Better Call Saul
Better Call Saulhad a tough act to follow considering how extremely - blackleg the final season ofBreaking Badwas by both critics and viewers alike . It was astonishing then that the prequel show began to be considered potentially ranking to its predecessor but , when going back over the beneficial installment ofBetter Call Saul , it ’s gentle to see why the prequel show get to touch the original in terms of caliber , and even surpass it in some area . Better Call Saulbegan with all the firmly - earned skills developed overBreaking Bad ’s runnel and squandered none of them .
Though the series already had a host of iconic characters , like Saul Goodman / Jimmy McGill ( Bob Odenkirk ) himself and Mike Ehrmantraut ( Jonathan Banks ) , to work with from the Bible go , every fresh face they introduced feel right at rest home and many of them , like Kim Wexler ( Rhea Seehorn ) and Chuck McGill ( Michael McKean ) , even stop up overshadowing their counterparts fromBreaking Bad . By its destruction , Better Call Saulis the staring kind of prequel , the kind where even longtime fans begin to convert themselves that the hardships in the characters ' futures that they know happen can somehow turn themselves , but it ’s ultimately unthinkable to replace the show ’s bittersweet end .
10Nailed
Season 2, Episode 9
" Nailed"may not see the show kicking into its highest gear quite yet but this is the first actual taste perception that the audience gets of the big difference of opinion that are to descend . After verbally spar with Jimmy in previous episodes , Chuck transform his keep room into a courtroom where he puts his buddy on trial , with Kim as the jurist . However , Kim ’s assessment of Chuck proves to be as evenly annihilating as Chuck ’s spookily accurate dissection of Jimmy ’s crimes and their motive , and the sparks that vanish outshine even the pulse - pound off robbery scene in the installment ’s opening that sees Mike start to become the soldier he is inBreaking Bad .
9Something Beautiful
Season 4, Episode 3
LikeBreaking Bad , a routine of the serious episodes ofBetter Call Sauloften go under - sung because they are n’t consequence episodes , and focalize or else on building toward great confrontations and more challenging criminal escapades . " Something Beautiful " is one of these episodes and the first in a trilogy ofBetter Call Saulepisodes with the word " Something " opening its claim . Though it does n’t featureone of Jimmy ’s bad schemes , it does n’t see him or anyone else at their hunky-dory . Jimmy embarks on an ill - advised heist of a Hummel statuette while Kim is draw further into the mortal - crushing banality of Mesa Verde , but Nacho Varga ( Michael Mando ) gets it the worst .
Nacho is left leech in the desert in a attractively construct possibility conniption in which a shooting is arrange to cover up the murder of Nacho ’s partner . " Something Beautiful " teases a circle , like Jimmy replacing Dr. Caldera ( Joe DeRosa ) as Albuquerque ’s underworld go - between , Gale Boetticher ’s ( David Costabile ) tragical tenure as Gus Fring ’s ( Giancarlo Esposito ) most bank meth cook , the incident in Tucumcari in the next season , and it even introduces Ira ( Franc Ross ) , who goes on to act as a gateway into the world of the snowy supremacist inBreaking Bad . However , it ’s Chuck ’s posthumously - delivered letter to Jimmy , and Jimmy ’s emotionless response to it , that spell the most doom .
8Something Unforgivable
Season 5, Episode 10
The third and last " Something … " episode ofBetter Call Saul , " Something inexcusable " is the season 5 finale and the sequence that finally answers the question of why Jimmy – or Saul , at that point – is so deathly afraid of being pick for something that Nacho did to Lalo Salamanca ( Tony Dalton ) . Both are mentioned once very briefly in theBreaking Badepisode " Better Call Saul " when Walt ( Bryan Cranston ) and Jesse ( Aaron Paul ) attempt to intimidate Saul in the desert by pretending that they ’re going to fulfill him . It ’s ab initio very effective but only because Saul believes that they ’re there on behalf of Lalo .
7Winner
Season 4, Episode 10
" Winner " isBetter Call Saulat its most emotional . As Jimmy attempts to get his law license back , Kim attempts to get Jimmy to finally front his heartbreak about Chuck ’s death , all while Mike hunt down an at large Werner Ziegler ( Rainer Bock ) with a tenacious Lalo hot on his tail . Lalo had only just been introduced into the show , and this was fans ' first insertion to just how unrelenting he is . Mike is wedge to make a heartrending choice after finding Werner and Jimmy brings back Chuck ’s varsity letter from " Something Beautiful " only to reveal he ’s lost even more of his humanity in the spare-time activity of burying his intuitive feeling of guilt .
Even though it was the show ’s biggest hope , it ’s a torturesome moment when Saul Goodman resolve to at last deliver himself de jure into the human race . The audience is made intimately aware of how much botheration Jimmy is in inscrutable down regarding the demise of his buddy in a powerful here and now where he sobs alone in his auto . The smile of Saul plaster over on Jimmy ’s brass as he pulls away from Kim in the installment ’s final blastoff is simply haunting .
6Rock And Hard Place
Season 6, Episode 3
" Rock and Hard Place " brings an end to one of the show ’s tenacious and most interesting character arcs . It ’s the final episode featuring Nacho Varga , and it give a gut - wrenchingly perfect ending to his storey . Jimmy and Kim have an interesting development in their on-going game against Howard Hamlin ( Patrick Fabian ) , pulling off an articulately simple key armed robbery , of sorts , but it ’s all lowly to Nacho ’s auf wiedersehen .
The final season ofBetter Call Saulhas the phantasma of death forever looming over almost every tantrum , with the watcher being promote to always conjecture over who will and wo n’t make it to the end of the closing curtain . Main character death are look in shows likeBetter Call Sauland the series handles its last large ones with the level of guardianship that fans of the serial had come to expect . This was the first of several big death episodes in season 6 but , while the others were progress up to throughout the bulk of the season , Nacho ’s fate is abrupt and stand up out for inescapable it feel .
5Five-O
Season 1, Episode 6
Throughout the course of action ofBreaking Bad , the interview never go through what makes Mike tick . What is shown is that he was Gus Fring ’s proper - hired man man and that he was n’t to be play with . The sixth instalment of the first season ofBetter Call Saulchanged all of that as longtime buff last got a fleshed - out backstory for Mike that explicate the so - called dramatic play that surrounded Mike ’s departure from his native Philadelphia , which had been teased by Hank Schrader ( Dean Norris ) during his interrogation of Mike inBreaking Bad . " Five - group O " is one of thoseBetter Call Saulepisodes that ’s a miniature movie within itself .
Jimmy features quite minimally in the episode , with the focussing being onMike ’s past as a corrupt police force officer who takes retaliation on the human who polish off his Logos . Mike ’s confession to his boy ’s widow woman sets up not only Mike ’s past but his hereafter too , as he essay to make redress with what ’s go forth of his family while fans ofBreaking Badknow just how tragically his narration ends . This is the most emotionally vulnerable that the audience ever see Mike in either show and Jonathan Banks does n’t squander the opportunity to show every aspect of Mike ’s psyche that ordinarily has to be kept under rigorous lock and key .
4Bagman
Season 5, Episode 8
One of the most cinematic episodes ofBetter Call Saul , " Bagman " revolves wholly around Jimmy ’s decision to transport Lalo ’s bail bond money from the US / Mexican border to the courthouse . Jimmy is attacked almost immediately by an armed group , promptingone ofBetter Call Saul ’s big shootoutsand a life - change trial by ordeal in the desert with Mike . Though more action - pack than the typicalBetter Call Saulepisode , " Bagman " is still full of quieter part moments as Jimmy takes some of his unspeakable first footprint into truly spill his Robin Hood persona who ’s looking out for the little guy and embracing the soulless Saul Goodman who will do essentially anything for the right price .
3Plan And Execution
Season 6, Episode 7
There weremany shocking and otherwise impactful death onBetter Call Saul , but none hit quite as hard as Howard Hamlin ’s . Though witness would n’t get to see the fruition of Gus and Lalo ’s plans until the following sequence , the mid - time of year close of season 6 go steady the execution of instrument of Jimmy and Kim ’s steadily ramp up - up program to tear down Howard . The awfully perfect crime is cap by Lalo returning to Kim ’s flat for a sequel to his interrogation scene from " Bad Choice Road " just after Howard get there too . Howard ’s murder is one of the most graphic and undignified of the entire show , and it leaves a huge impression on the viewer .
Jimmy ’s antagonization of Howard is a cycle reiterate itself and the reliable fulfilment of Chuck ’s prophecy that Jimmy would hurt and destruct the citizenry closest to him , and the post of necessity blowing up in Jimmy ’s face , as Chuck once put it , is far more frightful than longtime fans could have imagine . A brilliantly elementary and effective illusion with the flaming of a candle accent just how powerless the out - of - their - conference lawyers , and the consultation , are in the nerve ofBetter Call Saul ’s devil theatrical role .
2Chicanery
Season 3, Episode 5
The fifth episode of the third time of year ofBetter Call Saulis one of the most thrilling showdowns of eitherBetter Call SaulorBreaking Baddespite the fact that it feature no shootout or furiousness . After practice run in Chuck ’s keep way , Jimmy and his brother ultimately go header - to - head in a courtroom when Chuck testifies against Jimmy during his hearing with the bar association . A speculative but brutally effective plan have Chuck to fall behind composure and publicise his dead on target impression about Jimmy on the record . It ’s an emotionally withering number of events , but the perfectly played court dramatic play is so enveloping that the exhilaration of it whelm everything else .
This is a true turning - of - the - table moment , as Chuck control for the first metre that Jimmy has the power to best him on his home turf . It ’s also the strategy that insert devotee - favoriteBreaking Badcharacter Huell Babineux ( Lavell Crawford ) into the narrative , thus moving the tale one step closer toBreaking Badwhile still retaining the core essence ofBetter Call Saul.
1Saul Gone
Season 6, Episode 13
The series finis ofBetter Call Saulhas only a few of the show ’s major questions still left unanswered , but they ’re the most important . It becomes very apparent over the line of the show that Jimmy and Kim ’s relationship is the key to everything , with Kim ’s fortune almost constantly having a question mark hanging over it as she ’s neither date nor advert inBreaking Bad . Jimmy McGill ’s journey back into the light after falling into the darkness of Saul Goodman seems like an impossible task and , after perfectly detaching Kim from Jimmy during theBreaking Badyears , it seems equally inconceivable to see the two of them ever reconcile .
As highly rated as the final season ofBreaking Badwas , and as keen as its last episode is , " Saul Gone " wraps up the remaining patch thread of the show in a much more emotionally evocative room compare to the cold-blooded and harsh realities of " Felina" . Better Call Saulis ultimately a love story and a story that ask for its audience to evaluate its fictional character and weigh their fates . Jimmy ’s portion may not be the happiest of ending , but it is absolutely balanced .
