meh ok, it's black black mirror
Dying at River's "Not again!" when realized he's been had. Still very slightly prefer Season 1 as I feel it's more consistently engaging the whole way through, but this season's finale lands the ending better and more thrilling (and even touching). I loved how every finale is a true team effort. Curious now if Ho's cockiness will change any in the next one now that he's been put through the field and barely survived himself lol.
[8.4/10] I'd speculated about how Kim would depart Jimmy's world. I feared she might be killed. I thought she'd get fed up with his misdeeds and leave him over that. What I didn't expect was that it would be spurred by a moment of self-recognition born of a terrible tragedy. Kim still loves Jimmy, but she recognizes that they're "poison" together, that they get off on the joint cons, and that when they do, people get hurt. She is one of the vanishingly small number of people in this franchise to recognize that she's on a destructive path and take drastic action to stop it. It's one of the most unexpected, but ultimately satisfying ways to have her exit I can imagine.
And it puts her in good company. Jimmy is as horrified by what happened as Kim is, but he can envision moving on, he can picture maintaining this life despite where it led them, he can see forgetting this some day. Kim can't. It's the same way Gus cannot forget his former partner Max, someone he loves, whose memory lingers with him when he gazes into Don Eladio's pool and holds him back from continuing to flirt with the handsome waiter who chats him up over a glass of a wine. It's the same way Mike cannot forget his son, which leads him to tell Nacho's father the truth about what happened to his child.
Mr. Varga shrugs off Mike's promise that justice will be done, recognizing that what he's talking about is vengeance. He declares that vengeance is a cycle that doesn't stop, and we know from Breaking Bad that he's right. Gus hasn't beaten the Salamancas or Don Eladio. Mike hasn't completed his tour of duty so that he can retire and spend time with his granddaughter. Jimmy can't avoid crossing paths with the cartel again. They're all in this now, and their victories bring them no peace, only pull them deeper into the muck of this, and closer to their ignoble ends.
But Kim breaks away. She cannot forget, but she can act to stop this from happening again. Her final scene with Jimmy (for now at least) is more quietly heartbreaking than explosive and dramatic, but that suits the gravity of this. And in her absence, Jimmy is free to become Saul, as an indeterminate time jump to the man in his huckster faux-finery confirms. The last thing holding Jimmy back is gone. Saul Goodman is here. He can't stop. And despite the woman in his bed, the bedraggled secretary on his phone, and the crowd of people in his waiting room, he is alone.
EDIT: If you'd like to read my usual, longer review, you can find it here -- https://thespool.net/reviews/tv-recap-better-call-saul-season-6-episode-9/
Great reference to the uk series in Franks note.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34WdjNHTRA0
A hugely disappointing finale to an underwhelming third season. I expected a lot more plot twists and mind games. This season was just meh. No intrigue, no thriller, just portray of a guy with serious mental problems.
I needed more explanation:
Not enough development of Jamie. Too many questions about his past. For example, why did he so easily fall prey to Nick?
I think Sonya is the biggest freak of them all. What was the point of introducing her? She was just so weird the whole season. So, Jaime and Nick headed to her property randomly?
The only good thing was the last scene between Ambrose and Jaime. After all that ‘deep’ crap Jamie was just as scared as everyone else, very poetic. And even after all he did, I felt bad for him.
