Thankfully, Kim can. ‘Better Call Saul’ Season 5, Episode 2 Recap: Down the Drain, Lalo Salamanca: Makes a good taco, but who’s buying? Here's what you need to remember ahead of Better Call Saul season 5's premiere. Better Call Saul Season 2 Episode 5 Recap Podcast of โ€œRebeccaโ€ on March 14, 2016. But if this show and its forebear have returned over and again to one central theme, it’s that one needn’t travel back to the future in order to complicate time and space. The two lawyers wind up negotiating deals for Jimmy’s clients, one after another, in 20 minutes. Depends on who and when you ask. โ€˜Better Call Saulโ€™ Season 5, Episode 2 Recap: Down the Drain Krazy 8 gets his nickname โ€” and a few other things he didnโ€™t bargain for. Better Call Saul is an American television drama series created by Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould.It is a prequel spin-off of Breaking Bad (2008โ€“2013), created by Gilligan. You’ve got a strong hand. Figure out his plans. He’s merely loco. The series premiered on AMC on February 8, 2015.. As of April 20, 2020, 50 episodes of Better Call Saul have aired, concluding the fifth season. Precisely how Nacho manages this feat of drug superhero-dom is unclear, but Lalo watches from his car as the show unfolds, munching on a snack as if he were at the movies. Nah, says Lalo. The disappointing sequel highlights not only the dire state of the live-action superhero genre, but the dire state of Hollywood filmmaking as a whole. It all began with … a photo of James Blunt? Kim Wexler is playing with fire. Nacho and Jimmy met in Season 1, and their relationship includes a very unpleasant detour to the desert. Once Jimmy figures out that these two masked men were not sent by Lalo — “Lalo didn’t send you?” he screams — he is vastly relieved. Share them. Now wheelchair-bound and mute, Don Hector tries to help his nephew figure out how to handle Gus Fring, whose machinations mystify Lalo. 5. Lalo’s no fool, and he knows Gus is trying to edge the Salamancas and Don Eladio out through cunning subterfuge (not that he knows Nacho is Gus’s inside man yet, even as Nacho risks his life and freedom to get closer to Lalo and keep his family safe from Gus) and a stealth scaling-up of operations. Can we talk about how no customers have been seen at the Mexican restaurant where Lalo now cooks? Of course, it was inevitable that Jimmy would get tangled in Lalo’s life, a development that was preordained, in a time-bendy kind of way, courtesy of an early episode of “Breaking Bad.” Walter White and Jesse Pinkman haul Jimmy to another part of New Mexico’s ample desertscape and make a good show of threatening to kill him. [Note: The following review contains spoilers for โ€œBetter Call Saulโ€ Season 5, Episode 2, โ€œ50% Off.โ€]. Recap guide / thumbnail previews for "Better Call Saul" Season 2 Episode 5 SIGN IN Recaps for TV shows View TV episodes as 50 thumbnails All rights reserved. Or else. Recap of Episode 5 of Season 5 of Better call Saul!! Our recap of Better Call Saul season 2 episode 5, โ€œRebecca,โ€ features Hector in his better days. Did I miss a con? โ€˜Better Call Saulโ€™ Season 5, Episode 9 Recap: Bullet Holes Jimmyโ€™s newest client asks a lot of questions, a few of which he canโ€™t quite answer. Make way for Simon Bassett, Duke of Hastings, and his metric ton of daddy issues. Whoop-whoop in anticipation of pay dirt? It looks as if we can soon anticipate an outright attempted robbery of Gus’s loot. Already a subscriber? Doja Cat Got You All These Looks for the Holidays In Six Christmas Eve Videos. But soon after Jimmy emerges from his elevator tete-a-tete with Ms. Ericsen, Nacho pulls up in the passenger seat of a car and instructs the counselor to get in. A review of the latest episode of Better Call Saul, โ€œ50% Off,โ€ coming up just as soon as I learn my sevens on the times tableโ€ฆ โ€œMr. So much so that Lalo delegates to Nacho the decision to send dealers back to the streets. Raise him another $200? Perhaps that little bit of exposition prior to Jimmy’s entering the frame, the one that lays bare Suzanne’s smothering caseload, the kind that makes one susceptible to Saul’s charms and entreaties over 20 minutes of makeshift deal-making that would make Monte Hall look small. And he shares a meal and a beer with his underling, quickly signaling that he has weighty matters on his mind. The most enticing aside, however, is when Howard arrives and dangles an offer to have lunch with Jimmy and chat. He comes clean about having offered half-price counsel to nonviolent felons, even if he’s not entirely forthcoming about how many such cases he’s agreed to take on — or how much more likely his potential client pool is to commit misdemeanors now that defending themselves is cost effective. Maybe they will reconcile. Will Krazy-8 flip? No one should enter London high society without knowing who matters and what they’re up to. Besides, that big house Jimmy’s eyeing for him and Kim, never mind all the movie nights in front of their plasma TV, aren’t gonna pay for themselves. “I’ve got something much better for him.”. SZA Drops Her New Single ‘Good Days’ to Enjoy on Your Christmas Days. On Better Call Saul Season 5 Episode 1, now doing business as โ€œSaul Goodman,โ€ Jimmy unveils an unorthodox strategy for client development. Better Call Saul Season 5 Episode 2 will release on the 24th of February 2020. Jimmy, Krazy 8, Nacho, and others they have yet to encounter but who will reorder their centers of gravity are on a radically altered course. Jimmy concedes as much as he and Kim make an impromptu stop to look at a house for sale. Mike’s interior drama isn’t as gripping as, say, his adversarial relationship with Walt or his surrogate fathering of Jesse, but it beats watching him and Kaylee play house as if making some kind of spiritual amends. You can’t spell Rodriguez without Grogu. Which is another way of saying that Kim was right. The Chicken Manโ€™s (Giancarlo Esposito) planโ€ฆ Those yahoos wind up at one of the apartments where the Salamancas peddle their meth, using a delivery system — a drain pipe — that proves catastrophically flawed. A bit of back story. Given the air of menace that surrounds Lalo, this is arguably a very wise career move. Back at home, Saulโ€™s loud attire is literally crowding Kimโ€™s version of lawyering out of their shared closets. Better Call Saul Season 5, Episode 2, โ€œ50% Offโ€ ends with Nacho asking Saul to get in his car while he was walking down the sidewalk โ€” looks like Saul will be tasked with helping Domingo. The best season of Better Call Saul so far has officially come and gone, and we donโ€™t know when weโ€™ll be seeing Season 6 quite yet. He won’t, Nacho says, but offers to have him killed anyway. You’re playing Texas Hold ‘Em poker with Lalo Salamanca and he raises you $200. He has already been treated to the scare of his life by Gus Fring, who sends Victor (Jeremiah Bitsui) into a restaurant where Nacho’s father is eating with some friends. Better Call Saul Season Finale Recap: Lalo the Leader Fed up with undeserving overlords, Kim and Lalo each opt for their respective version of the scorched-earth approach. Can we talk about the shower in that house for sale? Not that “50% Off” doesn’t scatter some procedural bread crumbs along the way. Then again, he does have a system. Which is what Jimmy was banking on. © 2020 Vox Media, LLC. Our recap of Better Call Saul Season 2, episode 7 โ€œInflatableโ€ where careers hit important crossroads. This Better Call Saul review contains spoilers.. In keeping with it usual release tradition, Better Call Saul season 5 will now settle into its usual Monday at 9 p.m. timeslot. The most productive con might be Jimmy’s, who manages to buttonhole the assistant district attorney Suzanne Ericsen (Julie Pearl), by conspiring with a maintenance guy to disable the elevator between floors. Jimmy's promotional stunt has unintended consequences. Subscribe: Better Call Saul Podcast in iTunes | Better Call Saul Podcast RSS Feed. That may prove as significant for Jimmy as for Nacho. Yes, Better Call Saul Season 5, Episode 10, โ€œSomething Unforgivableโ€ sees her going to court, but strangely asking for more tricky cases. Three eights. It almost seems to be a money laundering front. It is also apparently the birth of Domingo’s nickname, Krazy-8, bestowed upon him by Lalo, who thinks his petrified employee isn’t petrified at all. Better Call Saul has really made up for the fact that it was on such a long hiatus by giving us a two-night premiere event. Better Call Saul recap: Broken hearts and broken gnomes Two enterprising young men take full advantage of Saul Goodman's promotional rate for non-violent felonies. Jimmy had gotten crosswise with the volcanic Tuco Salamanca in one of the show’s early and most disastrous short cons. Krazy 8 gets his nickname — and a few other things he didn’t bargain for. Beavis, Butt-Head, Veronica Nicks, Tanika Berkman, and all the other pawns may well end up where they were predestined, whether sooner or later. The 5 th episode is titled โ€œDedicardo a maxโ€ and it is released on the 16 th of March in 2020. Tony Dalton in a scene from “Better Call Saul.”, Warrick Page/AMC, via Sony Pictures Television. 2. (They, too, were worried about a recently arrested colleague.) Better Call Saul Season 5 Premiere Recap: Do You Believe in Magic? Recap Better Call Saul Bob Odenkirk Michael Mando. The singer welcomes you to her candy-cane walk-in closet. Varga. While Better Call Saul is much slower-paced than its โ€ฆ And some smaller questions. Mike blames himself for his son’s death, as longtime viewers know, and his guilt and self-loathing have recently been re-triggered by his murder of the homesick construction manager, Werner Ziegler, at the end of Season 4. Save. Better Call Saul recap, โ€˜50% Offโ€™: Everything that happened in season 5, episode 2. This contains spoilers about Better Call Saul Season 5 Episode 1 and scene 2, on the off chance that you want to spoilers, at that point avoid this post. The second season of the American television series Better Call Saul premiered on February 15, 2016, and concluded on April 18, 2016. 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