Need a ‘Gil's Take’ essay playlist, character studies + think piece wrap ups like this one. Takes genuine talent to do quality work as shown here in the writing (editing too)

Gene was living a paranoid existence, trapped in the past looking at his old tapes with all his unresolved baggage. Deep down, he wanted to get caught.

Yes mate he was on course for ceo

"We had a good thing, you stupid son of a bitch!"

Michael, is that you?

@@playkapenda2074 Don’t get me started on Walt… He could of just cooked and made as much money as he wanted

Which is 💩 crap because Jesse killed even more people for money to escape

Gus got the revenge he always wanted. Mike got.. uhm..

@@ghostjn252 Mike believed the only good thing he ever did was have his son Matty.

@@derekcrandall2572 Yeah, and the pleasantness he brought into his daughter-in-law and granddaughter’s lives is just him trying to repent for his flaws.

​@@derekcrandall2572 Mike failed to save Matty and he couldn't save Nacho, but he did help Jesse a bit. He'd be glad Jesse got out safe.

Even when he becomes totally different characters in Saul and Gene, you see the through line in them all. Perfect blend of writers who are more than just competent, intelligent. And real actors who understand their craft and become the role onscreen.

HBO need to hire Vince Giligan and Peter Gould to rewrite season 8 of Game of Thrones. Even if they don’t film it, it would be incredible to just know how amazing it could have been.

@@DarshUK1 Nobel of Literature for Gilligan and Gould !!!!

Actually it was all carol Burnett's fault, she blew the whistle on him after she found out who he really was. Her son shouldn't have bought her a laptop😂

Doesn't change the fact they should've kept him in character and burned Kim for some ice cream. Instead he what, throws his whole life away for his ex who left his ass? He should've always been slipping jimmy... The ending fked it up

Yeah the phone call definitely pushed her over the top, but also because now she knew Gus, Mike + Lalo were all dead, leaving it safe (-ish) to finally own up

@@Digger-Nick you gota point !

@@Digger-Nick No. It was always a love story, from the very start.

@@Digger-Nick he had to choose between life imprisoned in a jail or life imprisoned in the Saul Goodman persona, never having another chance to face his mistakes and wrongdoings. There are different kinds of prisons

Yesss it's perfect, I loved it, and I'm not even a Walt's fan.

@@YoungWinger2021 idk. Why does your girl have to fantasize about her ex while you struggle to generate any amount of juices from her?

@@YoungWinger2021it’s not that deep, he just wanted to express his feelings

@@YoungWinger2021 bro can't even write "write"

​@@YoungWinger2021Dude put the gun down.

No it isn’t lol

@@luluna5228 it is...if Jimmy is finally in peace with himself that's a true 'happy' ending for me. Jimmy going out after 7.5 years as the same person is nothing happy at all. After all, he was in his own spiritual jail even if he was 'free'

@@SuperBrosHQ so you are saying the more years you serve in jail (for the rest of your life) the better person you are? how about he improves himself and does something good

@@luluna5228 him growing into a better person necessarily meant he had to face what he had done. If his plan to weasel out the majority of the consequences had worked out, he would have fallen back into his old patterns and would have just hurt more people again.

@@BenjaminRodriguezReyes why? he is facing his own time. Are you saying jimmy is a lost cause and wont be able to be changed? so he should just rot in a prison?

NIce.

Peter said he wanted to have her pull out the finger guns at first, but thought it might infer (to some) that she'd maybe go back to scamming They didn't want to leave her there on that misinterpretation Tho it would've been so sweet + so cool pow pow 😉

There's a close-up captured of her right hand making a finger gun, but with it snug against her side. Essentially, holstered. Good One.

Well I think one redeeming quality Walter White had is that he was loyal to Jesse throughout the series. That's the only thing that he had and the only thing he even could partially redeem at the end.

@@GrandElemental I do agree with you on that point. What is funny is if I was in Walter Whites shoes I would have run over Jesse instead of the two drug dealers and shot him. Being former military the chain of command is sacred and Jesse broke it and I would have killed him myself for it. I vouched for him so it would be my responsibility to resolve the situation.

@@deanjustdean7818 with friends like that, better not to have enemies

tbh Walter didn't feel despicable until Season 5. Up until the end of Season 4, I could completely sympathise with all of his choices (ofc excluding poisoning Brock).

@@noahlibra The moment he went into remission was when he needed to stop all his criminal activity. When he didn't he was just a despicable scumbag peddling poison for money, the lowest form of human life on the planet.

That’s the more logical reason yes, but there’s no reason he should make himself a drink and float around the bedroom, he could’ve just stolen a watch and a few valuables quickly. He’s definitely savoring the moment

@@AJFStudios Or trying to get caught.

well I mean they didn't use handheld in bcs

Breaking Goodman

Considering what he has been part of and what he directly made possible (even when we talk exclusively about WW, not Hamlin or his direct links to the cartel for example) 7 years are absolutely nothing and will not repent anyone in this position. It's an extremely short time for basically being the right hand man of the most notorious drug kingpin in (fictional) US history. I personally believe that Jimmy didn't "assassinate" the "toxic" (I would call it destructive, but that semantics) part of his character. I honestly believe it's too late for that. But he finally let Jimmy talk the wheel again and actively decided to take responsibility. You can tell me what you want, but that Prison is gonna con'ned day in day out for the next 7 decades lol

But even if he got out, what life would he be coming back to. He'd be at least 70 years when he got out. Old, weak and penniless. No family or kids to love or care for him. Plus his rap sheet means he's unemployable. I'd prefer he died in prison. He bakes like he did at Cinnabon and he's a celebrity there.

Slippin' Kimmy

You can't get 1/2 time sentences in federal prison. And he was in on several federal charges.

Jimmy’s gonna die in jail

@@goldilox369 let us dream.

That was how I read it initially as well. Can’t remember how/why I changed my mind, other than I think the common interpretation is that Jimmy had the idea on the spot (and I have a vague recollection that one of the writers cleared this up). I can definitely see it either way though and I think both ways ultimately get to the same point

If you rewatch the scene, he decides to screw Chuck over when he sees how high his new premiums are.

@@TheKrigeron I think he already knew the premiums were high when he called them but maybe he didn't know he couldn't get it cancelled. I still thought he was too smart to not know trying to get it cancelled was a big ask, I saw that as his excuse to go there and not actually why he went

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I don’t really see how it’s “overstated”. I think the look on Jimmy’s face when Howard says it says all you need to know. The writers clearly thought it was important. Yes they probably would have found out about it. But Jimmy twisted the knife, made sure they knew about it. Because you can argue “oh he swapped the numbers for Kim, she deserved Mesa Verde” and “Chuck’s ego is what caused the chicanery meltdown, he started the fight trying to get Jimmy disbarred, he HAD to fight back”. Because there’s no excuse, no reason, no personal benefit for what he did with the insurance, it was pure evil. “He’s mentally ill, what’s your excuse?”

@@sondosoft4603 "Because there’s no excuse, no reason, no personal benefit for what he did with the insurance." Yes, there is, you just disagree with it.

@@sb6675There was an evil reason if that’s what you’re inferring. The rest of the point still stands.

​@@sondosoft4603 Evil is subjective, and your personal opinion on it is largely irrelevant. Yes, there is. You just disagree with those reasons. No, your claim to be the arbitrator of subjective matters doesn't stand at all. :) Your definition of "evil" is not everyone else's, your reasoning is not everyone else's, your morality is not everyone else's, and most importantly, your way of seeing things aren't "how it is" just because you said so. I'd suggest therapy for narcissism before this attitude spirals out of control. PS if you told practically anyone your definition of "pure evil" was "telling the insurance company a fact" they'd laugh at you. Chuck's own morality would say the laws and regulations are there to be respected, chuck was found mentally ill in the court of law, and the laws and regulations say he must pay more insurance to cover his mental illness. Regardless of if jimmy off-handedly commented on it or not it was going to happen or Chuck was betraying his very own morality and trying to slip the consequences of the law like "slippin' jimmy." who he despised so much he sunk himself trying to stop from succeeding. Or was Chuck meant to be immune from "the law"? Isn't chuck twisting the morality of "the law" by trying to avoid the regulations put in place? The entire company knew he was severely mentally ill yet they were allowing him to handle situations that can change peoples lives forever. All morality is subjective. You can have your opinion on it though okay sweetie? Have a nice day. Get that narcissism checked out.

@@sondosoft4603 lol here's a good excuse/reason for you: if a named partner at a law firm which handles massive issues that change the course of people's lives, a partner who was directly involved in things such as Mesa Verde or Sandpiper, has a mental illness, and has exhibited erratic behaviour in a public setting which is on court record, then the stakeholders should know about it. There is an ethical duty to tell them. The malpractice insurance company is certainly a stakeholder. Ironically, telling them is a Chuck move: it may fuck over your enemy, but it's totally legal, and from an ethical point of view, it's arguably responsible.

Thank you! 🙏

Thank you! 🙏

Not the best

My impression from all the interviews is that Gould and Gilligan want to try some new things but are open to revisiting this world at some point. If I had to put bets down, I’d say we’ll see something new in the BB universe within the next decade

Dying for a Kim movie follow-up like El Camino 👏

Yep! Same watch. Apparently in the flash forward earlier in the season, Walt didn’t have a watch… so they made sure to show him leaving it behind to explain away the continuity error hah

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an 80 year johnathon banks just playing a 20 year old mike

Yes the rumors are true! On the podcast channel / saulcast, we'll chronicle the rewatch there. We'll probably do about one episode per season: part recap, part reminiscing, part analysis, part observing how our viewing changes after Saul, etc. Still figuring out the schedule / when exactly it'll happen, but it'll happen soon.

@@OneTakeVids Great, even if you just structure it around the episodes featuring Saul that would be amazing.

@@OneTakeVids let us know when you'll be ready, so we can be up to that point too + ready to throw some takes out at the same time 👏

​@@RobinHerzig Will do! I'll make sure to do community posts/whatever else I can think of to let people know

Probably Marion bails him out or he sits in jail until his case is resolved (like Gene said, Jeff wasn’t in possession of any of the stolen goods so most likely he’ll be let go). Good Ol’ Jeffy lives to see another day!

Based on what Saul says, I think we can safely say Jeff gets off without any charges (he didn’t have position of any of the stolen items, etc). I like to think that after such a stressful experience, he decides to stay on the straight and narrow