This is just incorrect as I've already stated. First, the show tells us that he left HHM in early/mid 2001 and we know that BCS picks up in early/mid 2002. So at most, he'd been gone for about a year (Howard alludes to a similar period of time when talking about trying to get Chuck to take the buyout). And Jimmy quit HHM before Chuck had his issues so those aren't related at all.

And he DID go back into the office with Jimmy to help him get one hell of a deal on the referral for Sandpiper. He did Jimmy a MASSIVE solid there. You rarely see referral fees that high from the general pool.

At this point in his career, he's a rainmaker. He's not a front-line grunt that bothers with the day to day shit. He nails down clients and coordinates massive multi-state litigation efforts.

Why let a massive revenue source walk if you don't have to? That's not how successful firms stay successful.

Those firms are like sharks - they have to be constantly looking for food and if they aren't growing, they're dying. If a firm starts letting clients like Mesa Verde walk, they're simply withering and dying.

Yeah. The beautiful thing about BB and BCS is there is no good guy or bad guy. It's a whole lotta gray. Even crazy assed Tuco has some redeeming characteristics.

He wasn't interested in saving them until Howard mentioned Jimmy. Once he mentioned Jimmy, Howard got very interested in saving them. Enough so that he managed to go into the office without the space suit. It had EVERYTHING to do with Jimmy.

Hurting Kim hurts Jimmy though.

Yep, I just hopped over to AMC's site and checked them out. Shit hits fan at Kinkos for sure.

So far I've only watched season 1 but it's much better than I thought it would be...

It's fantastic, and such a gear change from Breaking Bad, yet in the same world, but examined in a totally different viewpoint.
What has made it so strong I think is the evolution of BOTH Mike and Jimmy, because you get a twist of the legal drama, and a bit of a police procedural with Mike. Both are such grey characters, but it rings as more authentic to me, at least.

Either way, it's a pretty amazing testament to the Breaking Bad crew to completely tackle a very different perspective of known characters and episode after episode being so good.

By season 4, it's going to get into the thick of things and be crazy when Gus comes around. I've been keenly looking for when we're going to get a Pollos Hermanos reference - even something subtle like a brief glimpse of a restaurant sign in the far background of a scene. It's a perfect means of cueing that Gus is hovering in the periphery and about to come into the storyline.

I love it...very enjoyable show. Feels like BB a bit. I honestly thought I wouldn't like it when I heard it was announced and wasn't sure Saul could be good being all over episodes. Wrong.

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I personally thought that season 1 felt a lot like BB but this season has steered away from that into its own type of personality. The camera angles and everything like that are similar. Especially lighting. The storytelling is very different to me. Not better and not worse. Just different. I tend to forget all about BB when watching now. When Jimmy becomes Saul, it'll be more like BB I'm sure.

I think that's the part I'm amazed by. On some level, yes, BB is in the background because of the characters, but I very much enjoy this as its own separate entity. It doesn't feel like some Joanie Loves Chachie spin-off. At the same time, I totally like these tiny appearances by previous characters, in part because they are brief and don't force a bunch of extra exposition on them. They remain periphery characters who we see within the scope of the show's main characters.

To me, that's where the writing is so tight. Not a lot of primary scenes of the crossover characters in an attempt to illuminate all their back story instead of keeping focused on the main characters and the supporting cast of Better Call Saul.

We're almost through 2 seasons into a show named for a character who hasn't had 1 second of screentime, because Jimmy isn't Saul - not yet.

Just like BB, this show is flawless.

Chuck was in a virtual coma to begin the series. Jimmy had to BEG Chuck to get involved and he wouldn't budge. Chuck didn't seem to care about the company when he was leeching paychecks from HHM. He suddenly cares when Jimmy is somehow involved. Maybe his intentions were good originally. But it has turned into an unhealthy obsession to the point where he will exact revenge on an innocent victim, Kim, including throwing her into doc review for Jimmy's misdeeds.

You yourself said that Gilligan creates a lot of gray in his characters. But won't acknowledge the grayness in Chuck. We already know Jimmy's broken. While Chuck is on a higher moral ground than Jimmy, he's broken too. He reminds me a lot of Hank, actually. Hank wasn't a bad guy. But his obsession drove him to lengths he shouldn't go.

So, some people have quite a bit of time on their hands...

From a website, but I forget which, I just copied the interesting tidbit.

I don’t typically like anagram theories, but this one is too hard to resist. A Redditor, cassieboy81, rearranged all the episode titles this season, and came up with a mind-blowing possibility:

Fifi
Rebecca
Inflatable
Nailed
Gloves Off
Switch
Bali Ha’i
Amarillo
Cobbler
Klick


“Fring’s Back.”



Back from the dead.

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Nice.