Better Call Saul 6 Episode 6 Review: Situation Is About To Change With The Final Midseason
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 (four stars) [yasr_overall_rating size=”large”]
We must admit after Nacho left the scene things have calmed down a little too much in Better Call Saul. The quality of the Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould show remains very high, don’t get it wrong, but after the Better Call Saul 6 Ep 4 and the Better Call Saul 6 Ep 5, we expected a much more important look from the episode directed by Giancarlo Esposito, than the more they will know for his excellent interpretation of Gus Fring. We are one step away from the final midseason, the final series is on the horizon, and we can already see some outlines, some of the consequences that will inevitably affect our protagonists. For this, we know that everything will pay off, but probably an increasing pace would have allowed these intermediate chapters to make the most of the idea.
Better Call Saul 6 Episode 6 Review: The Story
For weeks Saul and Kim sow the stages of their plan against Howard and still, the situation is not very clear. Attempts to discredit Jimmy’s brother’s ex-partner have been multiple, from stashing cocaine at the club to staging a prostitute by a heavily made-up Saul near Kim and Cliff Main. Jimmy and Howard even sportingly came to blows in the ring, and Saul’s wife’s ex-boss hired a private detective to stalk Goodman. In short, the situation is tense, but the plot continues, between fake Casimir and strange substances to dilate the pupils provided by Doctor Caldera. Having said that, we might have appreciated a greater candor in terms of the script, which now maintains a low profile of writing in the dynamics between characters, while it is the introspection of the individual that triumphs.
In particular, the episode’s teaser takes us back to Kim’s childhood, to relive a moment in her life that makes us understand much more about her tendency to help others, but also to be with a scammer like Jimmy. And it is the ending that perhaps definitively signs the woman’s destiny, imposing on her a crossroads in front of which she decides to deviate from the straight path after fate has served her yet another opportunity for redemption. A parable perfectly inscribed during an episode, which anticipates Kim’s fall, we do not know under what circumstances, but perhaps, given the sowing of the teaser, Saul’s wife will have a bad time (maybe even years), giving up her freedom and to the profession, without however getting his hands permanently dirty in the events experienced by the late Jimmy McGill in Breaking Bad.
Better Call Saul 6 Episode 6 Review And Analysis
Small regret for the parenthesis dedicated to Lalo Salamanca, who this season has proved to be the ideal character to insert a bit of action in the drama. After visiting Germany at Werner’s home, he plans to meet one of the man’s boys, whose fate was decided in the previous season. Also, in this case, we believe that the script has slightly sinned of dramaturgical thrift, however letting us understand where Lalo wants to hit in his revenge project.
If in the past episodes the Salamanca threat had alerted Gus, leading him to obsessive attitudes and nerves on the edge of his skin, it is up to the direction of Giancarlo Esposito to frame a small but welcome juncture of Mike’s intimacy, forcing him to put under observation also the daughter-in-law and granddaughter and to have a tender long-distance relationship, a fixed appointment with the stars across the street, without the only affections left to him knowing it. The balance will change during the upcoming episode, so for now we enjoy these little precious things, which make us forgive at a not exactly exhilarating pace.
Unlike the indigo Hamlin (Hamlindigo blue), however, Lalo has all the shrewdness of yellow, of those who manage to adapt and survive the perils of the desert with cunning. He thus overturns the situation by counterattacking promptly and taking a further step towards that stubborn revenge that will not see, however, as we guess from Breaking Bad, a true fulfillment. This ” ax and grind ” that touches all the protagonists of Better Call Saul, in fact, inevitably leads to failure. So it will be for Mike whose aim is not revenge, but a ” personal interest “. For him ” ax and grind ” is one family matter. Her purpose, the one she desperately and lovingly tends towards, is to ensure safety for her daughter-in-law and granddaughter. Whatever it takes.
For them, he will try to put aside that money which inevitably, however, will end up seized by the police. There is no happy ending for any Better Call Saul desert man: their destiny is sealed from the beginning, right from that choice to abandon the Law to embrace the desert. In them, there is already that desert of death that fatalistically awaits everyone. Even those blue men (Chuck and Howard), indeed especially them, tried to lower themselves to the desert level of Saul Goodman without having the ability.
Thus, we discover the most intimate and fragile Howard (If it’s simpler we can both go there). Uncertain, as Chuck had already appeared uncertain and weak to use in the third season. Both lawyers, obstinately, have taken on a goal which, however, splits between Howard, split as it is from the ax held by Jimmy. For him ” ax and grind ” means both ” personal interest “, in a desperate attempt to put together the trunk of a marriage now reduced to logs, and ” open account ” in the ” whatever it takes ” of those who would like once and for all to get rid of Saul. Whatever it takes. His fate, like Chuck’s, however, is already sealed: the winner takes it all and Hamlin will be reduced to a lifeless log by the overwhelming force of accept-Saul.
The plan to discredit him is now clear, everything on the scene is set up for the drama that will forever shatter the life and reputation of the flawless lawyer: Saul has produced false images that see him exchanging bribes with the judge (actually a double) and at the right moment, when Howard bites and makes unfounded accusations, Jimmy will arrange to administer a product that will dilate his pupils as if he were on drugs. At that point, the allegations addressed to the judge, the testimony of Cliff Main, and the appearance of Howard can only make clear the incompatibility with the case of the Sandpiper.
Better Call Saul 6 Episode 6 Review: The Last Words
A step away from the final midseason, Better Call Saul rings the third episode in a row. Not that that means the show is sinking into a subdued abyss from which it’s impossible to emerge. Simply Gilligan and Gould should perhaps expose their cards a little more and fuel the pace of this last season. Because there is no shortage of events, even important ones. Better Call Saul confirms itself as a series based on characters, and this is good, but even greater dynamism would be. That said, the bull’s-eye on Kim’s character sheds an unprecedented and revealing light, which could anticipate her defeat – not that this is necessarily bad, considering the events that Saul will experience in Breaking Bad – as we suffer from Mike. the consequences of the tension related to Lalo’s plan, which still struggles to fully manifest itself. Unfortunately (or fortunately) the next episode will give a decisive jolt to this stalemate.
