Better Call Saul -- Episode 5x5 "Dedicado a Max" -- Discussion Thread

AMC ^ | March 16, 2020

[silent_jonny]

WARNING!

This thread contains spoilers for:
Better Call Saul
Breaking Bad
and El Camino
Proceed at your own risk.

[silent_jonny]

Episode 5
“Dedicado a Max”
(Dedicated to Max? Maximum Dedication?)

Mike takes an impromptu trip out of town. As she and Jimmy grow closer over their campaign to help a client, Kim makes a surprising call.

[silent_jonny]

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Episode 5 premiers tonight @ 9pm Eastern on AMC

[TomServo]

lol....

[silent_jonny]

Better Call Saul Season 5 Episode 1 - Recap & Review "Magic Man"

Better Call Saul Season 5 Episode 2 - Recap & Review "50% Off"

Better Call Saul Season 5 Episode 3 - Recap & Review "The Guy For This"

Better Call Saul Season 5 Episode 4 - Recap & Review "Namaste"

Watch full episodes here. No login required for Episode 1.

[llevrok]

such a great show! The acting, camera angles (direction) and writing. The complete package!

[TomServo]

Saw an interesting theory as to why Kim and Howard aren't in BB....

A Theory About ‘Better Call Saul’ And A Fate Emotionally Worse Than Death For Kim.

[MayflowerMadam]

It’ll be nice to have an hour of escapism from Wuhan.

And I want to see if Howard converted to Buddhism. Namaste.

[silent_jonny]

I agree.

[silent_jonny]

Oh I hate that theory, lol

From the link: Assuming that Kim is alive in the future, why doesn’t Saul Goodman ever reach out to her?

He reached out to someone last season, in a flash forward to the Breaking Bad timeline when everything was falling apart. Saul handed a card to his secretary, telling her that person (or persons) would be her new attorney. It could be Kim, who knows.

But I do agree that killing Kim off on this show to explain her absence in Breaking Bad would just be lazy. She deserves better than that.

[silent_jonny]

Yes it will!

I do apologize for bringing a little of the virus into this thread. It's infecting everything, I guess, lol

[TomServo]

Yeah - I hate it too, but it makes too much sense. I see the last episode and it’s titled ‘Unforgivable’. Beginning of the end for them.

[rodguy911]

I’ll be there tonight not missing this one!!
Great cast hard to beat this stuff.

[MayflowerMadam]

I can see Kim and Howard together. Not a terrible theory. Every week, DH and I comment that we can’t see Kim and Jimmy/Gene/Saul as a couple.

[silent_jonny]

I could be wrong but the music that was playing as Mike walked away from the school (?), where he was told to stay, was the same music that was playing when Walter White tried to walk away from the cabin in New Hampshire.

Walt made it to the gate, but he was too exhausted to go any further, so he turned around and walked back to the cabin, just like Mike walked back to the school.

[silent_jonny]

Lots of Breaking Bad references so far tonight.

Gus' personal doctor is stitching up Mike (not for the last time).

Jimmy is cooking up something in the kitchen, like Walt cooking up the bomb in his kitchen that would eventually kill Gus.

The title of the episode is on the plaque on the school's fountain. "Dedicado a Max". Dedicated to Max. Was Max Gus' boyfriend?

[silent_jonny]

Aha!

Maximino "Max" Arciniega was a close associate of Gustavo Fring and co-founder of the Los Pollos Hermanos franchise. He held advanced degrees in biochemistry and chemical engineering. Max's education was financed by Gus after Gus rescued him from the slums of Santiago.

Max_Arciniega

[TomServo]

Yeah - got the bullet in the head from Hector.

Excuse me, I have to make a call..LOL!!

[TomServo]

And yeah - his significant other....yeeesh...

[Palio di Siena]

Shot of Howard with bare feet - you could be right.

[silent_jonny]

It's Trevor again--LOL

Going by "Mr. X"