#jimmy mcgill
The Hollywood Reporter Interviews “Hero” Writer Jennifer Hutchison
Jimmy has used this billboard scam to get legitimate business. But he’s had a taste of his old ways. Does he actually think he can go back to being legitimate?
That’s what this episode was about — the idea of can I just do this one kind of bad thing, but I’m doing it for good reasons. It’s the whole the ends justify the means idea. What we’ve been trying to do is have Jimmy tempted by his old, dishonest life, while also trying to make an honest life for himself. He really believes he’s just doing this one bad thing, but he’s going to do good. Nobody got hurt, so what’s the harm of pulling this little trick? He doesn’t yet understand the implications of the things he does. As the season goes on, that’s what happens — there are consequences to his actions.
Jimmy has qualities that are genuinely likeable and admirable, and yet we see already that he does not take into account how his actions will affect other people. Not only does he endanger the worker in this scene, but he also places Chuck in jeopardy by taking his newspaper just to avoid having to explain his antics. When faced with the chance to walk away from the Kettlemans with either his integrity or a large pile of cash, he could only choose one. If the rock on which Saul Goodman builds his church is made of quicksand, James McGill is laying that shifty foundation as we speak.
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I just love all the bright colors in this scene. These shades more accurately represent Saul’s aesthetic than the more conservative shades of the ensemble he so painstakingly assembles at the haberdashery, as does the orange shirt he briefly picks up and then puts back on the shelf.
Saul Goodman is still very much a work in progress in the storyline of Better Call Saul.
All the information we have about what he goes through and who he becomes makes it all the more poignant for us to see him make the choices he does in this episode, and yet he has chutzpah and flair that we can’t help admiring.
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Redditorsafetydance posted this amazing likeness of our hero in cake, guaranteed to be 100% edible. I wouldn’t even know where to start.
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As Uproxx has so astutely pointed out, Michael Mando revealed in this Huffington Post interview that the Ignacio referred to in this scene of Episode 2.8 of Breaking Bad, “Better Call Saul,” is none other than that scalawag, Nacho.
I really hope this means we will get to meet Lalo before this season is over, because he sounds like a real sweeheart. I just learned that the Latin meaning of the name Lalo is “to sing a lullabye,” which seems to confirm that theory.
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In addition to the fine cinematography, one of the great joys of watching Better Call Saul thus far has been watching Bob Odenkirk flex his acting muscles.
The only other actor and character from Breaking Bad that I think is capable of carrying his own show would be Giancarlo Esposito as Gus Fring. I would love to see Fring’s backstory in Cuba as a miniseries someday. If not as a miniseries, then for sure as a pulp comic book. Universe, make it happen.
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Onion AV Club Interviews Bob Odenkirk
AVC: When was the topic of a Saul-based spin-off first proposed?
BO: Literally, the first time I did the character, by the crew. Everybody made jokes about the spin-off. The first time I did the first scene in his office, there were jokes about, “Can I get a job on the spin-off?” [Laughs.] The character was just so big. Most big character parts on a show like this feel more supportive and less outsized and take up less oxygen than Saul took up. And so people joked about it right away.
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T86 Seconds to the Sofa: In Praise of Better Call Saul’s Slowness
But Saul creators Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould are not satisfied to let this show be a companion piece. They understand that we’re all waiting for Saul Goodman to emerge, and they use that to enrich the story by making us feel the weight of the wait. In this respect, the Hummel collector’s descent down the stairs is a visual microcosm of the series’ preordained arc.
I was just having an internal debate with myself on this subject the other day and I came to much the same conclusion, but Onion A.V.’s John Teti has expressed it so eloquently that this article deserves to be read.
I totally agree that slowness is an important element that distinguishes Better Call SaulfromBreaking Bad, which tended to compress time.
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wow i wanna start scamming people left and right now (im also depressed)
babygirlifies my favorite middle aged man
