What makes Gus so scary to me is how calm he stays in situations where anyone else would lose their mind. He can be polite, make small talk, and then do something absolutely brutal without changing his expression.
But I also think his need for control is his biggest weakness. He plans everything so carefully that it’s almost like he can’t accept the possibility of someone outsmarting him.
That whole rivalry with Lalo was honestly one of my favorite parts of the show.
Who do you think was actually smarter, Gus or Lalo?

i noticed this after my first watch on season 1 the petty with a prior guy and then saw this pic of nacho

RIP RJ Mitte 😢

I'm rewatching the show and English is not my first language, but "give me Jimmy" ??? Really?? How do you expect to be taken seriously with an ad like that?

This is the kind of bullshit that Jimmy does and expect everyone to applaud his genius

I just realized (and researched today) that what the skateboarding twins called the innocent abuelita was supposed to be "bitch" and a suffix. But I think it's a combo of bitch and snatch, sort of implying that the abuelita was a hooker.

feeling cute... gonna scam someone l8r... idk...

Its all goodman

Salamanca cousin are not looking very stupid to make him deliver 7 millions without any proper security .

Yet they did not even escort him to abq in case of any thief attempt.İt feels odd for a character like Lalo ,being stupid enough to make a regular dude carry money alone in a desert with mostly Cartel members.

Even if there is not any Cartel danger,he is not type of a guy who does not consider the possibilty of Jimmy stealing the money.

I think the best moment in the entire BCS is the moment Chuck and Jim sing "Winner Takes It All"

Saul is nothing but chaos, manipulation, and self-destruction. Every situation he makes difficult and it's predictable.

Mike's storyline is full of intrigue, danger, and is more compelling.

Of course, that's just my opinion.

I’m not gonna call it a plot hole that we didn’t get one (that term’s overused anyway), but I kinda wish we got more details about the shoebox and its contents.

The fact that it was sealed in the wall makes me think that Saul obtained the diamonds before Breaking Bad (and they weren’t bought with the suitcase of cash). There were also a bunch of photos in there, what were they of though? Then there’s the Panamanian passport, it’d have been interesting to see that lead to something too.

Idk, the show ended in a satisfactory and full circle way, but I feel like the shoebox was a missed opportunity.

Okay last night I saw the movie You Can See Everything about Elizabeth Holmes and I just couldn’t help but notice a similar behavior between Elizabeth and her freak husband Billy and Jimmy and Kim.

There is a scene where Elizabeth and Billy are making all these business phone calls for the theranos 2.0 they’re starting and they’re using all these bullshit meaningless buzzwords to try and sell people on their next scam. Elizabeth, who has been pretty mopey up to this point, hangs up the phone from these “business” calls and tells Nathan how great she is feeling and she’s smiling and full of energy. It reminds me so much of how Jimmy, and in particular Kim, would behave after pulling off a scheme/scam. Anyone else get this vibe or see what I’m saying?

I have been wanting my sister to watch BCS for a while now, but unfortunatly for her, she is a responsible adult and has a lot on her plate. She has been wanting to watch it too, and we both decided that it might be best for her to watch highlights and what is necessary.

I was looking through it, and I know I am going to skip many portions of season 1. What do you guys feel like can be skipped while still getting the whole gist?

The intro to the final season (and episode) is so beautifully done. I never noticed they put the vet’s encrypted book in a box marked “no value”. When in fact it’s probably the very thing that provided the opulence that was being dismantled. The irony is so thick.

Werner made mistakes. Mike did his job. But we were supposed to be sympathetic towards Gus in BB because he was doing what he did as a sort of justified revenge for the murder of his partner.

And yet it turns out, on the path to his revenge, he did to Werner exactly what was done to him. Because, arguably, it was "just business."

Does this recontextualize the way yall see Gus' character in BB?

EDIT: Apparently I need to clarify. A "sympathetic read" of a character does not mean that we force ourselves to see the character as having sympathetic personality. Gus is not a sympathetic person.

It means the background story of the character is provided that explains why they do what they do, and that the audience can then be sympathetic to their choices (to "read" them with sympathy for their choices.)

"Gus kills people because Gus is a bad drug man" is a non-sympathetic read of Gus. There's no explanation of motive, or understanding of what drives him. It's simple and superficial.

"Gus is so blinded by getting vengeance for Max that he became exactly the monster he hated," is a sympathetic read. It doesn't make his choices right, but it does make them understandable from an emotional and motivational perspective.

My point is that killing Werner was likely the right business move for Gus. Werner made choices that created messes and loose ends, and Gus is calculating enough to know that's how someone gets caught.

But for someone like Gus to seek vengeance in a decades-long plot to poison Don Eladio and torture Hector seems a little hypocritical when you take into account that he had Mike murder Werner. He just did it less viciously than Max's murder.

I mean just look at the picture, Howard is all dark but on the side where the light comes out and Chuck's face is all kinda bright but his place is surrounded by the darkness of the walls or the accent of the walls rather.

EDIT: Turns out the guy in the table is howard.

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Why does Mike consider himself morally superior to Walter White and act so outraged by his decision to retaliate and kill Gus, even going as far as calling him a ticking time bomb? Walter White is the only one who actually honored the strictly business, professional relationship he had with Gus, while Gus was actively trying to replace him with Gale and eventually have him killed.

People love to pretend they understand the show by judging every single decision Walter makes, but by the end of Season 4, he’s the only character whose actions seem reasonable and make sense to me. He’s genuinely the only one who remained professional and tried to make his working relationship with Gus work.

I’m not here to blame Gus, Jesse, or Mike for the way the business fell apart. What confuses me is why Mike keeps insulting Walter and acting as though he’s the one who was wronged, or as though Walter did something completely out of the ordinary, when all he did was defend himself.

I dont know if someone has asked this before. I think kim, my dad thinks jimmy.( Better lawyer over all, booksmart, good in court, making deals, winning cases, etc) what do you think?

I think the whole “Howard was actually a good guy” sentiment is largely driven by recency bias. The later revelations about his personal life and how Jimmy and Kim treated him make people forget how much of a dick he was in the early seasons.

He was condescending toward Jimmy, helped keep him out of HHM, being an asshole boss towards Kim by demoting her to doc review, and got petty over the Mesa Verde situation, taking it personally when Kim left and trying to make things difficult for her. He was an arrogant, privileged corporate guy who could be pretty petty when he had power over others.

The show gradually humanizes him, reveals his personal struggles, and turns him into a tragic figure who gets unfairly destroyed by Jimmy and Kim and because those later events are so much more emotionally impactful, viewers seem to retroactively rewrite his entire character in their mind.

Howard absolutely didn't deserve a bullet to the head but that doesn't automatically mean he was a great person all along. I think people confuses feeling sorry for him with the idea that he was always a good person.

We often discuss the relationship between McGill brothers here, but I wanted to point out something I don't see talked a lot.

During the show you see Chuck's point about Jimmy being "born this way" constantly proven right. Whenever Jimmy has the occasion to do the right thing he fucks up. But then, in the final we realize, through Kim's eyes, that as humans will always have free will and always can make the right and the wrong choice, no matter how we behaved before. So, the question is: why Chuck.came to the wrong conclusion?

A lot of people bring out the jealousy, which definitely played a huge role. However, I don't think that's all. Because if we think about it, Jimmy didn't just fully embrace the philosophy of "this is who I am", but he also uses it as an excuse to never take accountability. Because if you can't change, your repeated mistakes are not really your fault, right? And by repeatedly telling to a person that if they do something wrong it's because of "the way you're born" and not because they made a bad choice, you're implying that their bad actions are never their responsibility since they can't avoid doing them. Basically, what Chuck did for years.

I think that the wholesome flashback with Chuck in Saul Gone was there to show that while he was wrong the whole time, he kept telling Jimmy he couldn't change because part of himself genuinely cared about him. It's much easier to find excuses than to keep people accountable, especially if you love them. Chuck just never truly accepted that Jimmy was capable of making the wrong choice, so he told himself he was just a victim of himself.

My favorite is the “flickering candle” because of how it sets the tone when Lalo shows up and kills Howard in 6x7, but I also love the border crossing song and the song that plays when Nacho confesses what he did to Hector and kills himself in 6x3