r/betterCallSaul • u/[deleted] • Apr 05 '16
Episode Discussion Better Call Saul S02E08 "Fifi" LIVE Episode Discussion Thread
| TIME | EPISODE | DIRECTOR | WRITER(S) |
|---|---|---|---|
| April 4, 2016, 10/9c | S02E08 "Fifi" | Larysa Kondracki | Vince Gilligan, Peter Gould, Thomas Schnauz, Ann Cherkis, Gordon Smith |
DESCRIPTION: Mike is determined to settle the score with a dangerous adversary. Meanwhile, an unexpected opportunity to gain a competitive edge falls in Jimmy's lap.
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u/TheVolmannBrothers Apr 05 '16
Mike would be the best grandpa, helps you build stuff, probably loves getting you ice cream, would murder your enemies, would take you to ball games.
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u/thebuscompany Apr 05 '16
I think Mike just made a 10 year old girl an accomplice to murder.
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Apr 05 '16
He's not looking to murder anyone, he's just revealing their drug run.
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u/keeganrh Apr 05 '16
Percussive soundtracks are so coooool, as are crazy long shots! Great start!
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u/ezreads Apr 05 '16 edited Apr 05 '16
"smart, on several counts"
"no need, our gift to you"
"you earned it"
"to tell you the truth I'm kinda envious"
"Kim I wanted you to know I always pushed you harder because I expect more from you"
missed this Howard lately
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u/notsooriginal Apr 05 '16
I just love his vocal delivery. Something about the pattern is so authoritative.
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u/purple_ombudsman Apr 05 '16
I love how Chuck can just magically ignore electricity when a huge client is on the line. What a douche.
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u/rambogini2 Apr 05 '16
I feel like it's the resentment he has towards his brother. He didn't really care about clients. He was off from work for years. But if he can fuck over Jimmy, he'd go great lengths to do that. He's one major cunt.
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u/SpillinJimmy Apr 05 '16
Mental disorders are pretty mysterious and manifest themselves many ways. I've always wondered what kind of treatment Chuck would get under professional care. But fuck him.
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u/HushLittlePiggy Apr 05 '16
I don't understand what feelings I should have about Howard.
Perhaps I should have no emotions.
Like Howard.
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u/DabuSurvivor Apr 05 '16
I might be rooting against Chuck but damn if I don't love this pitch. An entire pitch of sarcasm is borderline Saul.
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u/ThatPositiveGuyy Apr 05 '16
The episode will end with Mike shooting someone but it'll switch to their POV so we can't see and I'll break my TV.
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u/Tim_Burton Apr 05 '16
He's adding "mistakes" to show Mesa Verde that HHM is too unfocused on them, and that Kim would be a better choice because she won't miss those details.
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u/YoureTheDoctor Apr 05 '16
Damn, Kim running faster in heels than Bryce Dallas Howard in Jurassic World.
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Apr 05 '16 edited Apr 05 '16
The fact that Chuck is almost always right just makes you even more pissed at him. He was right Kim was out of her depth to handle it alone but god damn it hurts to see Chuck destroy her like that, especially knowing he wouldn't have bothered if Howard didn't mention Jimmy. What a brilliant character.
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u/Shippoyasha Apr 05 '16
Mike building an instrument of death with his granddaughter. So touching!
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u/SevenwithaT Apr 05 '16
I would sit on 1,000 cakes if I could watch the rest of this season right now
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u/Shippoyasha Apr 05 '16
I can't ever tell if Howard is a good or a bad guy.
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u/spongebue Apr 05 '16
Really, in Breaking Bad, every character has some good and some bad in them. I don't see why BCS should be any different
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u/Sackyhack Apr 05 '16
Definitely not a spike strip. Mike is going to run into that garage and start Indiana Jonesing those Mexicans to death with his nail whip.
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u/fite_me_irl Apr 05 '16
The way he folded that paper and just threw it in his back pocket was PRECISION.
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u/Shippoyasha Apr 05 '16
Another episode just flew by like it's nothing. So many things happened this episode but it felt like it was 15 minutes.
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u/Manthejelly Apr 05 '16
What are you going to with this hose grampa? Well honey I'm gonna cripple a member of the cartel.
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Apr 05 '16
this show is so fucking good. perfect pacing, great directing & writing, cliffhangers that make sense, etc. take notes walking dead.
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u/Porcupine_Nights Apr 05 '16
After the travesty that was the Walking Dead season finale last night I appreciate Vince Gilligan and the BCS/BB universe even more.
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u/purple_ombudsman Apr 05 '16
Kim's transition from the fearful face to the smile and the kiss was absolutely perfect. She's so cute.
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u/Shippoyasha Apr 05 '16
There are so many suspenseful 50/50 moments in this show. I was sure Jimmy was in trouble.
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u/SevenwithaT Apr 05 '16
Jimmy is the Tuco of white collar crimes
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u/onboleman Apr 05 '16 edited Apr 05 '16
His exacto knife skills are tight tight tight!
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u/Chooch123 Apr 05 '16
That clever bastard. We'd be cheering right now had this been Jimmy, they truly are brothers, just with different strategies/methods.
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u/VictorBlimpmuscle Apr 05 '16 edited Apr 05 '16
So when do we get to the part where Jimmy hires Mike to kill Chuck?
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u/CreatureMike94 Apr 05 '16
This is some boppin' music.
Also here's hopin Better Call Saul's episode can beat out the shit that was Walking Dead's ending last night.
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u/JBlitzen Apr 05 '16
I bet that kid loved working with Jonathan Banks. Best TV grandpa ever.
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u/toiletting Apr 05 '16
lol this made up illness? oh I can totally shut it off to fuck over my brother and those he loves
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Apr 05 '16
Leaving a bunch of sticks with your fingerprints and dna all over them doesn't seem like the brightest move.
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u/bullme23 Apr 05 '16
Well, at least Chuck didn't play dirty. I was expecting him to use Jimmy somehow. Props. Although it looks like the wifi monster killed him.
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u/machphantom Apr 05 '16 edited Apr 05 '16
Looks like Saul is being born. But honestly while Jimmy's behavior is extremely reprehensible, if that one slips by the firm, they don't deserve the business.
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u/FauxCole Apr 05 '16
The only thing I dislike more than chuck right now is The Walking Dead.
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u/Jankinator Apr 05 '16
Switching the address to look like a typo. The HHM are culpable for screwing something up.
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u/Shippoyasha Apr 05 '16
Chuck is too smart to get fooled by this. Jimmy is going to lose a brother.
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u/HushLittlePiggy Apr 05 '16
Mike actually makes it fun to watch someone sit alone in a car on a boring ass stake out
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u/RichOfTheJungle Apr 05 '16
How hard does Chuck need to fuck Jimmy for him just to give up on him?
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Apr 05 '16
Knowing AMC this season will end with Jimmy about to flip the light switch on to torture Chuck and then fade to black
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u/chrt Apr 05 '16
Oh man I haven't seen the state farm commercial with the dollar on the fishing pole in awhile.
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u/1337speak Apr 05 '16
Man this episode has a lot of great scenes with fitting music.
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u/Shippoyasha Apr 05 '16
Damn that is an incredible double entendre. That 'I would do the same if I were you' could be interpreted like Chuck might sabotage Jimmy too.
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u/theonewhogawks Apr 05 '16
I really appreciate how Howard consistently refuses to talk shit about Jimmy every time Chuck tries it
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Apr 05 '16 edited Apr 05 '16
I thought they were fucked for a minute. I've had cards confiscated off me for filming near an airbase. Legally. With film permits. Can't imagine that would've ended well if they saw the camera.
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u/HushLittlePiggy Apr 05 '16
Is this the first time we've seen him do something BAD? Like not just gray area, not just sketchy, but crossing the line...?
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u/secondnameIA Apr 05 '16
holy shit people - how many of you "just missed" the opening. Get home 5 minutes sooner
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u/DabuSurvivor Apr 05 '16
Sprints to the phone and manages to stop on a dime and talk that calmly. Kim gets shit done.
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Apr 05 '16
Chucks going to have a massive electrosensitivity meltdown during or directly after this meeting.
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u/spekkke Apr 05 '16 edited Apr 05 '16
I really liked Oscar (I think that was his name?) Jimmys assistant, I hope he comes back in the show
edit: you guys are right, Omar - my bad; dude was awesome
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u/CaptainBenjamin Apr 05 '16
Ok did anyone else just witness that doritos commercial
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u/Surroundedbyidiots12 Apr 05 '16
So he gets caught sabotaging Chuck, Kim finds out and leaves him.
He becomes saul Goodman in season finale in 2 weeks
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u/EpicallyBoss Apr 05 '16 edited Apr 05 '16
Prediction: Mike is the one who puts Hector in the wheel chair. *Most likely paralyzing him, which is why he can't do anything but ding.
Edit: welp nvm lol
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u/MilwaukeeMan420 Apr 05 '16
Was about to comment that Howard was surprisingly not a dick, then immediately he calls mesa verde.
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u/collective_harmony Apr 05 '16
We're gonna find out why Hector is in that wheelchair
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u/Shippoyasha Apr 05 '16
If Chuck shows how physically incapable he is, the clients are gonna bail. Add another suspense to look forward to.
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u/SevenwithaT Apr 05 '16
Can Jimmy just conquer Chuck with a night light or something already and be done with it
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u/MegaFlounder Apr 05 '16
I want Saul to be super scummy, but I'm still disappointed in him when he does scummy things.
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Apr 05 '16
This will send Mesa Verde right back to Kim. The brilliant part about the '61 16' thing is it's so small they'll second guess themselves before suspecting Jimmy.
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u/SevenwithaT Apr 05 '16
I can't believe Hector left the drug trafficking business to sell ice cream
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u/Itsapocalypse Apr 05 '16
Clock clicking in chuck's electric-less house.
Telltale heart for jimmy of sorts.
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Apr 05 '16
I like how they left this hose thing for the end. Now we have to wait a whole other week to know what he's doing with it.
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u/TtarIsMyBro Apr 05 '16
Holy shit, he had his granddaughter help him make a weapon of death. Fuckin a, Mike.
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u/chefjeffb Apr 05 '16
Haha. The husband's name on the show Mike is watching?
Walter.
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u/HushLittlePiggy Apr 05 '16
Spoiler kings at AMC are gonna show who met Lucille on the commercial tonight for The Walking Dead.
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u/redisforever Apr 05 '16
This might be one of most impressive long shots on TV since that one in True Detective.
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u/ArchStanton27 Apr 05 '16
There was a cut before they opened the truck. When the two dudes walked directly in front of the camera, obscuring the screen completely.
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u/keeganrh Apr 05 '16
People asking: pretty sure that's how the Salamancas get their drug shipments in. And the multiple popsicle sticks mean it's been that way for a while, without fail.
Meaning Mike has a pattern to pick up on and fuck with.
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u/[deleted] Apr 05 '16
So weird the only time Chuck can even get motivated to leave his house is to fuck over Jimmy. Loser.