‘Better Call Saul’ Has Finally Caught Up With ‘Breaking Bad’

‘Better Call Saul’ Has Finally Caught Up With ‘Breaking Bad’

Uproxx - News·2022-07-20 07:01

During “Point and Shoot,” the eighth episode of Better Call Saul’ssixth and final season, my heart rate went up so high that my FitBit recorded a workout. The intense, gripping nightmare of an episode that put Kim Wexler very close to death was a masterpiece in television storytelling. It felt like it lasted for five minutes but also five years. It never gave itself, its characters, or its audience any time to breathe without feeling overstuffed. Stressful events followed stressful events until the episode ended with a gut punch so emotionally devastating (Mike Ehrmantraut buries Howard Hamlin with his murderer Lalo Salamanca underneath the meth lab Walter White and Jesse Pinkman would later work in) that it felt like I actually got punched in the gut and lost air for several minutes. Medically, I am fine now.

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