So in the first ep of this season, when injured Lalo showed up at that farmhouse, was that guy his brother? He told him to shave his beard but keep the mustache and soul patch. Then after he shaved, they showed them both, and they looked identical. Was the idea that that guy was Lalo's identical twin brother? Or just a guy who happened to look a lot like him? Are we supposed to think he killed that guy and assumed his identity somehow? I feel like I'm missing something there.

Nah, that was just a thermometer.

It will likely be something Howard ingests.

This was hashed out earlier, but apparently what we are supposed to believe is that this guy is related to Lalo but not that close (cousin, I think) and happens to look a lot like him. Lalo is aware of this and over the years arranges for this guy to get dental work done that matches his own identically. He does this just in case he needs to fake his death, because then he can use this guy who happens to look a lot like him.

As it turns out, he actually does need to fake his death. So he gets the guy to shave so he has similar facial hair. Then he kills him and torches the place and the body so no one can tell it's not him just by looking. The only thing that they will have to identify the body is the dental records, which Lalo made sure were identical long beforehand because he was preparing for this exact situation.

I think it's a bit farfetched, even for Lalo, but apparently that is what they were going for.

ah just realized, in some zafiro añejo most likely

Funny to see how Saul's office/reception improved by the time Walter walks into his office.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqMq6jLUcg8

I guess well find out in a couple of days, but I imagine Saul knows that Howard has a PI on him (Mike tipped him off or something) and wanted to be photographed withdrawing a large amount of cash and then meeting with the judge's doppelganger. Somebody (Huell?) will spike Howard's drink with the substance the vet gave so Howard will look completely manic during the arbitration and start throwing around accusations that the mediator took a bribe from Saul or something to the effect. This will destroy Howard's and HMM's reputation and force a quicker settlement.

As a sidenote, the pacing of this show really tilts me sometimes and I wish it would get on with the plot. There's what? 7 episodes left to wrap up the whole pre-BB/during-BB plot, the cartel stuff, and post-BB resolution and yet the show still has slow montages and 10 minute scenes of Mike & Kaylee doing stargazing.

That all sounds good. I hope this next episode is all about Kim trying to find a cast, failing and having to hide his arm some other way.

She is really smoking this season.

I'm surprised no one has brought up Howard's wife finally getting introduced and what that might mean for the rest of the series. I have no idea lol. Has to be something though, right?

Does anyone other than me have a desire to go visit Albuquerque and see some of the sights and prominent places from Breaking Bad/Better Call Saul? I enjoy some of the videos showing them on YouTube and will probably go there in the next few years.

His visit with the shrink was about his deteriorating relationship with his wife. I just viewed the scene with her as adding detail to Howard's overall mental state.

It's meant to portray Howard as a sympathetic character who is trying to live properly and do the right thing. We all know what happens to those characters in this show.

Oh yeah, I meant to mention the wife. Seems like he's in a marriage of convenience, or at least one without emotion from her. Good point Kurn, I'd forgotten about the shrink.

Some years ago (after the start of BCS, not sure what year), I found a ~$100 plane fare to ABQ and went for a weekend. Did what wetleg mentioned, it was kind of fun. If anyone's interested, here's my post about it.

Seems like a nice enough small city, nothing special, but not bad either. Most of the stuff is more or less in the NE quadrant of the city.

I actually stayed in the Crytsal Palace the first night. After getting the rental car, was just kind of driving along, and stumbled upon in. In a "WTH?" moment, I took a room there. Moved to something nicer the next night over by Old Town.

and also maybe that this **** with jimmy is a big part of their problems (since they refuse to define the other issues), and might cause his divorce after whatever they do tomorrow


they've completely wasted so much screen time this season, and now it all hinges on this stunt not coming off lame/corny/bad glgl

I thought about this. I don't think Lalo had the dentist make the guy's teeth match his own. Lalo paid the bill for the guy's needed dental work, and he had it manipulated so that when someone searches for Lalo's records they get this guy's records with Lalo's name on it. Tony Soprano realized there are usually only two ways out of his line of work, in a jail cell or in a box. As a cartel bigwig, it's plausible Lalo could have foreseen the need to fake his own death someday.

Yeah, you're right. That's a better way for Lalo to have done it.

avoided this thread until i was caught up

there was a ton of online chatter about ms kettleman, she was the perhaps the inspiration for that at&t thicc spokesman

i don't get the whole going to germany thing, ie having his arc be finding that is super dumb because we know nothing will come of it so that means he somehow finds it then gets stopped before he tells others? i thought it was initially about the innocent getting killed because of it ie showing gus & mike's ruthlessness but now that we're back to it i just hate it

should have been nacho's dad all along for revenge

this, when i watched i was like "wtf you idiot"

i mean i get that he wanted to sell his alibi but that was just guaranteeing his father would be slowly tortured to death while having to look at nachos mutilated corpse

yes!

this has been a major preoccupation of mine, seeing if kim leaves him because of where he goes in life or if where he goes in life gets her killed, never considered the stay at home consiglieri but then he's all alone in the flashforward scenes

omg please please please

those people at gus' house, that's just insane, more liability than a solution i mean they really plotting to contact the hoa over some paint etc etc, just seems really dumb, gus already has more security than ambassadors/govenors etc and this is just some absurd over the top addition that adds several million dollars in burn rate each with while creating a whole slew of liabilities, just beyond stupid and really hate how they are going into the "unlimited evil henchmen who don't fear death" trope

i missed the leaving the gun part but did notice when he no longer had one, hope that wasn't their way of showing dude left the gun, like he would only have access to one

i've always found her super attractive for a plain looking woman, always thought a big part of why she was cast was she perfectly fills the attractive but plain and boring girl from nebraska look, really felt she perfectly hit that narrow range on the venn diagram where she was plain looking enough where it was plausible that she'd need to work hard to get where she wanted to but pretty enough to put on tv as a leading lady

definitely had some work done in the offseason, or at least the costume director has been giving her pushup bras or inserts and doing a lot more makeup

season 1 would have been filmed 7-8 years ago


season 6



yeah this tilted me to no end

this

good stuff

far more reasonable than earlier counters

i love chitchatting and thinking lalo, i hate solo homicidal maniac lalo

it just doesn't make sense that such an important and prominent boss would be out there solo doing this stuff all the time - i liked when it was a reaction to the moment but not when it just became what he did every day

nacho deserved a better story arc, loved him, same with lalo

excuse me?

But seriously, I am having trouble buying how Nacho seemed to walk to the gallows on his own. He is sacrificing himself to save his dad, but he doesn't see Dad waiting in front of the millennium falcon. Nacho doesn't know the request will be honored. Is that really better than packing up the family and leaving town?

Wow

OK, did *not* expect that.

yeah i didn't get it at all

Wow. Howard really got it rough, overall he was a pretty solid dude

That was pretty much exactly how I thought his arc would end. Earlier on, I thought it would be Kim on the receiving end, but that made less sense the more I thought about it. I knew someone would end up going down that way and he seemed like perfect character for it to happen to.

Brutal cliffhanger. ****ers

I agree. He didn’t really deserve what Kim and Jimmy did to him.