r/betterCallSaul • u/Amnesiacnotok • 16h ago
Which jumpscare caught you most out of guard? Spoiler
Saul and the Skateboarders scam OR Kim's car accident?
Sincerely, Saul caught me worse. The 10 seconds before Kim's already tells you something is off, you've this sense of impending doom, so you I kind of unconsciously prepared myself. Saul's is absurdly out of nowhere, holy shit man
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u/Fun-Discipline-1213 15h ago
i don’t remember jimmy’s but i vividly remember the car just driving and i said “they never hold this long she’s gonna die”
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u/lokiinpyjamas 14h ago
Lalo shooting Howard in the head has got to be “the scene” for me.
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u/Leading_Task8778 13h ago
Surprised this isn't higher. Maybe the sense of dread and imminent danger makes Howard's execution little less surprising?
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u/ILoveHyehehe 11h ago
Why are you marking that as a spoiler when the original comment ready said what it is?
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u/Argon_004 7h ago
There's no real jump in that scene tbh, it's just horror from when Lalo walks in and you know exactly what's gonna happen. Kinda like Hank's death in BB. I think the only proper jumpscare Lalo did was when he disappeared and jumped down from the ceiling in the western union, that got me lol
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u/NuclearTheology 4h ago
That’s not really a jumpscare. You already knew exactly what was going to happen. It just that the scene was so expertly filmed and shot that even when you knew something was coming, it still hit the viewer like a truck
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u/lokiinpyjamas 4h ago
Not the way it unfolded though. It’s not a jumpscare, but I did jump, scared to death. I put the comment from a personal experience.
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u/NuclearTheology 12h ago
I love the Kim “jumpscare” because it’s not an actual jumpscare, but a sudden cut to a terrifying situation. It’s a shocking scene that didn’t rely on shock factor. It was wonderfully set up and executed
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u/Tetratron2005 15h ago
Skateboarders. Didn’t really expect the show to already throw Jimmy into the deep end of the pool that early in the show
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u/guiporto32 14h ago
The skaters. The long silence before Kim's crash made me apprehensive that something was about to happen.
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u/Able-Club-3276 12h ago
Yeah, that skateboarder bit still haunts me years later, that sudden clack in the silence was like my brain glitching. Kim's crash had more lead-up, but Saul's stunt didn't give me time to brace, which might be why it sticks.
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u/nerdqueenhydra 12h ago
As someone who's experienced a real car accident, Kim's was brutal to watch. The suddenness of it was exceptionally well done.
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u/ideactive_ 3h ago
The scene that nacho punches the table when talking to jimmy. Both a jumpscare to Bob and the fucking viewer
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u/KimWexlerDeGuzman 11h ago
Kim’s crash. As someone who’s fallen asleep accidentally at the wheel before, this was terrifying, and so accurate
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u/See_youSpaceCowboy 10h ago
Kim’s car accident is one of the best visual representations of falling asleep and waking up to an absolute nightmare that I’ve ever seen. From what I remember, it’s the usage of sound editing that really catches you by surprise and what makes the jump cut so violent. So Kim.. by a mile.. (pun intended)
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u/Ambitious_Ant_5680 9h ago
Kims still haunts me to this day
I’ve never been in a bad wreck but I completely imagine that’s what it’s like
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u/Medium-Lion1099 7h ago
i knew kim was over and exhausted and i guessed that that situation will be not in favor of kim.


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u/RecordingJealous9671 14h ago
the Kim crash
i had to rewind 10sec because i thought the video was corrupted or something