Better Call Saul Season 6 thread (with spoilers)

[JimmyHoward33]

We saw Howard's wife once, and she was a cold bench to him. This idea that shes some sympathetic character who got to Kim and broke her…. Not buying it. Didnt like it

 

[poindexter]

We saw Howard's wife once, and she was a cold bench to him. This idea that shes some sympathetic character who got to Kim and broke her…. Not buying it. Didnt like it

Yeah I said the same thing. She couldn't even appreciate the latte he made for her.

 

[da man]

She's basically catatonic now. But I see it as one of the ways she could have gone after seeing a man killed in cold blood five feet in front of her -- and knowing she was at least partly responsible for him being there.

Don't forget, the whole going after Howard thing was her idea in the first place.

 

[da man]

The quick Jessie Pinkman cameo was fun. And of course, every time I see a mention of something like that, it gets me wracking my brain trying to think if they ever dropped a line about Combo stealing a nativity scene back in BB.

That scene seemed VERY gratuitous to me.

 

[sgreenwell]

We saw Howard's wife once, and she was a cold bench to him. This idea that shes some sympathetic character who got to Kim and broke her…. Not buying it. Didnt like it

I kind of think that the character / characteristics of Howard's wife are irrelevant. When the high of the scheme wears off, Kim's morality returns. She's not Walt or Jimmy, who instead chase after that high again and again.

 

[clintrichardson]

The funniest line in the entire series: "Yep.....yep....yep.....yep...."

 

[poindexter]

I kind of think that the character / characteristics of Howard's wife are irrelevant.

No, but they emphasize her indignance, and her sympathy for Howard.

She was part of Howards's problems.

 

[poindexter]

And I will say it. The Jesse and Walter scenes added nothing. Jesse almost seemed distracting, he was so much older, and with a different voice.

 

[poindexter]

Marion looked up "con man" and "Albequerque" on Ask Jeeves

 

[Cosmo]

And I will say it. The Jesse and Walter scenes added nothing. Jesse almost seemed distracting, he was so much older, and with a different voice.

I agree with this. Total fan service. Even Sepinwall noted that they basically had to hide Aaron Paul in the shadows to cover for the fact that he's, uh, not 20.

 

[jr/shotglass]

Marion looked up "con man" and "Albequerque" on Ask Jeeves

First entry, baby. Gotta love search engines.

 

[da man]

No, but they emphasize her indignance, and her sympathy for Howard.

She was part of Howards's problems.

So what? She was still married to the guy and found out he had been set up and then brutally murdered. You don't think that might have an effect on her?

Maybe when he died she realized how nasty she had been to him and felt remorse, regret and extreme sadness. Maybe she felt guilty when she thought she had driven him to become a drug addict and commit suicide, and when Kim told her what really happened, she was outraged by Kim and Jimmy having made her feel that guilt (perhaps on top of still feeling guilty about how she had treated him). There are any number of reasons for her to be indignant, angry and sympathetic toward Howard, even if she was a raging bench to him when he was alive.

Whatever the reason, I did not feel that scene was at all unrealistic in that sense.