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At least she's likely to be wearing her hair down, instead of that pulled-tight ponytail. It will be interesting to see if/when she shows up, her hair is down but then if she represents Saul/Gene/Jimmy, the ponytail reemerges and we know Kim is "back."

I could not love this observation more.

I go back and forth on the past two episodes. I know they are leading to "something" -- these writers don't disappoint. For those who are saying we should have gotten "closure" on Mike -- we did -- in Breaking Bad. Remember, BCS is a prequel. They moved Mike's story along until it meshed with Breaking Bad. Any closure on Kaylie we got in Breaking Bad when Mike left her a safety deposit box of cash but it got raided. Other than knowing what happens with Kim and how Saul ends up destroying himself, this show isn't about closure as all the other characters still alive move into the world we've already seen in Breaking Bad. Howard's "suicide" isn't a driving factor in any of that. We've gotten the closure on Howard. He's yet another victim of the cartel world. Whether or not he deserved it. But that's kind of the point -- the victims of that world don't always deserve what they get. I take the crimes with Jeffy as Saul just not being able to be satisfied with being "safe" as Gene. As another poster stated in reference to the amazingly beautiful shot of Saul's desert grave from BB morphing into Gene laying in his bed, being Gene the Cinnabon manager from Omaha is its own kind of death for someone like Saul who raked in the cash and was living a luxury life. That some small (by comparison to his former life) crimes and his soft spot for senior citizens is looking like its going to be his downfall is completely fitting within this universe. Walt, Gus, Saul -- none could stop when they were ahead and had achieved what they initially thought they wanted -- money. Each beat their respective enemies and had all the money they would ever need. If that's what they truly wanted, they would have stopped there. But even though they fooled themselves into thinking it was just about money, each in turn eventually realized it was about something completely different. Remember: "I did it for myself. I was good at it. I liked it." That applies to each of them. They are each ultimately a classic tale of the tragedy of lack of a soul. By all external appearances, Saul was safe. Most people would ask, "why couldn't he just leave it alone -- he was safe." The simplest answer is the right one: "because he couldn't."

Cancer guy played Stuart on Big Bang Theory.

He had to get the value up to ensure the value of the various criminal penalties he rattled off.

I listened to the Insider podcast with the show runners and I'm 99% sure they specifically said it was a flirtation.

Side note: I just watched the movie about this on Netflix. Colin Firth and Matthew McFadyen. Crazy story!! I had no idea!!

I know this belongs in the media thread, but this is a phenomenal recap of tonight's episode. https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-recaps/better-call-saul-recap-fun-games-1383100/ It also clarifies how far we jumped in the timeline -- still not Breaking Bad timeline: (*) The license plate on Saul’s Cadillac has a registration renewal sticker dated 2005. So unless he’s driving around with an expired registration — not worth the hassle, especially when he can send get poor Francesca to handle such a detail — that puts this scene only a year or so after Kim walks out, while Walt won’t try to hire Saul until 2008. So all sorts of timeline shenanigans could be possible in these concluding chapters.

My take on the Gus/sommelier (whose name is David) scene -- mutual interest and attraction; Gus swirling the wine reminded him of Max being shot and his blood swirling into the pool. He realized he would be putting another person he could potentially care about at risk and wouldn't allow either of them to go through that again. I thought they aged Stephen Bauer down quite well. And his imitation of Don Hector's bell was a much needed laugh. My initial reaction was that Kim escaped relatively unscathed, unlike anyone else in the universe. Then I rethought -- she had to walk away from the career and man she loved to save herself. Not exactly unscathed. . . Still trying to think through whether Kim is Saul's mystery call, if Gene is going to go find her, or if she is just gone from the world. Can Gene go back to Saul and Saul go back to Jimmy to get back to Kim . . . I just don't know. . . Jimmy would have done anything for Kim. Saul is a no half measures guy. Gene? We just don't know.

I interpreted that scene totally different. . .

No. Half. Measures.

I thought the same thing about what Saul said. It sounded very very similar. We know how Jimmy ultimately handles the aftermath. Kim is the big question mark. Man, Howard. What an ignominious end. That was some serious Ying yang going on with the two of them in the grave. And can I just say the casting department needs an Emmy nod solely for casting Tony Dalton. The charm he was able to imbue into a psychopath was stellar. I found it rather apropos that he died with his signature smile on his face. Again, we called that Lalo would end up in the superlab, and we called that they would make Howard's death look like a suicide but did any of us guess they'd bury them together? That's the next level writing that earns the Gilligan/Gould team their well-deserved credit. So simple, so effective, so haunting, and something we wouldn't put together, but they do so seamlessly and it just makes sense. Can't wait to see what next week brings us!!

She looks like a goth Girl Scout! I just can’t even with her mother.

It was the Upside Down "snow" -- whatever the particles are that float through the air in the Upside Down are now in the Rightside Up.

I think it is a Baltimore and/or Maryland thing, because my family is from B-more and I often heard "the food store." It may have arisen from the Giant Food grocery stores?

But . . . ultimately, what they did with Ruby was critical for Tommy to survive at the end. They had to establish her gypsy links and communications in order for Tommy to believe it was her sending him the message at the end. Other than his first wife (who wasn't a gypsy) and Aunt Polly (with whom new scenes couldn't be shot because 😢), who else would he have believed was a real gypsy message and not a hallucination?

Read her autobiography. Having already done so, I can tell you your assumption about her attitude toward her eating disorder and plastic surgery are incorrect. She did the mental health work and is healthier about both of those things than she has ever been. She is by no means putting out a negative do as I say, not as I do. She struggled with it for a really long time and it’s unfair to criticize her now for not having the mental strength or knowledge to stand up against it in the past. Seriously, Read her autobiography. She is even more of a badass than most of us know.

OK, so Kim REALLY couldn't get the dress over her butt. It's worse than I was imagining. The pic on the right shows how much had to be left open.... she should not have worn this dress. For so many reasons!!

So, Jessica Lowe, who plays Lindy Lissons, is in a new HBO show, Minx, as Bambi, a porn model who also works at the publisher’s office. The premise is that a publishing house of porno magazines in the 1970s decides to publish a feminist magazine using naked men as the draw. The show is great, and Jessica is really adept at being the smart dumb blonde bimbo character. And if you watch the show you’ll see that is a compliment. There’s a lot more layers to it but keeping the focus on a Gemstones cast member in another role. Highly recommend Minx!!!