7/26/2023 0 Comments Better call saul season 5![]() ![]() being good” debate (as personified by Kim and Jimmy) and then the crime side (Lalo and Nacho). I think this is a good stage to get into “Something Unforgiveable,” as the finale is a good deep dive between the show’s two thematic elements: the “doing good vs. Now, at the end of Season 5, the show has fully merged the two-effectively “breaking bad” itself in the process. As Jimmy inches ever closer to becoming Saul, it seemed natural for the show’s pace to quicken. ![]() On the subject of darker tones, I’ve spoken before how the show feels like it is these two separate halves: the Breaking Bad, cartel-based part and the Jimmy part. I’d need to run back and see where it stacks up with other seasons, but I am truly impressed by how consistently fire this underrated series is. It was one of those seasons where the groundwork that had been laid really paid off, damn near every week. Maybe it’s because MANS WAS DRAGGING $7 MILLION IN CASH THROUGH THE DESERT. Maybe it’s because we’re in the endgame of this series. Actually, for a show deemed a “slow burn” by many, I felt like the pace in Season 5 quickened. There’s something about week-to-week shows that I love, but I still enjoy Saul best when I take it in two or three episodes at a time, and I will say this: I was hype. Khal: Even during the quarantine, I fell behind on Saul-as per usual. You’ve talked about it a little bit on the pod-and I’ve certainly been writing about on the site-but I think we’d be remiss not to walk through it together, especially since so much of the season has been building to the events that culminate in “Something Unforgivable.” William: khal, before fully dive into the finale, I’m curious to get your thoughts on the fifth season overall. We were all thrown a curveball, and now it's hard to tell how the final season of Saul will a) shake out and b) set viewers up for Season 1, Episode 1 of Breaking Bad. Those two pillars came to a head in the eighth episode, "Bagman," and the ramifications of that episode (which gave us peak Breaking Bad vibes) reverberated through the last two episodes, including the finale, which everyone assumed would spell doom for Kim. Season 5 of Better Call Saul primarily dealt with two things: how Jimmy's newfound (legal) life as Saul Goodman turned into him working for the cartel, but also how his relationship with Kim Wexler grows, both as Jimmy and as Saul. Sure, the show is "slower" than the breakneck speed Walter and Jesse were moving at through Breaking Bad, but Bob Odenkirk, Rhea Seehorn, Giancarlo Esposito, and the rest of the cast have been putting in WORK in Saul, and the seeds they've sown in the four seasons prior definitely manifested themselves in this intense fifth season, which ended on Monday night with its 10th episode, "Something Unforgivable". ![]() For all of the hype Breaking Bad (deservedly) received, it's been confusing to see people not flock to its prequel series, Better Call Saul, in the same manner. ![]()
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