[Note: The following review contains spoilers for “Better Call Saul” Season 5, Episode 8, “Bagman.”]Add this to the list of “Better Call Saul” moments as profound as they are small: Jimmy McGill, waiting on a delivery of two massive bagfuls of cash, whispering to himself, “Yo ...
[Editor’s Note: The following review contains spoilers for “Better Call Saul” Season 6, Episode 10, “Nippy.”]At this juncture of “Better Call Saul,” the biggest unanswered question might well be “What does this guy have left to live for?” And that’s not just true of Gene Ta...
Better Call Saulepitomizes what evangelical cinephiles profess to dislike about prestige television: that it’s a well-honed story machine devoid of revealing figurative messiness. Yet the show’s Swiss-watch precision has its own inherent subtext: The nightmares of comeuppance dogging the characters...
“Saul” was, to this viewer, an achievement that might never have been made without its predecessor series and one that improved upon it. Its treatment of “Slippin’ Jimmy” falling away from grace hit notes of sorrow that the more operatic “Breaking Bad” couldn’t quite achieve. (And,...
The most interesting aspect of the first season of Better Call Saul was watching Jimmy try his hardest to always do the right thing, only to have it continually blow up in his face. This guy just can’t catch a break, but at the very end of the season when his break arrives, what ...
“Better Call Saul” opens with the reveal of a prophecy fulfilled — as Saul Goodman once told Walter White, “The fun’s over. From here on out, I’m Mr. Low Profile, just another douchebag with a job and three pairs of Dockers. If I’m lucky, a month from now – best case ...
The first 3 episodes of Better Call Saul Season 4 prove the show's genre-defying powers as one of the most subtle and brilliant shows on TV.
Bob Odenkirk’s Jimmy McGill is a character of continually shifting morals. In the first season ofVince Gilligan’sBetter Call Saulwe got to know the man who would go on to becomeBreaking Bad’s shady criminal lawyer Saul Goodman. Circa 2002 in Albuquerque, New Mexico Jimmy was a nobody ...
Better Call Saul ends with a satisfying finale that provides surprises, laughs, tears, and emotional gut punches.
Season 3, Episode 2 - Better Call Saul makes good on its hidden promise in last years episode titles and brings back a beloved character from Breaking Bad, but what does it mean for Mike? Jimmy falls into a trap laid by Chuck, but what’s Chuck’s endgame, and how will it affect ...