re: Official Better Call Saul Season 2 Episode 2: "Cobbler"

The guy who plays Warmolt used to be K Strass the Yoyo guy. LINK

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He would go onto small market local news casts and pretend to be a yo-yo master. Inevitably, he would succeed in an attempt to make the newscaster feel very uncomfortable

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It goes the other way, too.

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I think it has been great so far this season. better than last season, so far.

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that scene with the cops was awesome.

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It was perfect. Capped off by him telling Playuh he had to make a video.

"Hoboken Squat Cobbler" was the funniest scene on tv that I have seen in a good while. I rarely laugh out loud at a tv show. This one had me going pretty good.

I thought the camera angles when Jimmy was getting into his new ride were great, both the cupholder cam and the sunroof cam. You could tell from the sunroof shot that as soon as he opened the sunroof cover he grimaced, undoubtedly reminded about his own Chicago sunroof episode in the past.

It was Odenkirk's own idea to name it.... LINK

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In the original version of Gennifer Hutchison's script, as Saul co-creator Peter Gould recalls, "There weren't as many names. In fact, I don't know that we named it at all. I think (Jimmy) just said, 'He sits in pies.'"

Saul isn't a show that allows for much improvisation, but on the first day of shooting the second season premiere, Odenkirk pulled Gould and Vince Gilligan aside and, as Gould recalls, praised the episode 2 script, and then, "He pitched the idea: 'Sex acts all have a name. Shouldn't there be a name for this thing?'"

From there, the Saul writers went to town dreaming up alternate names for the Cobbler — "Full Moon Pie," "Boston Cream Splatt," "Simple Simon the arse Man," etc. — which Odenkirk had a field day delivering.

"On this show, he mostly is a performer," Gould said of his leading man, "but every once in a while, you see that he really is one of the great comic minds of our time. That was an example of Bob giving us a direction that we ran with, and then he ran with it in performance. And I just love it. I have to say, that was an interesting evolution of that scene. I'm really proud of it."

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I think it has been great so far this season. better than last season, so far.

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I agree. Strong start.

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But I'm wondering why even do it at all?

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Initially I thought the same thing. Saul's client was under no obligation to share the video with the cops and they couldn't force him to provide the video. But then again, the purpose of Saul being there was to put an end to all further investigation into his client's burglary and the video, once mentioned, served that purpose well.

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But then again, the purpose of Saul being there was to put an end to all further investigation into his client's burglary and the video, once mentioned, served that purpose well.

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I agree with this. But they didn't have to see the video. Just the existence of it and alluding to it would be enough. You even see Kim laughing at this.

It's almost like Jimmy turned into Saul the moment he made Dan make that video. It comes across like he just wanted to punk out the guy and watch him humiliate himself. And Kim picked up on it too. Once she realized he made the video is when she immediately changed her demeanor about it. She blames it on the fabrication of evidence but you can see she thinks Jimmy was a bit dark carrying it out.

I don't know if Jimmy knows it but protecting Playuh protects Nacho.

Stops the investigation.