Better Call Saul is a well written, tightly scripted and innovative show and the Wiedersehen episode was probably the best show of season 4 next to Breathe and Coushatta. What was great was seeing what Kim was talking about when she said, "Let's do it again" in the cold open. Next, we saw Lalo and Nacho going to Casa Tranquilla nursing home to visit Hector and we hear the vengeful story of how Lalo and Hector tortured the proprietor of a hotel and burned it down to teach him not to disrespect their cartel. We find Lalo went back inside the rubble and found the hotel's front desk bell. He presents this to Hector as a gift which was prominently featured in Breaking Bad. Afterward, we hear Slippin' Jimmy discuss with Kim his idea to pull off scams together in order to get new clients out of a harsh sentence like they did with Huell. Kim disagrees and wants to use their services for good helping deserving people and not just criminals. Of course, what Slippin' Jimmy laid out was his idea for Saul Goodman. The following scene was the one I was waiting for in anticipating that someone like Kai or Werner was going to be blown to smitereens due to their rebellious attitude or indiscretion. The show was about good bye. It could've been good bye to Kim and Jimmy after Something Stupid, but Coushatta brought them back together again. Thus, we were expecting something to happen. Instead, we just got more storyline. I'm not complaining about advancing the story, but to get it in every scene and act, then it gets boring. There is too much being told at once or additional filler, so the show gets carried away with its plots. The plots go on too long as they're just filler. All this to say that Better Call Saul needs more action like Breaking Bad had. We still have four years to go before Breaking Bad and it has been painstakingly slow to develop the story to just this point. Perhaps we need more time jumps to just cut to the chase. If Better Call Saul were foods, then we are getting too much nutrition and not enough fatty, sinful, unhealthy pleasurable foods. For example, Lalo tossing trash out in the parking lot should not be the memorable part of a scene. Better Call Saul gets carried away with its own creativity and cinematography.
Review of Wiedersehen
Loved the setup, look and feel and story, but the show definitely needs more action.
4 October 2018
Warning: Spoilers