Notes about “Dedicado a Max” from the podcast [SPOILERS]

• Gould says Fring is a complicated character. The village is supposed to represent Gus’ “Shangri-La”, where he keeps the pure memories of Max.

• Gus brought him to the village as an indirect way of opening himself up to Mike.

• Giancarlo Esposito believes that Gus has correctly gotten a read on Mike that he is full of anguish and is self-destructing.

• They believe that Gus is fully aware of everything that happened to Mike before he came to ABQ, and that Gus understands that they both have a burning desire for revenge within, which is how he appeals to him.

• Gould mentions that on a panel Giancarlo mentioned that Gus sees himself as a “teacher” and Gould believes this is most evident in this episode. He sees Gus in this episode as a sort of “Zen master” who wants to teach Mike something without directly leading him to the conclusion. Giancarlo believes the lesson is “I am what I am”, Gus doesn’t agonize over what he is, he accepts what he’s done and doesn’t make excuses or self destruct.

• They seemingly confirm that Max and Gus were lovers by calling Gus’ pain “romantic hurt”.

• Giancarlo believes that Gus isn’t completely dead inside, but that he suppressed his emotions. Believes that he still has a tiny bit of humanity buried within him, and was happy he got to show a bit of it this episode.

• Apparently when Giancarlo shared those thoughts with Bryan Cranston on Breaking Bad, he would tease him that he was just trying to justify Gus being evil. Peter Gould gets a kick out of that, and says “Seriously? Breaking Bad was one long justification for Walter White!”

• Apparently the montage in this episode was tricky since there was so much dialogue and characters the audience hasn’t known long. Apparently Barry Corbin (Ackers actor) worked well with Bob Odenkirk. Ackers house location was difficult to shoot at due to high winds.

• Peter Gould says that the scene where Kim and Jimmy imitate Kevin is his favorite Kim/Jimmy scene of the whole series.

• They talk about how this episode is Kim’s next step to the “dark side”, and that her argument with Rich is part of her meltdown.

• Gould says it was important to them that Kevin didn’t have any skeletons in his closet, as that would’ve been too easy. Says that the point of BB and BCS isn’t that everyone has a dark side/secret or that the whole world is terrible.

• Gould mentions that the scene with Steven Ogg was written for a different character/actor. The scene was rewritten completely to accommodate the new character. They had to think of a reason why Jimmy wouldn’t use Sobchak in the future instead of Mike, so they added the part about him getting two other guys to intimidate Kevin to explain it.

Submitted March 17, 2020 at 07:42PM by LewdSkeletor1313 https://ift.tt/3abfnOQ