceptual_Continuity top 10 last lines before a disaster *
@@Conceptual_Continuity Howard! Just go
I never noticed how Chuck's space blanket and mylar lined suit are a kind of inverse to the Saul Goodman suit. One is unabashedly flamboyant and acts like a kind of armor for Jimmy's feelings and with the other, and the flashy part "protects" Chuck, but its meant to be hidden and is seen as shameful when brought out in public
And the fact that Jimmy the one who made that suit for Chuck. That show is deeper than Mariana Trench
Fun fact: the exotic car garage you see at the start with the twins has a blue car with white stripes if you notice. That’s a real life replica of the famous car “Banshee” from the GTA Series.
Rockstar Games, West Coast Customs, and GameStop gave it away in 2013 during GTA 5’s launch and a collector bought it in 2018.
Funny enough that might also be the reason you were getting GTA Garage vibes. 😆
Episode 7: "I AM A GOD IN HUMAN CLOTHING! LIGHTNING BOLTS SHOOT FROM MY FINGER-TIPS!!"
Episode 8: *drinks own pee from a Davis & Main water bottle*
Never do that btw.. theres a reason we pee even when dehydrated. Theres so much salt and toxins in there it would make you die of thirst even quicker
@@maxmustermann1533 lucky for him, the actor actually drank apple juice
Mike's line about doing everything he can for his family hits differently knowing that everything he worked for was confiscated by the DEA before he was unceremoniously murdered by Walter.
I hate walt
Out of all the major characters in the Breaking Bad universe, Mike definitely had the worst ending. Died in vain, couldn't get money to his family and didn't even get to say goodbye to his granddaughter. The money that Jesse sends to Kaylee in El Camino is probably not even close to what Mike had saved up.
@@arafat9828 nah, mike had it coming. out of the main characters, howard had it worse.
@@irrelevanterr try rating the saddest to good ending of each major character in the breaking bad universe from 1 to 10.
@@irrelevanterr At least Howard's name was cleared at the end, even tho it was years later
I love how the presence of Chuck is constant in the show through props, cinematography, and dialogue. Even if they never mention his name, his presence is felt in what is a masterclass of "show, don't tell".
The twin that drops the money at the beginning is also the one who dropped a bullet and got killed by Hank
I like how they used two different glow stick colors. Mike uses green (breaking bad colors), while Jimmy uses yellow (BCS colors). You could see that as Mike is fully committed and he already crossed that line, he's basically the same character he was in BrBa timeline, while Jimmy is still in the "BCS timeline", he stil didn't fully committed to being Saul Goodman we know
After just finishing the show, I’m glad to rewatch this episode.
Same
the cold open in the last episode...
I finished the last episode about an hour ago
"you wouldn't get it" from Lalo, missed the joker reference hahaha
“They must’ve used some kind of scanning technology”
Calvin with another banger 😂
They have car x-ray tech
31:55 that statement fro eric is hillariously spot on considering the last ep
Well we now know Eric's answer to Jimmy's question.
31:55 wow Eric just made the most perfect reference and he doesn’t even know it 😂
My jaw dropped lol
Single British pounds _are_ coins, there haven't been £1 notes for a long time.
Yeah Americans say a lot of things about Britain with certainty and yeah we have one pound and 2 pound coins then 5 pound 10 pound 20 pound and 50 pounds are all notes
@@alexanderwiles2003 it's so annoying
@@alexanderwiles2003 I like how your response to a generalized, uninformed statement that you disagree with is to make one of your own.
Just another case of Calvin with unrestrained confidence asserting something that is completely wrong
@@DovahFett i was actually commenting on a factual statement about British notes being incorrect not a generalized statement and you can say the bit about Americans saying things about Britain with certainty is generalised (though I thought it was clearly hyperbole) and i can even agree with that to an extent but i definitely havent said anything uninformed there other than my opinion and then literal facts
This is probably my favorite episode of the show. So good. This is a Pine Barrens situation where two characters are stuck in the middle of nowhere trying to find their way out and self reflecting.
One of my favorite episodes, Vince Gilligan returns as director and gives another excellent episode of BCS in the flavour of BB. Everything in this episode is just perfect.
People tend to point to the moments where Jimmy becomes Saul, and there isn't one single moment. But it sure is interesting seeing how, when hes about to be killed he starts shouting Abugado(lawyer) but then switches to "friend of the cartel". And with the space blanket also. Jimmy denies it because it reminds him of chuck and he doesnt wanna be wrapped in chuck's shadow, but to Saul it doesn't mean much in relation to chuck. For him its a flashy shiny armor to be used for his success. I love reading into stuff with this show, best written show ever imo
This is in my top 5 of Better Call Saul episodes. All-time classic episode.
Eric joking about Jawas made me think about Johnathan Banks in Star Wars as an officer under Space Gus. I unironically want that now. I don't care if it's on-the-nose.
The last scene makes me tear up every time, there are so many layers to it. From Jimmy’s recklessness for a quick buck, stepping on the space blanket, Chuck’s theme played with the instrumentation of Heisenberg’s theme…. I just love it.
Rick was very on the money to say that word of the gunfight would get back to Lalo. I won't say how, but Lalo himself is so cunning that he can just tell when something is up. He figures it out
The Producers of BB and BCS have always put great care and emphasis on colours. The green in yellow was definitely a purposeful metaphor.
This is probably the 2nd best 3 episode stretch if not these best 3 episode stretch of the entire show so good
Next episode is 10/10
2nd favorite behind Plan and Execution for me.
A superb episode imo. One of THE best.
And what you have here is one the best episodes of the show alongside Chicanery and Plan and Execution
The best 3 episode stretch in television history starts now.
Just FYI a British Pound is not a note and hasnt been for a long time its a coin
Imo the best singular episode. Season 6 is the best season but as one episode this has gotta be the best
Might be my favorite episode behind 6x3
Oh boy I can't wait for them to get to that episode, but honestly every episode from here on out will make for classic reactions from Blind Wave. Especially that arc in Season 6. Episodes 7-9.
@@ianmcclure3936 I can’t wait for those episodes!
@@ianmcclure3936 Theyre on a brilliant arc right now. I thought the episodes 8-10 of season 5 was perfection, an incredible end to a season
The smallest note in the uk is a 5
Jimmy and Mike probably wished they had a time machine to get out of that desert.
Pounds are coins
25:30 Shilling is old money, not used since the early 70's due to the new decimal system being introduced.
Pound is a coin, as is anything worth less than £5.
Notes for the pound did exist but were withdrawn in '88 due to inflation.
Walt’s motivation was never really his family, even from the start. If it was really about his family, he would have accepted Gretchen and Elliot’s money and/or job offer. His ego was driving him for the entirety of Breaking Bad. HE had to be the earner, HE had to be the big deal. That’s what his “I did it for me” in the last episode was about. He just used providing for his family as a deeply internalized excuse so that he could feel like a badass, without accepting responsibility for the fact that by doing so he was risking putting his family in danger.
Mike is more genuine, and if anything is in stark contrast to Walt. Mike isn’t doing this stuff out of an ego trip. He’s genuinely doing it for his family, unlike Walt.
If Mike was a genuine guy, then he should have went on a different path of “providing” for his family. The same path that got his son killed so clearly he’s not that much different from Walt when he also put his own family at risk when messing with the Salamanca’s or joining Gus.
15:00 had no idea Eminem sampled that until watching this episode.
Well its kinda normal when rappers took someone else samples, they cant write thier own
This is one of the best episodes in the Breaking Bad universe.
I. Love. This. Episode. Easily my favorite in the whole series, the imagery, symbolism, acting, characterization, all of it is so well done and has so many little details that make it really great on rewatch. Even the tension for a prequel is all so well done, that whole last scene with Jimmy on the road and Mike with the gun had me so invested, to the point I had to remind myself 'oh wait, it's a prequel they'll be fine'. That's the sign of great television right there.
Definitely the 'Pine Barrens' of this series.
One of my favourite episodes! Mike is a badass.
Top 3 episode of the show
Oh boy one of the best episodes of Better Call Saul and easily the most Breaking bad like episode in terms of tension, action, and cinematography, but the craziest thing is this might not even be a top 5 episode in this show. Let alone the best episode in the season. You guys better buckle up cause the series just gets crazier from here on out. Also I like to call this The Pine Barrens of this show. Since it is very similar to that episode from Soprano's. Just a simple job going very wrong.
Also next episode pretty much sets up the beginning of the end of the series and is easily one of best hours of television ever and my 2md favorite behind "Plan and Execution". Gonna be brutal waiting a full week for "Bad Choice Road".
2:20
This hits different after the recent revelations
Tarantino shot)
This is probably my favorite episode of the series
Looking back from after the series finale, this is really the beginning of the end. The events of this episode will send Jimmy and Kim down a road that there's no coming back from
I got the by Labi Siffre is one of the best songs ever recorded...it just keeps getting better as it goes on.
We don't have a pound note lol it is a coin and we haven't had shillings in decades lol
A pound definitely is a coin.
I'm going through withdrawal. This show was amazing
Protip: If you like the eat in a rap song, it was 100% lifted from an already popular song from the 1970s.
That’s a blatant lie.
We got rid of the penny in Canada, but prices are still down to cents. So if you pay with cash, the price is rounded to the nearest 5 cents, but if you pay with credit or debit or whatever else, it's not.
Ahhhh yes one of my favorite stretches of episodes begins
Correction for you guys - there has been a coin for the Pound for decades now.
One of my all-time episode from this series! 😍👍💘
I don't know why Jimmy's first thought wasn't to hire Mike to come with him... I know Mike saves him and all, but Mike would have had valuable insight and could have helped Jimmy get it all done.
This episode is one of the greats
This is a turning point moment. Maybe taking off the mylar blanket and leaving it behind was Saul shedding his past and leaving Jimmy McGill behind.
Can confirm we do not have single pound notes, just coins. Shillings also haven't been a thing for over 50 years
The Euro has a 1 and 2 euro coin the first bill is a 5 euro, they are different sizes and colors for each. Makes it very each to know what you got easily.
Basically the one reason we still have the penny is Abraham Linchon .
The color green in BB represented Walt's transformation into Heisenberg. It's the most prominent color he wears. Green represents greed, eveny, and money. Yellow represents anyone associated with the meth business. Walt has a light yellow shirt when he kills Krazy 8, and does it with a yellow bag. The plate is yellow. The hazmat suits are yellow. So I think here, Mike wearing the green represents his greed and desire to make sure his family is financially taken care of while out in the desert protecting literal bags of cash. It's the first time in the show where we see Mike transform and straight up murder dudes to protect Gus' interests.
The yellow represents Jimmy further transforming into Saul. He even drinks his own yellow pee to survive. This path eventually leads him into the drug business. It's foreshadowing his interaction with Jesse and Walt in the desert where he solidifies his dealings in the meth business.
15:00 I had the same moment what great music
Concerning the mylar blanket, I saw it as Jimmy rejecting the notion of being helped by something that acted as a stand-in for his brother. It's interesting, though, that, in the end, the blanket plays a big part in saving them. It's as if Chuck intervened from the afterlife to help his brother stay alive. ;) Cool stuff.
This is one of the best episodes taking place in this universe (it was directed by Gilligan). There's a lot of fun behind-the-scenes stories about the filming of the episode. You guys should look into it on your own personal time!
It's quite a reach with the afterlife stuff. I always seen it as Jimmy trying to do everything he can not to think about Chuck, that includes avoiding the blanket
Oh my sweet baby jesus we're getting so close I'm so excited.
One of the greatest episodes in television history
Glad to know I wasn't the only one who thought "My name is" was gonna play
31:55 save it for later
Been waiting to see the reaction next episode holy shit it was like chuck at the kinkos x15
Greatest episode of this series. This is Bob Odenkirk’s “Ozymandius”.
no its not
A pound is coin and shillings don't exist
The whole invisible car bit was great😭
Pee would actually make you thirstier and it is not a good way to hydrate.
It's better than nothing
a british pound is definitely a coin, as is 2 pounds. smallest note is 5.
2:25 This is the moment Lalo Salamanca became Joker
Bad Choice Road next week!!!!
you know these guys are really good friends when they can put up with Aaron asking questions every single minute
Worst part of every reaction
He makes it tough to keep watching these guys
Calvin always confidently asserting facts that are completely wrong is just as annoying
I don't want to live in a world without gumball machines, Aaron. The coins must flow.
6:10 Aaron said it. He said Brazil. Now you must come to Brazil or Brazil WILL come to you.
Kkkkk
Ha! That’s me flickering the blood to the other guy 🤣🤣🤣
I’ve been looking forward to this
Nothing costs less than a dollar
There’s always a fucking symbolism with better call Saul the space blanket is symbolism
Remember “La Cucaracha” 🤞
As the Japanese would say, Baguman!
You're the perfect guy for this, you're Nobody
MOST of the music made nowadays is sampled. Thanks for the reaction.
Yeah I was thinking that too, then I realized that _My Name Is_ is over 20 years old, so saying "nowadays" seems a bit redundant... 😅
@@MLennholm I was thinking about that when I wrote this post... but yea I just assumed that they knew the difference between old days and nowadays...so to be ckear...post 1990, most of the music is sampled. Lol
Rap artist sampled something, shocker.
spoilers:
eric does not know relevant the thing he said about investing in a future successful company with the money from the desert is, given the finale of the show and what saul says to mike in this exact time period, lol.
Just to let you know, it's not a £1 note, it's a coin
Walt wishes he was Mike
Their constant discussion of Howard has me so excited
I can’t wait to see you guys react to Jon Snows show when it comes out.
In my opinion this is a writing floor. Metric a television however, I cannot see how a big time truck dealing cartel member with this kind of money. Would that make sure that Jimmy had an escort of security in both directions. It’s just not realistic.
/there was a Shane....
I think the point of the Mylar is not necessary any elaborate symbolism. I think it's more about Jimmy being stuck in the desert with nothing to distract himself with, he just had a near-death experience and the Mylar is reminding him of Chuck. I think he is forced to think about Chuck and his death and he can't just pretend it never happened like he was stubbornly doing until now. Maybe it will lead to some internal change in him.
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Kim is gonna die. Wondere where she is - off the show, since she can't seem to leave Jimmy
The important thing to remember about this show is most choices are random and nothing is symbolic or thematic.
Thats not Marvel universe, thats Breaking Bad universe
whaaaat aaron you of all people don't know labi siffre. come on!
Que buen capítulo
Mike is kind of incompetent.