Better Call Saul 2x1
Added 2024-10-01 15:00:10 +0000 UTCComments
That's exactly it, I think. I think it's the scene in the show that distills the essence of his character the most. He is an inherent chaos agent/troublemaker/beehive poker.
Silver Hawkins
2025-04-14 15:40:22 +0000 UTCI feel like the light switch at the end is just to show that Jimmy has a compulsion to break rules. The switch had no apparent consequences for being flipped. Another rule broken with no repercussions. It's like a peek into his mindset.
Phan
2024-10-06 06:29:13 +0000 UTCI guess Ken doesn't always win😏
Yess... Cuban B
2024-10-03 05:52:21 +0000 UTCArianna immediately recognizing the douche-y guy from breaking bad, hell yeah. Nice catch.
Damien Lupo
2024-10-02 04:51:08 +0000 UTCI think I would've flipped it too. Especially if it was MY office? I'd wanna know. Or I'd at least ask somebody. Not knowing would eventually start to bug me.
Joe Blankenship
2024-10-02 01:02:22 +0000 UTCAs far as Jimmy is concerned, yeah, it was a waste of time because it's nuts to turn down a job like that. As far as Jimmy & Kim are concerned? Definitely not a waste of time. He introduced Kim to his little conman game and they spent the night together. Plus, the idiot with the baseball cards sets us up for the next episode.
Joe Blankenship
2024-10-02 00:59:41 +0000 UTCI think those were like the Milgram obedience experiments of the 1960s,
Chris Bruneau
2024-10-02 00:13:41 +0000 UTC"nothing really happens" real BCS enjoyers appreciate the slow burn & understand the perfect foreshadowing displayed in this episode. amateur.
Dani
2024-10-01 20:42:20 +0000 UTCThree Breaking Bad callbacks in this episode!! 1.that obnoxious D-Bag stockbroker had his BMW set on fire by Walt in season 1. 2. one of the cops who responds to Mr. "lost his precious Baseball cards" was the same guy who responded to the "domestic dispute" at the white residence in BB. 3. that fancy tequila is the same kind used by Gus to poison Don Eladio, the Mexican Drug Lord
Chris Bruneau
2024-10-01 20:29:27 +0000 UTCThe tequila companies that turned that branding opportunity down (cuz they didn't want their product to = poison) missed out cuz people were fiending to buy Zefiro Anejo (not a real product).
Kara
2024-10-01 20:05:25 +0000 UTCIn a lab experiment people were left alone in a room for 15 minutes with a button they could push to give themselves a painful electric shock. A majority of participants chose to push the button, some even pushed it multiple times. IMO Jimmy flips the switch because he can't help himself; he sees a button marked "do not push", the electric shock button, and pushes it anyway to see what happens. He's just built like that.
Kara
2024-10-01 20:04:17 +0000 UTCThis episode felt like such wasteful use of time, atleast in the beginning nothing really happens and then we get the scene from the last episode
sablo
2024-10-01 19:43:47 +0000 UTCThe switch is✨sYmbOLiSm✨. It symbolizes Jimmy's adherence to the rules, to the straight and narrow. There is no clear reason why Jimmy should follow the instructions on the tape to not turn off the switch, it doesn't say, and when he goes against the instruction, seemingly nothing bad happens. It seems like an arbirtrary and senseless rule, imposed on him. And that's the same way he views the world. A bunch of arbitrary, seemingly senseless rules that one must follow for no apparent reason. But he can't help himself, like Chuck said. He wants to test the waters, he wants to skirt the rules, to see how far he can push the rules without consequence. But ultimately, there's probably a reason why the switch should remain turned on just like there's (mostly) reasons for the rules of the world, even if they're not obvious at first glance. But by turning the switch back on and putting back the tape, Jimmy signals that he's willing to follow the rules. For now. I really love that small scene, there's so much depth behind it. And there's a reason why the season 2 premiere ends on that scene and is named after it. Also, the fact that you recognized Ken the douchebag stockbroker, is amazing. Maybe it's because you watch these shows in a condensed timeframe (and not over years as they originally aired) but I would never have remembered this super minor character from season 1 of Breaking Bad.
Christophe
2024-10-01 18:32:33 +0000 UTCFun fact: That tequila is the same stuff Gus used to poison the cartel.
MKF1004
2024-10-01 15:35:29 +0000 UTCthe american work culture stuff always cracks me up haha
Eamon
2024-10-01 15:30:04 +0000 UTC
