Great show! I love to see how the story develops, we are getting closer and closer to the timeline of Breaking Bad.
Weakest season so far. Slow and almost emotionless. Meth lab plot is boring af .
“The winner takes it all
The loser's standing small
Beside the victory
That's her destiny.”
A show that took a Mamma Mia song and made it melancholic with sprinkles of sibling drama.
Every season, every year, this season gets stronger and stronger. ‘Better Call Saul Season 4’, is TV excellence in magnificent fashion. I petty those who checked out after the slow burn season 1, because being overly spoiled at once, especially so early on, isn’t how to develop the world and characters. If it this show was over spoilt, it would look like the later seasons of Game of Thrones.
Vince Gilligan is the G.O.A.T.
This season offers scenes that felt so disturbing with the emotional core feeling so real. The best compliment I can give to any show ever is it doesn’t feel like a TV show where the behind the scenes are camera crew and actors. It’s like am a fly on the wall, intruding on these people’s lives and quite literally witnessing the final days of their lives.
How this season carries on with the death of Jimmy’s brother Chuck is a brief, yet a devastating realization that Chucks death wasn’t a sacrifice, but simply a man who was driven mad by the idea of his brothers success. Jimmy being the main cause of his death flips the morals of the characters on it’s head. I hated Chuck, but I understood his illness was very serious and how it had a huge impact on the relationships with the people in his life. However, I felt bad for Jimmy, because of how his brother treated him. Just like ‘Breaking Bad’, there are no good or bad characters. They are just characters with both good and bad in them.
Bob Odenkirk and Rhea Seehorn were both terrific this season. Odenkirk slow transformation into Saul Goodman that while it was an amazing character arc, but incredibly tragic, because I feel the reason why a lot of people checked out so early on is there wanted to see the lawyer from ‘BB’, while not knowing the backstory to how he got there, which now gives you a different perspective on the character. Over time you start to notice the sleazy tone come out of him. Seehorn hasn’t gotten the credit she deserves throughout the past seasons. Her reaction and silence says so much that words couldn’t. I’ve always brought into the relationship between Jim and Kim. Lola Marsh "Something Stupid" montage between the two demonstrates it beautifully, which by the way if you watch the scene with earphones on, the track is splitted. So you can hear on the right one just the man's voice and the Jimmy clip, but on the left is just the Lola's voice and Kim clip. I’m not sure if this detail was intentional or not. Either way it adds to the scene wonderfully. However, by the end her faith in Jimmy has completely gone, as he completes the transformation to Saul. It was a sight for sore eyes.
Giancarlo Esposito is great once again as Gus Fring, especially Gus's sinister story that he tells to Hector to keep him alive and tortured, as part of his revenge. "The merciful thing would have been to kill it.... I kept it". - I mean god damn that’s cold.
The cinematography in this season was absolutely excellent with a couple of perfectly framed shots implanted in my head. The very last shot of the very last episode when Mike kills Werner. No music, just night time silence with the sounds of footsteps on the sand. It’s dark and almost hard to see, yet light enough to see the unfortunate that will happen. Wide shot in a wide space in a dark desert. Then a split second, a bright light coming from a gun which lights up the desert. A delayed gunshot sound from the distance. And then silence. Now we understand why Mike got so mad when Walt destroyed the lab in ‘Breaking Bad’. Jonathan Banks Emmy award is long overdue. Perfect episode to a great season.
Overall rating: "There are so many stars visible in New Mexico..."
Extremely slow and boring. Way to much time on irrelevant oddities, a lame alternative to good story telling. Lazy writing.
showing the aftermath of what Chuck's death means to jimmy - and what it really means - is really explored and i love that it's just never, resolved. Chuck is a controversial topic for Jimmy, and you could say that Saul Goodman becoming his lawyer name is his way of distancing himself from the name of McGill... just like what Howard says I'm pretty sure. Once again amazingly acted and amazingly nuanced with the complexity of the saul goodman and jimmy mcgill battle, kim's own moral and ethical battle with wanting to make a difference and wanting to be successful, influenecd by Saul's actions too, and mike's own idea of wanting to be in or out of the game - and what inaction can cause while in it.
The season started off a bit rocky for me, at least the few episodes after the brilliant opener of "Smoke", but it redeemed itself by the end. Something I've noticed and what makes me appreciate the first seasons a lot is the level of growth and that growth into maturity that BCS has - similar to Breaking Bad of course. BCS made sure it took its time: it knew it wasn't gonna be BB levels off the bat, hell it's a prequel: none of the characters are where they are by the time we first knew them. It's reflected in the decision to show Gus practically in Season 3 only and then on, to make the Salamanca family just there and present, and establishing Jimmy's own start into the world of criminal law: it just had to lay out the pieces, and play with them. Now, the show is on a crash course collision for disaster for our characters, and all we as the audience are willing to do is cheer them on into their descent into despair. It's genius tragedy writing disguised as a triumphant story, that makes us care even though we already know how everything ends. Good shit!
My favorite season of the show yet on my first watch through. Season 4 delivers some of the best storylines out of the series so far, all executed with heartbreaking yet satisfying arcs, brilliant characters, and with stepped up direction and cinematography. Jimmy as a character and what finally seems to be his full embrace of the Saul Goodman name and persona by the end satisfies me as a fan just as much as it devastates me. He is unable to recover from Chuck's death and goes full Saul Goodman mode, embracing the persona moving forward at the end of the season. It's like a self-destructive coping mechanism for him and it's devastating even though you know he's eventually going to end up there. We are just waiting to see what will finally push him completely over the edge and we see that it seems to be the death of his brother, the role he played in that, and his inability or reluctance to deal with it. I was convinced his speech in court in the finale was genuine, and maybe some part of it was, but the following scene as he drops the facade and gleefully embraces the Saul Goodman name, capped off with that lingering shot of Kim as she looks on at him in almost horror, is perfection. Aside from Jimmy, we got the best Mike storyline yet with him and Ziegler. I was not expecting that to be as heartwarming as it was and it was and NOT expecting it to end up as incredibly heartbreaking as it did. Maybe I should have seen something like this coming, but that ending truly broke me. Absolutely gut wrenching yet so beautifully shot. The finale of this season is my favorite of the series so far, and this is such a great season of TV.
9.4/10 -- Excellent
It's all good man !
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So many scenes do nothing for the story, you could cut and paste them into any episode, just padding. Way too much padding.