they really just gonna keep Michael Mando's name in the credits and give me some dumb faint hope he makes a guest appearance huh
It was not fun and games... :'(
feels like the weakest episode this season --- understandably we are all recovering from the previous episodes' action, so it makes sense for the plot to cool down and move on to the future times.
[8.4/10] I'd speculated about how Kim would depart Jimmy's world. I feared she might be killed. I thought she'd get fed up with his misdeeds and leave him over that. What I didn't expect was that it would be spurred by a moment of self-recognition born of a terrible tragedy. Kim still loves Jimmy, but she recognizes that they're "poison" together, that they get off on the joint cons, and that when they do, people get hurt. She is one of the vanishingly small number of people in this franchise to recognize that she's on a destructive path and take drastic action to stop it. It's one of the most unexpected, but ultimately satisfying ways to have her exit I can imagine.
And it puts her in good company. Jimmy is as horrified by what happened as Kim is, but he can envision moving on, he can picture maintaining this life despite where it led them, he can see forgetting this some day. Kim can't. It's the same way Gus cannot forget his former partner Max, someone he loves, whose memory lingers with him when he gazes into Don Eladio's pool and holds him back from continuing to flirt with the handsome waiter who chats him up over a glass of a wine. It's the same way Mike cannot forget his son, which leads him to tell Nacho's father the truth about what happened to his child.
Mr. Varga shrugs off Mike's promise that justice will be done, recognizing that what he's talking about is vengeance. He declares that vengeance is a cycle that doesn't stop, and we know from Breaking Bad that he's right. Gus hasn't beaten the Salamancas or Don Eladio. Mike hasn't completed his tour of duty so that he can retire and spend time with his granddaughter. Jimmy can't avoid crossing paths with the cartel again. They're all in this now, and their victories bring them no peace, only pull them deeper into the muck of this, and closer to their ignoble ends.
But Kim breaks away. She cannot forget, but she can act to stop this from happening again. Her final scene with Jimmy (for now at least) is more quietly heartbreaking than explosive and dramatic, but that suits the gravity of this. And in her absence, Jimmy is free to become Saul, as an indeterminate time jump to the man in his huckster faux-finery confirms. The last thing holding Jimmy back is gone. Saul Goodman is here. He can't stop. And despite the woman in his bed, the bedraggled secretary on his phone, and the crowd of people in his waiting room, he is alone.
EDIT: If you'd like to read my usual, longer review, you can find it here -- https://thespool.net/reviews/tv-recap-better-call-saul-season-6-episode-9/
This felt like a series finale.
I think the part that guts me the most is how quickly the scene cuts from then till (nearly) now, closing the gap once and for all. That's it. Unless...
Quite possibly the best episode yet. Like all viewers who’ve watched Breaking Bad, I’ve been curious about what would bring about the end of Jimmy and Kim as a couple. It was beautiful and tragic. It had depth, complexity, and the path the writers took to the relationship’s ultimate demise was clever and intricate. I’m so very sad.
The pictures at Howard's wake are actually real pictures from Patrick Fabian's real personal Instagram acct. They had to crop out the actor who played Lalo from some of the pictures because in real life they are friends and they go hiking a lot together.
They broke my heart. I always knew it will come one day and it still hurt. Slowly drifting apart they always tried to see the best in each other and hang onto that with every fiber of their being but it had to be broken at some point. I didn't think the flash forward would be so sudden and clean. but I could swear it ended minutes or moments away from Walt and Jesse going in his office. Four episodes left and it feels they still could (and probably will) do a lot of things in a really nice pacing.
So Kim really was the last thing holding Jimmy back from going full Saul. It was always the big question in this how.. What happened to Kim? Why wasn't she there anymore in Breaking Bad? If this is it I think that's totallly fine. I was expecting something really bad would happen to her because of Jimmy and it did but in a way I didn't expect. Kim seeing Howard get murdered was an eye opener for her. In a show where a lot of people meet their fate in a bad way, I hope Kim get's a good ending by making this decission in time. But still, I wouldn't be surprised if we haven't seen the last of her.
Jimmy: I love you
Kim: I love you too sobbing but so what?
Man that was so much meaningful in so little words.
We get 5 minutes of Saul and I already miss Jimmy
Perfection. A show all about the small moments, the power of the mundane. Just remarkable.
It feels like this season is trying to tie all the loose ends in the most uninspired ways possible.
I don't know if this is intentional to impart realism through the randomness and banality of the situations and events that have transpired, or Gilligan & Gould are just tired.
Rhea Seehorn, ladies and gentlemen.
I thought since Kim isn't in Breaking Bad that means she'll die during this show but apparently they just broke up
honestly they both are very bad people and I have no respect for either of them
I see people are saying this is the Ozymandias of BCS, but I think that's a bit extreme. It was good, but I wouldn't say it was that good.
I'm curious what the hell these last 4 episodes will be. That was already full-blown Saul at the end. Are we going to get 4 episodes of that? I kind of hope not.
"... together, we are posion." Finally one of them realised, oh my god, how can you be that selfish and stupid at the same time. They enjoyed the destruction of everyone around them. In my eyes, jimmy is the sole killer of chuck and howard, hell, kim is not that far from jimmy in that matter. This episode was good, really good. Writers did justice.
Heads up for people rewatching, you can stop BCS after this episode and start watching BB, finish it all, and then come back here again to continue BCS.
It's probably the saddest episode yet. It's almost perfect. It's hard to imagine how could they have made this episode better (perhaps by filming it before BB, keeping the material in the archive and airing it as a sequel so that Mike and Jimmy look younger). It feels almost like the finale and I'm surprised to realize there will be 4 more episodes.
That wine scene with Fring is remarkable. Unlike Jim (or is it Saul by now?) he can't brush his teeth, go to work and forget about what he did and what line of work he is and how his future will probably look like. Kim realizes that this is no innocuous scam. Finally one must add. Seeing her leaving just like that, w/o a big bang, makes probably sense and again this show surprises me 'cause I expected something very bloody. I'm not saying this isn't dramatic though.
Saul will need several more years to understand that he's not one of the good guys.
Rewatching this episode hurts even more... Kim and Jimmy's scene, shot almost like a play, is one of the most powerful and heartbreaking scenes I've ever seen.
Was that Pitbull at the Howard's funeral ? 1 2 3 4 dale!
Michael Mando, I miss you so f*cking much :(
That was it. That was Ozymandias.
The reflection of the fire in Gus' eyes tho. This show never fails to amaze with the visuals.
I'm glad Kim survives , at least for now. Great ending, maybe I could have done with a bit more scenes before the ultimate transformation.
The tension is dialed all the way up now. Hard not to wonder when those certain old faces are about to pop up.
I don’t think I’ve ever had so many emotions in a show. There is no question that this is the best show on TV. Quite possibly ever.
Peak T.V is what I can say from these last episodes of the show.
Surely this can’t be the last we see of Kim?
All about lonely men and the people that they let down.
more like pain and death.
Shout by ArteetenBlockedParent2022-07-19T11:23:20Z
sobbing HE CANT KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH IT!!
(by "he" I mean Vince Gilligan and the rest of the cast and crew and by "it" I mean making this show so consistently high quality)