I'm not gonna waste any time. The finale delivered. One of the best ever? Possibly.
Starting off we get a never before seen scene from Bagman.
Nice to see we got a final Mike scene. This scene parallels their first scam together when Mike took the Kettlemen's stolen money, and Jimmy brings it back but later wonders why he did he right thing.
Here he's literally sitting on 7 million like he says, but obviously these are much larger stakes, he's involved with the cartel now, there's no right option.
He shockingly mentions that he'd get a Time Machine with that money. If you haven't noticed this season there's prominently been a Time Machine book in the background. Both in the prequel time, but also during BB, maybe Gene but I haven't spotted it there. Mike says he would change the moment he took his first bribe, brings a bit more context to Mike, but Jimmy... Jimmy wants to become a billionaire. Or trillionare if that's a thing? It seems this episode Jimmy tries as long as possible to ignore the past until he can't any longer.
"That's it, money?" "What else?" "Nothing you'd change?" I love how the episode gets straight into the action. No time to breathe as Gene runs away from Marion's house and right as he's back home the cops are already on his tail. It's easy to say this is arguably one of the most intense moments in both shows since it's truly the end. Jimmy continues to evade the cops with the beautify cinematography you'd come to expect from this series. Lets not forget the sound design, I love how we hear the helicopter first before seeing it and we react with Jimmy. Gene get's Into the garbage where his first big case started, and where his life as a free man ends. I squirmed when he dropped the diamonds! But it was too late, he's caught.
This episode has a myriad of callbacks, parallels. In his first scene in prison we see him back like in the Season 2 Gene scene, and with the slanted lighting reminding us of the beginning of the series.
I audibly yelled "YES!" when I realized he called Bill Oakley one, and he is now defending him, such a great way to bring him back. It's shocking how confident Gene is, or Saul now. He wants this to end "With me on top, like always." But he seems to have forgotten Kim's impactful line in the Season 4 penultimate episode, "Jimmy you're always down."
First we're surprised by Saul being clean shaven, but a bigger surprise is right around the corner... MARIE????
Everyone sits in a room that reminds me of Dr Strangelove, discussing Saul's crimes.
"They told me they found you in a garbage dumpster... Well that makes sense." We're reminded this is truly the end of the Breaking Bad universe as we hear about Hank again, and Gomie's death gets more tragic leaving behind fatherless children.
"For what money? You did it all for money." The acting is excellent from everyone here, even Saul. When Saul starts acting like a victim I laughed in shock! There's no way he's still going, especially the last episodes how we've seen how instrumental he was in the creation of Heisenberg's empire.
"I have nobody. I have nothing." That's the first thing he says he believes. Saul ain't gone yet.
Saul shows he still knows his law and shockingly drops his sentence down to 7 1/2 years!? But he doesn't stop, he's just having too much fun, he chooses a specific prison, and the ice cream flavor we know from Season 5 of the series that was swarmed by ants. There's so many important objects this episode.
Saul thinks he's got an ace up his sleeve with what happened to Howard, but he didnt count on Kim having beaten him to it.
We get our final, and best Breaking Bad cameo, back when Walt and Saul are at Ed the Disappearer's place.
Bryan Cranston's big bald cap head is hilariously back, but it does look better this time!
Walt is always fixing stuff when he feels powerless, and putting other's down. There's the second mention of the time machine here, but Walt hilariously calls this a "Meaningless question." Walt knows about regret, there's another parallel with Walt looking at his watch, and he again talks about Gray Matter. Walt hilariously says he did the "Gentlemany thing" even though we know he hasn't.
Walt truly just wanted money. Saul was even actually trying to help, but he gets hit with the same words that kept pushing him down the bad choice road.
"You would've been the last lawyer I would've gone to." Saul is always so close to retrospection but not quite there yet. At least we get the backstory of his bad knees!
"A slip and fall?" We see how crafty Saul always is using a scam to put himself through school, and like Chuck has always know, Walt says "So you were always like this." Saul is always so close to retrospection but not quite there yet. At least we get the backstory of his bad knees!
We finally see Kim back after being led to believe Saul is trying to screw her over. To be fair "It's really good ice cream!" Kim can finally move forward now that she's confessed, her real self is coming back now that she offers herself up to work, for free, or pro-bono if you will. She stuck with the files like before, but now she happy about it. Until she's rudely awakened after finding out Saul has something on her.
The stage is set. Saul comes out with one of his classic suits, he's there to represent himself, Kim in the back nervously tapping her feet, is Saul truly all that's left?
"It's showtime!" He tells the same story he told before... it's excruciating to watch thinking he's ruining everything-but he comes back, Saul's gone.
He wanted Kim there to show her the return of the man she loved, Jimmy McGill.
"I made millions!" It's like he's proud that he was partially responsible for Heisenberg's empire, but he finally shows his first moment of regret, after ignoring it for so long-By the way I love Oakley trying to help in the background yelling- He finally mentions Howard, and after so many years, so many seasons and episodes for us, he mentions Chuck too. We see the exit sign reminding us of Chicanery, there's no going back now. He finally admitted to himself he had a part in the death of Chuck.
"What was all that? That thing with your brother that wasn't a crime" "It was a crime." Saul's gone, "The names McGill I'm James McGill." I've been waiting for so long to finally get another Chuck scene and we got it!
After everything we know Chuck was right, we see he was trying to help him as well, but Jimmy didn't want to talk about his cases, he didn't listen to his advice.
We see the time machine book was Chuck's all along, a reminder Jimmy has kept, for the moment he wanted to go back to, and talk to Chuck, listen to him for once.
"If you don't like where you're heading, There's no shame In changing your path" I was so happy when i saw this scene, I knew the time machine book had importance, I wrote it my notes.
The finale went pretty predictably, but it was very well executed. I will however say though the scene in the bus where everyone chants Better Call Saul was very cheesy, but ultimately while he can never escape the Saul persona, at least it helped for something, he's respected in prison. Jimmy can now be happy basically doing the same thing he was doing as Gene, cooking in the prison, but truthfully now, openly, he's not hiding anymore.
Kim visits one last time and we get the obvious parallel to the one of the first scenes, though this time Jimmy's in the shadow instead of Kim. Jimmy tragically but almost comedically says he got himself from 7 years to 86, but while it seems sad, he's happy the law worked like Chuck wanted and he got what he deserved.
Better Call Saul ends where Jimmy doomed himself at the end of Season 4 when he did the finger guns and lead himself to the Saul Goodman road. But this time he redeemed himself. It's all Jimmy now.
...And then I remembered they forgot about Jeff hehe.
Overall this was one better finales to one of the best shows. Very well executed, yet ultimately very predictable, a 9/10 finale from me.
Starting off we get a never before seen scene from Bagman.
Nice to see we got a final Mike scene. This scene parallels their first scam together when Mike took the Kettlemen's stolen money, and Jimmy brings it back but later wonders why he did he right thing.
Here he's literally sitting on 7 million like he says, but obviously these are much larger stakes, he's involved with the cartel now, there's no right option.
He shockingly mentions that he'd get a Time Machine with that money. If you haven't noticed this season there's prominently been a Time Machine book in the background. Both in the prequel time, but also during BB, maybe Gene but I haven't spotted it there. Mike says he would change the moment he took his first bribe, brings a bit more context to Mike, but Jimmy... Jimmy wants to become a billionaire. Or trillionare if that's a thing? It seems this episode Jimmy tries as long as possible to ignore the past until he can't any longer.
"That's it, money?" "What else?" "Nothing you'd change?" I love how the episode gets straight into the action. No time to breathe as Gene runs away from Marion's house and right as he's back home the cops are already on his tail. It's easy to say this is arguably one of the most intense moments in both shows since it's truly the end. Jimmy continues to evade the cops with the beautify cinematography you'd come to expect from this series. Lets not forget the sound design, I love how we hear the helicopter first before seeing it and we react with Jimmy. Gene get's Into the garbage where his first big case started, and where his life as a free man ends. I squirmed when he dropped the diamonds! But it was too late, he's caught.
This episode has a myriad of callbacks, parallels. In his first scene in prison we see him back like in the Season 2 Gene scene, and with the slanted lighting reminding us of the beginning of the series.
I audibly yelled "YES!" when I realized he called Bill Oakley one, and he is now defending him, such a great way to bring him back. It's shocking how confident Gene is, or Saul now. He wants this to end "With me on top, like always." But he seems to have forgotten Kim's impactful line in the Season 4 penultimate episode, "Jimmy you're always down."
First we're surprised by Saul being clean shaven, but a bigger surprise is right around the corner... MARIE????
Everyone sits in a room that reminds me of Dr Strangelove, discussing Saul's crimes.
"They told me they found you in a garbage dumpster... Well that makes sense." We're reminded this is truly the end of the Breaking Bad universe as we hear about Hank again, and Gomie's death gets more tragic leaving behind fatherless children.
"For what money? You did it all for money." The acting is excellent from everyone here, even Saul. When Saul starts acting like a victim I laughed in shock! There's no way he's still going, especially the last episodes how we've seen how instrumental he was in the creation of Heisenberg's empire.
"I have nobody. I have nothing." That's the first thing he says he believes. Saul ain't gone yet.
Saul shows he still knows his law and shockingly drops his sentence down to 7 1/2 years!? But he doesn't stop, he's just having too much fun, he chooses a specific prison, and the ice cream flavor we know from Season 5 of the series that was swarmed by ants. There's so many important objects this episode.
Saul thinks he's got an ace up his sleeve with what happened to Howard, but he didnt count on Kim having beaten him to it.
We get our final, and best Breaking Bad cameo, back when Walt and Saul are at Ed the Disappearer's place.
Bryan Cranston's big bald cap head is hilariously back, but it does look better this time!
Walt is always fixing stuff when he feels powerless, and putting other's down. There's the second mention of the time machine here, but Walt hilariously calls this a "Meaningless question." Walt knows about regret, there's another parallel with Walt looking at his watch, and he again talks about Gray Matter. Walt hilariously says he did the "Gentlemany thing" even though we know he hasn't.
Walt truly just wanted money. Saul was even actually trying to help, but he gets hit with the same words that kept pushing him down the bad choice road.
"You would've been the last lawyer I would've gone to." Saul is always so close to retrospection but not quite there yet. At least we get the backstory of his bad knees!
"A slip and fall?" We see how crafty Saul always is using a scam to put himself through school, and like Chuck has always know, Walt says "So you were always like this." Saul is always so close to retrospection but not quite there yet. At least we get the backstory of his bad knees!
We finally see Kim back after being led to believe Saul is trying to screw her over. To be fair "It's really good ice cream!" Kim can finally move forward now that she's confessed, her real self is coming back now that she offers herself up to work, for free, or pro-bono if you will. She stuck with the files like before, but now she happy about it. Until she's rudely awakened after finding out Saul has something on her.
The stage is set. Saul comes out with one of his classic suits, he's there to represent himself, Kim in the back nervously tapping her feet, is Saul truly all that's left?
"It's showtime!" He tells the same story he told before... it's excruciating to watch thinking he's ruining everything-but he comes back, Saul's gone.
He wanted Kim there to show her the return of the man she loved, Jimmy McGill.
"I made millions!" It's like he's proud that he was partially responsible for Heisenberg's empire, but he finally shows his first moment of regret, after ignoring it for so long-By the way I love Oakley trying to help in the background yelling- He finally mentions Howard, and after so many years, so many seasons and episodes for us, he mentions Chuck too. We see the exit sign reminding us of Chicanery, there's no going back now. He finally admitted to himself he had a part in the death of Chuck.
"What was all that? That thing with your brother that wasn't a crime" "It was a crime." Saul's gone, "The names McGill I'm James McGill." I've been waiting for so long to finally get another Chuck scene and we got it!
After everything we know Chuck was right, we see he was trying to help him as well, but Jimmy didn't want to talk about his cases, he didn't listen to his advice.
We see the time machine book was Chuck's all along, a reminder Jimmy has kept, for the moment he wanted to go back to, and talk to Chuck, listen to him for once.
"If you don't like where you're heading, There's no shame In changing your path" I was so happy when i saw this scene, I knew the time machine book had importance, I wrote it my notes.
The finale went pretty predictably, but it was very well executed. I will however say though the scene in the bus where everyone chants Better Call Saul was very cheesy, but ultimately while he can never escape the Saul persona, at least it helped for something, he's respected in prison. Jimmy can now be happy basically doing the same thing he was doing as Gene, cooking in the prison, but truthfully now, openly, he's not hiding anymore.
Kim visits one last time and we get the obvious parallel to the one of the first scenes, though this time Jimmy's in the shadow instead of Kim. Jimmy tragically but almost comedically says he got himself from 7 years to 86, but while it seems sad, he's happy the law worked like Chuck wanted and he got what he deserved.
Better Call Saul ends where Jimmy doomed himself at the end of Season 4 when he did the finger guns and lead himself to the Saul Goodman road. But this time he redeemed himself. It's all Jimmy now.
...And then I remembered they forgot about Jeff hehe.
Overall this was one better finales to one of the best shows. Very well executed, yet ultimately very predictable, a 9/10 finale from me.