
BETTER CALL SAUL, 4.8 – ‘Coushatta’
A good defence is a good offence. The opening scenes of “Coushatta” confused me, making me forget where things had left off in “Something Stupid”....
A good defence is a good offence. The opening scenes of “Coushatta” confused me, making me forget where things had left off in “Something Stupid”....
Splitting up. Famed for its excellent cold opens, Better Call Saul offered up the best one in a long time with the split-screen sequence...
For your consideration. We’ve been getting more flashbacks than usual this season, although I’m not sure all of them are particularly revelatory. “Piñata” opened...
Shredded future. We’re accustomed to the season-opening glimpses of Jimmy McGill’s (Bob Odenkirk) future, working under an alias at a Cinnabon, but “Quite a...
Bob Parr/Mr. Incredible is left to care for the kids while his wife Helen/Elastigirl is out saving the world.
A businessman is caught up in a criminal conspiracy during his daily commute home.
For a penultimate episode, “Fall” didn’t feel like one. The big storyline was something harking back to the Sandpiper case from Better Call Saul’s...
This was a deceptively clever episode, helping connect some dots between the present-day Jimmy McGill (Bob Odenkirk) and his Slippin’ Jimmy days back in...
This was a mid-season transitionary episode, where there were no huge moments, just plenty of finessing as the story takes stock, adjusts, then moves in...
A chastened Chuck (Michael McKean), defeated in court by his brother Jimmy (Bob Odenkirk), is consoled over a glass of vintage wine by his...
If Jimmy’s (Bob Odenkirk) half of the show isn’t your favourite, which is something of a problem for a show that’s ostensibly about his...
This is a show with a very leisurely pace, so you can often summarise a whole episode’s content in mere sentences, but it’s nevertheless...