Better Call Saul (AMC) TV Show • Page 73

Yeah felt this way exactly. Looking at the 4-man sided teams of cartel superstars knowing that none of them perish at this point in the timeline...was still wondering how Nacho escaped this. Crushing death for sure.

 

Even knowing that there's no way he could've made it (because Gus, the twins, Bolsa, and Hector all live), I also still believed he was going to figure out some way to escape. Shit devastated me.

 

I haven’t watched BB since it aired but I feel like I enjoy the cartel stuff more in BCS. I know people in here have been calling those parts BB lite.

 

the "cartel stuff" in BCS has Nacho and Lalo, so it's automatically better than BB

 

i guess "had" Nacho :'(

 

Man that was tough to watch

 

That ending, wow

 

I haven’t been this fucked up since the episode where Mike had to handle the engineer.

 

I'm doing a rewatch while this is premiering and that was clearly a bad idea because now I'm just sad all the time.

 

Also if the continuity is correct with Breaking Bad, Saul thinks both Lalo and Nacho are alive, and at this moment nacho is dead but he thinks he's alive and Lalo is alive but he thinks he's dead. So presumably he's never going to find out about Nacho, and he will find out about Lalo (duh)

 

Saul's quote from season 2 of BB is:

"It wasn't me, it was Ignacio! He's the one! Siempre soy amigo di cartel! Lalo didn't send you? No Lalo?" (I removed where Jesse interrupts him for clarity)

So based on that, we know that Saul will eventually at least learn Lalo survived the attack at his compound, and also that at the end of BCS he will at least have reason to believe Lalo is still alive, regardless of what actually happens to Lalo. He could die by the end of the series but Saul just doesn't know for sure.

Also, Saul saying "He's the one" about Nacho implies that there's a chance he thinks Nacho is still alive. Usually "He's" is a contraction of "He is", not "He was". But that could be written around if they want to have Saul find out what happened, for whatever reason.

Based on this we also know which of Kim's two choices he picks lol

 

Mannnnnn

 

This show

 

I watched the end of this on YouTube like five times at work today

 

Mike at the end kills me.

“Do it”

 

I held off on reading the thread reactions to last night’s episode until I watched it.

I am devastated. That phone call to his dad. Oh my god the look of resignation on his face when he knows there’s only one thing left for him to do to truly ensure his father’s safety and you know it’s coming. Aw god. My heart is broken.

 

I remember seeing Michael Mando play the faux-tough bad boy type in Orphan Black not long before Better Call Saul started up and being mildly amused at seeing this Canadian actor turn up in the Breaking Bad spin-off.

Seven years later I'm watching him go out with an all-timer line delivery that I've already rewatched a bunch of times - "So when you are sitting in your shitty nursing home, and you're sucking down on your jell-o night after night for the rest of your life - you think of me."

 

He was one of the best video game villains ever in Far Cry 3

 

Oh man I loved the way he delivered the word “me” with that deep, guttural growl.

 

I think it was clear he was going to die, but I certainly didn’t expect it this early in the season. Michael Mando delivered an incredible performance this episode, and his monologue toward the end is probably one of my favorite moments from this whole series.

 

are we ready to say Michael Mando gave the best performance in either show yet? cos he fucking did. I physically recoiled away from the TV when he said "you'll think of ME"

knew this was coming since like s4 but fuck, did not make it any easier to watch

 

Michael Mando on playing Nacho Varga in last night's Better Call Saul

this is a real good read

"In that particular phone call, he’s free, he’s won, and he’s looking into the sunset. But his heart turns around and asks his father to come with him, indirectly, sub textually. And his father says no. So he willingly walks back into the fire and trades his life for the life of his father."

 

Wow just caught up. Our poor boy. At least he got tell Hector it was him.

 

Watched most of S5 last week and just finally caught up. Goddamn that was brutal, I wasn’t ready this early in the season.

We’re so conditioned to seeing characters buy more time when they’re in such an obviously doomed position. This episode was so gut-wrenching because it didn’t go there — the whole time I was wondering what Nacho’s way out could be, when the answer was obvious: there wasn’t one. He was doomed from the start and was just a minor pawn in the big picture of the cartel plotline. Devastating, but what a last scene for that character to go out on.

 

I just.... I cannot believe they are pulling off the magic trick of Breaking Bad's final season AGAIN a decade later. Maybe the greatest prequel ever written?