Why would the guy have his car parked on the road, when he has a driveway!
"Send the dothraki first since they are barbarians"
"Dragons are our heavy artillery let's keep them flying in circles without doing NOTHING for say 2/3 of the battle. Even if they all stop before a flaming trench and sit there nearly aligned for tenths of minutes. We can not win the easy way this must be EPIC"
"It's a massive invasion of Savage, quick and merciless undead but we like to walk orderly and calmly in libraries"
"By the way, libraries are still dead silent while people are being ripped to shreds outside"
"Hey, look, Arya slipped past 4.000 undead and learned Rey's air saber trick"
"Every major character gets to live even after being surrounded by dead. (jorah and theon were already half dead - oh yeah, theon, seems Arya waited in the shadows while you were impalled too. Go team.".
Best episode so far. I pride myself on seeing most things coming in a series, but this episode blew my mind. I had no idea Bernard was one of them untill he said 'What door' near the end of the episode.
[9.0/10[ An incredibly tense hour of television. What's so impressive is that Better Call Saul accomplished this despite us knowing that, of course, Jimmy and Gus both survive. It comes down to such fantastic performances from everyone involved. You immediately buy how shaken and terrified Jimmy and Kim are, and how frightened even the normally steady Gus is at the point of Lalo's gun. Vince Gilligan's direction is outstanding, with a Hitchcockian flair for light and shadow that sets the foreboding mood of all these set pieces. And the score does the rest, helping the audience to feel the emotion of these scenes even if we rationally know the fates of several of those at the most risk.
My only mild beef is that Gus' survival feels like a bit of a cheat. It's still not clear to me why he did the gun in the superlab, and the dialogue kind of shrugs at the idea. Even in the dark, it seems like Lalo would have done better against Fring than he did. But details like Fring seeming to make one last desperate ploy to survive, still suffering wounds despite his body armor, and admitting he was over his skiis with this whole thing in the end helps make it passable. On a moment-to-moment basis, the scenes absolutely work, which covers for a lot.
What struck me the most is that closing image -- Howard and Lalo, two very different men, sharing the same fate and the same grave. It's a sign that the barrier between Jimmy's legal life and Saul's criminal life has been firmly shattered. Both lives, both worlds, are bound up in these deaths now, with the psychic weight hanging over Jimmy and Kim for the last five episodes. This never happened, but they, and Mike, will all still have to live with it. I can't wait to see how.
EDIT: If you'd like to read my usual, longer review of the episode, you can find it here -- https://thespool.net/reviews/tv-recap-better-call-saul-season-6-episode-8/
props to my boy Dylan G for holding that position for what seemed like an eternity!
boring so far. I'll give another 2 episodes a try.
Uncancel Justin Roiland and bring him back!
insane!!! the plot twists!! the acting!! the lawsuits!! fucking love it!! burning man ending with that Indian guy in the sun sure gonna have a trip!! LMAO. ending laughter track couldn't be more sarcastic on their situation. great show HBO!! the entire crew deserves a lot more attention and praise
If it wasn't for the absurd Jeremy Irons bits I would quit watching this show right now.
Man, what a poor episode, lackluster after lackluster. If this is the culmination of the time and interest myself and others have invested into Game of Thrones all of these years, then it is truly unfortunate and disappointing if not almost bordering on an insult.
Such a shame that this will be the legacy of a series that once took the world by storm with its brilliant storytelling and exhilarating plot twists, hardly recognizable anymore when it parades around in a pathetic shell of its former self.
I can't say I'm excited nor even interested in the remaining episodes, at least not when this season has taught me time and again to lower my expectations as much as possible, but I hope they will at least respect what this series once was and offer a conclusion worthy of its story. sigh
I hope this weapon is not meant literally but rather as some kind of metaphor.
IT'S ABOUT TIME. I hated Shane so, so much. Good riddance. But WTF is going on with people who aren't being bitten or bled on by Walkers turning into them????
How could someone have collected, watched and rated the Episode 04X01 if it hasn't even been leaked yet and much less released? This shout is directed to all those Tratk users with back to the future gizmos. Please share the schematics, we also want to time travel.
And what do we learn from this?
Always keep a (stolen) diamond in your pockets, it might come in handy some time.
But there's noooo way that guy got to the precinct, them figuring out he was innocent, and made it all the way back there to abduct Raol. Such a silly plot hole, not happy. If there had been two guys, sure. But not like this.
Wow. This was... beautiful. While I am sad to see Vera's arc come to such a sudden end, the last "act" of this episode was pure catharsis.
Depending the outcome I'd say they have just stepped up the serious factor of this show by a lightyear. And we've just met the Borg of the Orville universe. Remember when Picard turned towards the screen saying "Resistance is futile" ? This comes damn close to my reaction back than.
This is the episode when Samwell Tarly learn's that Prince 'Reggis' had his marriage annulment recorded and Jon Snow is an true born Targaryen...
Awful, Netflix / American influence has ruined once a great show. No more suspense and intrigue, just half baked ideas and crude bottom of the barrel shock scenes
sobbing HE CANT KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH IT!!
(by "he" I mean Vince Gilligan and the rest of the cast and crew and by "it" I mean making this show so consistently high quality)
what a great fucking show!! loved it so much for it's diverse viewpoints and no higher understand by the writers leaving it upto the audience to take sides like in IRL there is no black and white to situations and people make decisions based on what serves them best at the present influenced by their past determining their future. over-all this show was LIT!!! 11/10
LOVE THE THEME SONG ❣❣❣
Amusing. And only what, 20 years late?
Bravo! I was right there with Emily the whole time. The rescue scene may seem simple at first glance but I'll be damned if it didn't pack a punch, right in the feels. Like Emily, it took me a minute to realize they hadn't been caught. He was probably halfway through the speech... :sob:
Anyone else ever notice that Bortus seems to ALWAYS have some level of drama going on? Think about it; the gender of his kid, public urination, porn addiction, his spouse killing someone, facial hair, nicotine addiction... I know I must have missed some but you get the gist of it...
This show isn't supposed to be this good!
It was refreshing to see the season end on a high note instead of another "OMG WTF" cliffhanger.
I have said it before and I have to confirm this again...Holden and Naomi remain the weakest characters (as they actually are in the book too) that when the plot puts them in the background like in this episode, the show works much better. In my opinion the tv version managed to fix some weaknesses of the books, so maybe screenplayers could have tried to make the story more collective and leave Holden and Naomi in a not too prominent position. The first season was kind of different since there was Miller around, a much more interesting character.
One thing's for sure, since her storyline took steam, Bobbie is totally stealing this show. She made Draper TV versione much more intense than her book counterpart.
Probably the best episode of TV this year, if not one of the strongest I have ever seen.
I wanted to binge watch this season as I do with all Netflix shows but these episodes just feel to real and I time in between to digest them.
I'm very sad to say I found this episode very thin and disappointing, especially as it was the season opener. They ended last season in such a high, with one of the best musical numbers they have done. I found the songs in this episode to be quite weak and uninspired.
Here's hoping this isn't an indication of this season. There are so many things I love about this show that if that was their strong opener I'm going to wish it ended last season.
Here's hoping the next episode lands better for me.
