Craig H Posted July 26, 2022 Share Posted July 26, 2022 1 minute ago, ohtani's jacket said: You think the Walt and Jesse scenes are in the Gene timeline? My guess is the Walt and Jesse scene is a whole lot of nothing. It will be like when Walt shows up in El Camino during a flashback. That's what I'm figuring the Walt and Jesse stuff is. Jimmy tells those two to get out while they can and be happy with what they have and Jimmy thinks back to that because he could have been content with essentially getting away with everything, but he had to push it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted July 27, 2022 Share Posted July 27, 2022 Slippin' Jimmy. Him saying "pigs get fat while the hogs get slaughtered" after I'd been listening to World Burns to Death tickled me to no end. You just know he is gonna push this in a bad direction, because he can't not. Also: CAROL BURNETT! Probably because she's my mom's favorite comedian it only took me around ten seconds to identify her. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RandomAct Posted July 27, 2022 Share Posted July 27, 2022 I liked the subversion in this episode. You're thinking that Gene is just trying to run another Slippin' Jimmy type scheme, when it is just a long game to protect himself. Took me forever to remember who Jeff was though, not gonna lie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Technico Support Posted July 27, 2022 Share Posted July 27, 2022 On 7/26/2022 at 7:23 AM, ohtani's jacket said: I liked the episode, but I can imagine a lot of people didn't. I wonder if that's the last we'll see of Gene. Yeah, this one was hard to get into for me because of the sudden momentum shift from the last two episodes to this. It was like when Walking Dead teased they'd killed Glen, then the next episode was a 90 minute flashback to how Morgan got his stick and learned to be zen. Or when South Park left on a cliffhanger and then did a whole Terrence and Philip episode after that. Again, not a bad episode, just a really unexpected shift. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted July 27, 2022 Share Posted July 27, 2022 It just dawned on me: Did old dude wear gloves? Because as a legal defense Jimmy could have bought some of those shirts and gotten his fingerprints/handprints, or any of the other shit he touched. That suit was the gaudiest thing in the history of clothing. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultimo Necro Posted July 27, 2022 Share Posted July 27, 2022 I’m never messing with, or complaining to, a fast food outlet manager ever again. Between Gus at El Pollo Loco and Gene at Cinnabon, who knows what side hussles the rest of them have. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John from Cincinnati Posted July 29, 2022 Share Posted July 29, 2022 (edited) SPOILERS FOR UPCOMING. DO NOT CLICK IF YOU DON'T WANT TO KNOW. Spoiler Title of the next episode is Breaking Bad Edited July 29, 2022 by John from Cincinnati 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Great ML Posted July 30, 2022 Share Posted July 30, 2022 Call if you know the whereabouts of Nippy. (402) 342-9288. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ohtani's jacket Posted July 30, 2022 Share Posted July 30, 2022 (edited) Spoiler Promo shots for this week show Gene and Jeff again. Edited July 30, 2022 by ohtani's jacket Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordi the former AEW fan Posted July 30, 2022 Share Posted July 30, 2022 (edited) The actor who originally played Jeff the cabby is Don Harvey, who couldn't play him here because he was playing this guy in We Own This City: "I can't be on the Breaking Bad adjacent show because I am busy working on the The Wire adjacent show" has to be right up there among the best possible legitimate humble brags any actor has ever been able to make! Edit: I might as well be the one to make a "Scheme Gene" reference, since I'm here. Edited July 30, 2022 by Gordlow 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John from Cincinnati Posted August 1, 2022 Share Posted August 1, 2022 On 7/30/2022 at 5:24 AM, ohtani's jacket said: Reveal hidden contents Promo shots for this week show Gene and Jeff again. On that note Spoiler Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandon Bones Posted August 2, 2022 Share Posted August 2, 2022 I white knuckled the arm rest of the couch for the entire episode like a commercial airplane in bad turbulence. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swift Posted August 2, 2022 Share Posted August 2, 2022 I hate to say this and I absolutely hope I'm proven wrong next week but so far these final episodes seem highly superfluous. The Howard/Lalo/Kim walking out stuff would've been the perfect ending. Don't really need to see Breaking Bad fan service or need to know Huell and the like end up. Again, hope I'm eating crow next week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John from Cincinnati Posted August 2, 2022 Share Posted August 2, 2022 How about that karaoke scene? Where’s Michael McKean when we need him. Tracks well that another escalation in Jimmy’s scumminess follows another argument with Kim. Loved the parallel with him approaching Walt and him breaking the door, crossing lines we all clearly know shouldn’t be crossed. I sense this last batch of episodes will be divisive, but it’s always been a deliberately paced set of shows. I’m not too concerned the plot isn’t humming at the level some people wish it was. I’m happy to watch as many meticulous Jimmy/Saul/Gene/Viktor schemes as we can get for as long as we can get them. I’m no longer worried about Kim. Now Carol Burnett and her cat videos have to be protected at all cost. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted August 2, 2022 Share Posted August 2, 2022 Jimmy saying "Ho, enter Sunshine! Cast some light into my cold dark world" as Mike walks in wearing black aviators looking like the Grim Reaper was one of the funniest moments in the whole series. I'm thinking this all ends with a whimper instead of a bang. Everyone wants the bang but that already occurred. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peterien Posted August 2, 2022 Share Posted August 2, 2022 I would normally trust the process given that Gilligan, Gould etc have given us some of the best episodes of tv we’ll ever see BUT there’s literally nothing to play with for the final two episodes, everything that has to be done is done. Whatever happens to Gene is irrelevant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ohtani's jacket Posted August 2, 2022 Share Posted August 2, 2022 Well, I, for one, want to know what happened on the phone call. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southofheavy Posted August 2, 2022 Share Posted August 2, 2022 Walt died. Mike died. Gus died. Jesse made it to Alaska. Skyler cut a deal. All that shit, and none of them ended up behind bars. Frankly, I think that's where Gene's headed. Regardless, I definitely want to know what happens to him. Also, the episode where Kim left Jimmy is BCS's Ozymandias. We're in the epilogue of this world at large now. I think that's pretty huge. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Technico Support Posted August 3, 2022 Share Posted August 3, 2022 (edited) I loved the episode. Also lollin’ at how they did nothing to try to make Aaron Paul look younger. Edited August 3, 2022 by Technico Support Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Log Posted August 3, 2022 Share Posted August 3, 2022 I think (and hope) that Gene makes a trip to Florida. Something is going to go wrong with his scam. Either the guy with cancer or Carol Burnett are going to mess things up for Gene. I don't know if he'll flee Omaha or if the whole point of making this new money is to go get Kim, but he's got some kind of plan. While I did love the scene Kim went out on, I don't think we've seen the last of her. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HumanChessgame Posted August 3, 2022 Share Posted August 3, 2022 19 hours ago, southofheavy said: Frankly, I think that's where Gene's headed. Regardless, I definitely want to know what happens to him. With these past two episodes I've gotten the feeling he or his cronies are going to screw up one of their schemes and wind up in prison. Either that or Jeff's mom is going to fear Jeff is getting back into his old habits and call the cops on him, or perhaps discover Gene's true identity via Chekov's laptop. When Jeff previously showed up he had that laconic attitude with underlying menace similar to Lalo and I kept expecting him to be an associate someone Saul/Walt had crossed in Albuquerque but now he's just some run of the mill schmuck. I still wonder if the trouble in New Mexico his mother alluded to is revealed. These Omaha episodes have definitely felt like something that should have taken place earlier in the series and not a few episodes before the finale, but I trust the showrunners enough to see whatever their final vision is. Did anyone else get the impression Gene is broke or at least getting close to it based on that phone call at the beginning? Between his vacuum cleaner bill and making payouts to those he felt he owed (see parallel to Mike paying off his former associates who ended up in jail) he needs a cash infusion. That and he missed running schemes. Maybe he gets arrested and gets to be Saul one more time acting in his own defense? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoFistsJustFlips Posted August 4, 2022 Share Posted August 4, 2022 See the Saul is broke take doesn't make sense to me. In his keepsake shoe box he has a bunch of diamonds. He obviously converted a portion of his wealth into diamonds to make it easier to transport. Why does he need to scheme it up to get 20k when he's probably got a million in diamonds in that box? I don't think he needs the money. I think the money is irrelevant to the end game. The way it played to me is that his argument in the phone booth was with Kim, pleading with him to turn himself in. He does not want to give up. He isn't a quitter. But I think there's this internal struggle within him, he wants to do the right thing. He wants to do what Kim wants of him. He's purposely pushing it too far so he can get caught. And go well gee oops I just couldn't control myself and got caught. Stupid me. But it's actually his way of turning himself in. I guess we'll see. But god damn do I wish these episodes where in color. The use of color and how they compose shots has been so important to this series & BB. So it's losing so much of it's charm being in black & white for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Technico Support Posted August 4, 2022 Share Posted August 4, 2022 The Breaking Bad episode this crosses over with was called "Better Call Saul." This episode was called "Breaking Bad." Niiiiiice. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Comedian Posted August 5, 2022 Share Posted August 5, 2022 On 8/3/2022 at 9:25 PM, NoFistsJustFlips said: See the Saul is broke take doesn't make sense to me. In his keepsake shoe box he has a bunch of diamonds. He obviously converted a portion of his wealth into diamonds to make it easier to transport. Why does he need to scheme it up to get 20k when he's probably got a million in diamonds in that box? I don't think he needs the money. I think the money is irrelevant to the end game. I'll tell you what doesn't make sense to me the more I think about it. Why a Cinnabon manager in Omaha? Ed was able to stow Walt in Bumfuck, NH. He drops Jesse in East Nowhere, AK despite a ton of heat. The guy's a consumate pro by all appearances. So why does he stick a nationally wanted fugitive into a public service job in a city? As NoFists has pointed out, it's not like Ed's bill cleaned Saul out and he needed to work. Creating false IDs is part of Ed's job. He couldn't have planted the rest of Saul's money in an account, then stuck Saul in a 55-and-over community somewhere in the suburbs as a retiree? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ohtani's jacket Posted August 5, 2022 Share Posted August 5, 2022 Well, it all stemmed from a throwaway line in Breaking Bad that Cinnabon reacted to on Twitter. Don't forget, he had the chance to get out of Nebraska when he was ID'ed by Jeff, but he told Ed he'd take care of it himself. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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