Better Call Saul ***Spoilers***

Here I come, ever the devil's advocate....🤣

I have a lot of sympathy for Howard. I believe that all Howard's apparent machinations against Jimmy and Kim, were directed by Chuck (or As I call him , Chuck The B4strd). Howard always deferred to Chuck, until Chuck threatened to destroy HHM.

I never thought him creepy or weird, but he is always a stickler for detail, even down to his dress sense. Always look and behave professional. I said in a previous post that I didn't think the current attack him by Jimmy and Kim is born out of animosity, but simply as a way to force the hand on the Sandpiper deal.

The only time I can remember that Howard was genuinely an asshole was when he kept Kim in doc review after winning the Mesa Verde account. But even that can be justified by Howard feeling let down and even betrayed by Kim. In any case, he definitely doesn't deserve what Kim and Jimmy are planning.

Really interesting to note that Kim is in the driving seat with this. There have been a couple of times this season where Jimmy suggested ending it and walking away but Kim kept pushing to proceed.

Oh those videos I posted ‘Will Howard Fight’ - ‘Kim Jail’ . Were just fan theories. There was no new spoilers all before s6 e5 - analysis of previous episodes . The Kim one in particular was analysis of potential hidden tells or teasers that could predict her fate. Nothing concrete.

When Jimmy was in the vet did he take some of the drug or just buy some for later (possibly for use on Howard)?

What was Kim seeing in his appearance that she made him look in mirror?

I've said it before about Kim craving punishment/discipline. She keeps edging towards the line but she still hasn't crossed it yet, at least not to the point that other people know what she is really like. I think she's screwed up because of her upbringing where there were no consequences for her actions. Her mother laughed off her shoplifting in the flashback, and in a previous flashback we saw Kim refusing to get in the car with her mother, who she believed had been drinking, and walking a long way home, so she is also very stubborn. Combining these traits explains her determination to continue down this destructive path, despite everybody thinking so highly of her. She'll keep going until she really crosses the line and then the punishment will be severe, but I think Jimmy will get her out with a new identity from the vacuum guy. Hell, she could be living with Jimmy in the post-BB timeline. Didn't the events of BB take place over only a year or so? Jimmy might have packed Kim off to keep her safe, but maintained contact with her, knowing that one day he would catch up with her when he himself needed a vacuum service.

There's no way Lalo is getting out of this alive. His scenes, and Gus and Mike's scenes are kind of drag for me now. We know where everybody ends up so I hope they kill him off soon, and take the last few episodes to focus on things we don't already know.

Yes good spot really. I think they have been hinting that for awhile, like Howard's legs shaking previous episode before his speech. Something something made Howard gets caught while 'high' in a court house etc.

I just learned something I completely missed s6 e6

I was wondering why Casper said ‘do I know you?’ When he saw Lalo approach in the woods. It turns out that Casper previously saw Lalo from a distance.

Ages ago When Fring was making up the cover story so Lalo would not know about the lab. Casper saw Lalo from a distance.

Which is why he recognised Lalo from a distance in the last episode.

Brilliant attention to detail and continuity!

There was a shot of the bottle in the box left on the shelf where Saul was standing, showing that Saul left the bottle and ran out to call Kim (or also avoid being seen by the guy).

Presumably the bottle will be purchased again later.

I'm struggling to care anymore about the Lalo v Gus story and that's no slight on the character or Dalton's performance both of which are fantastic. But Lalo's character is essentially a dead-end (no pun intended) from a story perspective given what we know of Gus in BB. It feels like it's eating up too much screen time simply to clear up a mystery about a single line of dialogue from BB : "Did Lalo send you?".

It was last seen that Kim took the bottle cap from her previous office (there is a drawer scene, forgot what season now, or i remember wrong lol). Thats why I am saying that presumably if the cap we saw in the flashforward at the mansion is the same one Kim took from office - that means no new bottle was bought.

Can't believe we're already at the mid season break next week. Feels like a lot of setting up is being done and all hell will break loose from Ep8 on.

Such a good show.

I assume with the first half of the final season devoted to Jimmy & Kim vs Howard that we're not really going to see much of Saul in his post Breaking Bad life? I'm not invested in their scam on Howard and tbh it doesn't make a lot of sense to me either in motivation or execution.

They have teased a lot of "Gene" in previous seasons and now it seems that they've dropped the Gene version of Saul completely. That's a disappointment.

I think Gus or Mike will kill Lalo in the underground lab and Gus's story in BCS will end with him visiting Hector to gloat about Lalo's death.