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"Lightning bolts shoot from my fingertips!!" Enough is enough for Saul. Pent up emotion on Howard is unleashed. 1 of the best monologues from Bob thus far. The guy can carry a show. Just wow. What an episode. These last 3 are going to be fierce. What on earth happens to Kim and Nacho in this world?!?!

Jimmy was just in an emotional situation from the court, he likes to be a friend of cartel AND he is forced by mike, so he must do the job even seeing victim's family wouldn't help, but it can break his heart, and at the right time BOOM! Howard comes!

My favorite part about this show is when all the different plot lines and characters merge and intertwine.

This episode has a lot of merging and I AM HERE FOR IT.

Mike and Saul scenes are the best, I want more.

Mr. Odenkirk's acting was put on FRONT DISPLAY especially in the last scene. He is a master.

Kim makes a stand for herself and it seemed to pay off.

Lalo has Nacho burn down a Los Pollos Hermanos, which Gus lends a hand in. Probably one of my favorite sequences in the entire show.

And now Saul is going to collect 7 million dollars for Lalo. This is going to go smooth as butter I'm SURE.

Great job everyone who works on this show. I LOVE IT.

The first 40 or so minutes of this episode were great, but the last 10 minutes were truly incredible. This episode is giving us more and more interweaving between plotlines, and soon enough we're going to see everything collide. Seeing Madrigal and Lydia again was very well done. I really like how none of the callbacks to BB are ever forced; there's always reason behind it. We continue to see parts of Gus Fring that we haven't seen before, including parts we see time and time again including his unending intelligence. I especially loved the scene where he walks away from the exploding restaurant. It reminded me of Walt walking away from the exploding car in BB, yet this scene just felt so much more badass. Gus Fring was a far greater man than Walt ever was. Mike, Nacho, Lalo, it's all moving at quite a fast pace now and hurtling towards what will probably be a gripping conclusion.

People go on about the specific moment that Walt died, and I think this episode we saw Jimmy "die". With him opting for money over conscience ("Conscience gets expensive, doesn't it?" BB S2E8) and his final fiery tirade on Howard (which was incredibly acted), I think Saul has officially taken over and Jimmy McGill is just a memory. That entire ending sequence with the courtroom and Howard was just immense, truly gripping stuff

Low 9

As "JMM" reaches for ratings with wedding, nude scene, explosion, and utter emotional meltdown of the lead character, my favorite moment finds the unassuming return of Peter Schuler (whose only other appearance in the franchise involves committing suicide during a German-language teaser of BB season 5, episode 2, titled "Madrigal"). Iconic for dipping junk food into goopy sauce and shoveling it into his face, Peter, we now learn, also has a history with Gus. Together they go back to some heroic deed in Santiago. If I were writing it, the back story would involve Pinochet and Nazis.

Otherwise the plot shows us one pointless vendetta following another in the dithering criminal world. Last week Mike put Lalo in the slammer; this week he springs him.

Mike tells Stacey he'll play the cards he's been dealt. He is at peace now.

The wedding supposedly creates a spousal privilege between two lawyers who already improperly engaged in shady dealings with Mesa Verde. Judge Gerard Velber (played with extra dark circles under his eyes by Jim Hoffmaster) delivers droll vows while Huell steps up with disposable camera as wedding photographer.

Meanwhile, Gus shows some regret as he burns down his restaurant, rigging a frozen chicken to slide into the grease cooker as it thaws. He'll get a fat insurance check. Yma Sumac's legendary 1953 recording "Chuncho" provides the eerie soundtrack.

But "JMM" shows Saul still cares. Lalo the monster says "just more money." Saul pauses when he sees the murder victim's family grieving in court. Lalo sees them too and feels nothing. Water damage on the ceiling of the courtroom symbolizes obvious decay of the institution.

Howard sees the demon driving Saul. It will take Saul to a strip mall where Walter White will find him. Kim won't be there by then. The end of this season (the next three episodes) promises answers. I sure want them.

We have the displeasure of watching the business arrangement between Kim and Saul reaching its final stage. Whatever sympathy I had left for Kim evaporated watching her laying through her teeth to her client.

She is now officially as despicable as her partner in crime.

After all the manoeuvres of the previous episode to get Lalo in the cooler, Mike is now undoing everything. If this plot wasn't pathetic, it would be too stupid for words.

The only sensible character is Howard who finally sees Saul for who he is: an angry, frustrated, unreliable, unhappy manipulator. But then again, this is not the Saul from BB.

This plot is making Saul a tragic anti-hero, while he's nothing more than a mediocrity.

Better Call Saul is showin no signs of slowing down in it's fifth season, speeding towards the finale, inevitable and probably heartbreaking.

This episode, more than any other, showcases how much Jimmy has changed since the pilot. From the sympathetic rogue, who cuts corners, but means well to a man haunted by the things he does and says in court, who can't accept, that he is responsible for his brother's death, so he blames it on his colleague. A man who sees others as beneath him, because he can shoot lightning's out of his fingers. Saul Goodman is finally here. The superb writing is of course held by the powerhouse performance by Bob Odenkirk, who is criminally underrated in this role.

I loved this episode, and I wanted to post a review to answer to the ones complaining about Kim and saying "Na she sucks, she's not in Br Bad..." I want to answer you that we don't know for sure that she's not in Br Bad. As far as I know we only get to see Saul as a Lawyer in Breaking Bad, we don't get to see him in his private life.

So what if Kim was in Breaking Bad the whole time and we didn't get to see her because the story was not about Saul. May be she will leave during the show, when Saul gets attack by Walt or Jesse at his office(because she's not there when Saul has to run & hide). But no one can affirm that Kim won't be with Saul at least at the beginning of his collaboration with Walt, or even later. Knowing V. Gilligan, I think this would be very plausible.

Think to that.

This episode flowed so well and the story is progressively converging towards the climax of the season.

Kim and Jimmy get married right away and they're in it together now. How will it end for Kim, now that Saul gets closer to Lalo and the Cartel ?

Everybody is moving its own pawn in this episode. Jimmy is representing Lalo, Lalo is pulling Nacho to burn the restaurant, Mike is in the middle talking to Nacho and Jimmy, etc.

I must say I always enjoy seeing Lydia and Schuler's cameo with the sauce is another example of what makes the show what it is. The incredible attention to detail.

The world is slowy moving and the crash is unavoidable. The chessboard is here, the players are ready. And when the bang happens, it will be an epic face off. The explosion of the restaurant is a symbol, a preview of the events to come.

Heisenberg and now Goodman. Its effin poetry and its sooo good. I didnt think I could feel the same way when Walt fell into his alter ego but this one just hurt so damn bad. I love this universe and Gilligan is a proven master TV writer (I thought so too with BB but this just tempers that fact) The end is coming and its going to be awful to see and incredible to witness. 10/10!!!

Pretty simple, really. What sense is there in watching a series in which every character is loathsome? Maybe if there's some complexity, maybe. Maybe if there's some sense of moral gradation. But here, none of the above.

OK, Mike Ehrmanntraut has a redeeming value - he loves his daughter-in-law and granddaughter. OK, Gus Fring is less icky than the other drug lords. But they are more than outweighed by Kim's descent into total worthlessness.

Buh-bye to Saul, Jimmy, or whatever that miserable pustule want to be called.

The detail in the writing is incredible. In the last scene the shot of Jimmys face reflecting shows the two sides of JMM. Just make money vs Justice matters most. Jimmy struggling with this massive ethical choice. Then Howard shows up and offers a job at HHM where Jimmy once aspired to join. This is irritating for Jimmy considering how deep he is at now with Saul Goodman (name change and who is working with) and so he explodes. Bob Odenkirks amazing acting really hits home the tragedy.

Well hard to come up after Wexler v Goodman but was still fantastic.

Smart marriages, Expert heists, Good bedtime reading, this ep had it all. Kim and Jimmy finally tying the know for legal purposes was excellent and Huell was some classic comedic relief.

Lalo, Nacho, Mike and Fring excellent as per, Lalo's plan to destroy Los Pollos and Fring executing to keep Nacho in trust with Lalo is so evil and masterful, it makes u respect how good Walter was cos he somehow beat him at his own game. Its like a vicious cycle of tyrants from Lalo --> Fring --> Walt --> DEA and everyone else. And the music played as Fring and Nacho burn it up is so perfect, Dave Porter every time doing the best of the best. Also Lydia and Madrigal, great to see it all starting to come full circle

The trial at the end was fantastic to watch and a scene that may go by as not important and over a few heads but I thought was unbelievable is near the end where Jimmy is looking around the corner at the victim's family crying and his face is lining up with the mirror that highlights his dual personality. On one side, his face he looks sad, has compassion for the family, he's scared and remorseful, he's the Elder Law Jimmy. But on the side, the side on the wall, he looks demented, angry, unchallenged and unstoppable, Just Make Money Saul Goodman. Idk thats how I saw it and it gave me shivers.

Speaking of shivers, WOW the ending, SAUL ABSOLUTELY TEARING HOWARD A NEW ONE. Was a sight to see, he finally eclipsed HHM, playing the god card and that he's never ever gonna shoot for anything less than the best and be better than Jimmy McGill ever was. Can't wait to see what Lalo gets up to and basically what happens with Kim.......I mean somethings gotta happen.......right?

Rating: 9.4