>and I don't know how I didn't notice it until my second full
>viewing...
>
>But the opening scene, where the feds are emptying out the
>house -- that was a direct reference to the closing scene of
>Citizen Kane.
>
>The tacky but resplendent house, totally packed with stuff.
>Most of it pointless, some of it really important, and nobody
>seems to know or care about the difference. Dozens of rubber
>balls in the trash (from the cell phone store, I assume).
>Greek marble statues crated up and on dollies. Stuff
>absolutely everywhere, so crowded it looks like it's hard to
>get around. But it's all just a burden for somebody else now.
>The detritus of a life spent trying to fill a gap that
>couldn't be filled.
>
>And the camera slowly zooms in on the most important thing of
>all, which to everyone else is so pointless as to not even be
>worth taking.
>
>Yeah maybe it's a cliche. But the scene obviously worked in
>Kane, and it worked here too.

was that JUST a reference to CK or did Saul/Jimmy have a significant attachment to it? Was it Chuck's?

I appreciate this thread. I binged through BCS right after binging through BB but that was late 2020 and the wait has been so long, I'm rusty on a lot of the finer points.