re: re: tOfficial Better Call Saul S06E12 “WATER WORKS” Thread

I can see the series wrapping up with Saul in the prison yard teaching some of his fellow inmates one of his cons to pull on other inmates or guards. As Chuck said, he is who he is.

Okay, I have a question about Kim’s new mundane life in Florida—and that American Greed episode. Surely the AG episode was part of the BCS canon and actually aired in that universe. Or is it outside the canon and done up just for fun?

Here’s why it’s puzzling. Kim is not in hiding and is using her real name. But it seems like her new mundane life only works if her former life is completely unknown. “I grew up in Nebraska, lived and worked in ABQ,” etc.

But American Greed featured her prominently as a brilliant attorney and Saul’s ex-wife. She obviously did not agree to be interviewed and is not connected to any criminal activity—she divorced Jimmy McGill before he really became Saul Goodman.

But Kim is somewhat a national celebrity because of that American Greed episode. I don’t see how she fits in seamlessly with all those everyday boring people, the everyday boring boyfriend to whom going to the new Outback is a big deal—if she is known as a former brilliant attorney featured prominently in an American Greed episode about her ex, the criminal attorney for the biggest meth enterprise in the United States.

To me, Kim’s new mundane life only makes sense if that American Greed episode never aired in that universe.

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25 minutes in & I love the Kim Alaska/Alberquece fake out.

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me last night when I saw Alaska

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Not reading the thread but curious as to the board’s general view of the episode.

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Much better than the previous two, but mostly because Rhea Seehorn is a pleasure to watch and elevates the show with every scene she’s in.

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me last night when I saw Alaska

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personally, I didn't think anything of it when I saw the Frontier/Alaska signs at the airport. She had just arrived back in Albuquerque & it seemed like a normal scene in front of an airport.

*IF* it was some kind of hint, do we know she returned to Florida or did we just see her breakdown on the bus heading back to the airport?

Oh & Frick you, Ham.

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So in 2004 Albequerque what is going on? Like what would we have been watching in Breaking Bad around that time?

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2004 ABQ is still pre-Breaking Bad timeline. Saul Goodman doesn’t meet Walter White and Jesse Pinkman until 2008 in the Better Call Saul BB episode. So Jimmy practices as Saul Goodman around 4 years before Breaking Bad. And of course Kim has been settled in Florida those four years plus the two Breaking Bad years until the post-BB phone call from Jimmy/Saul/Gene.

Remember the timeline of Breaking Bad was exactly two years from 2008-2010. S1 E1 was on Walter White’s 50th birthday. The series finale took place on his 52nd birthday.

I binged most of BB the last couple weeks, watching for the first time since the original finale. It's easy to forget how compact that timeline was between Walt's birthdays, since it unfolded over more than 5 years on the tv. But only 2 years in the life of Walter White.

I still feel a little blurry on the BCS timelines. Guess Jesse was already doing hoodrat stuff at least a full 4 years before Mr. White spotted him.

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Guess Jesse was already doing hoodrat stuff at least a full 4 years before Mr. White spotted him.

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Oh sure. Jesse was already “Cap’n Cook” and a big part of ABQ’s street-level meth trade years before Walter White came (back) into his life. He was accompanying Emilio to see Saul Goodman when he met Kim on that rainy night. Around four years later he was telling Walt how Saul successfully defended Emilio; this when Badger got busted.

But yes, the first BB episode when Jesse escaped the bust jumping out the window showed him to already be an established hood rat pre-Heisenberg.