Better Call Saul ***Spoilers***

Trauma.

Her decisions led to Howard being brutally shot in front of her. That's gonna take a toll and it did as we saw on the bus and the life she was leading.

Ah that would have been too obvious. The way they did it the audience reaction was the same as Bill - shock/incredulity and trying to stop him.

I thought Peter Diseth played the Bill character brilliantly. The subtle looks at the hearing, the worry at phone call, the weariness of talking to Saul.

"Following the broadcast run of Better Call Saul, Gilligan said he does not plan to create any more works related to Breaking Bad,[27] but instead was working towards a new show, a science fiction genre piece that has been compared to The X-Files and The Twilight Zone.[28]

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vince_Gilligan#Breaking_Bad_and_Better_Call_Saul

Tremendous finale, bittersweet, full of meaning, gives incredible closure. No point going into it too much as others have it well covered already.

What I will say is that it reminds me how irritating it is when people claim those who crap on poor finales - Game of Thrones being a perfect example - just "want to find something to hate" or "are just annoyed their fan theories didn't play out".

Breaking Bad landed it perfectly, and now Better Call Saul has as well - absolutely stunning TV in consistency and quality in every detail.

I can't believe I initially balked at the idea of a Saul prequel, and now I can't believe it's over, 7 years later.

10/10 stuff. The BB universe will be sorely missed, but very much looking forward to Gilligan's next project.

Now that's how you do a finale to a season, to a show, to 15 years of the best TV I've ever seen.

No complaints. Just brilliant.

And now sad we'll never see these characters again.

Yes, personally I would like to see that. But I am pretty sure that is a difficult option for the writers team - between whether we will see Jimmy did the right thing as a lawyer (resolving the whole Saul thing + made up with Kim), or he somehow got away (again) as the old 'slipping Jimmy'. Very tough call.

Glad they did what they did though.

Weeks ago I was talking to my wife about BCS and how it will end for Saul. I was saying there has to be closure, and the best closure for him regarding the BB universe and how everyone else was killed or got away - would be prison.

I didn't want him getting away with it and starting a new identity - that would be just back to S1E1 again with Gene in the cinabun, now it would be Mike in Starbucks or whatever ...

So I was really hoping he'd end up in prison - for life.

But now as I was watching the episode and I saw the scam he pulled that said he was in fear and terrified of being killed by WW , I thought wow .. did not see that coming, and I started rooting for him again ...when he had them to 7 years I tought that's what he'd do and we'd get a CODA at the end "10 years later " and see him back at what he does best - ambulance chasing lawyer ...

So I was a bit disappointed with that ending, even though it is a closure ending, him back as a lawyer just leaves it open to endless seasons/spinoiffs etc.

But let's be honest, Saul would not have passed on that 7 year sentence - for 80+ years ... in the worst max security hellhole - no f*cking way.

Should have made it so, there never was a 7 year deal ....

A little underwhelmed if I’m being honest but a good finale none the less

Breaking bad still number one for me but I doubt there will ever be a spin off show of the quality of BCS again !

To be honest I love the fact that they concluded it properly and genuinely wrapped things up, and with no bitter taste for the audience. Not enough of that these days. So a good finale on that basis.

However, having now seen the finale I do question a little the flow of the whole season in the Gene era.

The episode where he transitions to Saul was so beautifully done. You could almost feel the pain of his loneliness as soon as it concludes the fact that he was now Saul (with Kim gone). Definitely a runner to be the final scene of the entire series.

But now it’s making the post-BB phase look more like an epilogue that they had too much time for.

I agree that they needed to close it off but I would rather it spent more time on Jimmy “Breaking Good” than messing around with all the Gene stuff. Feels like the writers tried to start something but had to wrap it up too quickly.

I would prefer if they gave us a more emotional and meaningful reason for him getting his closure and wanting to take responsibility for a change.

Perhaps a nicer way to play it out is that he gets arrested almost immediately after trying to become Gene. And they work it out from there in perhaps 2 episodes.

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If anyone has seen the movie Flight, there are parallels but I thought that movie handled it better by taking it to a level where he could just not tell one more lie after the lengths he had taken it to. Something like that would have worked well in BCS with more time given to it.

Aw man, what a show. It was such a great perfect ending. I only watched the first episode again recently and Jimmy arrives at Chuck's delighted he'd finally got the Financial Times among his daily drop off items and that was the day Chuck got the cheque from HHM. The moment we saw in the last episode with Chuck was before that so I wonder is that where he'd go back to? Before it all started?

It was a really great ending and the bit from the cast was a super touch.

On Jimmy’s u-turn in court. As well as the redemption idea. Was it to take the limelight off Kim?

In the hope Kim would now be left alone or at least treated lightly.

The self sabotage reminded me how he felt guilty about Irene and his Sandpaper scheme. Then wrecked it at his own cost. To ‘do the right thing’ and ‘put things right’

I don't think his confession could do much to negate what was happening to Kim. She signed a confession fully detailing her own involvement. Even though no criminal charges were going to come from it, Howard's wife could sue her. Regardless of what Jimmy said in court, the fact he was going to prison and would have had no assets to go after means Howard's wife still could have gone after Kim.

It's possible Kim's lawyer could argue that Jimmy bore more responsibility and played up his confession and that Kim merely got swept up in his actions and turned her life around after whereas Jimmy didn't, or maybe Howard's wife herself might think that and decide it wasn't worth bringing a case against Kim, but I think that would still have been true whether Jimmy took the 7 year deal or the full sentence, as Kim's confession came before Jimmy's capture/arrest.

Jimmy's u-turn was more about his own need to confess. Maybe it might slightly help Kim, but I don't think it was a defined reason for doing it. I think the fact Kim confessed and was owning up to what she'd done (like Jimmy challenged her to do but didn't actually think she would) was the spark that caused Jimmy to finally realise he needed to drop Saul Goodman and finally change his own path.

He turned his back on Saul when he put the shirt and tie back on the rack in the mall store I think. Allowing Marian to press the alarm was another key moment, he knew that was the end of Gene too. The moment he realised he needed to get back to being Jimmy was the hysterical laughing when he saw the prison graffitti.

He deliberately dressed as Saul for the court so he could publicly and sensationally take him down. Kim being there was a huge bonus for him but not the main reason he did it.