Better Call Saul 6 Episode 4 Review: Universe Of Which We Already Know The End, But Which Always Fascinates
Stars: Bob Odenkirk, Jonathan Banks, Rhea Seehorn, Patrick Fabian, Michael Mando, Tony Dalton, Giancarlo Esposito
Director: Michael Morris, Vince Gilligan
Streaming Platform: AMC and Netflix
Filmyhype.com Ratings: 4.5/5 (four and half stars) [yasr_overall_rating size=”large”]
Just last week we were writing about one of the best episodes so far of this sixth and final season of Better Call Saul 6 on Netflix. Sure, the price to pay had been high, but our review of Better Call Saul 6 Episode 3 suggests that it was still worth it. We are still awaiting the return of Walt and Jesse in Better Call Saul, but now we are at a point in the show where the balance between writing and staging works to the point that we don’t feel the need too much and are able to enjoy even the minor episodes. “At the warp development level, like this one.
Better Call Saul 6 Episode 4 Review: The Story
Let me be clear, in any case we are faced with an episode that takes its characters arm in arm to instill doubts and uncertainties in them as they continue their plans. We obviously refer to Kim, the absolute protagonist of this episode, to her feeling hunted, to begin to perceive the concrete weight of Jimmy’s involvement in events that are bigger than him and that have already risked compromising him definitively, both professionally and personal.
After all, the desert experience with Mike should have told him not to continue playing with fire, but now that the world believes that Lalo Salamanca is dead and gone, it seems that everyone’s life can go on as before; and here we are witnessing the attempt of husband and wife to frame Howard, reaping the fruits of the plan studied previously. But Saul doesn’t know that Lalo is still alive and that he and Kim are on the list of people to whom he could pay his respects to him. Gus knows this, convinced of the failure of the assassination he organized, from which he distanced himself even with Hector after the heart-pounding events of the last episode. Now Kim knows it too, who feels a watchful eye on her and will soon realize that she and Jimmy may not be as safe as they thought.
Better Call Saul 6 Episode 4 Review And Analysis
It is always exciting – and there will be opportunities to explore the subject further – to experience the constant evolution of Jimmy McGill in Saul Goodman and this episode also takes enormous steps forward in this sense, albeit in an almost hypodermic but not explicit way. The hand of Rhea Seehorn, Kim’s interpreter, here also as a director, manages the main points of the episode with staid firmness, sewing the camera on the performers, as always impeccable in tracing their path towards the narrative junction that will lead them to their fate in Breaking Bad.
It is true that the circle around Saul is beginning to tighten, and the one who had hitherto been considered an eccentric lawyer with a peculiar history of redemption behind him risks seeing his image radically change, now that the news of his defense of Lalo Salamanca has gone around the court and nothing seems like it used to be. A conscious descent into hell that for Saul is yet another moment to make the best of a bad situation, taking advantage of the fame achieved with criminals that will lead him very soon to cross the threshold of the iconic office he met in the Gilligan show.
But the references to Breaking Bad they do not stop there, and so we meet Julia Minesci who reprises the role of the most ramshackle prostitute in the Crossroads Motel, with a few years of less methamphetamine, as well as Spooge, whose fate is already written in the second season of the mother series. Meanwhile, the hands of the clock advance inexorably and the final transformation of Jimmy into Saul is getting closer and closer.
Better Call Saul 6 Episode 4 Review: The Last Words
Lalo Salamanca’s death had allowed Kim and Jimmy to move on with their lives, but now that the situation isn’t as clear as it seemed, Saul’s wife begins to watch her back as her development arc welcomes Mike and Gus’s henchmen as variables. Even the metamorphosis of Jimmy McGill into Saul Goodman continues inexorably in this episode less adrenaline than the previous one, but full of ideas and evolutions in the dynamics, which also see old acquaintances of Breaking Bad join the construction of a universe of which we already know the end, but which always fascinates.
