Better Call Saul Season 6 Episode 11 Review: Breaking Bad Returns! Walt And Jesse Break Into

Stars: Bob Odenkirk, Jonathan Banks, Rhea Seehorn

Director: Vince Gilligan

Streaming Platform: AMC and Netflix

Filmyhype.com Ratings: 4.5/5 (four and half stars) [yasr_overall_rating size=”large”]

So far in Better Call Saul Season 6, we have experienced the transformation of Jimmy McGill into Saul Goodman by revealing a past made up of unforgettable events and characters. The timeline dedicated to Gene Takavic, Jimmy’s alias after the escape from Albuquerque, has always been sip in the prologues of the season, until last week. In the Better Call Saul 6X10 review, we put the pieces of the puzzle of Gene’s black and white life together to realize that Jimmy’s crook-like nature couldn’t sit inert under the surface of a renewed existence in Nebraska. And today’s episode is exemplary not only because it recalls Breaking Bad directly from the title that we all love but because it introduces the talked-about return of Walt and Jesse in Better Call Saul.

Better Call Saul Season 6 Episode 11 Review And Analysis

Already in the Better Call Saul 6X09 review, the shocking events triggered by Lalo’s revenge, from Howard’s departure to Kim’s farewell had given way to the recent past by Saul Goodman, right in the days of Walt and Jesse. A brief time jump is undermined by Gene’s timeline with the emergence of old habits and the irrepressible desire to feel alive that involves the indulging of one’s criminal nature. In this sense, the tenth episode of this last season represents a further evolution of this path that previously had already led Saul to ruin.

But there is nothing ours can do to curb this drive, and here come the plans with Jeff and their partner to steal the identities and money of people carefully chosen by Gene. A vicious circle that can only degenerate into hubris and in parallel not only with Saul’s previous life but also with the choice of Walter White. And these alternating temporal intertwining and the references between past and present will probably continue, but for now, in practice, the return of Walt and Jesse has more of the flavor of pure fan service, especially in finding a visibly aged Aaron Paul who throws a hint of Lalo.

All this could also foreshadow the future of Gene that will take shape in the season finale, confirming that the redemption in the world created by Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould belongs to those who are content and that the exercise of free will leads to the fate built by the feather for the feather to face the flight that will burn or not the fearless near the sun. It is with this spirit that Gene decides the break-in that closes the episode and which is closely linked to the reference to Breaking Bad and Mike’s warning about Walter White’s fate already marked in the face of Saul’s possible involvement.

A call so irresistible as to unequivocally awaken the Saul Goodman who was in the person of Gene, from the indispensable Bluetooth headset to the automatic massager to the disposable phones distributed to the henchmen. And the phone call to Francesca about the state of law enforcement investigations against her, such as the mysterious and inaudible call to Kim, could be a further incentive to try everything before the end, like a cancer patient – and the reference is by no means one-sided – condemned to a certain end who uses every single second he has left to fully live the time he is allowed because everyone can leave Gene, but only one can do so from Saul.

Better Call Saul Season 6 Episode 11: The Last Words

The end is getting closer and closer for Better Call Saul and perhaps even for Jimmy himself. Let’s go back to reliving the timeline of Gene, alias of Saul in Nebraska, and after the few hints of the previous seasons, we can finally breathe the latter’s inability to deny his nature, a process that began some time ago, but which fully materialized in the last episode. and further evolved into today’s one. And if the return of Walt and Jesse to now is more an exercise in fan service, it is the inevitable rise of Saul, that “breaking bad” that becomes the only way to be fully yourself, to take the whole stage. Could it be Icarus’ last flight?