Better Call Saul [S2 EP 3] | Full Length Reaction
Added 2024-03-20 06:06:34 +0000 UTCHey guys! Sorry for the delay! Working late here LOL anyway this episode was pretty much about jimmy and his battles with his own self. Should i do it right or wrong oooooo we love a little character development
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Ha! No, I've just been in way too many situations where people and myself don't plan ahead, lol. One too many restroom emergencies to motivate me to learn how to prevent them, lol.
Raptor
2024-12-19 15:27:59 +0000 UTCWow, are you an ex-cop yourself? That's a very detailed and informative answer about Mike's sandwich! I like it! And it makes sense.
Saltire
2024-12-19 07:10:47 +0000 UTCYeah I've never totally understood the Haley gunshot stuff. I do think she is more paranoid though, than this being manipulative. She's scared, she's rushing around, has a kid to support and is low paid; and now Mike is back in her life, he can be a protector for her and Kayley. And yes, Chuck comes across as an arsehole in the solicitation scene - but he's right. In this world they have to do everything by the book, crossing the t's and dotting the i's, or else the other party can have something to fight them with, which could bring down the whole case. That scene shows that Jimmy is not meant for that type of practising law, he's more into being "colourful" with it.
Saltire
2024-12-19 07:08:31 +0000 UTCNever noticed Kim briefly speaking about her father in this episode. Its just one line, but you can see the distaste on her face as she speaks about him. So her father was as dodgy as her mother maybe?
Saltire
2024-12-19 07:02:27 +0000 UTCMost of us have the benefit of hindsight, having previously watched the series. I prefer not to delve too deeply into the characters' morals and motivations or how they should be viewed, as these became apparent to us after watching more episodes and we were able to see the bigger picture.
ButtercupsTrueLove
2024-03-24 00:59:18 +0000 UTC"That's it? That's the commercial? An old lady in a chair?" Jimmy: Does anybody like you? 🤣👍🏻 Yea, I couldn't stop laughing at this part either. Jimmy's quick comebacks are hilarious!! 😂
Fernando
2024-03-22 12:15:29 +0000 UTC*I meant daughter-in-law for Stacey, not step-daughter *facepalm*
Max Hassam
2024-03-21 01:38:37 +0000 UTCWhen you said "he's fighting with himself: should he do it the right way, or the Jimmy way?" that struck a chord with me. I feel like that could almost be a tag-line for the show. He wants to do it properly. He knows he should. He doesn't like letting Kim down. But... he saw their old ad. He knows they won't like his more audacious one and he does genuinely want to help the Sandpiper residents and he's confident his ad will work if shown; so he goes for the "Jimmy way" and decides to try and worm his way out of it... again. As for the solicitation scene with Chuck, Chuck wasn't necessarily being cruel towards Jimmy. He knows him. He knows 24 clients from 1 response is suspicious and that S&C (Sandpiper's lawyers) will also see that. As Chuck says, the rules of solicitation were practically made to protect the elderly and Jimmy's Amarillo scheme was certainly dubious in its ethicality. Sure Chuck snobbishly judges Jimmy and thinks lowly of him, but it's not as if it's totally unfounded. He's often right about his nefariousness. I think Stacey (Mike's step-daughter) is paranoid after losing her husband. Some have suggested that she's trying to con Mike to get money out of him. The producers have said that that's not where they were going but that they don't say it definitively either way.
Max Hassam
2024-03-20 23:25:40 +0000 UTCYeah, you pretty much said what I was trying to work out how to say. Nicely summed up.
Neil Bullock
2024-03-20 23:19:56 +0000 UTCV, as for why Jimmy runs the commercial without telling Cliff.. he believes it is better to ask forgiveness than permission. He believed he was right, that his ad would work and get them lots of new clients, and they would see that he made the right decision, and they would tut-tut about approval, but he would get away with it. He didn't understand the way it works in those kind of law firms, where doing things the right way requires approval above all else, regardless of intent or results, and where things like advertising must be done a certain way, even if those kind of ads don't work.
Joe Lazarus
2024-03-20 20:25:29 +0000 UTCLol, so Mike's sandwich, lol. In an earlier episode, he said he packed a Pimento Cheese sandwich. Mike is an ex-cop, so its likely he has been on a few stakeouts. On stakeouts you eat light and you eat foods that don't need much, if any, refrigeration or cooking/reheating, but also you eat foods that will slow down your digestion so you're not using the bathroom much (preferably not at all). Meats spoil (Arizona heat), but otherwise meat sticks and jerky are good foods that will (for lack of better phrasing) block you up some. Breads and cheeses, too. Veggies bring fiber, which is no bueno. Fruits and coffee can be diuretics, so no good either. Bananas can be fine but still a fruit so it can help make you regular but not when combined with breads, cheeses, and meats. The banana peels draw in bugs, too; mosquitos mostly. Nuts are good. Pizza, preferably the crust, is good but you got to pick it up and you're creating clues with the box if you just toss it. A brown paper bag with a crumpled up empty plastic sandwich bag in it is less conspicuous and very easy carry. The REAL question you should be asking is does he use mayo, butter, or mustard? Lol, or is it pimento cheese spread? My dad loved pimento cheese spread, with mayo, sandwiches, lol.
Raptor
2024-03-20 17:52:48 +0000 UTCI always read a lot of anxiety in Jimmy while he’s considering whether or not to show the commercial to Cliff. My read is that his experience with Chuck was that a “No” was always a hard line in the sand. That it would completely dash his plans and he didn’t want his plans to be dashed cause he was convinced this would work. The reality is that Cliff probably would have worked with him. It would’ve been an annoying back and forth process, but I think Jimmy would’ve got more of his way than he realizes. It’s really a case of Jimmy not believing in himself, nor thinking anyone else does. That’s why he’s so desperate to prove that he’s right by skipping past the approval and straight to the results. They can’t say he doesn’t know what he’s talking about if he just does it and it works.
Eric Wall
2024-03-20 17:07:53 +0000 UTCI think the talk that Jimmy & Chuck have in the next epi sums their dynamic up perfectly. Also, like your analysis :)
Max Hassam
2024-03-20 16:44:30 +0000 UTCAt least two BrBa Easter eggs in this episode. Remember the toy pig, "Mister Snuggles" was used by Mike as a distraction/diversion at a front door so he could sneak in the back and confront (and then kill) the guy who had killed Chow. Both of them were guys on 'Lydia's list'. When Jimmy and Kim are watching the movie, Kim says something about "Ice Station Zebra", a 1963 cold-war novel and 1968 movie. In BrBa, Ice Station Zebra Associates is the "perfectly legit" holding company that is a front for a money-laundering operation. Saul asks that cashier checks and money orders be made out to that company. I didn't look up the pertinent episodes in which these Easter eggs appear.
MertzRocks
2024-03-20 10:17:39 +0000 UTCI don't know how far you've already watched into season 2, maybe you've already finished it. But in general, in the future, I think it's helpful to not think of Chuck as that much of a villain. And also, not to think of Jimmy as too much of a hero. Yes, all in all, Chuck's mostly an asshole, particularly towards Jimmy. And the fact that he's a snobbish rich guy doesn't help his cause. But a lot of the trick of Better Call Saul is that we, as viewers, get charmed and bamboozled by Jimmy/Saul often almost as much as his victims. And sometimes Chuck is just the one speaking hard truths. Chuck has sometimes been compared to Skyler in Breaking Bad; he is also the foil to our protagonist, the wrench in their schemes. But, at least for like the first 3 seasons, Skyler was just 100% in the right. It could be annoying because she would get in the way of Walt doing his cool thing which we wanted to see, but she was mostly just simply right, both morally and factually. Chuck is much more morally gray than Skyler but he essentially fills a similar role. We get annoyed at him because he stands in Jimmy's way, stands in the way of him doing his thing, and Jimmy's schemes and plots seem both more entertaining and less harmful than Walt's ever were, so we dismiss Chuck and want him to stop being a nuisance. Of course, where Skyler mostly wanted to stop Walt for good reasons, for moral reasons, Chuck does it mostly for personal vendetta, because he's jealous of Jimmy's charm and his ease of persuasion and he's resentful of the possibility of people seeing Jimmy as Chuck's peer because he thinks that he's worked harder for his position (which in fairness, he has). But all of that, all the bitter undertones, all the ways in which Jimmy often seems to be right, at least emotionally, doesn't change the fact that Chuck is often spot-on about Jimmy and can see through him better than anyone else. Jimmy going to Amarillo and doing this whole song-and-dance for the seniors in the bus wasn't how you're supposed to do it; it was questionable at the very least legally and maybe even morally. At any rate, Chuck's not wrong that Schweikart & Cokeley could very well look for any angle to weaken HHM and Davis & Main's position. And possible solicitation could be very damaging for their side, and if so, what did Jimmy truly achieve then? Jimmy's always looking for the quick fix, looking for what gives him the biggest edge in the short run, and damn the long-term consequences. And all he wanted was to be able to brag at that meeting, possibly even to Chuck specifically (because he still craves his approval) and he wasn't content with just being another cog in the machine, just doing the job he was supposed to without exceeding expectations. Same with the TV commercial. He just wanted to show off and didn't want to risk not getting Cliff's approval. Plus, he also loves pulling off these schemes, he gets excitement and a feeling of superiority out of it, so there's also always a selfish motivation for him to do these things and then he rationalizes it afterwards with his success. So he's not like pure, with good motivations. I think he does care about his clients but he also has no problem lying to their face if it serves him. All that just to say, I think you get more out of this show if you try and view all of the characters as morally complex. Sometimes they're right, sometimes they're wrong and sometimes it's hard to tell.
Christophe
2024-03-20 10:08:03 +0000 UTCSuch a binge-worthy show!
MertzRocks
2024-03-20 10:06:10 +0000 UTCI was feeling a bit Saul deprived. In about 40 minutes I'll be Saul deprived again. It's an endless cycle. No joke, Better Call Saul flies by. I started rewatching Better Call Saul after Felina and got about 3 seasons in before you started watching.
MrAlexSan
2024-03-20 06:18:03 +0000 UTC❤ thanks V
Matt
2024-03-20 06:07:57 +0000 UTC
