lalo really looked over at kim with that face, this show is so funny
IF WE’RE GONNA DO THIS… I GOTTA GO INTO IT AS ME. — 2x07 ‘Inflatable’ / 6x13 'Saul Gone’
“Is your phone broken? All 200 of them?” BOB ODENKIRK as Saul Goodman in BREAKING BAD, Season 5 (2012)
I mean, what is it with this place? It's... it's like living inside an easy-bake oven. I mean, look out that window. It's... it's like a soulless, radioactive Georgia O’Keeffe hellscape out there, crawling with coral snakes and scorpions and– You ever see the movie "The Hills Have Eyes"? It's a documentary! God forbid your car breaks down... you have to walk ten steps, you’ve got a melanoma the size of a pineapple where your head used to be. And so you ask, "Why?" Why? If... if that's how I feel, why do I live here? Why?!
BETTER CALL SAUL Season 1
i made this for twitter but i figured i’d post it here too. i just think this show is brilliant and wanted to create some kind of tribute for it so here we are.
i can't believe michael mando would say that nacho and kim would meet in a bar when this video exists
i made this for twitter but i figured i’d post it here too. i just think this show is brilliant and wanted to create some kind of tribute for it so here we are.
this was actually the final straw for chuck but they cut it for time
“I got a visitation request sent through to me yesterday,” Jimmy says. “And I can’t decide whether to approve it or not.”
“Viola told me she wanted to see you in person—” Kim starts.
“No,” Jimmy says. “Not Viola.”
Kim frowns. “Who?”
And Jimmy lingers on it for a second, as if still debating whether to say it, as if holding on to this moment before he finally answers: “Skyler White.”
Chapters: 5/? Wordcount: 30.9k Relationships: Jimmy McGill/Kim Wexler
#lived up to every expectation#absolutely excellent#kim realizing that jimmy likes skyler and he's glad she's there#her being able to read his reactions and thoughts in a way skyler can't even as she realizes she's on the outside of the conversation#him telling her about his mom and her reconfiguring her image of him as someone who could even have a mom#not just some cartoon character born (even if she doesn't know it) out of tragedy#''you were married to *him*. weren't you?''#and#''she can feel her tone softening with the name#unavoidable''#''he had a brother and a mother who loved him''#''he has a good heart'' ''saul goodman. okay. saul goodman has a good heart. so what happened to it?''#AH#every beat was so good#you write her so well and i was so happy to see her#even without the character interactions#and the fact that those were SO good too just put it over the edge#just... so so happy#can't wait for more
jesse shows up at saul’s office in brba s3 like “I need you to go buy my house back from my parents” and saul is like no problem let’s start with an address and jesse is like [insert address three house numbers away from where jimmy’s brother killed himself] and saul is like 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
its,,,its the los pollos driveway ((m pretty sure someone has done this already but it was fun to make nonetheless cut me some slack d-___-b)) clear version + bonus
assuming that the whole thing in s1 about howard not wanting jimmy to use the name “mcgill” in his law practice was really a smokescreen for chuck not wanting jimmy to use the name because he didn’t want to be associated with him, there’s something really upsetting about jimmy changing his professional name to saul goodman after chuck’s death. on the surface it’s about not wanting to be seen as “chuck’s loser brother,” to start over, even to spite chuck, but there’s a very sad undertone of appeasement and submission there. he says “i’ll do everything in my power to be worthy of the name mcgill” and then almost immediately afterwards he suddenly “figured out” changing his name was "right.” it’s kind of hard to ignore the fact that he changed his name immediately after using it to get his law license back, immediately after saying he’d do everything to be worthy of it, knowing chuck didn’t want him to use their name, and at the same time that he’s building this persona which echos everything chuck always believed he was.
it almost makes even more sense, then, that he leans all the way into it after kim leaves, because it’s always kind of felt reactionary in that way. his “fresh start,” his way of moving on from chuck, was to do what chuck wanted and be what chuck saw. it’s a loss disguising itself as a win, like a desperate grab for control. there’s an implication that he doesn’t believe anything he could do would make him worthy of the name mcgill, and so he’s not going to taint it further by using it. he doesn’t feel like he can get away from the crushing knowledge that chuck never stopped being disappointed in him, and so he ‘chooses’ to become the person chuck believed he was. it’s less that he wants to be this person, and more that he isn’t sure if he can be anything else, and so he’s going to pretend it’s what he wants and that way he doesn’t have to confront the fear that he has no choice but to exist as this, that it’s all he’ll ever be. the fact that he submits to it fully after kim leaves burns even more because it brings back everything about chuck saying he ruined her, that he can’t do anything but hurt people. what happened to her (“a promising career, over and done with”) was a confirmation of his worst fears and so the illusion that he’s choosing to be this person becomes more important than ever. the only thing he can do to cope with the guilt and shame is to pretend he’s doing it all on purpose. that he likes it. that he’s having a good time.
me every monday while absolutely consumed by nausea and dread
people HAVE to stop reblogging this now that the show is over, it feels so profane. the monday aspect was coincidental, okay, it isn’t an ‘i hate mondays’ post. this was a post about seeing through time and space to the point of vividly realizing your own mortality on a weekly basis. don’t be crass.
actually think that as far as jimmy/chuck comparisons go re: “have a nice life, kim” it’s really interesting to look at the fact that chuck’s divorce with rebecca is what was implied to have triggered his delusions and neurosis vs. the fact that jimmy’s divorce from kim triggering the saul goodman persona. chuck locked himself up inside his house and jimmy locked himself inside his own head, chuck not wanting to see the world and jimmy not wanting the world to see him. the question then becomes if jimmy is going to burn down this shell while he’s still inside or if he’s going to break out before he sets it on fire.
when post-prison jimmy and kim buy a house together this is how he paints their mailbox: