The third episode, “Something Beautiful,” was great but we wish things would speed along a bit. The episode saw Jimmy executing his first con of the season, Nacho going to extremes to disguise his new allegiances and Kim Wexler looking like she’s on the verge of another breakdown. Also shout out to the series’ latest Breaking Bad cameo, Gale Boetticher, who made a brief appearance.

Jimmy’s con was essentially stealing an expensive Hummel figurine and exchanging it with a worthless replica. It’s pretty low key crime in comparison with his Breaking Bad antics, hardly the “easiest” $4000 Jimmie will ever earn. Jimmy pairs up with a new partner in crime who you might remember from Breaking Bad’s ‘Vamanos Pest’ company. The new guy takes the place of Jimmy’s first choice, Mike, who rejected him most likely because he currently already has more cash than he knows what to do with. When the new guy arrives at the office to steal the figurine, however, he realizes he is not alone.

Things heat up when we see Jimmy’s con artist hiding under a table while an employee who is sleeping at the office begs his wife to let him come home. Jimmy thinks on his feet and sets off the man’s car alarm so that his man on the ground can escape. The scene is tense but nowhere near as exhilarating as Breaking Bad’s average heist. We’re hoping that things will start to speed up a bit now that Jimmy has dipped his feet back into the crime pond.

More interesting to watch was Nacho and Gus’ men stage a shootout to hide the fact they murdered one of Salamanca’s men. They go to the extreme and quite obviously spiteful measures to ensure that it looks realistic and leave Nacho bleeding out in the sand. The fact that Nacho is one of the few characters that genuinely engage us that we don’t already know the fate of from Breaking Bad, keeps his storyline highly exciting.

Finally, the episode showed Kim looking like she’d seen a ghost when Mesa Verde proposes their new and ambitious business plan. Perhaps she feared their plan was too ambitious or perhaps she suspects criminality, which is starting to shadow every aspect of her previously moral life.

This interpretation could shed some light on her outburst at the end of the episode. The final scene shows Jimmy reading Chuck’s final letter (which is quite nice, so probably written by Kim) and munching on his cereal like he couldn’t care less what the letter says. Kim completely breaks down (more incredible acting from Rhea Seehorn) and the episode ends with us desperately wondering why. Perhaps she is upset about Chuck’s genuine letter or perhaps she has finally seen Jimmy for the man he really is. And perhaps her breakdown tells us that that man is now actually Saul…

The episode certainly gave us a lot to think about but we’re ready for things to heat up properly now.

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The season kicks off with the Cinnabon Gene opening sequence that frames the series. The sequence shows a post Breaking Bad Jimmie in his new identity as manager of Cinnabon Gene in Omaha. His fake identity is put to the test when the receptionist asks for his social security number in an anxious scene after he is rushed to the hospital. The stress continues into the next scene when the taxi driver gives him a knowing, threatening stare. The sequence reminds us how bad things are going to get for Jimmie and how stressful life is when you have to constantly worry about your true identity being revealed.

Opening the season in this way makes it even more painful to watch Jimmie’s descent into Saul Goodman, the corrupt man that secures this fate for himself. It seems that it will be his brother’s death which escalates this descent.

There were several other moments of foreshadowing throughout the episode. The scene where Kim tries to comfort Jimmie with a drink, which she ends up drinking alone before fading out of the scene seems to be suggesting their future separation.

Things also seem to be heating up for the rest of the Breaking Bad cast. Mike receives a cheque for $10,000 and consequently decides to up his game and take his ‘fake’ job seriously. He even signs a birthday card, even though he is meant to be assuming the identity of another man.

There is no word from Hector, other than a warning that even though he is in the hospital, his territory stays the same. Nacho is careful to cover the evidence for the pill swap and Gus seems like he is on to him.

The real crux of the episode was the final scene where Howard admits that he thinks Chuck’s death was a suicide for which he assumes responsibility for. Jimmie’s reaction is shockingly heartless and he shows no remorse whatsoever when he finds out that it was a result of the insurance rise for which he secretly caused. Instead, he seems genuinely cheerful that Howard has taken responsibility and tells him that it is his “cross to bear”.

Is Jimmie genuinely happy that he has caused his brother’s suicide and gotten away with it? The ending seemed deliberately confusing. One theory is that he is so traumatized by his brother’s death that he has suppressed the grieving part of him and has lapsed into the pitiless Saul as a defense mechanism.

Overall, the season premiere got off to a strong start and we look forward to seeing what will happen next as morally ambiguous Jimmie definitively descends into the morally corrupt Saul Goodman.

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The third episode, “Something Beautiful,” was great but we wish things would speed along a bit. The episode saw Jimmy executing his first con of the season, Nacho going to extremes to disguise his new allegiances and Kim Wexler looking like she’s on the verge of another breakdown. Also shout out to the series’ latest Breaking Bad cameo, Gale Boetticher, who made a brief appearance.

Jimmy’s con was essentially stealing an expensive Hummel figurine and exchanging it with a worthless replica. It’s pretty low key crime in comparison with his Breaking Bad antics, hardly the “easiest” $4000 Jimmie will ever earn. Jimmy pairs up with a new partner in crime who you might remember from Breaking Bad’s ‘Vamanos Pest’ company. The new guy takes the place of Jimmy’s first choice, Mike, who rejected him most likely because he currently already has more cash than he knows what to do with. When the new guy arrives at the office to steal the figurine, however, he realizes he is not alone.

Things heat up when we see Jimmy’s con artist hiding under a table while an employee who is sleeping at the office begs his wife to let him come home. Jimmy thinks on his feet and sets off the man’s car alarm so that his man on the ground can escape. The scene is tense but nowhere near as exhilarating as Breaking Bad’s average heist. We’re hoping that things will start to speed up a bit now that Jimmy has dipped his feet back into the crime pond.

More interesting to watch was Nacho and Gus’ men stage a shootout to hide the fact they murdered one of Salamanca’s men. They go to the extreme and quite obviously spiteful measures to ensure that it looks realistic and leave Nacho bleeding out in the sand. The fact that Nacho is one of the few characters that genuinely engage us that we don’t already know the fate of from Breaking Bad, keeps his storyline highly exciting.

Finally, the episode showed Kim looking like she’d seen a ghost when Mesa Verde proposes their new and ambitious business plan. Perhaps she feared their plan was too ambitious or perhaps she suspects criminality, which is starting to shadow every aspect of her previously moral life.

This interpretation could shed some light on her outburst at the end of the episode. The final scene shows Jimmy reading Chuck’s final letter (which is quite nice, so probably written by Kim) and munching on his cereal like he couldn’t care less what the letter says. Kim completely breaks down (more incredible acting from Rhea Seehorn) and the episode ends with us desperately wondering why. Perhaps she is upset about Chuck’s genuine letter or perhaps she has finally seen Jimmy for the man he really is. And perhaps her breakdown tells us that that man is now actually Saul…

The episode certainly gave us a lot to think about but we’re ready for things to heat up properly now.

The post Better Call Saul 4, Ep. 3: Brilliantly Clever but We’re Ready for the Heat appeared first on OMG Check It Out !.

The season kicks off with the Cinnabon Gene opening sequence that frames the series. The sequence shows a post Breaking Bad Jimmie in his new identity as manager of Cinnabon Gene in Omaha. His fake identity is put to the test when the receptionist asks for his social security number in an anxious scene after he is rushed to the hospital. The stress continues into the next scene when the taxi driver gives him a knowing, threatening stare. The sequence reminds us how bad things are going to get for Jimmie and how stressful life is when you have to constantly worry about your true identity being revealed.

Opening the season in this way makes it even more painful to watch Jimmie’s descent into Saul Goodman, the corrupt man that secures this fate for himself. It seems that it will be his brother’s death which escalates this descent.

There were several other moments of foreshadowing throughout the episode. The scene where Kim tries to comfort Jimmie with a drink, which she ends up drinking alone before fading out of the scene seems to be suggesting their future separation.

Things also seem to be heating up for the rest of the Breaking Bad cast. Mike receives a cheque for $10,000 and consequently decides to up his game and take his ‘fake’ job seriously. He even signs a birthday card, even though he is meant to be assuming the identity of another man.

There is no word from Hector, other than a warning that even though he is in the hospital, his territory stays the same. Nacho is careful to cover the evidence for the pill swap and Gus seems like he is on to him.

The real crux of the episode was the final scene where Howard admits that he thinks Chuck’s death was a suicide for which he assumes responsibility for. Jimmie’s reaction is shockingly heartless and he shows no remorse whatsoever when he finds out that it was a result of the insurance rise for which he secretly caused. Instead, he seems genuinely cheerful that Howard has taken responsibility and tells him that it is his “cross to bear”.

Is Jimmie genuinely happy that he has caused his brother’s suicide and gotten away with it? The ending seemed deliberately confusing. One theory is that he is so traumatized by his brother’s death that he has suppressed the grieving part of him and has lapsed into the pitiless Saul as a defense mechanism.

Overall, the season premiere got off to a strong start and we look forward to seeing what will happen next as morally ambiguous Jimmie definitively descends into the morally corrupt Saul Goodman.

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