Jimmy needed to ‘let it all out’ so to speak and to find his bearings. It was a believable problem for Jimmy because when we are at a crossroads in our lives it’s hard to pick a route and head down it without looking at the map first. The writers covered up the dilemma well though.
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Related: Tiger & Bunny: The Movie - The Rising Review The writers had no choice but to try and keep in with Jimmy wondering which road to head down, so this was always going to become more of a filler/fun episode. Considering that happened in the penultimate episode, the writers couldn’t make Jimmy turn into Saul yet because it would feel out of sync with season 1’s tone and theme. The theme for season 1 was all about Jimmy trying to stay on the right side of the law, and by the end of this season he had to be on the edge and was finally pushed off when Chuck rejected him as legit.
While it did provide a shock, I still think episode 9 should’ve been the finale because it left the writers almost stumped here. Peter Gould said in an interview after last week’s installment that episode 9 was initially going to be the finale, but they changed their minds later on because they wanted to inject a shock for the audience. It was nice to wrap up Jimmy’s past and find out the meaning behind the ‘Chicago Sun Roof’ but I feel that was a decision by the writers because they left themselves short after last week. That was my main problem with the Chicago story – it didn’t serve towards Jimmy’s decision in the parking lot at the end. In a final episode you’d expect a focused narrative which would propel what has occurred in the middle of the episode to explode by the end, but Better Call Saul is a different kind of show, it’s happy to wander around being playful even if, sometimes, it doesn’t mean anything. Jimmy’s Kevin Costner reference from Breaking Bad was also a nice tie-in but that was all this sequence was: fun. It was a ‘dark night of the soul’ for Jimmy as he’d failed to go straight again and while I enjoyed the cleverly directed and edited montage sequence and his chemistry with Marco, played by Mel Rodriguez – who pulled off the role excellently even though he only had a short space of time to display a believable camaraderie with Jimmy before he collapsed.
In the eyes of Chicago he left there in a Hawaiian shirt with an eye for a con and he returned there with a Hawaiian shirt and an eye for a con. You can’t keep slippin’ Jimmy out of the game for too long. It left the writers in a bit of a dilemma: they couldn’t force Jimmy into Saul yet, even though that feels like the logical thing for him to do after the Chuck revelation, instead they had to find a way of stalling Jimmy’s change, and what better way than going back to his roots, his slippery roots (I’ll admit – that was pretty bad). Marco, however, did provide plenty of memorable standalone moments even if it didn’t have a classic finale’s life shattering moments.Īs last week’s episode ended the main plot thread in season 1, which was between Jimmy and Chuck, the finale didn’t have time to delve into any of the other threads they have recently introduced i.e.
It resulted in a relaxed and playful finale which was caused by the choice to reveal Chuck’s true motivations last week. They delivered, but it just felt like the writers had to stop for gas this week. The short answer is overall, for the whole season, yes. After last week’s bombshell installment – which felt more like a season finale than a penultimate episode – I couldn’t figure out how Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould were going to deliver a finale that threw us anymore surprises.
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