Writer Alison Tatlock makes a point as to whether lawyers encourage crime when offering half-price discounts. Enter as of yet unnamed meth heads portrayed by Sasha Feldman and Morgan Krantz who take Saul's business card and 50% discount offer as an invitation to a petty crime spree. After all, "Dude, that's almost half," says one of them.
Although giving away cell phones, discounts, or even stuffed animals along with legal services may not really encourage crime, the theory allows us to enjoy watching Skinny Pete and Badger look-a-likes joyously embracing their philosophy of life: stealing groceries, a lawn troll, lotto scratchers, and junk food, while destroying most of it and other things along the way, high on meth which they always duly pay for.
As Saul has his epiphany as to how he can flood criminal courts with petty ne'er-do-wells and play the system like the con artist he was born to be, we still wonder how Kim manages to hang on. She misses Jimmy. She thinks advertising 50% off legal services is undignified, and she lets Saul have it when he proposes she lie to her clients, even though apparently that worked just fine at the end of the last episode.
Here, Saul takes Kim to a two-story model home to soften her up. She lays down her own law for her lawyer boyfriend and tells him she won't lie to clients. Saul can still read Kim and works things out with her. We still suspect his new take on practicing law will never jive with her more respectful approach. She will leave, if she doesn't get hurt.
Meanwhile, Werner's death eats away Mike. He goes on a bender and ends up snapping at Kaylee.
Fring puts extortion spurs into Nacho, telling him he must "find a way" to win suspicious Lalo's trust. He does.
Domingo earns the name "Ocho Loco" when Lalo bluffs him out of winning a pot with three eights. Domingo gets caught possessing meth shortly thereafter.
Saul bribes a janitor to trap ADA Suzanne Ericsen in an elevator to winnow out his case load with crude negotiations. He even all but snubs Howard Hamlin's lunch invitation.
Here are two new entries into my BCS glossary: 1) "skell" is a word from the 1950s, perhaps short for "skeleton," referring to a homeless person; and 2) Christian Louboutin (b. 1963) designs women's high-heeled shoes that can run up to $1000/pair. Also, did anyone notice that an Apple Arcade commercial that runs during BCS is using the same Jim Reeve song, "Welcome to my World" from "Magic Man" and one of the BCS trailers?
We who support Better Call Saul, especially now with 18 episodes to go, hope nagging mysteries about TV's most crooked lawyer will slowly but precisely unravel. We might even be underwhelmed when it's all over. It's still a great ride while it lasts.
Although giving away cell phones, discounts, or even stuffed animals along with legal services may not really encourage crime, the theory allows us to enjoy watching Skinny Pete and Badger look-a-likes joyously embracing their philosophy of life: stealing groceries, a lawn troll, lotto scratchers, and junk food, while destroying most of it and other things along the way, high on meth which they always duly pay for.
As Saul has his epiphany as to how he can flood criminal courts with petty ne'er-do-wells and play the system like the con artist he was born to be, we still wonder how Kim manages to hang on. She misses Jimmy. She thinks advertising 50% off legal services is undignified, and she lets Saul have it when he proposes she lie to her clients, even though apparently that worked just fine at the end of the last episode.
Here, Saul takes Kim to a two-story model home to soften her up. She lays down her own law for her lawyer boyfriend and tells him she won't lie to clients. Saul can still read Kim and works things out with her. We still suspect his new take on practicing law will never jive with her more respectful approach. She will leave, if she doesn't get hurt.
Meanwhile, Werner's death eats away Mike. He goes on a bender and ends up snapping at Kaylee.
Fring puts extortion spurs into Nacho, telling him he must "find a way" to win suspicious Lalo's trust. He does.
Domingo earns the name "Ocho Loco" when Lalo bluffs him out of winning a pot with three eights. Domingo gets caught possessing meth shortly thereafter.
Saul bribes a janitor to trap ADA Suzanne Ericsen in an elevator to winnow out his case load with crude negotiations. He even all but snubs Howard Hamlin's lunch invitation.
Here are two new entries into my BCS glossary: 1) "skell" is a word from the 1950s, perhaps short for "skeleton," referring to a homeless person; and 2) Christian Louboutin (b. 1963) designs women's high-heeled shoes that can run up to $1000/pair. Also, did anyone notice that an Apple Arcade commercial that runs during BCS is using the same Jim Reeve song, "Welcome to my World" from "Magic Man" and one of the BCS trailers?
We who support Better Call Saul, especially now with 18 episodes to go, hope nagging mysteries about TV's most crooked lawyer will slowly but precisely unravel. We might even be underwhelmed when it's all over. It's still a great ride while it lasts.