It’s even MORE than that though, which is insane. Jimmy/Saul/Gene was facing a life sentence and 180/190 (I can’t remember the exact number) years for all of his crimes! But he knew the prosecution’s biggest fear - his charm being able to convince at least one juror, causing the jury to become deadlocked and causing a mistrial. The prosecution didn’t want this to happen, because they wanted to put this awful criminal away for all of his crimes, so they were willing to take a deal. It’s honestly incredible, thinking about what Chuck felt about Jimmy - “you’re not a real lawyer”. At the end of the day, Jimmy was able to do something that Chuck never could - negotiating a life sentence + 190 years down to 7.5 years. Jimmy truly was one of the best lawyers to be seen, even if he got his degree from some “University of American Samoa”. This show is literally incredible!
I feel like we got a near perfect trilogy. The prologue as better call Saul, breaking bad as the main story and el Camino the epilogue. We got all the ends for all the characters
I couldn't agree more. The fact that they made it in such a dry way with no crazy sound in the background or with no build up at all makes it horrendously great. You are just left there feeling kind of bad for Howard, having to deal with his stained image and with his depression, and you have no idea that the suffering of that man is just about to end, perhaps good for him but definitely terrifying for the spectator. Such a great scene though, directed with the perfection of the whole series and of Breaking Bad.
My boyfriend and I both screeched and stood up. We have watched movies and shows together for 10 years and neither of us have EVER had that kind of reaction. Gut hit for sure!
@@A_Person5280 It's actually pretty interesting why they did this. Gene's life is viewed through a gray filter, yet Saul (or his "golden days") have hue and color which is a fantastic detail by the directors.
@@alexicaron8060 His whole life before Gene had color. He chose to add even more color when he became Saul, and He gave up color to become Gene so he could get away from his consequences. But coming clean and getting back Kims respect brought him a spark of true color in a colorless world he created to hide himself. A very fitting end, just like Walt’s end fit him. Most importantly they both chose their endings
Great recap. I remember when they announced there would be a spinoff to Breaking bad. I said to myself. Whatever they come up with, can't live up to BB. Boy was I wrong.
@@phoodpharmer well it really depends on what kind of thing entertains you in terms of tv shows. If you like BANG BANG BLAST WOAAAAH moments, BCS is not for you. However, if you appreciated the construction of character that occurs in BB and overall enjoy watching characters grow into something else, BCS will be the best thing you'll ever watch. I'm on the team of people who praise BCS more than BB because it's more polished overall and got me more entertainmed and less bored. But it reaaaally depends on your particular taste. BCS is about HOW things happen, not WHAT things happen. And the how is absolute gold.
I like to imagine that, while in prison, Jimmy writes a tell-all book about working with Walter white. Finally clearing up any left over mysteries and missing persons the public should know.
You got one significant point wrong: Jesse doesn’t ask Kim whether Saul is “a good lawyer,” he asks her if “he’s *good.*” So her answer-“he was when I knew him” - has multiple layers of meaning.
I like that he got a series and we got to see his story. In BB he was treated like an annoying side character and made him seem like he did nothing when in reality he was doing his most to keep Walt and Jesse rich and out of jail
Nacho. i try not to get caught up in the moment, and never do, except i said out loud 'Nacho .... noooo'. Ruined my whole day, i felt like looking for the obit so i could go to the funeral.
One thing I see a lot of people say that I cant help but disagree with is that he absolves kim of her involvement in Howards death. My interpretation was that he hears she confesses and then realizes what he has to do, so he tells the government she was more involved in the death than reality so it compels her to come to the court room, then he says what he told them was just bullshit to get her there but everything she confessed to still exists. She is still open to a civil suit and she still gave her confession of being involved and she without a doubt had a hand in it. Jimmy just acknowledged that she left and tried to better herself and that he couldnt.
I took it as him unburdening himself/setting himself free and simultaneously taking away part of Kim's emotional burden and showing her that Jimmy was still in there, since there was absolutely no sign of him the last time she saw him. We've seen her face the consequences of his actions before while he got away unscathed, like when she was punished for losing the Kettlemens or when she ended up in dock review because of what he did with the commercial at Davis & Main.
I think u r right. Kim can still have the snot sued out of her. They Both told the truth and will pay for their crimes. Still sad I wanted to see them get their happy ever after. In a ironic way they did.
I understand Carol knew of Vince's previous work and so watched and liked this show. She approached Vince for a role & they discussed possibilities. I'm glad she was in it.
You know how good this show is? I'd already seen every episode and went through the emotions of the finale. Yet, listening to this recap, I felt all of the same tense emotions that I felt when watching the series. THAT is how good this show is.
this show easily became my favorite of all time. on the surface it’s a slow burn drama with little action and focuses more on the character development rather than heavy plot lines. it’s beautiful and imo surpasses it’s predecessor. Vince and Peter clearly took all they learned and perfected it. i think this show only has one meh episode. and out of 6 seasons and 50+ episodes it’s extremely impressive and a work that will be remembered.
I feel like Lalo best expresses Saul's talents of persuasion, taking note of how much Saul has punched above his weight, in terms of "landing" Kim as his wife... 😆
Jimmy went to the insurance company to try and get a refund on his malpractice insurance. The employee there brought up Chuck McGill and that's what gave Jimmy the idea to say something about Chuck's mental capacity at that time. Jimmy did not go to the insurance company to snitch on Chuck. He got the idea after he was already there when the employee was searching for the policy and found Chuck's name before Jimmy's.
Jimmy doesn't absolve Kim! So many people seem to get this wrong. She confessed, she's still under threat of a civil suit. "You don't save me, I save me!". Jimmy's sentence *might* persuade Cheryl to feel justice is done, but it might not. The point was that Kim confessing gave Jimmy the courage to do the same, knowing that doing so he would regain Kim's respect/love. Ultimately, he did it to save himself.
Right! Plus he even said himself he lied just to get Kim in the courtroom so she could witness his confession. Had nothing to do with absolving Kim’s involvement with Howard’s murder
Jimmy was one of the sharpest minds in the series. For him to throw his life away for such a childish immature reason ruins the character. I was really disappointed in the ending.
i was already spoiled of howards death right before i got to season 2, but the buildup to his death still had me in so much shock and awe, i almost teared up
better call saul and breaking bad are peak American prime time television shows and we got the opportunity to watch them in our lifetimes every week on Monday night. Im gonna miss watching new episodes and being shellshocked by the twists and turns Vince and Peter wrote for us and the immensely talented actors who portrayed each character.
@@cammongo3525 That doesn’t even make any sense that Jimmy McGill was some honest good dude. Jimmy McGill was a shyster, pulled cons, cut corners, sabotaged Chucks paperwork, ruined Howard’s reputation, he admitted to driving his brother to suicide. The writers are coming down with dementia …do you see how old that Gould guy is?
@@CountCrimsonStrider my bad buddy every comment I see it 1 year old. never mind. i was just stating the obvious for any third person to realise and not waste his time watching 2 duplicate videos which are the exact same. no offence to you buddy. peace out✌️
the main thing that sets breaking bad and better call saul apart from most TV series, is unlike most shows, everything has consequences. yeah other shows may have bad things happen to the main characters, but it ends up well eventually, whereas with those shows, Everything, Has, consequences.
Everyone feels sorry for chuck after the ending of show and i just don't get it, this video just reaffirms how awful chuck was. If he was a little supportive of Jimmy, he couldve been a really good and relatively harmless Elder Law specialist. Instead, chucks constant disapproval and undermining of Jimmy started the slipper slope that became BCS and BB
This video doesn't at all get into the flashback scenes that set up the fact that Jimmy was, at least partially, responsible for their father's shop going out of business, something that led to his death. Remember that Chuck doesn't just accuse Jimmy of stealing from the register- he actually did it, and we have no reason to believe just once. That's not to say that Jimmy was morally culpable at that point- he was a child, still developing his own sense of right and wrong. But Jimmy pretty consistently worked as a petty criminal UNTIL he became a lawyer. Was Chuck right to continue holding a grudge? Obviously not. But Chuck wasn't simply and wholly awful. He acted awfully to his brother, but there's real emotional pain and setup for the why. And it's not as if Jimmy was good to him, either- not all the time. Because let's not forget- Jimmy looked after Chuck, yes, but Chuck, before that point, had also been looking after Jimmy for years by representing him when he got into trouble. Family is complicated. Their relationship was broken beyond repair.
Because he was, as Kim put it, a sick man who was consumed by envy and resentment over his charismatic brother. Even though Chucks last words with Jimmy were absolutely awful, you just know he sabotaged himself by breaking the only meaningful relationship he had left. Chuck was not a good brother, but damn did I felt every emotion in a single character.
ending was sad.. everybody keeps saying it was bittersweet or it was "the good" ending, but fact of the matter is saul will be in prison for the rest of his life, that in itself makes the ending very sorrowful. A sorrowful goodbye from our comedic relief.
So is it just me ? It's not the end. and I expect a finally movie to come. Why do I say this, because Saul & Mr White are in a basement somewhere with bags packed ready to flee dressed in prison greens. So they escaped....
@@mrspikiespike4807 For the sake of a last ditch epilogue hypothetical: What if Jesse teams up with Kim to publish a recording of his witness of the killing of hank & steve to the court, thus proving that was not on Jimmy even indirectly (that is, if many years of his sentence is solely because of the murder of Steven & Hank) Maybe Jimmy then could get a reasonable time reduced to his sentence, combined with good behaviour, and then live out approx. a decade left of his life with Kim.
@@per-torereiniurfjell5424 So I might of got my wires crossed a bit there...i'll have to go back and re watch BB now lol. I'll still put money on the fridge that there will be a future movie just like they did with Jesse.
Im not sure alot of people know but two episodes were directed seperately by cast members of BCS who played Kim and Gus. In season 6 episode 4 Hit and Run by Seehorn and episode 6 Axe and Grind by Esposito.
Wow, what a great and well done recap! I'm hoping that there will be another spin-off that features Saul as a felon lawyer giving advice to innocent inmates.
I'm a simple man, my favorite moments in BCS, were, Mike doing cross word puzzles, Gus sweeping up, at "Los Pollos Hermanos, " and Chuck doing research, and writing.
mine were similar stuff like this. going to visit apartments and offices to buy, having a drink with buddies, driving on the highway for most of the time.. .
I've never looked at it like one is better than the other they are so seamless in the storytelling that I just think it's one huge show including El Camino
As great as this series is and as good as the creators are I find one unfathomable plot hole that really sticks in my craw. All the precautions taken to keep the super lab a secret then Gus introduces himself as "Gus Fring" when meeting the German engineers. I cannot believe no one in the writers room stopped this travesty. It needs to be edited out in reruns, any airings or digital releases.
I get where you’re coming from and that is an entirely reasonable and logical point to raise, however, the German engineers were being supervised 24/7 by Gus’s own people and had no ability to communicate with the outside world, so I sincerely doubt Gus would have any reason to believe that revealing his name would be of issue because there’s just no chance of that information being leaked.
18:21 Mike wasn’t there to protect Saul as a friend. He was gonna shoot Lalo if Saul cracked and decided to tell the truth. Accurate summary otherwise!!
@@pkboolean maybe at this time in the show but i don’t think mike considers saul a friend moreso someone who needs help and is willing to pay for it as needed
I have never seen Breaking Bad, but there's this potent... something about this Better Call Saul series that has me very intrigued. It appears to be all quality, and made with love and skill. I may just have to check out the adventures of Slippin Jimmy.
Daaaaaaamn. Better Call Saul would have had SUCH a bigger impact on you for some parts if you'd seen BB first. In the first episode, when Tuco showed up, I almost lost my shit.
It's cool Jimmy got Kim exonerated, but I kinda wish he would've taken the 7 years and let her take her share in it. I'm still pretty torn that she left him to begin with.
@@myllamaMan Rewatch it, and watch her hands extremely closely at the end. She gives him one very subtly, probably to not have the guards harass her for doing it. I only noticed the second time I watched it
@@Fallen2811 Peter Gould specifically said that they thought about having Kim give the finger guns back, but decided against it because they didn’t want the audience to think that she was going back to scamming.
Also, Jimmy didn’t get Kim exonerated. It’s kinda hard to follow, but Peter said that when Jimmy found out that Kim had confessed, he lied to prosecutors and said she was more involved in Howard’s death, because he wanted her to show up at his sentencing hearing. At the hearing, he recanted his lies about her involvement. But he couldn’t do anything about her confession, or make it less likely that Cheryl Hamlin would sue her.
thank you so much vince gilligan and the amazing team behind of better call saul February 8, 2015 -; August 15, 2022 breaking bad January 20, 2008 -; September 29, 2013 el camino breaking bad movie 2019 thank you so much
Vince did a spectacular job at making me feel that way towards Howard. It still bothers me that Lalo did what he did, and even worse that they were buried together.
Not sure if anyone noticed. But Florida Kim never makes a definitive decision when asked by her friends over even the most mundane of questions always, could be, maybe etc. It's because she fears giving a definitive answer that may cause someone pain in someway.
Awesome thank you for doing this. I don’t have time to watch these types of shows anymore but I was always curious of how the storyline would go. Great job.
Got to give to the creators to make two amazing shows while also world building. Plus, they made a well-made movie, El Camino, that wrapped up all three characters.
damn and how lucky I am to be watching breaking bad and better call Saul this July 2024, 15 years after it originally started. and I have every piece of the puzzle and can watch it at any order I want.
To me they are one big anthology series! A prequel and a sequel that is more about lifestyle, choice, and the human psyche, than it is about individuals!
WOW! It's been a privilege knowing the life of Jimmy, it's been an absolute honour. The near death encounters, the association with the many of his clients he defended as a lawyer, most notably Walter White and co. What really resonated with me about Jimmy, is how despite constantly being stood on by the 'naysayers,' and certain characters feeling the need to respond to him with uncivilised manners, Jimmy always stood his ground and always responded with his humorous charasmatics personality. He always tried to remain positive and see the plus, no matter the situation. Whenever they knocked him down Jimmy always got back up and went again. After the end of this series and Jimmy moving on, changing his identity and leading a new life, makes me feel very emotional. It's been such a roller coaster experience and simply amazing to be part of my life experience.
Howard Hamlin is truly a story that makes ya think. How many people in history have we just hard “oh they were drug addicts they were this and that” and in reality it was some ridiculous scheme like this? I mean obviously it’s not an insanely common thing but it’s definitely happened
I think jimmy was the perfect lawyer. He played semantic games, whispered in peoples ears, told half truths, and got his clients out of trouble legally. Though with his past people around him like chuck believed jimmy could never change and he would always eventually cheat and hurt people. This then made jimmy prove them right by giving up trying to be the good guy and went full con man lawyer.
I love these writers. If this series had been written by The Game of Thrones' clowns they would have killed off Kim in season 6. Vince Gilligan's brilliance shows what true masterful writing is all about.
quick correction: Mike's incentive to try and kill hector salemanca wasn't the driver being killed (according to the episode. we aren't told that the driver is killed as it is before nacho goes to interogate/question him) The reason why mike goes to kill hector is because a 'good Samaritan' aka a citizen who was just passing by saw that the driver was hogtied and went to help after which the driver called hector and then hector at some point afterwards killed the civilian aka the good Samaritan. This was told to us via the scene with nacho and mike when nacho goes to ask mike whether he was involved in the drug bust. Sorry I just wanted to share the detail :)
I feel like Better Call Saul was centered around “white collar crime” but still had the same intensity as Breaking Bad which was crime on an international scale. Nacho breaking into the drug house to retrieve the drugs had the same amount of suspense as the train scene from breaking bad for me.
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You gotta give it to Jimmy that he's a good lawyer, he managed to get his own sentence from 86 years to 7 years
fucking crazy tho
It’s even MORE than that though, which is insane. Jimmy/Saul/Gene was facing a life sentence and 180/190 (I can’t remember the exact number) years for all of his crimes! But he knew the prosecution’s biggest fear - his charm being able to convince at least one juror, causing the jury to become deadlocked and causing a mistrial. The prosecution didn’t want this to happen, because they wanted to put this awful criminal away for all of his crimes, so they were willing to take a deal. It’s honestly incredible, thinking about what Chuck felt about Jimmy - “you’re not a real lawyer”. At the end of the day, Jimmy was able to do something that Chuck never could - negotiating a life sentence + 190 years down to 7.5 years.
Jimmy truly was one of the best lawyers to be seen, even if he got his degree from some “University of American Samoa”.
This show is literally incredible!
But there he was, he goes ”bla bla bla”…
He reduced it from 1 lifetime + 190 years to 7.5 years. Then was given 86 years for confessing it all at the end.
the whole Albuquerque legal system treated Jimmy like a joke, but he runs circles around all of them.
Alternate ending, Kim smokes so much that she develops lung cancer, then must cook meth to pay for medical bills. She becomes Heisenberg 2.
I feel like we got a near perfect trilogy. The prologue as better call Saul, breaking bad as the main story and el Camino the epilogue. We got all the ends for all the characters
@Sup bro Michael R What? You probably prefer Prison Break lol
Bro, you forgot about the absolute perfect prologue of the prologue: Slippin’ Jimmy
Should I rewatch el Camino
mike did have a fair ending, should've let him skip country like jesse damn shame he got shot in vain
@Christopher D Marie is covered in the BCS final episode and Skyler and Walter Jr. in BrBa
Howard's death seriously shook me to my core. That scene gave me more chills than any horror movie I have ever watched.
I couldn't agree more. The fact that they made it in such a dry way with no crazy sound in the background or with no build up at all makes it horrendously great. You are just left there feeling kind of bad for Howard, having to deal with his stained image and with his depression, and you have no idea that the suffering of that man is just about to end, perhaps good for him but definitely terrifying for the spectator. Such a great scene though, directed with the perfection of the whole series and of Breaking Bad.
mfw youtube recommendation and thumbnails spoils howards death
i remember jumping out of my chair in shock lol
@@Leyy46 i had already seen memes eluding to howards death so I knew he was going to die, but it still seriously knocked the wind out of me
My boyfriend and I both screeched and stood up. We have watched movies and shows together for 10 years and neither of us have EVER had that kind of reaction. Gut hit for sure!
The only color in Gene’s timeline was the ember of the last cigarette he and Kim share.
I think the reflection of Sauls website in Genes glasses was colour too.
@@boing615 I missed that one! Good catch!
@@A_Person5280 It's actually pretty interesting why they did this. Gene's life is viewed through a gray filter, yet Saul (or his "golden days") have hue and color which is a fantastic detail by the directors.
@@alexicaron8060 His whole life before Gene had color. He chose to add even more color when he became Saul, and He gave up color to become Gene so he could get away from his consequences. But coming clean and getting back Kims respect brought him a spark of true color in a colorless world he created to hide himself. A very fitting end, just like Walt’s end fit him. Most importantly they both chose their endings
My favorite part of the whole series was the Huell Babineaux letter-writing scam.
That part was hilarious
"Are you prosecuting Santa Claus"
my personal favorite is jimmys phase of copying other lawyers looks, showing up looking like matlock
We're gonna bring the whole congregation up to you all in Albuquerque
@@tenja42 lmao. They were gonna bus
Great recap.
I remember when they announced there would be a spinoff to Breaking bad.
I said to myself. Whatever they come up with, can't live up to BB.
Boy was I wrong.
And this is what Game of Thrones could have been. But the ending was soo bad that the whole franchise is gone, including the spinoffs
@@saurabhkumarsingh3986 let it go homie
I thought BCS was unwatchable. I could only watch 2 seasons and gave up. I will try to watch again, but . . .
Ummm idk, it seems very slow and boring. This recap was 10000 times better and saved me hours and hours
@@phoodpharmer well it really depends on what kind of thing entertains you in terms of tv shows. If you like BANG BANG BLAST WOAAAAH moments, BCS is not for you. However, if you appreciated the construction of character that occurs in BB and overall enjoy watching characters grow into something else, BCS will be the best thing you'll ever watch. I'm on the team of people who praise BCS more than BB because it's more polished overall and got me more entertainmed and less bored. But it reaaaally depends on your particular taste. BCS is about HOW things happen, not WHAT things happen. And the how is absolute gold.
I like to imagine that, while in prison, Jimmy writes a tell-all book about working with Walter white. Finally clearing up any left over mysteries and missing persons the public should know.
I cried by the end, such a fantastic show. A slow burn for sure but every moment mattered
You got one significant point wrong: Jesse doesn’t ask Kim whether Saul is “a good lawyer,” he asks her if “he’s *good.*” So her answer-“he was when I knew him” - has multiple layers of meaning.
I like that he got a series and we got to see his story. In BB he was treated like an annoying side character and made him seem like he did nothing when in reality he was doing his most to keep Walt and Jesse rich and out of jail
Didn't think of him as a annoying character in BB
@@heisenberg8492 neither did I but Walt and Jesse always seemed annoyed with him
I do not think I will ever recover emotionally from Howard’s death.
And Werner
Nacho. i try not to get caught up in the moment, and never do, except i said out loud 'Nacho .... noooo'. Ruined my whole day, i felt like looking for the obit so i could go to the funeral.
Greatest legal mind I ever knew.
@@mrsponkman two great legal minds.
One got BBQq and the other got splattered all over the wall and floor
@@moreygloss9248 I cried when Nacho died. I've never cried over a show or movie. I was rooting for him to escape the cartel with his father...so sad.
Recap & Chill worked your ass off to provide clips that match each segment you discuss!! Not easy and unlike most reviews. Thanks!
One thing I see a lot of people say that I cant help but disagree with is that he absolves kim of her involvement in Howards death. My interpretation was that he hears she confesses and then realizes what he has to do, so he tells the government she was more involved in the death than reality so it compels her to come to the court room, then he says what he told them was just bullshit to get her there but everything she confessed to still exists. She is still open to a civil suit and she still gave her confession of being involved and she without a doubt had a hand in it. Jimmy just acknowledged that she left and tried to better herself and that he couldnt.
I took it as him unburdening himself/setting himself free and simultaneously taking away part of Kim's emotional burden and showing her that Jimmy was still in there, since there was absolutely no sign of him the last time she saw him. We've seen her face the consequences of his actions before while he got away unscathed, like when she was punished for losing the Kettlemens or when she ended up in dock review because of what he did with the commercial at Davis & Main.
I think u r right. Kim can still have the snot sued out of her. They Both told the truth and will pay for their crimes. Still sad I wanted to see them get their happy ever after. In a ironic way they did.
Enjoyed Carol Burneett showing up in Season 6, also the excellent character work by Kevin Sussman as the sympathetic scam victim.
I understand Carol knew of Vince's previous work and so watched and liked this show. She approached Vince for a role & they discussed possibilities. I'm glad she was in it.
lol SUSsman 🤣
People have forgotten what a fantastic character actor that Carol Burnett is.
You know how good this show is? I'd already seen every episode and went through the emotions of the finale. Yet, listening to this recap, I felt all of the same tense emotions that I felt when watching the series. THAT is how good this show is.
this show easily became my favorite of all time. on the surface it’s a slow burn drama with little action and focuses more on the character development rather than heavy plot lines. it’s beautiful and imo surpasses it’s predecessor. Vince and Peter clearly took all they learned and perfected it. i think this show only has one meh episode. and out of 6 seasons and 50+ episodes it’s extremely impressive and a work that will be remembered.
It has plenty of meh episodes in season 1 2,and 4 imo
@@PolishGod1234 interesting, i actually thought it was very well paced in all of it until Epsiode 10 of season 6
A recap of the entire trilogy in one video would be AWESOME!
what trilogy? theres only 2 shows. unless u mean el camino
@@admiralaokiji7889 yes with the movie together
@@admiralaokiji7889 Slippin' Jimmy
This show has really impressed me with how intricate the storytelling is.
I feel like Lalo best expresses Saul's talents of persuasion, taking note of how much Saul has punched above his weight, in terms of "landing" Kim as his wife... 😆
Jimmy went to the insurance company to try and get a refund on his malpractice insurance. The employee there brought up Chuck McGill and that's what gave Jimmy the idea to say something about Chuck's mental capacity at that time. Jimmy did not go to the insurance company to snitch on Chuck. He got the idea after he was already there when the employee was searching for the policy and found Chuck's name before Jimmy's.
It brings it full circle in that Jimmy and Kim used to share a cigarette on their breaks while working at HHM as junior employees.
Mike was my favorite character from both shows specially better call Saul so sad he died
When Kim went back to Albuquerque in Season 6 and the ticket machine was automated without Mike, that was sad. Rip Finger
Jimmy doesn't absolve Kim! So many people seem to get this wrong. She confessed, she's still under threat of a civil suit. "You don't save me, I save me!". Jimmy's sentence *might* persuade Cheryl to feel justice is done, but it might not. The point was that Kim confessing gave Jimmy the courage to do the same, knowing that doing so he would regain Kim's respect/love. Ultimately, he did it to save himself.
You’re one of the only people who gets this point right!
not believable jimmy takes the 86 years over 7. as someone else said even the pope would have taken the 7 years
Right! Plus he even said himself he lied just to get Kim in the courtroom so she could witness his confession. Had nothing to do with absolving Kim’s involvement with Howard’s murder
Jimmy was one of the sharpest minds in the series. For him to throw his life away for such a childish immature reason ruins the character. I was really disappointed in the ending.
i was already spoiled of howards death right before i got to season 2, but the buildup to his death still had me in so much shock and awe, i almost teared up
just found ur channel. better than other film/series reviewers on this platform. thanks for what u do.
better call saul and breaking bad are peak American prime time television shows and we got the opportunity to watch them in our lifetimes every week on Monday night. Im gonna miss watching new episodes and being shellshocked by the twists and turns Vince and Peter wrote for us and the immensely talented actors who portrayed each character.
Does anybody think that Jimi may regret his decision to not do the seven years at any point in his 86 year long sentence?
He did that so that at least one person, Kim, would respect him.
He would rather live 86 years as jimmy McGill than 7 years as Saul goodman
@@cammongo3525 That doesn’t even make any sense that Jimmy McGill was some honest good dude. Jimmy McGill was a shyster, pulled cons, cut corners, sabotaged Chucks paperwork, ruined Howard’s reputation, he admitted to driving his brother to suicide. The writers are coming down with dementia …do you see how old that Gould guy is?
@@maynardbecker4613 huh? What you on about?
@@cammongo3525 well said
The ABSOLUTE BEST RECAP of all the BCS and I have watched MANY of them .since last night this one is Simply the best!!
Thank You!!
Thanks. It's nice to have the whole thing in one place
Thank you man. I didn't want to waste hours of my life watching the first4 seasons a gain
Finally One who recapped season 6 with rest of show in 1 vid
he just edited his old 5 videos and added the 6th video at the end
@@uncannyroaches5933 ik but at that point there weren't many videos that covered the full show, don't dig up comments from a year ago
@@CountCrimsonStrider my bad buddy every comment I see it 1 year old.
never mind. i was just stating the obvious for any third person to realise and not waste his time watching 2 duplicate videos which are the exact same.
no offence to you buddy. peace out✌️
@@uncannyroaches5933 oh ok, sorry for the misunderstanding mate
Great work. It made for a smooth retelling to move much of the later scenes around into chronological order.
the main thing that sets breaking bad and better call saul apart from most TV series, is unlike most shows, everything has consequences. yeah other shows may have bad things happen to the main characters, but it ends up well eventually, whereas with those shows, Everything, Has, consequences.
Everyone feels sorry for chuck after the ending of show and i just don't get it, this video just reaffirms how awful chuck was. If he was a little supportive of Jimmy, he couldve been a really good and relatively harmless Elder Law specialist. Instead, chucks constant disapproval and undermining of Jimmy started the slipper slope that became BCS and BB
This video doesn't at all get into the flashback scenes that set up the fact that Jimmy was, at least partially, responsible for their father's shop going out of business, something that led to his death. Remember that Chuck doesn't just accuse Jimmy of stealing from the register- he actually did it, and we have no reason to believe just once.
That's not to say that Jimmy was morally culpable at that point- he was a child, still developing his own sense of right and wrong. But Jimmy pretty consistently worked as a petty criminal UNTIL he became a lawyer. Was Chuck right to continue holding a grudge? Obviously not. But Chuck wasn't simply and wholly awful. He acted awfully to his brother, but there's real emotional pain and setup for the why. And it's not as if Jimmy was good to him, either- not all the time.
Because let's not forget- Jimmy looked after Chuck, yes, but Chuck, before that point, had also been looking after Jimmy for years by representing him when he got into trouble. Family is complicated. Their relationship was broken beyond repair.
Because he was, as Kim put it, a sick man who was consumed by envy and resentment over his charismatic brother.
Even though Chucks last words with Jimmy were absolutely awful, you just know he sabotaged himself by breaking the only meaningful relationship he had left.
Chuck was not a good brother, but damn did I felt every emotion in a single character.
Watched the lost recap now Saul good job sir earned a sub. I look forward to more
ending was sad.. everybody keeps saying it was bittersweet or it was "the good" ending, but fact of the matter is saul will be in prison for the rest of his life, that in itself makes the ending very sorrowful. A sorrowful goodbye from our comedic relief.
So is it just me ? It's not the end. and I expect a finally movie to come.
Why do I say this, because Saul & Mr White are in a basement somewhere with bags packed ready to flee dressed in prison greens. So they escaped....
@@mrspikiespike4807 youve seen breaking bad right?
@@kunknown2340 Not since it first came out 9 years ago.
@@mrspikiespike4807 For the sake of a last ditch epilogue hypothetical: What if Jesse teams up with Kim to publish a recording of his witness of the killing of hank & steve to the court, thus proving that was not on Jimmy even indirectly (that is, if many years of his sentence is solely because of the murder of Steven & Hank) Maybe Jimmy then could get a reasonable time reduced to his sentence, combined with good behaviour, and then live out approx. a decade left of his life with Kim.
@@per-torereiniurfjell5424 So I might of got my wires crossed a bit there...i'll have to go back and re watch BB now lol.
I'll still put money on the fridge that there will be a future movie just like they did with Jesse.
Im not sure alot of people know but two episodes were directed seperately by cast members of BCS who played Kim and Gus. In season 6 episode 4 Hit and Run by Seehorn and episode 6 Axe and Grind by Esposito.
Esposito looks and talks like my school principal. he is scary. imagining him as a director will be crazy
Wow, what a great and well done recap! I'm hoping that there will be another spin-off that features Saul as a felon lawyer giving advice to innocent inmates.
Saul was GOAT criminal defense lawyer. If you are in trouble YOU BETTER CALL SAUL
AMAZING work! Look forward to saving time by watching more of your recaps. Thanks
I'm a simple man, my favorite moments in BCS, were, Mike doing cross word puzzles, Gus sweeping up, at "Los Pollos Hermanos, " and Chuck doing research, and writing.
mine were similar stuff like this. going to visit apartments and offices to buy, having a drink with buddies, driving on the highway for most of the time..
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That’s Saul folks
I've never looked at it like one is better than the other they are so seamless in the storytelling that I just think it's one huge show including El Camino
Hell of a ride from Breaking Bad to Better Call Saul
As great as this series is and as good as the creators are I find one unfathomable plot hole that really sticks in my craw. All the precautions taken to keep the super lab a secret then Gus introduces himself as "Gus Fring" when meeting the German engineers. I cannot believe no one in the writers room stopped this travesty. It needs to be edited out in reruns, any airings or digital releases.
I've seen speculation that Gus did that purposefully so he had a good reason to give to Mike if Werner ever needed to be eliminated.
I get where you’re coming from and that is an entirely reasonable and logical point to raise, however, the German engineers were being supervised 24/7 by Gus’s own people and had no ability to communicate with the outside world, so I sincerely doubt Gus would have any reason to believe that revealing his name would be of issue because there’s just no chance of that information being leaked.
@@XpwnxageGreat point as well.
Meanwhile, Jimmy's cell phone --- "300 missed calls" from Jeffie
18:21 Mike wasn’t there to protect Saul as a friend. He was gonna shoot Lalo if Saul cracked and decided to tell the truth. Accurate summary otherwise!!
eh i mean the only way he would crack is lalo threatening to kill him
@@elijahhodges5770 again, mike wasn’t doing it to be his friend, he was doing it to protect the secrecy of the lab construction
@@Shrreder why can’t it be both?
@@pkboolean maybe at this time in the show but i don’t think mike considers saul a friend moreso someone who needs help and is willing to pay for it as needed
“A pickpocket named Huell”
Show some respect! That’s THE pickpocket named Huell
better fuel huell
Walt died
Jimmy went to prison
Jesse got away
All possible outcomes to the lives they were leaving were touched on. Incredible show/universe.
I have never seen Breaking Bad, but there's this potent... something about this Better Call Saul series that has me very intrigued. It appears to be all quality, and made with love and skill.
I may just have to check out the adventures of Slippin Jimmy.
Daaaaaaamn. Better Call Saul would have had SUCH a bigger impact on you for some parts if you'd seen BB first. In the first episode, when Tuco showed up, I almost lost my shit.
It's cool Jimmy got Kim exonerated, but I kinda wish he would've taken the 7 years and let her take her share in it. I'm still pretty torn that she left him to begin with.
Simpin' Jimmy at it again
And the fact she didn’t even give him the finger guns back at the end was terrible imo
@@myllamaMan Rewatch it, and watch her hands extremely closely at the end. She gives him one very subtly, probably to not have the guards harass her for doing it.
I only noticed the second time I watched it
@@Fallen2811 Peter Gould specifically said that they thought about having Kim give the finger guns back, but decided against it because they didn’t want the audience to think that she was going back to scamming.
Also, Jimmy didn’t get Kim exonerated. It’s kinda hard to follow, but Peter said that when Jimmy found out that Kim had confessed, he lied to prosecutors and said she was more involved in Howard’s death, because he wanted her to show up at his sentencing hearing. At the hearing, he recanted his lies about her involvement. But he couldn’t do anything about her confession, or make it less likely that Cheryl Hamlin would sue her.
I love you. This was freaking great!!
7:06 - it was actually Kim who advised Jimmy to cover his trails, just when he was about to fall asleep and only then he rushed to the copyshop.
thank you so much vince gilligan and the amazing team behind of
better call saul February 8, 2015 -; August 15, 2022
breaking bad January 20, 2008 -; September 29, 2013
el camino breaking bad movie 2019
thank you so much
bitter sweet, thanx for the recap
I feel so stupid right now I spent a whole month finishing this and this guy recaps it less than one episode
you are not alone buddy😔👆
What a bittersweet ending
The power of story telling 💕
you saved me a lot of time!!
remember, call saul goodman if you're guilty, call anyone else if you are
and call she-hulk if you want to experience prison anyways
Vince did a spectacular job at making me feel that way towards Howard. It still bothers me that Lalo did what he did, and even worse that they were buried together.
Incredible recap
What a great recap and great series!
Not sure if anyone noticed. But Florida Kim never makes a definitive decision when asked by her friends over even the most mundane of questions always, could be, maybe etc. It's because she fears giving a definitive answer that may cause someone pain in someway.
Awesome thank you for doing this. I don’t have time to watch these types of shows anymore but I was always curious of how the storyline would go. Great job.
I can't tell you how valuable this video was. thanks alot
Masterpiece keep up the good work
86 YEARS!!!
I like how when you talk about mike protecting Jimmy from lalo, he is protecting his friend also, "Hi my name is Gustavo but you can call me sus"
Mike, jimmy, all of these characters were fantastic!
Slippin jimmy,. Lol those small skits about jimmy coming up were always the best lol
Got to give to the creators to make two amazing shows while also world building. Plus, they made a well-made movie, El Camino, that wrapped up all three characters.
Thanks man I finished watching season 4 years ago and completely forgot about it and now that season 6 is finally out I can catch up
March 2020 til March 2022 was a long wait
damn and how lucky I am to be watching breaking bad and better call Saul this July 2024, 15 years after it originally started. and I have every piece of the puzzle and can watch it at any order I want.
Mike didn’t tell the DA or whoever the gun was his - he just said it wasn’t Tuco’s
To me they are one big anthology series! A prequel and a sequel that is more about lifestyle, choice, and the human psyche, than it is about individuals!
thx for this
Jimmy stands for unrealized hope and promise
Im sad now because I have no series to look forward.
Well done putting this out so effing quick! It doesn’t go unnoticed :)
WOW!
It's been a privilege knowing the life of Jimmy, it's been an absolute honour.
The near death encounters, the association with the many of his clients he defended as a lawyer, most notably Walter White and co.
What really resonated with me about Jimmy, is how despite constantly being stood on by the 'naysayers,' and certain characters feeling the need to respond to him with uncivilised manners, Jimmy always stood his ground and always responded with his humorous charasmatics personality. He always tried to remain positive and see the plus, no matter the situation. Whenever they knocked him down Jimmy always got back up and went again.
After the end of this series and Jimmy moving on, changing his identity and leading a new life, makes me feel very emotional.
It's been such a roller coaster experience and simply amazing to be part of my life experience.
13:00 "Nacho replaces Hector's heart medicine with empty capsules." ABSOLUTELY WRONG. Nacho loads up empty capsules with ibuprofen!
Great recap!
excellent recap
I love the relationship between these Hispanic criminals and their elders it’s so sweet it shows how they can genuinely care for another human being
Breaking Bad ending - Revenge
Better Call Saul ending - Redemption
The best part was when saul goodman said "its lawyering time"
Howard Hamlin is truly a story that makes ya think. How many people in history have we just hard “oh they were drug addicts they were this and that” and in reality it was some ridiculous scheme like this? I mean obviously it’s not an insanely common thing but it’s definitely happened
Better Rim Kim needs to be made now
Thank you!
Wat a ending.. Legend
Literally all started with the skateboard scam XD
One of the best showes ever
I think jimmy was the perfect lawyer. He played semantic games, whispered in peoples ears, told half truths, and got his clients out of trouble legally. Though with his past people around him like chuck believed jimmy could never change and he would always eventually cheat and hurt people. This then made jimmy prove them right by giving up trying to be the good guy and went full con man lawyer.
I love these writers. If this series had been written by The Game of Thrones' clowns they would have killed off Kim in season 6. Vince Gilligan's brilliance shows what true masterful writing is all about.
Great effort man!
quick correction:
Mike's incentive to try and kill hector salemanca wasn't the driver being killed (according to the episode. we aren't told that the driver is killed as it is before nacho goes to interogate/question him)
The reason why mike goes to kill hector is because a 'good Samaritan' aka a citizen who was just passing by saw that the driver was hogtied and went to help after which the driver called hector and then hector at some point afterwards killed the civilian aka the good Samaritan. This was told to us via the scene with nacho and mike when nacho goes to ask mike whether he was involved in the drug bust.
Sorry I just wanted to share the detail :)
Great Commentary!👍👍
I feel like Better Call Saul was centered around “white collar crime” but still had the same intensity as Breaking Bad which was crime on an international scale. Nacho breaking into the drug house to retrieve the drugs had the same amount of suspense as the train scene from breaking bad for me.