S'all good man!" Following what was probably the best episode of Better Call Saul to date, it was difficult to prolong that energy. Despite the fact that Chuck was the biggest loser in Chicanery, Jimmy also finds consequences on his life path.The judgement stands as a one-year suspension, which means he can't practice law until that time us up - something I imagine could be very hard to keep up for a man like Jimmy.. Nevertheless, this episode shows he has tenacity enough to survive in the business world. Kim's reaction to this new venture is priceless.
An incredibly busy and populous episode - Off Brand shows how Better Call Saul can still tie-in nicely with Breaking Bad by revealing not just Crazy-8, but Lydia as well. These are notable characters in the Breaking Bad world, inexplicably connected to this drug cartel hub that eventually spirals into disarray. Their roles are merely cameos so far, but this season is clearly building up the map that will hopefully guide us to the beginning of Breaking Bad. Also, pretty much everyone appears in this episode, reminding us that even though some storylines do appear shoe-horned into the plot at times, they are present for a reason. From Chuck's perspective, he's at a turning point in his life - one where he starts to realise that he may have been fooling himself about his own mental health. And now he's starting to understand his irrational fears, he starts to fight them, even going as far as to walk into the city of lights and use a public telephone to call his doctor. The imagery of him walking through the streets, wrapped in foil, which is billowing in the wind like a dress, may seem comical, but in the moment it's actually quite sad. Now that Jimmy has pretty much hacked his brother out of his life, Chuck now has to fend for himself, whether he wants to or not. Nacho gets a decent spotlight this episode, as he we return to his parallel lives - one in which he is a facade of his true self, working for his father in a sewing factory, and another where he is Don Hector's finance collector and all-round right-hand man for his drug business. The only problem is, owing to a new suggestion from Hector, both worlds may be colliding. Unsurprisingly, Nacho doesn't want that to happen, and it begs the question of how he's going to stop it from happening. Isn't that pill on the floor a little too obvious, or is it a red herring for something else? Meanwhile, Mike is returning to normality as he spends more time with his daughter-in-law. Their relationship is lovely, and it's great to see him get some time to rest from his incredibly stressful life. But is this the quiet before the storm for all our characters? Is Vince Gilligan merely pretending that everything has died down, and is waiting to catch us out with something unbelievable. A lot of fans have already pointed out that there are a handful of characters who don't appear in Breaking Bad. The optimistic approach would be to say that they've moved away or are unimportant in that context, but the reality just might be that they suffer a so-far unknown fate. We're just waiting for the axe to fall. 8/10
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