re: tOfficial Better Call Saul S06E09 “Fun and Games” Thread

Good episode, although it was a little boring (if that makes sense).

The scene at the bar with Gus was completely filler, and unnecessary. My assumption is like others have said, that they were showing Gus attempting to be normal and going out and hitting on some dude at the bar, only to recognize what he was doing and reel it in and get back into cold-blooded mode. IMO he basically likes to dabble with real life, normal shite. Almost as if to achieve that "Yeah, I still got it..." type of validation, and then cut ties and go back home.

How are there people in the thread that are shocked Gus is gay? It was only a couple of the best scenes in BB (Don Eladio killing Gus's partner/boyfriend and then later Gus getting his revenge).

The scene with Nacho's dad was good. Mike is such a great character. And having a kid changes you....when Nacho's dad says "My boy is gone.." that shite hit me hard and had me all up in my emotions.

Not looking good for Ham's theory, although I will say that it isn't 100% done yet. But it damn sure looks dead. And of course he is in here as confident as ever. At this point I almost think he somehow came across massive spoilers or is VG's nephew or some shite, and straight up knows he's right.

For a split second, I thought we may get a glimpse of badass Kim. When she made the play at Howard's ceremony, and clearly lied to his wife about the cocaine, it felt like she may have been able to pull it off. But alas, it's what ended up being the final straw and pushed her over the edge. She can't handle this life. And Jimmy can handle it with very little issue, as shown when they went home early in the episode. She stands there in an emotional trance, and he jets off the the bedroom and proceeds to live life as normal as possible.

And that kiss was very telling, and pretty sad too. Also the way Kim framed everything was telling. She was having FUN doing stupid shite with Jimmy. She enjoyed it. But then she got in way over her head, and she can't handle the weight of the real consequences of living life like that. And she's also smart enough to recognize that while she did have fun, it's not a good thing and thus she has to end it. Seeing Jimmy beg her to not do it was really sad. I feel bad for them both, despite the shite they've pulled.

The Saul timeline we got was meh for me. I never cared for Saul as a character. So that just brought me back to my BB feelings toward him. "Take a breakfast bar" was hilarious though.

I'm hoping we get to some Gene pretty soon. I can't imagine what we have in store with that. I almost hope he gets made (or almost made) and then escapes from that, and then sees Kim living her best life with a family and whatnot, and all he can do is watch from a distance and be both happy for her and miserable that he couldn't just choose the "normal" life.

Can't wait for the last four-episode ride though. The quality of this show is incredible.

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Don't think we forgot; as much as you spewed it incessenatly it'd be impossible to forget so soon.

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While I agree with that, I seen several people bumping threads to call out Ham. Dude is annoying as frick in his own right, so goading him into spewing more bullshite is a bad thing. The least we can do is keep it contained to current/active threads.

This is why Ham always says "all I do is respond." Which is obviously bullshite, but when people do shite like that it justifies him posting incessantly in the threads. I mean shite, AMS bumped the S6E3 thread for chrissakes, just to goad Ham.

Great episode. I hope we see Kim again, and I think we will because I doubt her last line is from another room while taping a box.

But I don’t know why she would go back to KC/Omaha area. Doesn’t seem like her character to want to return to her childhood home. If we see Jimmy in the promo shots as Gene putting on the Saul jacket, maybe they cross paths again if Jimmy re-emerges as Saul to defend himself. More likely Jimmy sees her living a different life as others have said and realizes she was right, together they are toxic and that’s not what she wants.

I don’t see a way how Jimmy doesn’t end up dead or in jail. As much as I like him and can empathize with his relationship with his brother, he’s a lifelong criminal who brought all of this on himself. He’s a selfish, greedy swindler and has a wake of destruction that has to logically eventually catch up with him.

I thought the episode was OK. The Gus scene was weird AF, it just felt completely unnecessary. His story could've just ended with him leaving Eladio's house.

I also don't think we've seen the last of Kim. I can’t imagine Gus and Mike being ok with her quitting her job and trying to dissappear. No chance.

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For a split second, I thought we may get a glimpse of badass Kim. When she made the play at Howard's ceremony, and clearly lied to his wife about the cocaine, it felt like she may have been able to pull it off.

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I actually thought she was going to stick the knife in deeper with Cheryl Hamlin and tell her:

“I didn’t want to say anything, but much of what Howard rambled about that last night and was clearly upset about was you two being separated, him living in the guest house, and you two headed for divorce.”

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That and the special occasion that Gus is saving the bottle of wine for is after he kills all of the salamancas

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So he never got to drink the wine to celebrate? sad

That hooker looked a lot like Kim.

Also, Ed Begley Jr does a great job as Cliff Main. His facial expressions are always perfect

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The Watch podcast does a great job recapping these episodes and todays episode has Peter Gould on to walk through the episode.

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Love me some Chris Ryan, however Andy is such a smarmy know it all guy. Can’t stand him and his takes

My point was Gus probably never got to enjoy the wine after delivering that message to Hector. Right after that he goes after Walt & they start their war against each other. I don't think Gus took the time to enjoy that wine/celebrate his victory against the Salamancas before he got blown up a couple days later.