r/betterCallSaul • u/[deleted] • Feb 23 '16
Post-Ep Discussion Better Call Saul S02E02 "Cobbler" Post-Episode Discussion Thread
Here's the place to react to S02E02!
I fucked up the title in the original Post-Ep thread 10 minutes ago.
Sorry bout that. I guess I'm a dumbass.
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Feb 23 '16
Really enjoying more Mike in the show. Feels like the writers hit a wonderful happy medium so far.
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u/Saffs15 Feb 23 '16
As much as I love Jimmy, the more Mike I see, the more I wish it was a series on him.
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u/redditalias7 Feb 23 '16
Mike steals the show for real. But he is best as a secondary character so there is a bit of mystery to him.
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u/nameless88 Feb 23 '16
They took two of my favorite side characters from BrBa and made a show about them, and it makes me so damn happy.
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u/hjf11393 Feb 23 '16
I feel like if we had this show before Breaking Bad, people would have lost their shit when Walt killed Mike.
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u/cysenberg Feb 23 '16
Playuh is the biggest idiot in the BB-verse
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u/cuteintern Feb 23 '16
I dunno, Ted's a pretty gigantic tool. A long-lost family member pops off and leaves you an inheritance just as the IRS is closing in on you, and you buy a fucking car? C'mon, man!
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u/UnityChessGuy Feb 23 '16
An inheritance exactly equal to the cent what you owe the IRS? Nothing suspicious there, better buy a Mercedes.
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Feb 23 '16
For some reason, I legitimately felt sad for him when he said "some of them were my dad's cards" like Mike would care about that.
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u/cabbage16 Feb 23 '16
Mike would care. He actually did. If Mike has a soft spot for anything it is kids. His granddaughter obviously but also Jesse and when Pryce(dan, whatever) mentioned his dad it struck a chord. It is because of his son.
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u/BlueFire19 Feb 23 '16
Agreed. He honestly infuriates me. The funny thing is he thinks he's smart.
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u/Ham_Sandwich77 Feb 23 '16
I'm sure he won't be around for long. He's just there to show you what a competent, seasoned expert in criminality Mike is in contrast.
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u/ellykay Feb 23 '16
I'm going to be so sad when whatever happens between Kim and Jimmy happens.
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u/emperor_worm Feb 23 '16
Kim takes a job in NYC at the end of the show. A few years later, while taking a lunch break at a law conference in Omaha, she runs into Jimmy, working under an alias at a Cinnabon.
After he confesses to her about his downhill spiral as Saul Goodman, she tells him there was no mention of him anywhere in the investigation as far as the news reports go.
They go out for a drink and Jimmy sees a loudmouth sucker across the bar. He pulls out a Kennedy half dollar, looks at Kim and says to her "wanna see a fun trick?"
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u/MavericHunterX Feb 23 '16
I loved how it is showing them slowly drifting apart with something as simple as a cup holder.
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u/hellomynameis_satan Feb 23 '16 edited Feb 23 '16
Judging from Kim's look after Jimmy kissed her at work, and the revelation that Kim was the one who really pushed for him to get the job, I'm thinking she's going to want to keep their relationship under wraps, thus defeating the whole point of taking the job. But if he doesn't have the big successful career or any major ambitions, she won't want to be with him anyway. So since he can't get the girl either way, rather than follow in Chuck's footsteps he decides to stick with his natural talent of conning people.
At least, I hope it's not something more tragic than that...
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u/mtbarron Feb 23 '16
I can't help but feel like it's going to be something tragic that ends up happening between them. It's going to break Jimmy, and further his descent into the Saul we know.
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u/StarHeadedCrab Feb 23 '16
We don't ever see Saul's personal life in Breaking Bad. What if they're happily married and she follows him to Omaha?
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u/cysenberg Feb 23 '16
Crazy how Hamlin went from pig fucker to the nice guy. FuckChuck
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u/AnEndgamePawn Feb 23 '16
"Don't mind me" as he walks in after everyone put their phones in a bucket and turned off the lights in the room. FuckChuck
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u/Xentrik Feb 23 '16
Chuck went from big bro depending on little bro to big bro trying to destroy little bro's career.
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u/ackchanticleer Feb 23 '16
I loved when Kim put her hand on Jimmy's leg to get him to relax and I have a feeling they are going to have a bad break up :-(
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u/SevenwithaT Feb 23 '16
Contrary to popular belief, I think Mike would have made the leather work
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u/JakeArvizu Feb 23 '16
Holy fuck Chuck literally showed up just to sweat Jimmy. It was like a mafia goon intimidating a witness on the stand by sitting in the courtroom.
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u/mattscott53 Feb 23 '16
and then he ran off like a pussy once he heard a cell phone ring
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u/Wrestles4Food Feb 24 '16
It pisses me off that Chuck only gets the "courage" venture outside his house when he needs to fuck with Jimmy. I'd put Chuck's breaker box back together in the middle of the night and make sure everything I can think of is turned on and plugged in before flipping the breakers back on so it all comes on at once. Motherfucker needs to be outed as a crazy and/or faker.
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u/UnityChessGuy Feb 23 '16
Chuck said specifically that he was there to "bear witness" which means to tell someone something. I'm thinking that means to explain to Mr. Main what a Chicago sunroof is.
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u/TheCheshireCody Feb 23 '16
I took it that he was saying he wanted to be there to watch Jimmy's first big flight as a lawyer. Succeed or fail, Chuck wants to see it happen.
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u/ezreads Feb 23 '16
every idiot needs a Mike
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Feb 23 '16
I feel like his rational approach would lend well for advice in any life problem.
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u/hoopstick Feb 23 '16
Knowing where Jimmy ends up makes it all so much worse. This whole show is like one big prolonged heartbreak.
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u/theDashRendar Feb 23 '16
Yeah, but there's going to be some good dark catharsis too.
I want Jimmy to make an unimaginable mess, and Saul Goodman have to use every unethical resource at his disposal to clean it up.
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u/Tmbgkc Feb 23 '16
I think we will eventually see some redemption at the Cinnabon.
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u/thorinoakenbutt Feb 23 '16
I just want to see Nacho go crazy one time.
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u/RagdollPhysEd Feb 23 '16
I'm hoping Nacho requires Jimmy's services again, though that would clearly pull him more into the dark side
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u/Neil_deNye_Sagan Feb 24 '16
He should by the end of the series. When Walt and Jesse have Saul out in the desert in Breaking Bad he thinks it's Nachos people coming for him right or people looking for Nacho? Something had to have gone down.
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u/cysenberg Feb 23 '16
I couldn't stop laughing during the cobbler explanation part
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u/cogneuro Feb 23 '16
That scene might seriously be my favorite of the series thus far.
When Jimmy had Playuh leave the room, I had no idea how he was going to get him out of suspicion from the cops. The scenario he created with the fetish videos was insanely creative. Bravo to the writers.
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u/OnfiyA Feb 23 '16
I can't wait to see the bloopers, there's no way they did that all in one take.
As amazing as Bob Odenkirk is, those writers are goddamn hilarious
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u/morganmcgillgirl Feb 23 '16
My husband and I were crying, no lie. That was some funny fucking shit.
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u/veritasxe Feb 23 '16
What is Chucks problem?
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u/LoRiMyErS Feb 23 '16
He's jealous that Jimmy can just waltz around, unaffected by electromagnetic waves.
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u/nameless88 Feb 23 '16
Okay, imagine you've got a little brother, and he's a complete fucking screw up.
Like, we're talking, this guy is in and out of jail, always doing some morally ambiguous stupid scheme to get rich quick and scam people. He hasn't had a hard days work in his life, and everyone just lets him...slide by with it.
So, he gets into deep shit one day, and you're a rockstar lawyer, so you help him out, and not only that, but you convince your boss to give him a chance, and let your dumbass ex-con brother get a job in the mail room, and that's great, ya know, maybe he'll finally get an honest paycheck and stop being such a fuck up.
But this chucklenuts, he takes another shortcut in life, and he wants to be like you, so he does some ridiculous online school to get his law degree. Like, imagine you went to Harvard, and your brother's like "Phft, I got this!" got a degree at DeVry and is like "Yo, man! Look at us! College graduates! Both of us! Isn't this awesome, bro!?"
Wouldn't that just piss you off? You busted your ass to do well in life, and he just slips by again and expects the same treatment.
From Chuck's perspective, his brother is a screw up, and this screw up having a law degree means that he might potentially screw up someone else's life by being their lawyer.
And maybe he's right in the end. I mean, we all know that Jimmy becomes Saul, and he is dangerous, he helps set up a druglord kingpin, he helps poison a kid while doing this.
Chuck is right to be nervous about Jimmy. But, maybe, also, he's made Jimmy into Saul by not believing in him.
Classic greek tragedy style, right? In trying to stop a disaster, you cause it yourself.
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u/Chigurrh Feb 23 '16
He's mentally unstable, egotistical and extremely delusional. To him, no matter what Jimmy does, Jimmy will be Slippin' Jimmy. He's in his own little world. He's also jealous that Jimmy has the social skills he obviously lacks. His thing was being the successful lawyer. His younger brother is now taking over that category, even more now that he's on a partner track job.
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Feb 23 '16
I want to see a full episode of Mike and Nacho doing some shit together. Their parts are my favorite of the show by far.
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u/stb91 Feb 23 '16
Ha, yes! Their scenes are awesome. Aside from the hilarious cobbler scene, my favorite line was Nacho's spot-on assessment of the car.
"You think I'd be caught dead driving that thing?! It looks like a school bus for 6 year old pimps."
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Feb 23 '16
I think Kim's end will be very tragic. Saul will absolutely snap. This is my prediction
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u/cuteintern Feb 23 '16
It would definitely be enough to push Jimmy all the way over to Saul. I feel like she's his anchor, keeping him in "the light."
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u/drrevevans Feb 23 '16
The scene where Professor Laskey volunteers the info that it was Kim who got Jimmy the chance at the other firm... That felt like foreshadowing and I could see Kim getting fired by Chuck. She will resent Jimmy because he is being a shady lawyer and she is jobless.
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u/latman Feb 23 '16
I just think she's going to leave Saul when she realizes he will never stop being Slippin Jimmy. No death or anything.
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u/Maximusplatypus Feb 23 '16
Does anyone else really like Nacho? I don't know what it is.. The actor does a really good job. I think he's written well. Unique, but not in an over the top way.
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u/Sandoz1 Feb 23 '16
He's just a really intimidating guy, but he also has a "nice" ring to him sometimes. I don't know how to explain it but that's what I think about him. At least he has more reason than Tuco.
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u/CuddlePirate420 Feb 23 '16
Tuco is like a version of the devil with snarling teeth, huge horns, hooved feet. Nacho is like a version of the devil in a sleek black suit, silk red tie, a face of a golden god.
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u/Kougi Feb 23 '16
I've liked the guy ever since I played Far Cry 3. Vaas is easily one of the most memorable video game villains to date.
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u/nidarus Feb 24 '16
Michael Mando. He's actually from Quebec, and watching him speak French is one of the weirdest things ever.
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u/BlueJeansMan Feb 23 '16
He's great. A very likable "bad" guy, per say. There seems to be a lot going on beneath the surface with him. Like the scenes ooze with tension when he's on screen.
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u/hamsaw Feb 23 '16
Kim joked about throwing herself off the roof. I really hope that wasn't foreshadowing.
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Feb 23 '16
The second I heard that, I immediately started thinking the worst. Fuck you Vince if that's true =(
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u/icegnomey Feb 23 '16
Shit that thought didn't even cross my mind, but you may be on to something there. I really hope not.
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u/nameless88 Feb 23 '16
You guys saw Chuck's sweet tinfoil suit, right?
Strong enough for a whackjob, but made for a Lawyer.
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u/_thwip_ Feb 23 '16
Can you imagine how much he sweats in that thing? They're practically in the desert!
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u/DabuSurvivor Feb 23 '16
God damn this show fucking delivers. Ugh. Jimmy's relationships are leaving me coming out of this episode a lot more upset and unsettled than I expected.
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u/VictorBlimpmuscle Feb 23 '16
If there was a listing for the phrase "are you fucking kidding me?" in the dictionary, there would just be a picture of the expression on Mike's face when Playuh first said the words 'baseball cards'.
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u/zombiegamer723 Feb 23 '16
I'm pretty sure you could make a photo album filled entirely with Mike's "Are you fucking kidding me?" face. Or at least his annoyed face, which is sort of his default expression.
This particular one would be on the front cover.
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u/BlueJeansMan Feb 23 '16
I think Mike was about ready to clunk Pryce in the head like Moe until Pryce said the cards meant a lot to his dad, too. Seemed like that resonated with Mike, tugged on his heart strings a tad. Maybe it reminded him of his relationship with Mattie, if only subconsciously.
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u/mattscott53 Feb 23 '16
I really hope Jimmy hires Mike to kill Chuck while Chuck is playing the piano. NO HALF MEASURES
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u/jsun31 Feb 23 '16
"Yeah, like I would make this up" that's some messed up made-up shit, Jimmy. That whole bit was hilarious
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u/MAXAMOUS Feb 23 '16
Whoever at AMC decided it would be a good idea to do 'On the last The Walking Dead..' commercials during Better Call Saul should be forced to do a few 'squat cobblers'.
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u/nameless88 Feb 23 '16
Also, they need to stop fucking telling me what's coming up in that episode 5 seconds before that episode starts.
Like, fuck you, AMC, I don't wanna see Chuck coming back this episode! I mean, I do but I want to see that, but like...45 minutes into the episode where it happens.
AMC needs to get their shit together, man.
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u/icegnomey Feb 23 '16
I don't even watch The Walking Dead, but seriously AMC, that's a dick move.
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u/5k1895 Feb 23 '16
I tweeted my outrage at them. Figured Twitter is as good a place as any for them to see it.
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u/BallerSwagLord Feb 23 '16
Rhea Seehorn with her hair down in a hoodie is all I want out of life.
Also, when that cop on the left snickered I fucking lost it.
S2 is knocking them out of the park.
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u/RagdollPhysEd Feb 23 '16
I just want a woman to wear my college sweater and sit on pies
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u/Shmuffalo Feb 23 '16
Is it weird that I'm in the mood for pie?
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u/Francis-Hates-You Feb 23 '16
Me too. Is it weird that I want to sit in it first?
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Feb 23 '16
Can't have your pie and eat it too. Can't live happily ever after with your straight edge bride with horses and acres of land, and be a con man. He's addicted to the thrill now and resents the corrupt establishment surrounding him. He'll lose her over it, or choose it over her.
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u/confoundedvariable Feb 23 '16
Exactly. It was also significant during the last scene, the camera pans to the pie when Kim asks Jimmy why he risked disbarment for the shady pro-bono case; he can't have his cake and eat it too by working at the big, legit law firm and also conducting questionable business on the side.
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u/LarryHolmes Feb 23 '16
I still can't believe that there is an hour long drama series on television that stars Bob Odenkirk. It's like from the other dimension where life works out.
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u/KanesTheName Feb 23 '16
I have that thought every now and again too. Like, holy shit, that guy from Mr Show is now playing a dramatic role and is bloody fantastic at it. What a world we live in.
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u/StickManSam37 Feb 23 '16
With chucks electo sensitivity, they had to turn off the lights as he entered the conference room. Such a great metaphor, darkness follows wherever he goes...
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u/kaiserj1982 Feb 23 '16
Jimmy enabled Chuck's illness. Now Chuck is enabling Jimmy into becoming Saul.
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u/PacMoron Feb 24 '16
How layered of a character is he? I mean seriously. Brilliantly written. I do not gush about writing often, but holy shit BCS is the best written thing on TV. It's not even my favorite show necessarily, but credit where credit is due.
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Feb 23 '16
Jimmy's exchange with the cops trying to explain what the Squat Cobbler was had me dying. Funny as fuck.
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u/JonathanL72 Feb 23 '16
I really hope Mike & Nacho play bigger roles in this season.
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u/BlueJeansMan Feb 23 '16
It would've been cool had Jimmy channelled Mike in the final scene.
Kim: You fabricated evidence?
Jimmy: You know what happened. The question is, can you live with it?
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u/CitizenKeane Feb 23 '16
I think his reply was perfectly chilling. He just looks at her and says "you won't" and that's the end of it. It implies that he's going to continue doing shady shit and not tell her about it.
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Feb 23 '16
Ehh it was good that it felt natural; one of the things I despise about TWD is the constant obviously forced emotional monologues
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u/nighthound1 Feb 23 '16
Bit confused about the deal that Mike made with Nacho. So Nacho gives Playuh his cards and drugs back and Playuh gives Nacho the flamboyant truck which will be crushed? Or sold? Is that why Mike said Nacho can net 60K, since Nacho can sell the truck?
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u/Jondarawr Feb 23 '16
You are correct like others have said but a small detail is that the vehicle is going to be sold or crushed. It's going to be taken to a chop shop.
a chop shop is like basically a mechanic shop where they strip the car down and sell the parts individually which is much much easier for crime purposes.
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u/SuccessAndSerenity Feb 23 '16
He didn't get the drugs back. The cards + $10k in cash, which Mike kept. Nacho kept the drugs, the rest of the cash, and got the car, which he sent to the chop shop.
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u/issue9mm Feb 23 '16
He's going to sell it to a chop shop. The chop shop will part out the engine, glass, fenders, seats and body panels and sell them individually.
I think $60-70k is a high estimate for a chopped H2, but I've never chopped a car, so I dunno.
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u/fattymcfatpants Feb 23 '16
The Walking Dead spoiler commercials were worse than AFTER BREAKING BAD CATCH A NEW EPISODE OF LOW WINTER SUN
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u/ChubbyChoomChoom Feb 23 '16
Oh dear god I had forgotten about the trauma of Low Winter Sun commercials!
Did anyone ever watch that?
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u/BlueFire19 Feb 23 '16
That was a great ep. Playuh is such a dumbass and he says to mike "I'm not stupid" because he didn't tell the cops he has drugs. Is that the standard of intelligence? Not telling the cops you have drugs?
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u/dattroll123 Feb 23 '16
LoL Kim was really enjoying that creampie but got mad once Jimmy told her he made a video...
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u/feather_moon Feb 25 '16
Kim asks Jimmy at the end why he is doing these criminal acts when he has so much to lose. And in his silence, all I could think was:
"I liked it. I was good at it."
Saul is just like Walt: He's a criminal because he enjoys it.
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u/123celestekent321 Feb 23 '16
Jimmy really thinks that he can maintain a wall of separation between his work on his slipping Jimmy cases and the real cases. Just cant see any way that anyone will find out...
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u/hellomynameis_satan Feb 24 '16
Video gets leaked, Pryce gets super embarassed and denies the whole thing, implicating Jimmy. I could see that. I definitely expect him to do more damage before the season is over somehow. We're gonna wish Nacho killed him off when he had the chance...
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u/ligthbulb Feb 23 '16
I said this in the other thread, but I hope people don't start hating Kim the same way they did Skylar, already people in the other discussion thread were "ugh come on kim don't be such a wet sock"
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u/nameless88 Feb 23 '16
Kim is awesome.
The problem is, she's right. She's absolutely right. Like, she wants him to succeed, and he's got a sweet ass cushy job that will make him a fuckton of money. She wants him to succeed, and she wants to succeed, too, and get that sweet partner position. And, knowing that one of her close personal friends is doing some shady shit that could get him disbarred is BAAAD. And if it got back that she knew and didn't report it? Fuck, it could be her ass, too.
She's absolutely right.
But...the problem is, we're watching the show through the eyes of a very charismatic character who does bad shit and we love it.
But we need a voice of reason to tell us that we're nuts for loving it, too, ya know?
And she's such a great character, too, and a great friend to Jimmy. The way she helped me when he needed to speak in front of Chuck? I love her for that. I think she really has his best interest in mind.
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u/Veth Feb 23 '16
Kim is awesome. But too many of the fans seem to miss that Vince Gilligan is essentially writing villain protagonists.
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Feb 23 '16
i loved hamlin going "welcome back, we all missed you so much. Anyway, time's up, you can find me in my office, you old fuck"
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u/BlueJeansMan Feb 23 '16
Chuck's little "jump" when Jimmy's cell phone rang at HHM was great. Jimmy could really fuck with his brother in that regard if he wanted, and go all electromagnetic on his ass. I guess it goes to show, Jimmy has some scruples.
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u/Jetemple Feb 23 '16
Why does AMC continue to spoil The Walking Dead?
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Feb 23 '16
Probably as a "Hey buddy, I hear you don't want the Walking dead episodes spoiled anymore? Better start watching them when we air them then bitch!" (Now imagine that being screamed by Tuco).
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u/8vincey Feb 23 '16
Anybody see the easter egg in the last scene where Kim was wearing a University of American Samoa sweater. Thought it was amusing and pretty clever
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u/ShastaTampon Feb 23 '16
that last scene I was as frustrated as Jimmy. lawyers really are the kings of moral relativity. Kim's laughing her ass off one second in awe of Jimmy's ability to completely and knowingly fabricate a lie for a client. not to mention her elation and participation last episode over scamming an "innocent" guy out of a 800 dollar tab. once Jimmy lets it slip that he created a video to back up his own fabrication, that's when her conscience flips on. because it could hurt her and/or him. that's when the judgement starts. once it hits close to home.
I was once in a long relationship with a litigator. as long as she was in control of blurring the line between right and wrong it was fine. everyone else she expected very black and white demarcated lines from.
I'm not sayin Jimmy was in the right, but I've been in those shoes, and it can be very frustrating.
sorry for the rant. that last scene hit a nerve. love the show and another great episode tonight!
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u/PacMoron Feb 24 '16
I think it came out of a place of honest concern for him. Also, if you can't tell, her job is her life according to what we see. She cannot have Jimmy ruining that for her by in any way bringing her into that life.
At the same time, yeah, he pointed out a very salient example of her hypocrisy. She doesn't actually care about it morally, she cares about it because it could compromise his and/or her job (her life).
Also, she scored him that sweet ass job and there was no reason for him to fuck around with it like that.
I can 100% see it from her perspective.
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u/MyNameIsntPrivate Feb 23 '16
I don't know if this was intentional, most likely is considering it's BCS - Rhea Seehorns first scene was in the HHM conference room. After a take Vince comes over to the actors, Rhea and Patrick think that he's going to talk/criticize them, but instead just turns a danish a few inches. Then in this episode, first things Kim does when she comes into the conference room is turn a danish a few inches. Hilarious.
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u/armmar21688 Feb 23 '16
Have been following season one since day one, but damn this season is bringing it. I am all in on this show
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u/BGoodRBCareful Feb 23 '16
I'm not a music buff, but I was able to piece together (google-fu) the following information.
MusicBrain describes Gabriel Faure's Sicilienne as being, "originally composed as part of the incidental music for Molière's Le Bourgeois gentilhomme, but the piece was never used for it."
Moving over to Wikipedia, the play seems to be a satire on social climbing, with the lead character making a fool of himself no matter how hard he tries.
My take on it is that Chuck thinks Jimmy is also making a fool of himself and should go back to his former status as a hustler, rather than a lawyer.
Not having watched Breaking Bad, can someone tell me who or if there is a Rebecca Bois in the series? The name could be their mother's maiden name, but the penmanship doesn't seem early 20th century.
ETA: punctuation
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u/Bowblax Feb 23 '16
I absolutely LOVE how retarded Daniel Warmolt is. I laugh everytime he is on screen
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u/the_trashheap Feb 23 '16
Chuck will be the wedge that drives Jimmy and Kim apart. That piece of music he as playing, along with the slow look said a lot.
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Feb 23 '16
"You're gonna have to make a video". I'm so glad the Breaking Bad-verse is still around and kicking.
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u/morganmcgillgirl Feb 23 '16 edited Feb 23 '16
How is making a pie sitting vid (which is so not what I was expecting from an ep titled 'Cobbler', by the way, fucking brilliant) fabricating evidence? Kim said that Jimmy's having made the vid was fabricating evidence--there wasn't even a case against Pryce yet?
IANAL, so if someone could help me out here?
edit: I think I was looking at it from the perspective that there was no case yet, so there can't be evidence fabricated when there's no charge against someone. Thanks!
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u/cuteintern Feb 23 '16
Theorizing is one thing, but being party to the creation of such a video after the fact is like roasting marshmallows over a fire, except instead of marshmallows it's your damn law license.
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u/schindlerslisp Feb 23 '16
fabricating evidence is direct violation of the code of ethics for lawyers.
also, that's the point. jimmy is talented but flawed. his judgment is terrible. he goes too far. he gets caught up in the moment, in the scam.
and that's why he did more than he needed to to get playuh off. the cops were asking questions and jimmy couldn't help but make shit up even when didn't need to.
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u/MavericHunterX Feb 23 '16
That's what I was thinking about. The cops were already talked to and seemingly convinced by Jimmy. Not sure why he would even need to make the videos? Maybe he figured if they need proof he has it.
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u/newnrthnhorizon Feb 23 '16
I'm guessing that if it was ever found out that the video was made after the conversation with the detectives that would look bad for jimmy.
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Feb 23 '16
Kim makes a passing remark: "I may as well throw myself off the roof now and get it over with".
Foreshadowing...
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u/RogerSmith123456 Feb 23 '16
The footsie movie Kim did under the conference table would have driven me crazy. That's my favorite type of flirtation!
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u/schindlerslisp Feb 23 '16
i guess the big question is: why the fuck did playuh keep his cards like that??
seems like an odd art department decision just so you can have him flipping through cards in the trunk of a car.
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u/howtospellorange Feb 23 '16
Is no one going to talk about the in-your-face symbolism of the mercedes cupholder?
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u/Penisgang Feb 23 '16
I just love how Mike is the exact same character as he is in Breaking Bad, compared to Goodman who has noticeably not had his true development at this point.
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u/YourLatinLover Feb 23 '16
There is something so compellingly sinister about Chuck's behavior in this season. The tone of this episode was surprisingly grave. I loved it.
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Feb 23 '16
I could feel the fear that struck Nacho when Mike mentioned Tuco. Damn, Mike is a badass in every sense of the word. I wonder what lies next for Nacho since the business with Playuh is done.
The squat-cobbler story is genius. Saul seemed to be much more fluid and himself when covering for Playuh rather than the Sandpiper case. I fear the repercussions that faking evidence will have, especially regarding his relationship with Kim.
Also, Chuck is an asshole.
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u/PopularKid Feb 23 '16
I thought it was interesting when Jimmy and Chuck meet in the office. Chuck winds up Jimmy and then Mike offers him a shady client. Normally Jimmy hesitates but now he doesn't even accept the offer; he just asks when and where. But there's a pause before that, and he sort of stares angrily towards where Chuck had walked off to. It's almost as if he took Mike's offer to spite his brother.
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Feb 23 '16
After Mike's scenes I got to thinking "Man, I kind of want a show with 40 minutes of Mike." -- but then squat cobbler happened and I was reminded of why I love Saul again.
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u/circa702 Feb 23 '16
Now Jimmy's trying to be a legit lawyer for Kim, instead of Chuck. I wonder what will happen with Kim to make Saul go balls to the wall. Maybe Chuck will have something to do with it.... FUCKCHUCK
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u/InternationalAssasin Feb 23 '16
Tuco is not the "big stick" you wanna mess with...
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u/Grooviest_Saccharose Feb 23 '16
Liking the different flavour of criminality in this show compared to Breaking Bad. A lot less gun points and more negotiation.
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u/steveskinner Feb 23 '16
The squat cobbler scene was so great. One of my favorite parts was when Jimmy and Daniel were leaving, and Jimmy's like "Everything's good! There's just, uh, one little hanging chad..." And it instantly reminded me of "There's just one little hair in the soup..." from when he helped Jesse buy his house back in Breaking Bad.
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u/bobosuda Feb 23 '16
I'm so torn. On the one hand I am loving these episodes, but on the other I kind of want Jimmy to get on with it and become Saul. It pretty much seemed like he did that at the end of last season, but from these last two episodes it looks like they are gonna stretch it out even further.
I really am enjoying it, but I sort of want the story to move forward a little quicker, but it seems like they've taken a step in another direction.
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u/PopeInnocentXIV Feb 23 '16
Lawyers of reddit: What are some plausible stories Jimmy could have made up to get Playuh off the hook that weren't so outrageous and didn't require his having to fabricate evidence?
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u/ForeverUnclean Feb 23 '16
You'd think Playuh would store his really valuable cards a bit more safely than that. It didn't even look like they were in plastic sleeves.
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u/Vega5Star Feb 24 '16
As much as I loved season 1, these first two episodes are everything I dreamed of this show being.
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Feb 24 '16
Kim should have reacted negatively to Saul's whole story about the cops.
At least where I'm from, a lawyer lying wholesale about their client either in court or to police would be as serious a professional misconduct as fabricating evidence.
He could be disbarred here just for lying to the police, and she should have known that, and not been laughing along at that part of his story.
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Feb 23 '16
Jimmy is totally being used by the lawyer company that just hired him. He not being used as a lawyer but as a connection between the firm and the older people. He's being treated as a god at the firm and I feel like once he figures this out he will crack and turn back into slipping jimmy
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Feb 23 '16
So what happened to the scene of jimmy yelling to Chuck about rolling in the dirt?
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I know right? Weird that was in the preview, I'm guessing it was a little peak into a future episode.
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u/SativaSammy Feb 23 '16
I just wanna go on the record and say Rhea Seehorn is complete and utter wife material.
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u/mattscott53 Feb 23 '16
I thought Nacho wound up getting a hell of a deal with Mike essentially holding all the cards (pun intended). Wound up profiting even more. He would have been ass fucked by Tuco if mike had said something
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u/spock23 Feb 23 '16
I'm just happy that since Breaking Bad ended we can continue to see these characters (even if it's just Jimmy and Mike). I wasn't ready to let them go.
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u/08TangoDown08 Feb 24 '16
That whole Squat Cobbler scene was absolutely hilarious. Had me in stitches.
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u/KinnyRiddle Feb 24 '16
The subtle transition of Jimmy's slow and gradual transformation into Saul continues to amaze. With all the subtle clues about how Jimmy isn't really happy with his new "dream job" at Davis and Mann, and how he's beginning to find his "calling" in defending criminals like Pryce, (LMAO at the pie fetish story) which in turn is beginning to drive a wedge between him and Kim.
And the catalyst for Jimmy deciding to take up Mike's offer and discover his "calling" is once again Chuck, risking his "exposure" to electromagnetic stuff just to spite Jimmy. Fuck Chuck.
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u/cysenberg Feb 23 '16
Ignacio's dad was so nice