Sunday 30 October 2022

Better Call Saul: Alpine Shepherd Boy

 "Hey, I'm not the one with the sex toilet..."

The sex toilet scene is, of course, utterly bloody hilarious. It's not often I laugh out loud at the telly, but I ceertainly let out a bit of a guffaw tonight.

Anyway, Jimmy's exploits last episode have drummed up business, but not necessarily the right business. We get the sex toilet. We get this weird right wing nutjob who wants to secede from the USA, something which has historically gone very well indeed. It's a light-hearted sequence, leading to him 

And then things aren't light-hearted at all as we discover more about Chuck, and his delusions that any electromagnetic devide will make him ill. This is a big reveal, and shows the horrible situation Jimmy is in. He really should get Chuck cmmitted, but it would feewlmlike a betrayal, and Chuck would see it as such.

Worse, it's Chuck's moral principles that are keeping the Slippy Jimmy instincts at bay. I strongly suspect Chuck is not long for this world. After the humour, we get potential real darkness.

And then the coda, with Mike. It seems we're about to learn more about him. Love the fact it's the same house and even the same cafe.

Utterly sublime, as ever.

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