Putyouinmyoven
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So, Jimmy is basically Walter white now? I think they went a bit too far with Sandpiper, that basically went into evil territory
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Better Call Saul S3 |OT| Gus Who's Back - Mondays 10/9c on AMC
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The writer of the episode said Saul is dead inside in Breaking Bad. So yeah, he's Walter White with worse to come.
Human Trashcan
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Let's be fair, Walt literally killed a guy in episode 1, lol. Jimmy's not Walt, as much of a scumbag as he is.
Jimmy was literally imploring Walt and Jesse to allow him to arrange Badger's death in his introductory episode.
He's pretty scummy.
IggyChooChoo
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Seen this joke made on about five different sites now, forgive me.
Hey, you never know. I hear Cinnabon Gene is headed for a big twist:
Human Trashcan
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yeah I mean Jimmy up to this point in BCS, not his eventual Saul-ness
Ah, apologies.
Jimmy is causing rifts in the friendships of old ladies... By season 3 of BB, Walt had murdered multiple people, intentionally ruined his partner's life in order to manipulate him and manufactured a huge amount of meth.
That was self defense though.
Human Trashcan
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fair, but even so, they're not really in the same ballpark yet. And in season 2 Walt already lets Jane die so he goes full murderer pretty quick
Yeah this thread fascinates me; Jimmy is a con man, has been most of his life.. honestly, he's probably done far worse than make an old lady cry before this in his life. We have no idea what happened to the array of people he conned out of money over the years. It's an absolute dogshit thing to do; could be literally causing families to lose their homes and children to starve
He's scummy before and after this; I don't think the ACT was much beyond Slippin' Jimmy, it's more his attitude about it all that is moving towards "Dead inside Saul." I've known a real life con-man or 2; they all do the same "convincing themselves they are only ripping off bad people" thing... Jimmy is losing that part of himself, but the action probably didn't cause any more harm than other shit he's done.. he just pretends they "deserve it."
What are you talking about? Netflix has it same day as the US everywhere in the world.
Except the US.
Not even close to or comparable with WW.
It's a different kind of moral evil. Instead of letting people die and hiring hit men, Saul is helping out murderers and suggesting that people be murdered. Both are ok with people being killed to benefit themselves. I don't think they're too far apart morally.
I know; but the US is in the world lol.
Human Trashcan
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I said "yet", I'm still talking about current BCS Jimmy
What's up, duckroll? Either I made a mistake or you misunderstood my post.
In Canada, it takes (just under) a year for a season to reach Netflix. I checked and the US is the same. The UK (and other countries?) is an exception in that they get new episodes about one day after it first airs. This is, I assume, because AMC isn't available in the UK.
UK isn't an exception. Every single country in the world with Netflix outside of North America gets it on the same day as a Netflix Original.
So it's available on Netflix in over a hundred countries on the same day.
Australia doesn't, it's available on another streaming service same day but not Netflix.
*shrug* ok. You realize the conversation was about US ratings? All I cared to do was acknowledge that it isn't the same everywhere (UK "an" exception, not the).
Edit- Wait what? I just read your post again. The UK is an exception of having to wait an entire year. I think you were just misreading
Damn, sounds like it got Voltron'd. We don't get Voltron on Netflix here in Singapore because it's on the Dreamworks cable channel here. Grrrrr.
When the whole world is the "exception" other than the US, it's the US that is the exception, not the rest of the world.
Ahhh I see your confusion now. Exception:When the whole world is the "exception" other than the US, it's the US that is the exception, not the rest of the world.
a person or thing that is excluded from a general statement
It's dependant on context. So with:
"It takes an entire year for a season to reach Netflix, the UK being an exception."
The UK is an exception to "It takes an entire year for a season to reach Netflix"
I'm sure the fact that I singled out the UK helped confuse things.
But then we wouldn't have had the Jimmy getting himself fired montage.
lol but then how is it an exception if almost every single country (except the US) is like that? You've just called the entire world 'an exception' as if the US is the rule. That's not a 'general statement' since you're only talking about one country's specific case, not Netflix in general (where it is released at the same time across the world).
To put it another way, your statement is like saying this:
Planets have humans. Mars is an exception.
We were talking about AMC ratings and the chance of renewal. I made a statement that I thought was true* in that context since it was specific to the US. The exception was to my statement.
I was using the word as 1.; it was interpreted as 2.
*just saw this:
My bad. I didn't think AMC would negotiate with Netflix year-to-year. If that's true, then it makes perfect sense that ratings outside the US matter to AMC and whether or not they renew the show.
Tbh, this is all overthinking things. I think BCS is still a pretty valuable property for AMC and there's no way they would cancel it outright. If it isn't doing well enough and they want to move on, they will still give it one more season to let the creators tie it up. Like, are we seriously pretending that it being canned after S3 is a possibility at all? Or are we looking at how many seasons more to expect?
Cornballer
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No, we're not. I have no idea why people are genuinely concerned about this.
Triggerhappytel
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Nah, Jimmy & Chuck's relationship developing was the best thing about season 2. The back and forth between the two of them is brilliantly written.
Season 1 really found it's groove once we found out Chuck was a major asshole and their relationship has been the heart of the show since then.
It still amuses me how much they seemed to set up Jimmy becoming Saul with the final scene of Season 1 (Jimmy declaring he'll never allow morality to "get in the way of things again!", whilst driving off darkly humming "Smoke on the Water"), only for the writers to literally have Jimmy backtrack the decision in the first moments of Season 2.
Cornballer
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- Newsday with a review of all of S3 (sans the finale which he hasn't seen yet)
- Observer interview with Rhea Seehorn
- Observer interview with Rhea Seehorn
Hello? This is Hailun!
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Tonight is the last EP of the season, Yeah?
Cornballer
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Correct. Tonight is the season finale.
Hello? This is Hailun!
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Too many loose ends to tie up in just one single EP.
He's a criminal lawyer, not a criminal lawyer.
it might be a little harder to accept because Jimmy on the surface wanted to do right and is such a nice guy, but the show has been playing at the fact that he can't escape what he's really good at, being a complete and utter sleazebag for the fast buck. It's only going to escalate. It's perfectly within character that they've been establishing up to this point.
Pai Pai Master
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Same with Fargo, I keep thinking both of these shows have a few more weeks left.
Cornballer
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Quick reminder that the show will run about 15 minutes past the hour tonight since it's a longer episode. The hour long after show will follow the episode. So that's BCS finale from 10:00-11:16pm and the after show from 11:16-12:15am according to the grid.
Cornballer
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- TV Guide interview with Rhea Seehorn
- AMC not being very subtle with their teasing/spoiling tonight's finale (instagram teaser)
- NY Mag: Behind the Scenes of Better Call Sauls Top Secret Finale (you might be able to glean a few things from the article, so please spoiler tag discussion as appropriate)
- AMC not being very subtle with their teasing/spoiling tonight's finale (instagram teaser)
- NY Mag: Behind the Scenes of Better Call Sauls Top Secret Finale (you might be able to glean a few things from the article, so please spoiler tag discussion as appropriate)