Better Call Saul - Season 6 Episode 8 "Point and Shoot" Review
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- Better Call Saul returns for it's final episodes and things kicked off with a BANG!
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I loved Mike's actions & reactions throughout this episode. He never fails to let anyone know exactly how he feels.
Mike's complete and utter shock at what Kim had to tell him was really good. He doesn't do much facial acting besides his usual 'I'm too old for this' look, but when he gets an opportunity to flex, he does it.
Howard has by far the worst fate out of anyone from either show. Completely made a fool of and humiliated professionally and personally, losing his stringent reputation that he spent his whole life building, made a complete pawn in a scheme for settlement money so Kim could start a pro bono firm which is never gonna happen now, so it was all for nothing. Not to mention being murdered and buried with Lalo in a ditch under the floor of a meth lab.
Hector had the worst fate, but Hector deserved it.
I love that they wrapped up Lalo now. Really gives them time to properly close the door on Kim and Jimmy, get the timeline caught up to BB, perhaps some in BB timeline stuff then see what happens with Gene.
I think that’s why they killed lalo off the bat. So that we could get more of post breaking bad episodes
I was standing for about 45 minutes of this episode. This show is not fuckin around. It’s going to be a shame when it’s gone this is the last real TV show there is.
I can never watch the Fly episode of Breaking Bad the same way ever again. This episode was as intense as Ozymandias and that's crazy as it's a prequel and u know which characters survive. I thought Lalo was gunna stick around until the end of the season and the finale was going to have the confrontation. Of course Gilligan does the opposite and now who knows what's gunna happen in the next 5 eps!
I wonder if that fly came from the rotting corpses of Howard and Lalo.
I totally agree! The first thing I thought of when seeing Lalo and Hamlin down in that whole was the that damned fly.
This show is a masterpiece. Wouldn't change a single thing.
I would have Chuck dying in the first season :)
@Caesar Gonzalez this episode solidified the fact that Better Call Saul is just as good as Breaking Bad
@@GojoTorrance It so awesome that you are not the showrunner then
It started strong with season 1 and tuco. Then it got painfully slow for seasons 2 and 3.
They could have easily killed chuck at the end of season 2 and sped things up a little
@@sylvester3018 Its not meant for people with ADHD
One of the best episodes of the series!!! Lalo was one of my favorite characters, I’m glad he got such a good ending, plus Gus was super cool in this episode!!!
Probably one of the best episodes in the whole BB universe
Gus standing over Lalo while choking on his blood kinda reminded me of Walt watching Jane overdosing back in season of BB and in both there moments they become the stone cold badasses we love them for.
One of the things liked about Gus's paranoia towards Lalo was how it kinda reminded me of Walter's similar paranoia towards Gus and how careful both characters had to plan how they'ed eventually prevail in the end. It's also probably why Gus wasn't very trusting with Walter throughout Breaking Bad even back during their first meeting because Walter much like Gus is always trying to be on top.
6:22 Next episode Gus will probably go to the old people's home to taunt Hector about Lalo's death which is partly Hector's fault since he was so relieved his nephew was alive he gave Gus a look of clear excitement that Lalo would eventually kill Gus letting Gus know he was alive and ruining Lalo's plan to fake his death, find evidence of Gus's meth lab and send it to Eladio.
This episode was so perfect. Sure, you knew Gus wasn't gonna die but that was one AMAZING speech, very reminiscent of Nacho's. The first half was more intense for me, and is effectively intense upon rewatch, even after you know that Kim isn't going to die (yet). The lead-up to her walking in the house was so fantastic, and Jimmy forced to look into the eyes of a man whose blood was on his hands perfectly mirrored "Ozymandias", where Walt similarly fell over in the sand and stared into Hank's lifeless face.
Milenia later, Vogon Archeologists from the department of Extinct Species of the University III of Beta Centaury will dig under Albuquerque ruins on the dead third planet and find two bodies under a charred cement floor. They will conclude there is the fabled human city of Pompeii, which was destroyed by a vulcano on the year 10.345 before the Spacing Guild.
Hated to see Lalo go this soon but it makes sense. I also love that I have no idea where it is going to go. The fact that they can keep it that unpredictable is incredible.
What do you think will happen to Lyle from Los Pollos Hermanos? Because we never see him in Breaking Bad.
I don't think he's relevant. Probably moved on to better job.
I'm pretty sure the 2 unnamed bodies that the DEA found when the lab burned down was Howard and Lalo's bodies in season 5 of breaking bad
Yes sir… i agreee! This show is awesome, fantastic writing, acting, photography…..No idea where they are going with the rest of the episodes🥳🥳 This episode really got me on an emotional level….. Poor Howard….. 😔😔😔
I love Gus’s face when he’s being held captive by lalo. Hilarious. Gus planned for it but he’s so displeased
I am seriously shocked on how great this show actually is, with most shows first couple seasons are great and after that it is hit or miss with a series, not the case with Better Caul Saul this show is fucking great, this and Breaking Bad are amazing.
This show is a masterpiece
It was an amazing midseason premiere. I didn't expect the Lalo story to go on as long as you did, but I thought the opener would be a setup one, and then Lalo's story would be resolved next week. Gus saying how he felt to Lalo was great . And then we had Mike as the moral compass to the show with his reaction to Howard's death. What a visual too, of Lalo and Howard getting buried together.
I'm so happy that both actors were nominated for two of the 7 Emmys that this show has been nominated for! The real crime on the series is that Rhea hasn't been nominated for/won an Emmy yet!
Best episode so far this season, things that I want to see in the next five episodes: Time jump to maybe 08’ around breaking bad, and tuco returning because he has been sorely missed imo
Tuco is in prison. He will probably want revenge because of Lalo
I didn't wanna bring up Dexter again, but the writers of Dexter could learn from the writers of BB/BCS.
The way Lalo died - they should have written Dexter's death (or capture) similarly. Dexter should have faced a serious challenge and been ALMOST victorious before getting outsmarted and caught.
Such a great episode! The acting was so good. I'm also very happy that we got the death of Lalo in this episode. I didn't want them to drag it out for multiple episodes.
Well said Cody! I couldn't of said it better myself! Excellent episode!
Its beyond amazing!!!!!!! Love it!!
Hell of a way to start back Pt. 2! What a ride! Lalo was such a great onscreen villain. Mike taking off the shoes of Howard was a nice emotional touch showcasing that his fate didn’t belong where it eventually did. Can’t wait for the final 5 eps
I would’ve loved to see Lalo go out in a more badass way and a little later in the last 6 episodes but it was still a good episode. Acting 10/10 as usual.
I mean it makes sense that the Lalo stuff wrapped up now I couldn't see them stretching it out for the rest of the season plus you had to know with alot of the cold opens and stuff like that that the series is going to end with the gene timeline..
Lalo is a genius who got sloppy
Gus was a genius and got equally sloppy as Mike points out, but Gus' motivation (renvenge for Max) was stronger.
Great episode. Loving your coverage of it Cody. This episode I did enjoy but it left a bad taste in my mouth. Howard being buried with a monster on top of Jimmy and Kim ruining his reputation is just awful. Even Mike was disgusted with his death. And possibly even disappointed in Jimmy and Kim schemes against him. Overall I think this will affect Kim more. Plus her fate being uncertain, I think those 2 things are linked. I'm never going to look at those lab scenes in breaking bad the same again. Knowing it's a unmarked grave. Plus now I think that fly was Lalo or Howard reincarnated. Back to torture Walt for that one episode.
Interesting theory about the Fly episode! Although Lalo and Howard have nothing to do with Walt
Definitely Lalo lol he's still trying to sabotage Gus' operation however he can 😆
Rewatching the episode and imagining Lalo as the fly intentionally causing Walt and Jesse to assault each other and run around in circles chasing a fly instead of making meth for Gus just works too well
It was never shown but Mike probably met Howard a bunch of times while he was working the parking lot at the court house. Giving Mike even more reason to lament his death
@@konger6069 very true. I didn't think of that. Sometimes I forget he worked that job.
Probably my favorite better call Saul episode out of the whole show. Straight to the point and great writing.
I am also truly stumped as to where they will go with the rest of this season. I feel like we may have somewhat of a time jump coming soon and we end up in the breaking bad era. Either that or maybe we get a full 2-3 episodes of Gene. This is awesome.
It’s crazy that the last 5 episodes are basically going to act as an entire different season given we have no clue what the plot is going to be
I have heard about interesting idea... since we are closing on BB timeline, it would be (atleast to me) mindblowing if Kim after all that shit that happend would decide to fly away and start new life (she had some aboard offers if Im not misstaken in previous episodes) and she would be on a plane that colided during the BB story.
Also I got a little confused that Saul in BB was shit scared that "Lalo send you ?", but now he kinda knows he is dead. Is he just "not sure" because he was told its over once before, so he cant be sure this time either ?
Yeah even though I knew how Lalo was going to die and that he was going to die, they still made the scene memorable. The image of blood pouring out of his mouth while he's dying and LAUGHING will stick with me
There's more to Gus, I hope we get a little more on his background. I think he's ex military or intel agency in Chile.
I think Kim will die. My theory is that for the rest of this season Jimmy and Kim have to keep quiet for Guss Fring, and since Kim has the least experience with crime of the two, eventually she can't take it anymore and reveals something about Howard and Lalo to someone, causing Guss to come after her. This explains why kim doesn't appear in breaking bad and why no morality remains in jimmy and becomes Saul
What's underwhelming is that, Lalo outsmarted 5 assasins during the ambush, while Gus never really showed any expertise in handling guns, and was able to hit Lalo in partial darkness. I was expecting that in order to really beat Lalo in a gun fight, Gus needs to pull something bigger rather than turning off the lights and running towards the gun. But I am also considering the fact that Lalo gave too much opportunity to Gus but it's still not enough for him to beat in a gun fight like that.
I agree 👍 I thought it was a little weak, it's LALO for Godsake
@@DANE89 Yeah it's unbelievable how people just piggyback on everyone else's opinions. Like they just go with the majority of the people, not really having/expressing their own thoughts about the topic. I say, we value little things such as this because we pay attention to every detail. Saying "how Lalo went out is underwhelming" doesn't necessarily mean the show is terrible, it's a room for improvement for the directors/filmmakers.
It's good that they didn't drag it with Gus vs. Lalo to the very end. They wrapped Nachio in 1-3, Lalo and Howard in 4-8, and now gonna wrap Kim and Jimmy in 9-13. Perfection.
Jimmy seems pretty dismissive of women in BB. I think Kim will leave him (possibly vanishing with Ed without even telling Jimmy why) and Jimmy will take it personally.
I wish Gus was given more screen time this season and that is one of the reasons why I liked this episode so much. This was very much a Gus episode. What did it for me is how he can just flip the switch and go into Pollos Hermanos manager mode just like that. Some of the best moments in the entire BB universe is when he is assuming this role.
This episode was awesome. If this season sticks the landing I think it could possibly be the best!
Well the writers said we’d view breaking bad differently after this season… every time I see the lab knowing Howard and Lalo are buried under there will certainly make it a different experience
So while Walt and Jesse were cooking, Lalo and Howard were just a few feet below them.
We need more Hank before it finally ends
Its just mindblowing how good this show is and I dont use this term lightly.
When’s the next tier list ranking for horror movie for the fourth movies in each franchise
very much reminded me of the begging of s2 of breaking bad of breaking bad biggining after a cliffhanger and the main villan of the last season unexpectedly gets killed off quickly.
The reference to Lalo makes sense now in Breaking Bad. Got no idea what we got next in these last 5 episodes.
Yup, Mike's word that "Lalo is not coming" is all Jimmy has and he had that before.
@@godfreyofbouillon966 Yeah Lalo had faked his death before so Jimmy always had that fear and paranoia that he'd come back and ask Jimmy if he was working with Nacho in Gus's attack on Lalo's house.
Kim was in Lalos car and Lalo was in Jimmys. The cops saw Kim that night. Will any of this be important?
Expected Lalo to kill Kim and then for Lalo to die by the hands of Gus so now that Lalo is dead. Very curious who kills Kim. I don't see how she makes it out of the series.
How will Walt and Jesse fit into the 4 year gap between BCS and BB?? Anybody??
Personally I'm enjoying the show so far
My prediction is one more episode in the jimmy timeline until we go to gene timeline for final 4 episodes!!! Get ready to see walt and jessie next week!!!!
I was half-expecting Gus to not kill Lalo but instead wound him and then leave him to starve to death in a hole in the wall or something. Gus is cruel to those who wrong him.
Lalo did nothing for Gus to want to see him suffer and it wasn't personal like hector for example. He just wanted Lalo to die cause he was a hinderance to his plans and operation
Great review as always. Now.....all this makes Saul and wife very unlikeable right? You have been saying for long that Howard didn't deserve so much planning against him so now that they got him killed.....even less and no way to root for them. And I was pretty much despite all rooting for Saul in the previous seasons and Breaking Bad. Same as I was rooting for Walter White of course. This makes me like the series less although still I recognise it is very well crafted. But.....not rooting for the main leads feels weird.
The Better Call Saul fanbase is probably the most generous fan base towards a show that I've ever witnessed before as it's still airing. Don't get me wrong I'm pleased with the season, but the solutions to the major storylines thus far haven't creatively come together that well. I'm content with them and they're certainly not failures, but it's not at the level 10 status that the fan base is putting it on. The Nacho storyine is the exception, which I thought came together well, but the whole Howard thing was an insanely forced storyline that doesn't make much sense in it's entirety. The show essentially used the hand of god to solve a storyline that would have left us scratching our heads other wise. All of that build up with this big plan against Howard merely being to make him seem crazy, so he would have to settle the big lawsuit? Seriously? That was it. But thanks to the hand of God Lalo shows up and kills him, so now it's this masterpiece in writing. And then when it comes to Lalo vs Gus. It's solved by Gus allowing himself to be taking hostage by Lalo and cross his fingers that he wouldn't be executed sooner (that he would first let him give a video tutorial on his displeasure with the cartel) or even tied up for that matter with the plan being, to kick the power off grab a gun and shoot Lalo before he gets shot (if I was generous I would have given Gus a thousand to one odds of pulling that off). That was an astronomical gamble on Gus's part that luckily worked out for him. So the writing was relatively forced... they didn't have to create anything that would come together, they were solved in that very moment it happened by the hand of God.
In the end I don't think it's a massive dock against the show or anything because I have a feeling that the Kim/Jimmy storyline (the one that matters the most) is going to piece together nicely based on hints from the cast and what not, but who knows. I'm sort of just taken aback by how receptive the fan base has been towards this show and these two storylines closing out as if they were the greatest ideas ever to come together on the screen before, whereas they both were essentially solved using the hand of god rather than a creative idea that had to come together.
Yes I still enjoy the show very much but people kept telling me BCS is better than BB. It's just not for me lol esepcially the early seasons of BCS it is very slow compared to BB. Still like it though.
@@Brolyrulz1 - it's not even in the same discussion as Breaking Bad in terms of quality. Breaking Bad has so much more creative depth. In Breaking Bad think of the creativity in the episode Salud and what Gus had to creatively do to get out of that situations vs kicking off the power grabbing a gun and killing Lalo before Lalo shoots him. Think of the episode confessions in BB where Walt gives Hank/Marie the blackmail tape and all of the brilliant variables that had to fall into place to put Hanks back against the wall vs, how the writing solved the Howard storyline, which had nothing to do with Jimmy and Kim's scheme.... Lalo will randomly show up and kill Howard. I'm sure the writers were just hoping that the fans would be content with it as they move onto and close out the more important Jimmy/Kim storyline, but the fanbase for reasons unknown think it's the greatest thing ever written. They used the hand of God to close out both Howard and Lalo... it's not even my opinion, that notoriously known as bad writing when you use a random act to solve your narratives.
@@dinglbarry1275 I agree with you brotha
While I can definitely understand your arguments and you actually do a solid job explaining them, so well done, but respectfully, I firmly disagree:
Firstly, with all due respect, I’m not sure why Howard “Being made to look crazy so he’s forced to settle” is somehow anticlimactic as, to me, it’s made abundantly clear that that was the conclusion they were always heading towards.
Secondly, while I definitely get why people say that the Howard campaign was “Forced”, especially on the part of Kim’s character, I find every Jimmy and Kim’s campaign against Howard to be perfectly justified by natural cause and effect (I can explain this more in depth if you’d like)
Now, as for Lalo “Randomly showing up”, this is an understandable point and I get why others have also criticized this, but I still completely disagree. We learn a few episodes prior that Jimmy and Kim are not priority targets and as such, Lalo is able to sneak past Gus’s men and get inside. I find this to be entirely logical and justified by natural cause and effect, but I definitely get why others may disagree.
Finally, for the confrontation between Gus and Lalo, I actually totally understand why this is such a heavily criticized scene of the show, but I still think it makes perfect sense. Firstly, as this season continuously reinforces, Gus has been pushed to his absolute limit, so I find any sort of logical gaps in his plans completely narratively justified. As for him banking everything on Lalo not straight up executing him, to me, that also makes total sense because he knows that Lalo can’t kill him without sufficient proof of Gus’s misdeeds. As such, he knows he’ll have substantial time before he is killed or captured to do whatever he’d like.
All of that being said, however, you do a good job explaining your points, so I commend you for that, I am just of the personal opinion that every single plotline in this season is perfectly logically justified by natural cause and effect instead of being forced. Please don’t think I’m trying to tell you you’re wrong or anything like that, this is just my own perspective.
@@dinglbarry1275I don’t like getting into the compare game with media in general and I honestly don’t really feel the need argue whether BCS is superior to BrBa or vice versa (Primarily because I actually consider them one long 11 season show, but that’s its own discussion), but what I will say is regarding the example you give to compare them, imo, while I definitely get where you’re coming from regarding being annoyed that Howard’s death results from something unrelated to Jimmy and Kim, to me, that’s precisely the point. Jimmy and Kim are responsible for a domino effect of events that ultimately lead to Howard’s demise, which creates the very difficult moral question of whether or not they can truly be held responsible for Howard’s fate. I really like this because it’s a consistent theme of the show, the murkiness and complexity of culpability and blame, so I don’t have a problem with Lalo’s presence feeling disconnected from the main storyline of Jimmy and Kim because I find it entirely thematically and narratively fitting. But this is still a totally fair point to raise and I’m glad you’re raising it, this is just my own thoughts.
Lalo and Howard buried beneath Walter and Jesse's lab may go down as the best retcon in history.
I wonder if the DEA will ever find their bodies. They did seize the lab after Gus' death, but they'd still have to dig deep in the right spot to find them.
It might take decades for that to happen though.
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Bryan Cranston (Walt) teased his return on his Insta 👀
Hey, man, how do you have access to the video footage from these episodes (or movies or games, depending on the review)? I'm very curious!
Didn't they find two bodies after the lab burned in bb that were unidentified?
They were in the lab as Walt was in the elevator.
I'll be mad if Giancarlo Esposito (Gus) won't win an emmy by the time the show is over.
2 more jaw dropping moments= bcs > bb
Am I the only one that thought Lalos death was lazy
Yes
Although I absolutely love season 1-3 of BCS, Seasons 4-6 definitely rival the quality of Breaking Bad. This show is so damn great
Sadly this was the last great episode of better call Saul. I wish they could have ended the series on a note like this
keep going 💓💓🔥🔥
Ill be honest, I didn't like how Lalo died. Hes been 10 steps ahead of Mike and Gus this whole show and THATS how he loses? I also think back to his compound ambush that he survived. How could he die the way he did lol? But I just keep telling myself Lalo is a Salamanca, and he got cocky like his family members would and he thought there was no way that "the chicken man" had something up his sleeve.
That's exactly it. His overconfidence and the grave underestimating of Hus.
Kim’s going to jail
Is it as good as breaking bad I haven't watched better call Saul before
debatably better.. IMO. splitting hairs
@@NE-Dimes The tension and suspense is 100 times better in better call Saul
I don't think it's QUITE as good as Breaking Bad, but it's still a great show overall that is worth watching if you loved Breaking Bad. Hell, you might like it more depending on your taste.
@@saulhernnadez9203 agreed. although BB did have some gnarly cliffhangers as well
Great episode just could have ended better.
It would have been slightly better if they dug a hole in the wall, imprisoned Lalo there with Horward's body. A slow painful death from starvation all while having to smell the decaying corpse of the man he killed. It would have been in Gus' character to be cruel like that.