Better Call Saul 6.07.
In which we get an evil cliffhanger but another great character(s) scene of an episode ending.
This show sure knows how to kill off their characters. I don't mean just Nacho's death this season, but also, several seasons ago, Chuck. Which left Jimmy who until then had the moral high horse in their fraternal relationship ever since the reveal that Chuch was deliberately sabotaging him with an unanswerable guilt. And now Howard, whose condemnation of Jimmy and Kim is bound to ring in their ears for good. Not just because he was right about this not just being another prank, that they have crossed a line there, but also because he would not have been at their apartment if they hadn't done that, and thus would still be alive.
I was idly wondering at some point whether the Lalo plot and the lawyers plot would ever intersect again, but I didn't expect it to happen this way. Wow. Well played, show. I also really regret knowing Gus will survive due to Breaking Bad, because otherwise I genuinenly couldn't say who will come out on top, Gus or Lalo. They're really both each other's match in intelligence, patience and observation. Just as Gus correctly guessed, based on Hector's reaction, that Lalo was still alive, and prepared for his attack, Lalo caught the click of the tapped in phoneline and thus knew that Gus had his uncle under surveillance and ergo knew that Gus knew, which enabled him to feed Gus wrong information about his intentions. Quite how he thinks Jimmy and Kim will be able to be useful to him, though, I have no idea.
And oh, poor Howard. Again, the show does remind us he was willing to drag the Sandpiper deal out for years more for profit, never mind the old clients being on the clock for death; Howard was no innocent, and his attempt to learn everyone's names and be kind to Irene was lawyerly calculation. But I have a huge embarrassment squick, and fun as the opening sequence of Jimmy and Kim drafting everyone back to reshoot the faked photographs was, the flawless execution of the gambit (btw: I hadn't guessed the PI Howard hired was prepped by Jimmy, though I should have) made me cringe throughout.
The episode included the first callbacks to Chuck we've had in a good while, from his obsessive-compulsive soda opening trick Howard imitates to the portrait to Howard's final speech - and I think that was deliberate, because, see above. Jimmy and Kim certainly spent most of the show not just being more sympathetic than Howard but being often in the right in a confrontation. Even in the Sandpiper affair, in that Jimmy abandoned his own temptation to selfishiness and going for profit re: the Sandpiper clients several seasons ago, and Howard evidently did not. But they went too far, and now he's dead, like Chuck is. While Lalo being there on one level was sheer coincidence, on another he's there because Jimmy (and Kim!) chose not to ally with the law, because they enabled him to leave prison the first time around, because they refused to cooporate with the attempt to track him down therafter. So this situation was brought about because they made the choices they did, and it can't ever be undone.
Lastly: BB was also, err, inventive when it came to body removal. However Howard's dead body will get out of this flat, it's bound to be memorably nasty.
This show sure knows how to kill off their characters. I don't mean just Nacho's death this season, but also, several seasons ago, Chuck. Which left Jimmy who until then had the moral high horse in their fraternal relationship ever since the reveal that Chuch was deliberately sabotaging him with an unanswerable guilt. And now Howard, whose condemnation of Jimmy and Kim is bound to ring in their ears for good. Not just because he was right about this not just being another prank, that they have crossed a line there, but also because he would not have been at their apartment if they hadn't done that, and thus would still be alive.
I was idly wondering at some point whether the Lalo plot and the lawyers plot would ever intersect again, but I didn't expect it to happen this way. Wow. Well played, show. I also really regret knowing Gus will survive due to Breaking Bad, because otherwise I genuinenly couldn't say who will come out on top, Gus or Lalo. They're really both each other's match in intelligence, patience and observation. Just as Gus correctly guessed, based on Hector's reaction, that Lalo was still alive, and prepared for his attack, Lalo caught the click of the tapped in phoneline and thus knew that Gus had his uncle under surveillance and ergo knew that Gus knew, which enabled him to feed Gus wrong information about his intentions. Quite how he thinks Jimmy and Kim will be able to be useful to him, though, I have no idea.
And oh, poor Howard. Again, the show does remind us he was willing to drag the Sandpiper deal out for years more for profit, never mind the old clients being on the clock for death; Howard was no innocent, and his attempt to learn everyone's names and be kind to Irene was lawyerly calculation. But I have a huge embarrassment squick, and fun as the opening sequence of Jimmy and Kim drafting everyone back to reshoot the faked photographs was, the flawless execution of the gambit (btw: I hadn't guessed the PI Howard hired was prepped by Jimmy, though I should have) made me cringe throughout.
The episode included the first callbacks to Chuck we've had in a good while, from his obsessive-compulsive soda opening trick Howard imitates to the portrait to Howard's final speech - and I think that was deliberate, because, see above. Jimmy and Kim certainly spent most of the show not just being more sympathetic than Howard but being often in the right in a confrontation. Even in the Sandpiper affair, in that Jimmy abandoned his own temptation to selfishiness and going for profit re: the Sandpiper clients several seasons ago, and Howard evidently did not. But they went too far, and now he's dead, like Chuck is. While Lalo being there on one level was sheer coincidence, on another he's there because Jimmy (and Kim!) chose not to ally with the law, because they enabled him to leave prison the first time around, because they refused to cooporate with the attempt to track him down therafter. So this situation was brought about because they made the choices they did, and it can't ever be undone.
Lastly: BB was also, err, inventive when it came to body removal. However Howard's dead body will get out of this flat, it's bound to be memorably nasty.