Better Call Saul - prequel to Breaking Bad. Series Finale out now on Netflix.

Just finished it

Fantastic stuff

I thought it was a perfect ending.

But at the same time I was shouting "WHAT THE strawberry float ARE YOU DOING SAUL!" at the TV. :lol:

It was a good episode. Quite slow and did tie things up.

I'm not really sure his plan would work. There's nothing stopping the civil suit happening other than Julie being satisfied that someone took the blame.

I feel slightly vindicated that Howard's body was important in the end even though I got the why part wrong.

Moggy wrote:I thought it was a perfect ending.

But at the same time I was shouting "WHAT THE strawberry float ARE YOU DOING SAUL!" at the TV.

Exactly the same! Part of me wanted him out at that point but I knew he had to get his comeuppance at some point. I look at the series as really a love story between him and Kim.

The whole series was beautiful. What do I do now

I usually watch the new episode the moment it comes on Netflix, but I can't face watching the finale knowing I'll never see a new episode again and knowing they'll almost certainly never be such a finely crafted TV show again....maybe tonight. Every time a new episode was going to be on, I'd naturally wake up really earlier and it'd feel like your birthday morning when you was a kid. Truly the greatest series ever made.

That prison bus scene was pretty weird tho

Edd wrote:That prison bus scene was pretty weird tho

I don't think it was. Saul was pretty famous in Albuquerque. And criminals had a very good reason to love him.

Moggy wrote:
Edd wrote:That prison bus scene was pretty weird tho

I don't think it was. Saul was pretty famous in Albuquerque. And criminals had a very good reason to love him.

Yeah definitely, it was just the chanting together I found odd, it would have worked if that chant was a common thing from his old adverts or something but from what I remember it never was.

Watched it last night, has a TV show ended in such a perfect way :wub:

Lex-Man wrote:It was a good episode. Quite slow and did tie things up.

I'm not really sure his plan would work. There's nothing stopping the civil suit happening other than Julie being satisfied that someone took the blame.

It was not Saul's plan to exonerate Kim. He states he lied about Kim (the false details Saul fed to the police was given to Kim in the phone call we didn't get to hear) in order for her to come to court so she could hear what he has to say. He then admitted he was lying to get her there. He wanted to take responsibility for his actions and wanted Kim to know about his regrets and was not undermining what Kim said in her affidavit, so she is still potentially liable for a civil suit.

Though if I had to guess I would agree that Cheryl probably would be satisfied that someone took the blame and will not sue Kim. Cheryl was pissed in the previous episode but also on some level seemed to respect her for eventually doing the right thing

Moggy wrote:I thought it was a perfect ending.

But at the same time I was shouting "WHAT THE strawberry float ARE YOU DOING SAUL!" at the TV.

Yeah me too. Though they weren't going for realistic they was going for poignant and meaningful, from a narrative point of view sort of made sense He'd rather Kim felt something for him than get off with a 7 stretch but....the rest of his life in jail! Also he's in a fictionalised version of ADX Florence. ADX is the worst of the worst of US prisons and houses some very dangerous people https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADX_Florence . Its implied he's returned to his Jimmy persona and has some redemption but unfortunately realistically he end up back in his Saul ways in order to survive. I know he is treated like a local celebrity but at some point he's going to be pressured into doing something bad by one of the other inmates

Clarkman wrote:Loved the finale. Pitch perfect. Cameos didn't add much, but the time machine theme was a really finely poised choice.

Loved the Cameos, Bryan Cranston crushing it as always. Slipped seamlessly into the role at both periods of his trajectory in both episodes. I like that didn't romanticise him they portrayed at his most arrogant and petty, a guy with a superiority complex who couldn't even entertain a thought experiment without being a pompous twat. I actually mouthed 'strawberry float off' when he said 'speak up!' and 'stay in your lane'.

Marie was a nice surprise, between her and Betsy Kettleman they've really spoilled us on the MILF front this season :wub:

If anything I was a little more disappointed with Mikes final scene. Was hoping for something a little more poignant maybe a heart-to-heat with his granddaughterrather than [mainly] a vehicle for Sauls emotional journey.

The Chuck scene was the best part of the episode, perfectly encapsulated their complex relationship in such a short scene.

Just watched the final two episodes back to back, absolute TV perfection :datass:

Too many good moments to single out really, it was all so well done and just such a satisfying conclusion to over a decades worth of storytelling.

I've always been a fan of BB's ending, but for me this tops it

Moggy wrote:
Fingers crossed for a Huell spinoff.

Moggy wrote:

It's fun reading the first couple of pages of this thread for the scepticism on whether Better Call Saul would be any good.

Cuttooth wrote:It's fun reading the first couple of pages of this thread for the scepticism on whether Better Call Saul would be any good.

Finished this last night. Really good. Ending felt right. Loved the cinematography throughout. Interesting without being pretentious.

Better Call Saul - prequel to Breaking Bad. Series Finale out now on Netflix.

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