Better Call Saul (Season 5)

[Peng]

Once again I wish that this series would have been (or can afford to be?) only about Jimmy/Kim now. It’s the only plotline that gains sweeping breadth from the meticulously detailed storytelling and measured pacing, whereas other stories only take flight for me when they intersect with the main one, and otherwise are often only solid, or even at times drags along rather than digs deeper (as Mike’s this week does). I’ve longed to join the “better than Breaking Bad” crowd for some years now because the way Jimmy/Kim’s story is carefully plotted out and artfully told feels so unique in TV landscape and can definitely transcend BB. But it shares space in the series with other more BB-beholden ones that really should have the pulpier storytelling like BB, so I can’t commit to that notion.

[Grouchy]

But it shares space in the series with other more BB-beholden ones that really should have the pulpier storytelling like BB, so I can’t commit to that notion.

Love the show, but can't really disagree with this.

[Grouchy]

Once again I wish that this series would have been (or can afford to be?) only about Jimmy/Kim now.

So what did you think about today's episode?

[Peng]

So what did you think about today's episode?

Best one since Season 3's "Chicanery" (aka Jimmy vs Chuck in court). Even my past gripe of two supporting characters' lesser-told storylines resolves by combining into one pretty cackling operation. And of course the Jimmy/Kim story fires on all cylinders, culminating in two of the best sequences of the show:



(the sequence is longer than this, but this is the central one)
("I followed the money and it was clear - my bank was funding terrorism!" lmaoooo)

and




Kinda criminal that Rhea Seehorn hasn't been nominated in any high-profile thing yet - Emmy, Globe, or SAG (the latter once only as part of ensemble). Her voice breaking as she's thinking a plan through rips my heart out.

[Grouchy]

Kinda criminal that Rhea Seehorn hasn't been nominated in any high-profile thing yet - Emmy, Globe, or SAG (the latter once only as part of ensemble). Her voice breaking as she's thinking a plan through rips my heart out.

A-men. I have no idea where they got her from, but that was brilliant casting. She completely owns the character.