Monday's episode is "the latest and clearest piece of evidence in an argument I’ve been building in my head for a while: Breaking Bad tells the more fundamentally interesting (or, at least, more exciting) story, but (Peter) Gould, Gilligan, and company are at this moment better at telling stories in this world after so much time doing it," says Alan Sepinwall. "Saul can get hemmed in by the demands of being a prequel, particularly on the drug side of things (which has of late become the majority of the show), but its individual moments can feel even deeper and more artfully crafted. Which is not something I could have imagined when this show started. (Nor, as they’ve admitted, could Gilligan and Gould.)" Sepinwall adds: "What an hour from everyone involved, but especially from Bob Odenkirk. These last few episodes have been huge in terms of the series’ primary character arc, and he’s been more than up to that challenge. We’ve long passed the point where his gifts as a dramatic actor are surprising, but the raw physicality of what he does here seems beyond anything he’s done in the past, even at what seemed like his very best."
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TOPICS: Better Call Saul, AMC, Breaking Bad, Bob Odenkirk, Jonathan Banks, Peter Gould, Tony Dalton, Vince Gilligan