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Breaking Bad 3x07 “One Minute” // Better Call Saul 2x07 “Inflatable”
Bonus:
better call saul said lgbt rights :’)
Paste Magazine: The Real, True Story of TV's Most Valuable Supporting Player by Stuart Miller
The inflatable air dancer—also known by various aliases, such as the dancing tube man—spent years in the limited role of storefront shill, but lately he’s made his mark in television as the go-to prop in shows like It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, American Dad, Rectify, Broad City, Better Call Saul and Brockmire...
Better Call Saul used an air dancer to inspire Jimmy McGill (Bob Odenkirk), even if all he was aspiring to was self-sabotage. McGill had been trying to tough it out at a buttoned-down law firm, but he wanted out, needing to set loose his inner Saul (the irrepressibly loud one viewers know from Breaking Bad), and a colorful air dancer showed him the way. In an exuberant and funny montage—one of many excellent montages in the series’ first three seasons—Jimmy reinvents himself as a flamboyant and tactless pest that the firm just has to fire (letting him keep his bonus), establishing AMC’s spinoff as a show that stood on its own two feet (as opposed to the air dancer, who remained on just one).
Smith says that Melissa Bernstein, an executive producer on both Better Call Saul and Rectify told him the latter show had already introduced an air dancer, but Smith felt the roles were different enough that it wouldn’t be an issue. McKinnon jokes that Better Call Saul knew they could use the same character because “only 20,000 people saw our show.”
“We were looking for something that could give Jimmy the idea to go loud and get fired, something he could come across,” Smith says. “It took a lot of discussion to find the right thing. These things are larger than life and colorful, a lightning rod for attention—once we came up with that, we realized it was like Jimmy’s spirit animal.”
Better Call Saul Rewatch Guide | 2x07: Inflatable Written by Gordon Smith (BCS 1x06, 2x04) Directed by Colin Bucksey (BrBa 2x12, 3x08, 4x04, 5x06; BCS 1x04, 1x08) Edited by Kelley Dixon Air Date: 3/28/16 StorySync for this episode; Behind the scenes feature
Interviews, Podcasts & more
Better Call Saul Insider Podcast Ep 2x07: With writer Gordon Smith, post-production supervisor Alecia Weaver, and special guest Chris Sullivan, aka Cleary on The Knick, as the voice of Mike Bearmantraut.
Breaking Bad callbacks in this episode
Film Schlubs interview with Rhea Seehorn
Get a look at the magazines in the cold open
Reviews: Alan Sepinwall, A.V. Club Polite Fight, David Segal, Liz Shannon Miller, Donna Bowman, Sean T. Collins
Podcasts: Bald Move, The Ones Who Knock, PostShow Recaps, NatterCast
Episode locations by Adam Ramirez
Ratings: IMDB: 8.6 stars; Rotten Tomatoes: 100%
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The 10 Best Musical TV Moments of 2016 (Vulture)
Better Call Saul: “Scorpio” by Dennis Coffey & the Detroit Guitar Band “No show does the musical montage better than Better Call Saul. Like its predecessor Breaking Bad, with whom it shared creators Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould and music supervisor Thomas Golubić, Saul rejects the hoary cliché of advancing the plot in a hurry with a sprinkling of musical sugar to help the medicine go down. Instead, it uses montages to showcase some of the most formally innovative and daring filmmaking on TV, accompanied with songs that would do any crate-digging music nerd proud. The “Scorpio” montage in “Inflatable” is this season's highlight, and in many ways its centerpiece. To the raucous tune of Dennis Coffey's '70s instrumental — sampled by innumerable hip-hop classics, from LL Cool J's "Jingling Baby" to Young MC's "Bust a Move" — Jimmy McGill kisses his brief stint as a buttoned-down lawyer good-bye and starts sporting Saul Goodman's signature wardrobe, i.e. suits as loud and funky as the song itself. The visuals match with rapid-fire splitscreens, frames within frames, and shots of the inflatable tube dancer that inspired Jimmy's makeover, as if they're all moving to the beat. Who wouldn't? – Sean T. Collins
On this special episode of Film Schlubs: Brian Davids sits down with Better Call Saul actor Rhea Seehorn. Rhea discusses her background as well as her experiences on Better Call Saul. Note: Spoiler discussion of Better Call Saul’s 2.07, “Inflatable,” begins at the 00:55:27 mark.
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