Originally published at: To help you deal with the loss of Better Call Saul, here's some Bob Odenkirk stand up | Boing Boing
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It wasn’t until the final episode that I realized the “flash-forward” period of Jimmy/Saul living as Gene Takovic in Omaha was only supposed to be a few months after the final events of Breaking Bad. So the total amount of calendar time between the events of the Breaking Bad pilot and the events of the Better Call Saul finale was just a little over two years.
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No wonder they aged so much, that was a rough two years.
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I was pleasantly surprised when rewatching Breaking Bad the past few weeks that they actually referenced this. Saul throws out a line, “When this is all over, I’ll be lucky to be managing a Cinnabon in Omaha” at one point. It’s great that they pulled that out for his actual “witness protection” in the new series. Really connects everything together. Makes it seem like the original show was planned even into the spin-off, even though it’s closer to a ret-con.
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Yeah before any details about the Better Call Saul spinoff were announced fans were already sharing memes of Saul photoshopped behind a Cinnabon counter as a joke referencing what most people had assumed was just a throwaway line.
And honestly it kind of stretched plausibility that he really did end up in that exact position—even if he’d planned it all out that way, why share that information with Walt? It worked as fan service though.
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This headline really spoke to me. I’ve been asking people to be gentle with me, as the days peeled off towards the (amazing) final episode. I"m trying to keep steady by reading articles like this one. Thank you.
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pretty sure that’s Mos Def in the Melrose skit
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I just watched
It was a hoot. From the opening scene, I knew that this movie was going to be different. I had no idea just how different.
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I watched Nobody with zero knowledge of the plot, which I think helped. It was on one of the premium channels and I thought, why not watch something with Bob Odenkirk? After the quirky opening scene with the wee kitten, I thought it was going to be a movie about how how a mild-manner worker bee goes bananas after a house burglary. But oh no. He just wants his boring bliss back.
And the supporting actors were fantastic, both the good (his dad Christopher Lloyd) and the bad (a menacing and over the top Aleksey Serebryakov).
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