Better Call Saul thread

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  1. Sterling A

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    'Breaking Bad' Actor Bryan Cranston Directs A 'Better Call Saul' Season 3 Episode

    While fans were excited due to previous rumors that actor Bryan Cranston could be making an appearance when "Better Call Saul" Season 3 release date arrives, latest info suggest that he will be in the series but not as a member of its cast. Apparently, Cranston won't be reprising his "Breaking Bad" role as Walter White as he will be working behind the camera instead.


    As revealed by showrunner Vince Gilligan, they are working out the schedules so Bryan Cranston may direct an episode of "Better Call Saul" Season 3. Directing is nothing new to the actor as he has been working behind the camera in several TV shows in the past such as "Malcolm in the Middle," "Modern Family," "The Office" and even three episodes of "Breaking Bad."

    'Better Call Saul' Season 3 Air Date

    For now, AMC has not yet made an official announcement for the "Better Call Saul" Season 3 release date except that it will be definitely come out by 2017. There are some who speculate that it may even premiere as early as February.
     
  2. Sterling A

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    ‘Better Call Saul’ season 3: Aaron Paul wants to return as Jesse Pinkman

    January 11 2017 6:27 AM

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    “Better Call Saul” season 3 promo had teased earlier that there will be more “Breaking Bad” connection in the forthcoming season. Speculations have been rife that Bryan Cranston (Walter White), Gus Fring (Giancarlo Esposito) and Dean Norris (Hank Schrader) might return in the third chapter of the show. Now, Aaron Paul has also said that he wants to return in the role of Jesse Pinkman.

    Fans love Paul in the role of Pinkman and they have been asking him to essay the character again. Paul himself loves the character so much that he is ready to don the role any day. He was recently asked if he would return in “Better Call Saul” season 3 and he said that he would love to do that.

    “I was actually just with all of them [the Breaking Bad gang] at the AFI luncheon yesterday. And I did ask that question–when am I gonna come to Albuquerque for my wardrobe fitting? But I don't know! It's still up in the air,” he said.

    In “Breaking Bad,” Pinkman was shown indulged in the drug business from the beginning while Walter White was just a teacher initially. Hence, chances are there that Pinkman may be seen in the show’s spinoff prequel. However, nothing can be said to be true as of now.

    Furthermore, Paul revealed that he is a huge fan of the show. He said that while filming “Breaking Bad,” he “lived within the show” and felt that the story actually happened to him. Hence, he feels good to also get the back story.

    “Max (Maximino Arciniega who plays Domingo "Krazy-8" Molina) is one of my dearest friends, and Vince (Vince Gilligan, creator) let me know that he was making a cameo. He was supposed to die in the pilot, but we all just loved him so much that they brought him back to life", Paul told Esquire.

    “Better Call Saul” season 3 is all set to premiere during spring. The show is streamed on Stan in Australia. Meanwhile, fans are eagerly waiting for updates and new teasers as well as traliers.
     
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  3. bro

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  6. Shawn Hunter

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    Yep, family tastes like chicken, basically. Sounds like something a cannibal would say.
     
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    Giancarlo Esposito Confirms His Return As Gus Fring On ‘Better Call Saul’ By Sealing The Deal With Chicken

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    Most knew that Giancarlo Esposito would be making some sort of appearance in Better Call Saul season three after AMC released their upbeat tease for Los Pollos Hermanos earlier in the week. Now it can be confirmed thanks to the actor’s appearance at the show’s TCA 2017 panel, handing out some Pollos Hermanos chicken for those in attendance. It’s a welcome sight for fans of Breaking Bad and the Bob Odenkirk-led prequel, mostly because it gives us a chance to see what led to that point where Fring meets Walter White near the end of season two. While we know Walter White’s story from start to finish, the details for Fring still leave room for exploration according to Esposito:

    “I had to remind myself in coming back to be really present with the character, and that in this time, he’s more immature. He’s still finding his way… So I’m excited to be back. Certainly, Vince has described to me a situation where Gus is a very cagey character…he was a guy who wanted revenge, a guy who wanted to create a business, but he was also a guy who was very caring with his people. So I want to see where we go with it, and sometimes it’s more exciting to have a character who’s more mysterious.”

    The process of bringing Esposito back to the show was slow, but he was open because he “loved being with this family of filmmakers,” even joking that he’d be up for a show called The Rise Of Gus. For Peter Gould and Vince Gilligan, there wasn’t a plan B if they couldn’t bring Gustavo Fring back to the fold and it led to a few jokes about that anagram that “hidden” near the end of last season:

    Vince Gilligan: “Giancarlo’s been a part of the family forever, and we know what a great guy he is. And not to get into the dealmaking, we knew there was only one way to go forward. how do you not see this wonderful character in the show? It’s a show we thought was going to be easier to write when we started… Every year, and this season is no different, every season is inching the ball down the field, closer and closer, sometimes baby steps, sometimes large leaps, of the journey of Jimmy McGill toward Saul Goodman. In that sense, there’s a certain consitency to the show.”

    One of the happiest members of the show seems to be Jonathan Banks, cracking jokes at every opportunity and showing off some of the friendly banter he shares with Esposito. Banks gets a good one in by saying the actor “has never been on time in his life,” prompting an equally sharp reply:

    “I have never missed a call in my life. The difference between me and you is I have hair and it’s done when I get there!”

    The Breaking Bad spinoff will return on Monday April 10th, following up on a season where the show came into its own and stepped partially out of its predecessor’s shadow. That said, there are hints that Saul might follow up on where the original series ended in some manner. Gould teased as much while discussing the beauty of the show’s role in the Breaking Bad story:

    “One of the things that’s fascinating is we always talk about it as a prequel to Breaking Bad, but in some ways it’s a sequel to Breaking Bad. So who knows what we’re going to see?”

    That’s certainly a fun way to look at the series, especially given how the whole of Breaking Bad played around with timelines a bit in the past. Season two’s glimpses at the disaster that would highlight the finale and the final season’s bookends with Walter at Denny’s come to mind. The sky is the limit for this show at this point and season three should be the point that the show becomes a must see on your schedule.

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  8. PAHokie

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    Season 3 back in two weeks.
     
  9. Shawn Hunter

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  10. SugarShaun

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    S2 just hit Netflix too
     
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    Thank god
     
  12. Gunners

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    Five-O is such an amazing episode of television, as good as any I've ever seen.
     
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    nm
     
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    Yessss
     
  15. EdmondDantes

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    cant wait. love this show so much.
     
  16. Gunners

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    3 episodes to go on rewatch, don't have the self control to wait.

    What drove Mike to try and kill Hector, was there something else after he threatened his granddaughter?
     
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  18. PAHokie

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    Mike's storyline is the best storyline. It could move slow and still be captivating. Jimmy's on the other hand needs to hurry up.
     
  19. TDCD

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    Sauls storyline sucks and every scene with chuck is nails on a chalkboard for me.
     
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  20. Cherno Alpha

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    Well damn, maybe I'm in the minority, but I kinda like the show's deliberate, methodical, (bordering on tedious) approach. It's been a part of the show and again showcased in this very episode. Sure, mike's "silent" scenes do tend to be the most engrossing to me, but I like them contrasted against something like Kim's semi-colon usage and chuck's method for tape removal without harming the varnish.

    Maybe it's because I have a brother, but it's brutal to me to watch chuck just hate the shit out of his sibling. Hamlin called Jimmy a "world class son of a bitch", and he's right, but so is Chuck. I have enough family bullshit to deal with without loathing my brother.

    Also, I like Jimmy McGill. I'm not in a rush to see him be Saul Goodman using legal chicanery to get people out of trouble in a procedural. Maybe, when I know the outcome, I'm more interested in the tragedy and the downfall.

    I wouldn't be angry if that collapse in the cold open was a fatal stroke or heart attack or something. I don't care about a "Gene: Cinnabon Manager" spinoff, and Saul's story has been told. This show is it's own wonderful thing, racing towards opportunities to include breaking bad easter eggs is a poor goal.

    At first, I thought the scene with the air field soldier seemed out of place, but I like it for exposing that bit of "Saul" that so many are looking for. He starts out Jimmy in that conversation, and ends out telling the soldier, for the sake of a commercial, that he'll bury him. Jimmy shows some real pain on his face after that "win"
     
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  21. Jean-Ralphio

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    I agree with you. I wanna see Saul but whats great about seeing Saul if the story up until seeing him is shitty? idk, honestly i think they're fucking killing it. This is a show about a lawyer having a hard time navigating his life. He wants to be a great lawyer but his talent isnt that he's great at law and a hard worker. but he's trying to do it anyways. He usually ends up going back to his true talent: scams. when he accepts that he'll be Saul. but if we dont see this struggle idk why Saul would ever be very interesting.
     
  22. EMAW FC

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    semi colon scene was excruciatingly perfect, never been that anal about anything but it got kim from the mailroom to a lawyer. stark contrast to jimmy's approach
     
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    Agree.

    The other thing I thought of was Her (lack of) trust in Jimmy. Was she going over everything again rather than having Mesa Verde submit the paperwork because she was worried Jimmy may sabotage her and she wanted to make sure he didn't? I don't see why she would think that but I wondered at the time if that's what they were implying or it was just her being anal.
     
  24. JC

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    This show is so incredible
     
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  25. cutig

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    Enojyed the episode. I wonder how long it takes them to show us Gus again. We know it's coming, I just hope its sooner rather than later.

    Also - I think the better premise for this spinoff would have been Mike. He's absolutely killed it for 2 seasons. Jimmy is interesting, but I think that would be a better side story than Mike. Mikes sequences are the ones I look forward to every time the show airs. Maybe its just me, but he is way better than Jimmy so far.
     
  26. Cherno Alpha

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    I can see the motivations working either way, but fwiw, Seahorn on talking saul said it was just her character recognizing how colossal the consequences could be because of a typo, and being determined that something so minor was not gonna be the thing that fucks her over. So yeah, being anal, but with good reason.
     
  27. Cherno Alpha

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    Allegedly he's already here by ep. 2, but I wouldn't be surprised if he's kept a bit more in the background for much of the season a) because fring doesn't desire to be prominent and b) his presence (both character and esposito as an actor) could really steal the spotlight.

    I don't entirely disagree, but I think this feels like a bit of hindsight to me. Both Gilligan and Gould have said that they actually envisioned almost a full blown comedy tone to this series, and it wasn't until things started to progress that they recognized how serious and complex so much of it could be, so they adapted their story to accommodate that depth.

    Banks is fucking excellent as Mike, and I think that drove G&G to expand his role in this show, and it's a good tool when the show needs to get more pensive, add tension, or just give us some more awesome Ehrmantraut time. I feel like this has resulted, at times, like I'm actually watching two different shows with only the barest connection between the two, and that space has allowed Mike's story to progress more, which I don't consider a bad thing, but I think it's an attempt to make slight course changes that include what is undoubtedly a strong point of the show, while still balancing the time and development of a show that, in the end, has saul in the name.

    I also think the seriousness of Mike's arc has resulted in a much more nuanced fall for Jimmy, it's not just him saying "fuck it, I've hustled before" and doing it now as a lawyer. The gravity of Mike's story demands that we get something satisfying from the transformation to Saul Goodman.
     
  28. je ne suis pas ici

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    Cant wait for chuck to die
     
  29. je ne suis pas ici

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    Cant be but maybe 1-2 seasons left right?
     
  30. NCHusker

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    I really love this show.
     
  31. Gambler

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    Gus had that look when he was sweeping outside.
     
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    Interested to see how Gus and Mike become partners in crime after such a one-sided beginning to their relationship.
     
  33. bic

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    Mutual interest in wanting Hector dead. Gus just didn't want it to happen the way Mike was about to do it. Then Gus has his people track Mike to see what he's up to, Mike flips it on them and tracks it back and Gus decides to make contact with the phone. Gus knows Mike is a very capable person now on top of the shared desire to see Hector/his family suffer.
     
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  34. Cherno Alpha

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    Fring is still unparalleled when it comes to adding tension by his mere presence. That ice cold motherfucker chills my blood even as a spectator.
     
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    Fuck Chuck
     
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  36. 941Gator

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    He has crossed the line IMO. He is recently breaking bad if you will, plus he is just an asshole anyway.
     
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    if Chuck were a real person, Trump would nominate him as Secretary of Shit-Baggery.

    Fuck, Chuck.
     
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  38. rickyrubio4life

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    Love the reintroduction of his secretary/receptionist.
     
  39. bic

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    Francesca, Gus and Victor all came back in the same episode. With that and Jimmy getting caught in the act at Chuck's house we may actually be a little closer to him becoming Saul Goodman than I think most of us thought.
     
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  40. dvnasty

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    feels like this season shit is gonna go off the rails and I cannot wait
     
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  41. Sterling A

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    What a fucking good show. Fuck chuck, what a total dickbag. He singlehandedly is turning Jimmy into Saul.
     
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  42. Tex

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    Just caught up and man it's good. Feels like old breaking bad episodes.

    Fuck chuck
     
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  43. Gunners

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    The BB appearances without forcing them are phenomenal
     
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  44. enjj

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    So is the show still Better Call Jimmy or have they decided to actually start Saul?
     
  45. TexTide04

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    Slow burn with Jimmy, but you can tell it's coming soon. Certainly after his interaction with Chuck at the beginning of the episode. That was brutal.
     
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  46. Jean-Ralphio

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    Mike fucking with the truck was beautiful.

    Jimmy story is slow, but it feels like they might be setting up for the fallout with Kim.

    Love this show.
     
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  47. Cherno Alpha

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    You just knew it was gonna happen at least once, but I got a big smile at Mike, for all his talents, needing three attempts to get those shoes on the wire.

    And as for the cold open, I would have enjoyed it purely for the great camerawork and visuals this show can bring, but having it revealed as a flash-forward, with the requisite detail changes is some excellent storytelling work.

    I don't do a lot of complaining in general about something I enjoy, and this is minor, but for the sake of seeming evenhanded...I did think to myself that this particular plan of Mike's didn't strike me as having the highest probability of success.