Better Call Saul: Season 1 Episode 6-10 | Canadian First Time Watching | TV Reaction | TV Commentary
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That monologue about his son is such a powerful moment, what an outstanding performance by Jonathan Banks.
Also the loud mouth is the voice actor for Trevor in GTA V, Steven Ogg.
@@shinyagumon7015 Also Walking Dead
The Kevin Costner part is an easter egg from Breaking Bad when Saul said "I once convinced a woman I was Kevin Costner and it worked because I believed it. "
Even tho this all takes place before BB, I actually like that they didn't try to physically or digitally de-age anyone. The story is so damn tight that the ages never took me out for a second. Each and every actor brought their A-game!!
Like a good stage play you just accept what they tell you
i like that they also cast older actors for all the other characters too, so it doesnt stand out. Michael McKeen was in his late 60s/early 70s shooting this show, the same age as my grandfather, but Chuck is in his mid-late 50s. I really like it, it's almost like having an art style in real life, if that makes sense
The wig they stick on Odenkirk for his really young scenes is hilarious, i non-ironically love it.
And geting away with fat Todd in El Camino. When actors and scenarists do they job great supressing disbelied is easy.
Makes me wish we got reverse with BCS gus since he looks more intense and mature in a way than BB gus who would fit in BCS
11:50 Just because Mike was a bad cop, doesn't mean he was a BAD cop.
Thanks Zangief!
I understand that reference
Mike was a BAD cop who turned his son into a bad cop.
Kim Wexler is one of the best female character ever written in tv history and you will come to know why gradually.
Listening to Mike tell that story about his son, and start to crack, makes me emotional every time
He earned his Emmy with that scene.
"he tries to do the right thing and loses out" - Yeah. That's the theme with both shows, I feel. The focus is on someone who lost out one too many times and says "f*ck it, now I'm gonna get what's mine"...
Yeah, no. Jimmy didn’t just break bad after life dealt him some hard knocks. He was trying to lie, cheat, steal and scam his way into more money since he was a kid. That’s as fundamental to Jimmy as pride and ego are to Walter. Sure, Jimmy later gets frustrated in his attempts to reform himself, but that wasn’t what caused him to be who he is since long before this show started.
I thinks it's more like: "most people are capable of doing bad things, they just need a little push". For Walt it was the cancer, for Jimmy it was a mix of his brother keeping him down and basically the world not paying back good deeds.
@@FrankyRZK How did Chuck hold him down? He doesn't owe Jimmy a job as a lawyer. Chuck has every right to use his own judgement on who works for his company.
Also, what good deeds did Jimmy do aside from paying Chuck back for saving him or doing things for Kim because he's into her? Almost all of Jimmy's deeds in the show are wicked and/or motivated by self-interest.
On the Better Call Saul DVD/Blurays for season 1, there are commentaries on certain episodes by the Kettlemans, in character. They're hilarious.
Lol! Something I never knew I needed!
Il love the, "I hope we get another show about Mike in his crime days". This is that show.
exactly, its not just saul's backstory, it mike's too.
They could probably eke out another whole Mike show set between (most of) BCS and BB 😆
"I broke my boy" Such a great line, delivered perfectly
The Kevin Costner name drop is from Breaking Bad.
It was pretty much a throwaway in Breaking Bad so I'm never surprised when first time viewers miss the reference.
Howard was honestly one of my favorite characters. Patrick Fabian played the role so well
I think I'm in the middle of something, there's really no need to..😂
@@anvil958 shhh
Who...Howard?...he's nobody
I think a lot of the lawyers in this show did a great job, Hamlin, Schweikart, Cokely, etc
Love that David St Hubbins found work as an actor after his years of playing pathetic rock and roll.
Hey, don't insult Smell The Glove!
Shit Sandwich!
Have they realised that Chuck is David St Hubbins?
Me, I'm just impressed that Lenny shaped up and became a lawyer after leaving Milwaukee. Wonder how Squiggy's doing!
With all the bad relations, horrible people and awful things done in this show, the opening of episode 9 with Jimmy and Chuck on the bench is such a rare wonderful moment. Now everything will be great, right?
Right?.............
I kind of adore the Kettlemans. Theyre so fucking stupid it's almost hilarious. Its ye olde Schadenfreude, I wanna see them fall all over themselves in their ill thought out plans.
God this show is heartbreaking in rewatch. All the ingredients are there from the start and you get to see it start coming together a long time before youre completely aware its happened. But it does it feels like you got stabbed right in the heart. Thats what I felt with Chuck and Jimmy in Ep.9. You see hints of it early on but you also see they can be good brothers to each other. You can see Jimmy is capable of doing good. But you also see slipping Jimmy all the time like hes an addict. And while i think Chuck is right, I cant really feel he's actually tried to steer his brother away. Hes always assumed Jimmy could only ever be Slipping Jimmy, even when faced with the possibility of Jimmy actually doing good.
I like Better call Saul more than Breaking Bad but I'm not sure why
Me personally, I like BCS more because I never felt over bearing dread after every episode. 😂 (still loved BB though)
Because you believe in justice for the little guy!
Same. I always thought to myself this show could of been called "better call mike".
More fleshed out world and interesting plots all coming together.
Personally I think it's because without the high stakes, You get to marinate in the personal stakes of the characters. It feels all the more personal because you get to sit right there in front with them as they go through the entire journey. And it's all the more emotionally gripping and heartbreaking because of it.
Not to say BB didn't also have that or that high stakes are "wrong". Its just apples and oranges. Like to illustrate, I think BB is kind of the hitchcockian bomb under the guy's table with the audience knowing the bomb is gonna go off but not when. BCS is more like getting to know a good friend and slowly seeing him spiral into a bad path.
"We know he's gonna become a criminal lawyer, it's just so sad how that comes about" is like the biggest motto of this show lol
"I hope there's another show in the making called Mike Will Fix It, about him in his crime days." Dude, you're watching it! Haha. One of the great joys of this show is how much Mike we get, one of the best characters ever.
I love Simones reaction to Georges jokes, like jim from the office staring at the camera 😂
Jeepers
I once convinced a woman that I was Kevin Costner, and the reason it worked is because I believed I was Kevin Costner! I think was the line from BB
1:05:39 - cons for money are gross, cons for other things is gross too, sleeping with someone because you think they're famous and rich is also gross. So they're all equally in it.
You guys are so on the ball catching scenes, figuring it out in real time, no wonder we all love watching your channel!
I like Michael Mckean's performance and I used to love Laverne and Shirley, where he played Lenny.
Mel Rodriguez is such a fantastic character actor, I’ve never seen him give a bad performance
In Breaking Bad Saul tells Walt he once convinced a woman he was Kevin Costner. Funny to see that throwaway line in Breaking Bad happen. Also Saul does indeed wear the pinky ring in Breaking Bad so its cool to see the origin story for the ring.
The way the first season and the Sandpiper arc in particular positions Jimmy as an underdog makes it really easy and compelling to root for him, even more so than Walt
Watching this show again with you guys is just reminding me what a masterpiece it is. I honestly believe is one of the best shows on tv, ever. The level of the writing, the acting, the sound design, THE CINEMATOGRAPHY.
Knowing what happened to Mike's son completely recontexualizes Mike's relationship with Jesse.
Hiya folks...may I say how much I really enjoy watching you both experience this series ...you seem to be loving it and we're applauding your brilliant insights as they emerge. I also wished to chime in with a supporting comment....George, somewhere around the 37:20 time mark or so you'd said something to the effect concerning the monumental task that Jimmy was about to tackle, the ridiculous overwhelming job of attempting to reconstruct what would appear to be 700 miles worth of shredded office paperwork, you'd said that you kind of liked the feeling and idea of getting into such a huge, repetitive task, that there's just something rewarding about it ...or something quite similar. I just wanted to say that YES, absolutely, I know exactly what you mean by that as in past times in my life I can look back and clearly recall at least a couple of experiences very very much like that. You feel helplessly overwhelmed at the start of such a nearly impossible job, you dig in and just go go go...your mind just gets set to 'just do it' mode....and then, quite a long time later as you sit back, take a breath and look at the progress that's been made, that tell-tale positive hopeful spark in your mind begins glowing bright, brings a little knowing smile to your face as you think to yourself "Yea, this looking good....I can do this..."
Sure it can take a while for that revaluation to arrive , but damn it feels so good and as you'd said, rewarding when it does...🙂
The Bingo scene is so true... I just played bingo with elders in Tenerife (no I'm not elder) the atmosphere was intense the prizes were Euros! Loving how you are turning these around in chunks! Compulsive viewing 👏
Love how by the end of the first season of a show called Better Call Saul you not only don’t want him to be Saul but kind to trick yourself into thinking it might somehow be different and he will take the job
Five-O is one of my favourite episodes of not just Breaking Bad or Better Call Saul, but of TV in general.
Matlock (1986-95) is famous for being a favorite of seniors. I'm sure it helped that it starred Andy Griffith, famous for playing the father of the director of Cocoon.
This is not entirely inaccurate.
Welcome to the biggest moral debate in the last 10 years.
Who made Saul Goodman?
The Kettlemens actually did commentary for the show. You can find it online. These actors are such great improvisers. They were totally locked into those characters.
Five-O is on of the best episodes of BCS and BB. That line "I've broke my son" breaks me every time. That is why I love recommending BCS to my friends
That’s also the thing, in the beginning of the show he had to resort to slippin’ Jimmy because his back is to the cliffs and reality is pushing toward him. It’s break bad or starve. If he was in the protective walls of HHM with a steady paycheck then we would be able to pay to care for Chuck and not be so hungry that he needed to be unethical to get clients.
The idea of having a child that has so much integrity they'd only break it for you, how could you not feel like a failure at that? You're the only person he trusted enough to act against his own values, and it's what cost you both everything.
I always loved the juxtaposition of how Mike was introduced in both series.
In Breaking Bad, he was already a deadly capable fixer but in Call Saul, he was introduced as an almost harmless nobody!
Eventually, there WILL be people who watch BB and BCS in chronological storyline order who get to see Mike become Mike.
I think that would be cool.
I'm still mad at Walter for killing Mike
I'm bet those people watching in chronological order will love having everything in BB spoiled for them by S6.
What a treat to be able to watch this awesome program with the 2 of you.
I used the string thing to open locked car doors many times back in the 80s and 90s... doesn't work anymore due to multiple changes in the way car doors are designed.
All the lead actors of this show are amazing. The characters are very interesting, my favorite throughout the show is Kim tho.
I like the "Tennis Ball" method. Cut one in half, place over car lock, punch the tennis ball. Air pressure unlocks the door.
Doubt it works anymore but I thought that was pretty clever.
Five-O is still one of my favorite episodes of either series 🙌
0:27 GREAT! Thanks George. Now I just picture Mike walking into the train station and someone saying "Happy 14th birthday, Michael!"
47:05 surprised you guys didn't recognise Steven Ogg Trevor Phillips himself but don't know if you've ever played GTA 5
"We're back to calling it a bribe now, right?" Ice. Cold.
Mike's soft spot for Jesse makes a lot more sense after you learn of Matty. Jesse's good nature and kind hearted purposes to his actions despite being involved in crime probably struck the right chords with Mike and that is why Mike possibly wanted Jesse to have a better life than the one he's chosen to be a part of with Walter and why he would put up with Jesse standing in the way of him killing Walter and back down.
I feel like Matty was a grounding force for Mike and Jesse unknowingly stepped into the empty position which mike had not been trying to, but desperately wanted to be filled.
Great to see the reactions to this so soon! BCS, like BB, just gets better and better with each season!
Jimmy (Saul) actually says in Breaking Bad that he once got a woman to sleep with him by convincing her he was Kevin Costner.
He also says in BB that maybe he’ll “retire and open a Cinnebun”
So this show builds episodes and whole storylines out of single lines from BB.
the fact that we know where Jimmy ends up but still root for him to make the right choices AND STILL be disappointed when he strays from being “good”.
It’s such a great show and SO well written!!
I don't think Mike was a bad cop but knew he couldn't afford to be a good cop either.
I was thinking about Serpico.
Hey guys just to answer couple of questions you had during the reaction:
1. Yes Saul/Jimmy wears Marco's ring in Breaking Bad and this was a backstory of the meaning of this ring.
2. The Kevin Conster joke is from Breaking Bad S3E11 where Saul told Walter that once he convinced a woman that he is Kevin Costner, which on the other side was a joke from the creators because after the introduction of Saul in S2 of BB, people online were commenting and joking that Bob Odenkirk looks like a "dollar store Kevin Costner". It was a great meta joke.
Also other things you missed (or at least in the TH-cam reaction version) but not related to the shows - the actor who plays Nacho Varga is the same actor who played Voss, the villain in Far Cry 3 game. Steven Ogg (the bodyguard Mike confronted) played Trevor in GTA 5.
Having seen breaking bad, we know Chuck is right about his brother. But he is a huge reason why he is the way he is
A self fulfilling prophecy. When you keep telling someone they're awful and irredeemable, what did Chuck think was going to happen with Jimmy?
Jimmy was trying, but if you rewatch, he was slipping since episode 1.
It's crazy how people watching see Jimmy get humanized now and then and it causes them to completely dismiss the fact that he's a conman and a scam artist.
Pimiento cheese, the caviar of the south
Jimmy hating Howard is like the longest running instance of "don't shoot the messenger" ever.
Michael McKean is so great as Chuck.
Also I like how in BCS Vince Gilligan was like "okay D-Bags I know a lot of you hated Skylar for no reason so I'm gonna give you Betsy Kettleman to hate and she'll earn it"
Honestly I love the Kettlemans. Betsy is insufferable, but it’s to a comical level, and Craig is just funny.
Matlock is to all old people what Murder She Wrote is to Grandmas.
Craig Kettleman has a very funny minor role in Birdman which I will never stop trying to get y’all to watch lmao
Also very funny to see what it would be like if Lady Macbeth was a former prom queen and Macbeth was a milquetoast accountant.
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The shot of Jimmy and Chuck on the same side of the table shatters my heart.
Oddly, when I was a kid I loved watching Matlock.
In one episode they carved an arc so deep that Durin would be jealous.
Matlock was a long-running lawyer show starring Andy Griffith. It's essentially the same show as Perry Mason, where the client is always accused of a murder that they didn't commit. Then, through the course of the episode, the lawyer not only exonerates the defendant, but also figures out how the crime actually happened, proves who the "real killer" is in court, and even frequently gets them to confess on the stand.
Where Perry Mason had more of a serious tone, Matlock had a lot more comedy based around Ben Matlock's folksy personality, lots of witty banter, and the extended cast of characters getting into silly situations. At some point it was observed that a lot of diehard Matlock fans were older folks, and it became a frequently used trope that old people love watching Matlock.
I have a dark sympathy with Chuck. I have a brother of my own and it’s so easy to fixate on everything he does wrong when you think he’s favored by the parents. And when you’re so focused on that, you’re blind to everything he’s trying to do right.
I feel like it wasn't so much that Chuck thought Jimmy may have cheated, but that Chuck didn't like the idea of Jimmy being in his area/his level. That he always wanted Jimmy to be below him. That he helped him out with a job in the mail room and such but in a way to be above him, Jimmy needing him. Being a lawyer makes Chuck sacred, and how dare someone as lowly as Jimmy be in such noble ranks.
This is pure projection though. It's very clear that Chuck has a legitimate reason for not wanting to employ Jimmy (not that he even needs a reason, since it's his company).
Chuck simply doesn't want Slippin Jimmy having the power to hurt people by using the law as a weapon.
1:20 Dang, Simone is so quick on the uptake
Being surprised that there's a Santa Fe in New Mexico is like being surprised there's a New York City in New York. Santa Fe New Mexico IS THE Santa Fe. The Spanish settlement goes back over 400 years. When Santa Fe was on the tongues of royals around the world, there was no America, not a single English colony.
Really was hoping George would notice Trevor from GTA V.
Wow you guys are sharp; most watchers don't seem to notice the subtext in the scene in which Jimmy tells Chuck about his law degree. They're usually blindsided by Chuck's vitriol in Ep 9.
Okay, so you didn't actually realize it was Chuck all the way through. But you did figure it out just before the reveal, which is still better than a lot of other reactors I think. That scene is so painful to watch, particularly after the first time, in which you can see Jimmy's pain and bitterness in his eyes throughout, even before he unloads on Chuck.
class action lawsuits can do good... in getting companies etc to change when they are held accountable... but... in reality... they rarely do much for the victims. Lawyers LOVE them.. because the settlements are often gigantic, and the lawyers get a huge cut of the settlement... but... divided up among all the members of the class the payout to the victims frequently are so small that huge portions of the sum go unclaimed. But... yeah... the main reason any attorney gets excited about a class action lawsuit is because it means a ton of money for them personally.
If you like Julie Ann Emery as Betsy Kettleman, you guys should consider watching "Preacher" sometime. She plays one of Herr Starr's underlings, and she pretty much steals every scene she's in.
It's even worse: the best way to ensure Jimmy's proper use of the law would have been to have him inside the business and use him where his talents are.
By punching down, ensuring he doesn't get a fair shot, Chuck actually ensured he would go down the path he did.
All because the idea of him as an equal was just unacceptble for his own frail ego.
In Breaking Bad Saul says he once convinced someone that he was Kevin Costner.
If you really hate a character that means the actor is really good.
Mike's story in Five-Oh makes me so sad.
Simone must have had a hard time working as an elevator, i hear the job has its ups and downs. 😢
I think you have to be a dad to make those jokes.
56:07 But what happens in episode 1? Jimmy tries to scam the Kettlemans into giving him their business. In season 1 we see him complicit in a conspiracy for Nacho to rob the Kettlemans, takes a bribe, hires someone to do a B&E and burgle, unethically stages a stunt to drum up business, and assaults a police officer in order to enable his client to steal a notepad. He is constantly breaking the law and we know he becomes Saul. Even in season 1 he's Slipping Jimmy with a law degree, taking whatever shortcuts he can to try and make money. By the time he's looked into elder law he's starting to walk the straight and narrow, but it's not as though Chuck's distrust is misplaced. Jimmy is incredibly likeable, fun to watch and he's not done anything horrendous that we've seen, but even now he's not exactly doing the right thing.
Whether Jimmy would be breaking the law like this had Chuck put trust in his brother and hired him at HHM is an interesting question, but let's not pretend that Jimmy is a saint and Chuck is entirely unjustified. Incredibly horrible still and utterly two-faced, but Chuck isn't necessarily mistaken about who his brother is. They are both flawed people.
Yeah without reading Chuck's mind it's hard to say how much of it was snobbery or a legitimate concern that Jimmy would do unethical things.
@@bg7893 Suggestion of spoilers going forward:
I mean, as we learn later on in the show it's definitely both. He resents his brother for a variety of reasons, but he is also a well principled man who cares about the law. To what extent each motivates his actions is entirely speculation.
Just wanted to offer perspective because it really frustrates me the number of people who watch this show and just view Chuck as a one dimensional bad guy who is petty and gets in the way of his brother.
@@goodguykonrad3701 Exactly. I often think that people's reaction to Chuck really separates the critical thinkers from people who only have knee jerk emotional reactions to things.
People who can't see that Chuck has every reason for not wanting Jimmy to practice law (let alone is his OWN law firm) have nothing going on upstairs.
@@goodguykonrad3701 Also you have to keep in mind what Chuck knew, rather than what we know. Chuck was aware of his past, of course. He also knew about the billboard stunt but nothing about the twins staging the accident or what he did to get the Kettleman's back to HHM.
I think it's possible that if Chuck was truly supportive while keeping a check on Jimmy's more outrageous tricks, we might never have had Saul. But if Chuck gave him unqualified support without guarding against his questionable ethics, then Jimmy would have slid back to his old ways.
Julie Ann Emery (Betsy Kettleman) is such a great actress 🙌
Don't hate chuck guys. You will regret it later. He's portrayed by McKean superbly.
I'm surprised that George didn't recognize the big mouth with the guns as Trevor from GTA 5 or TWD.
Its so weird to me that people blame Chuck for Jimmy not being able to change. First of all Jimmy is a grown man not a child, there is nothing stopping him from proving Chuck wrong. Secondly Jimmy just showed us he hasnt changed in the first episode when he tried to pull out a scam and the Twins that were helping him almost got killed by Tuco. And finally Chuck is indeed arrogant and a douche but he clearly cares about Jimmy, remember Chuck saved Jimmy from going to jail as a sex offender plus the fact he asked Howard to be the one to deny Jimmy a place in the company means Chuck cares about Jimmy's feelings otherwise he would just have done it himself.
They actually taught us how to unlock a car with a string like that in Boy Scouts
Forgot how quickly this show goes, damn.
1×6 and 1×9 are in my top 10 of the series
Some moments in television and cinema stand the test of time. For me, "I am your Father," "I am Maximus Decimus Meridius," and BCS season 1 episode 6 will always stand out in my mind. The delivery and emotion Jonathan Banks gave in that whole episode is just top tier. There are a few more of these moments to come in this series and I look forward for you to experience them.
I’ve watched the parking garage scene so many times I’ve lost track.
When you started watching Breaking Bad I knew that Mike would become one of your favourite characters. He’s certainly my favourite from both series, although Jimmy is a very close second.
If you want to see more mike stuff, look up "Security Training with Michael Ehrmantraut". It is one of the series of shorts produced by AMC based on Better Call Saul Characters.
Episode 8 is the reason that when I shred stuff (credit cards and statements and such) I cut it weirdly, then shred things at different times and get rid of them at different times. I'm not paranoid about much ... but I am for this for some reason.
Or you could just use a cross-cut shredder.
I do similar paranoid things, like put my ripped-up documents in separate trash bags so that crooks can't get everything they need from stealing a single one 😆
There's a breaking bad episode where Saul tells Walter I once convinced a girl I was Kevin Cosner
Chuck is one of the "best" villains ever. i mean comeon.. who of us is ever gonna meet or deal with a Tuco or other mob boss. But i am sure a lot of us came across a Chuck at some time in their live.
Hey Georges and Simone, did you realise that Chuck is the singer of Spinal Tap ?
Have you guys (Simone and George) figured out that Chuck is David St. Hubbins from Spinal Tap?
*After seeing Mike’s episode when it first aired until now, I just realized, wouldn’t they have body cam footage? Well, no actually the cops might’ve turned them off knowing they were going to kill Mike. Nvrmind*
They didn't have body cams way back then. This was 2001 at the latest.
There are other law firms than HHM Jimmy could approach
For work or for this case? For this case it could get complicated with the work that Chunk put in
1:07:08 He is driving around in the white Cadillac in Breaking Bad
Elevator? You got a rise out of her.
Correct George.
No filter = present unless
Yellow filter = Mexico
Blue filter = past
Black & White = future
Until later.
That scene in Breaking Bad where Hector kills Gus' partner should have been green. I knew it was Mexico but how was I supposed to know it was in the past?
One of the most unrealistic things about this series is the Kettelmans' house not getting searched with dogs. There's money sniffing dogs just like there's dogs trained to sniff out drugs.
Not only is Sandpiper evil but recycling shredded paper, in most places, is strongly advised against because it can gum up the machines. Not too huge but it’s just a little more scum in their swamp of villainy.
Not very smart either. There are companies that take shredded material for disposal so that no one can do what Jimmy did. Fun fact: when Iran seized the US Embassy in 1979 they pieced together shredded top secret documents in the same manner.
"I am the Breaking Bad" - Jimmy
Yes that was indeed the show :) The Andy Grifith Show 2.0 😁
I have an older brother ... its really rare tgat Hollywood gets the brother dynamic correct.
Chuck/Jimmy is a good example of when they do 😥