FYI, part 2 of season 4 drops in a month. There will then be a final 5th season after that. At least that’s what I understood after reading an interview with the shows creators.
I agree, I didn’t like him after his first scene, but scene with the cheerleader was great and changed my opinion of him.
I had to look that up. I guess don’t would be my advice? But if you are watching The Boys you don’t have any sense anyway.
Damn, you’re right. So what we’re getting in a month is the conclusion of season 4 with two episodes, which I imagine will leave us with cliff hangars for season 5 either late this year or sometime next year. Which SUCKS! I hate waiting.
I agree, I didn’t like him after his first scene, but scene with the cheerleader was great and changed my opinion of him
Yep, his first scene setup “this guy is an asshole” vibes. And then they totally twisted that around and he’s excellent. Way more depth to him than I expected. I really admire what the series has done by showing older kids being kind to younger ones. Supportive and caring. Steve and Dustin have had such a great friendship, despite Steve grousing he’s “babysitting.”
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You’re not the only one.
The final two episodes are basically each a movie too. I think one is about 1.5 hours and the the finale is about 2.5 hours.
I read an interview with the Duffer brothers, where they said they regretted killing off the cheerleader character after seeing the chemistry the two actors had in that scene. They filmed the death early in production and that scene later, so they couldn’t change things.
I can understand that. Really was an interesting friendship that could have developed there. Two very different people, each damaged in their own way, finding commonalities. I dig writing like that.
Oh, that.
I’d already seen it before in some horror movie or show previously…
better than one might expect, given that it’s a bunch of geologists talking about limestone
August 5th!
For the first time in all caught up with Better Call Saul, and holy fuck was that a hell of a cliffhanger to break on.
I’ll blur the rest since it has spoilers.
I have to give so much credit to the show writers for how they have built up this show and as a master class in how prequels should be done. There’s generally no introducing of Breaking Bad characters “just because” — everything has to have a reason. Everything has to make sense. Even the little things like the origin story of Saul’s tacky pinky ring has a purpose and it’s not just there so fans can have an Easter egg. Whenever Breaking Bad characters appear it’s because they are actually relevant to the story — not just as a distraction.
Then there’s the evolution of Kim’s character. Far from the moderating force she appeared to be early on — she’s shown that she is just as conniving if not more than Jimmy, but she’s shown that she can also be immensely vindictive as well. If anything it seemed that she’s been the one who was pushing hard on Jimmy toward the plot to ruin Howard. There were multiple times where they could have ceased their scam, and many times where Jimmy seemed to want to stop the scam — but it was Kim, not Jimmy who kept things moving. She has shown that she is not one to be crossed. “Made of sterner stuff”, indeed. When Mike was telling Jimmy about the “bad choice road”, it sure seemed to be relevant to the whole Howard revenge scam. And the culmination in this storyline? Holy shit, I wasn’t the only one who had to pick my jaw off the floor after that. (Sorry, too soon?)
It wasn’t just what happened to Howard, which was tragic and senseless, that was shocking. (As much of a dick as he was, he didn’t deserve that fate.) It’s also what this means for the remainder of show’s story.
Up until now BCS has really been two shows in one. There’s the lawyer side, and the cartel/criminal side. Jimmy was the buffer between the two sides, but never did the two sides meet directly. It was always “a guy who knew a guy who knew a guy”. Once Lalo came in and killed Howard was when those two worlds came crashing together.
So the big mysteries that remain as far as I’m concerned are what will happen to Kim and Lalo? They are really the only important characters who’s fate is unknown.
I don’t think Kim will get killed. Jimmy obviously cares for her deeply and in BrBa he doesn’t show any signs of being affected by the violent death of someone that he loves. Given how great a job the show writers do with continuity I can’t imagine this being overlooked.
Maybe she goes to jail? Maybe she opts for the “dust filter for a Hoover Max Extract Pressure Pro Model 60” from Best Quality Vacuum? She grew up in Nebraska and Jimmy ends up in Nebraska managing a Cinnabon. Is this a coincidence? 
Will the flash forward end up in a Jimmy and Kim reuniting? I’d love to see this — as many terrible things as they have done, I don’t think they are beyond redemption or undeserving of happiness together. But who knows?
When Saul Goodman is introduced in BrBa he asks if Jesse and Walt were sent by Nacho Varga or Lalo Salamanca. This makes me think that Lalo makes it out of BCS alive. Then again, this would mean that he didn’t know Nacho had already died (RIP, king). If Jimmy knew Lalo was dead, he wouldn’t have asked this (and there’s no way the writers would make such a big continuity gaffe). Lalo is smart and has proven to be Teflon thus far. That doesn’t mean he didn’t get offed at some point and Jimmy simply didn’t know about it.
Jimmy clearly has a lot of money in BrBa, but is that all from his Sandpiper settlement? Maybe he used a big chunk of that to pay off Lalo and/or get Kim into hiding? So many questions!
Either way I really can’t wait to see how this all resolves itself. I’m sure it’s gonna be great.
Final episode of Gaslit. Hey, producers… Bob Woodward
Now for the blurring…
However, i did find the build-up to it to be a lot of wheel spinning with very little forward momentum. There was a lot of plot given over to this great scam to bring down Howard and i agree the pay-off was superb but it was kind of frustrating to be shown things that were seemingly critical to the scam working but not being told why. I dare say this first half dragged somewhat in places but it’s still far and away the best thing currently showing. Howard absolutely did not deserve that. 
One; Howard didn’t have to confront Kim and Jimmy, so in my opinion his death was one of Privileged White Guy Entitlement Gone Awry.
Two:Lalo absolutely does NOT make it out of the show alive; we know this because Gus’ superlab does eventually get completed without the cartel becoming wise. That couldn’t have happened if Lalo lived. Jimmy clearly doesn’t realize that by the time Breaking Bad starts, but consider that he also doesn’t know that Nacho is dead.
Fuck Howard; had he actually stood up to Chuck instead of playing the heel back when Jimmy worked for HHM, none of the melee which followed would have happened.
Howard is hardly one of the least principled characters in the show, though.
A milquetoast passive-aggresive overly concerned with appearances to the point where he’s almost impossible to love? Sure. But not a cruel person who regularly brought direct harm to innocent people to enrich himself. In the world of Better Call Saul/Breaking Bad he’d barely rate a 3 on the Albuquerque Bastard Index.
I didnt say that he was; I simply have no sympathy whatsoever for him.
That he wasn’t regularly cruel is irrelevant to my point that he was shallow and spineless overall; and while he didn’t deserve to be shot in the head, that doesn’t mean he was some innocent little victim of Jimmy & Kim’s machinations.
IMO Howard brought a lot of his comeuppance upon himself.
Guess that depends on how you look at how he was trying to lengthen the sandpiper case to pad his billings
No disagreement here.
I had no problem with Jimmy and Kim taking him down a few pegs. He totally deserved it. He spent the entire series screwing over Jimmy, Kim, Chuck (who was pretty awful himself), and others. Assholes like him always land on their feet or fall upwards, as Kim so astutely noted early on. He would have been fine — and he even admitted such.
Unlike Jimmy who is totally honest with himself that he’s a “criminal” lawyer, Howard coated his acts in an air of self-importance. In this case, even knew he was being played and who was playing him, but he arrogantly thought he could turn the tables on Jimmy which played right into the con.
Fuck him indeed. But he didn’t deserve to be murdered like that.
My prediction right now is Gus shoots him at the construction site with the gun he hid in the last episode, and buries him under the foundation.
But who knows. These shows constantly surprise me.
Not sure how I feel about this.
Ant Man unique powers could defeat Thanos as an insiste job…
