Why This Episode Of Better Call Saul Is All Good, Man

The only prequel to be equal in quality to the original while bringing a great subtext to the original.

- Kim Wexler is one of, if not, the best female character on TV. - The complexity and depth of Saul Goodman are way beyond those of Walter White. Walter’s morality has a clear line between good and evil. Saul’s morality is so grey that good and evil are inseparable.

Better Call Saul has this way of making you feel that sense of elation over someone getting their comeuppance and then immediately following up with a sense of guilt for having felt that way.

Rewatching Breaking bad after Better Call Saul and seeing all the hard earned dangerous criminals being killed by a freaking terminally ill chemistry teacher is just mind boggling.

I was expecting some obscure episode that I’d forgotten about. But it was Chicanery. Because of course it is. One of the best episodes of TV period.

I think “Better Call Saul” is one of the only prequels which gives more context to the originals and doesn't change or ruin anything, while still maintaining the quality and style of the original

IMO the best episode of BCS is the one where Mike recalls the story of his son and how he took revenge. Hearing Mike say: “they killed my boy” while crying was a very emotional moment in the series

It is so criminal that this show received almost to no love from awards show. I mean awards dont mean that much but the cinematography and acting from this show is so overlooked! Hopefully they get their deserved recognition for the final season.

i like how halfway through he casually is trying to sell us all drugs

Man, thank you for making this, one of my favorite episodes of the series. There's really nothing quite like this show, i would even say I enjoy it more then Breaking Bad

Better Call Saul is peak storytelling. The acting, character, writing, direction, themes, cinematography. More drama than thrilling action and that’s absolutely fine. The battery slip is a perfect scheme to the Saul we know.

“I am not crazy! I know he swapped those numbers! I knew it was 1216. One after Magna Carta. As if I could ever make such a mistake. Never. Never! I just - I just couldn't prove it. He - he covered his tracks, he got that idiot at the copy shop to lie for him. You think this is something? You think this is bad? This? This chicanery? He's done worse. That billboard! Are you telling me that a man just happens to fall like that? No! He orchestrated it! Jimmy! He defecated through a sunroof! And I saved him! And I shouldn't have. I took him into my own firm! What was I thinking? He'll never change. He'll never change! Ever since he was 9, always the same! Couldn't keep his hands out of the cash drawer! But not our Jimmy! Couldn't be precious Jimmy! Stealing them blind! And he gets to be a lawyer!? What a sick joke! I should've stopped him when I had the chance! And you - you have to stop him!”

A prequel needs to bring familiarity with the original show, but needs to be able to stand on its own two feet without relying on you having watched the original show it prequels. That being said, if you start off with Better Call Saul and you've never watched breaking bad, this show is still a great show to watch - that is exactly why it is so great.

Chicanery was one of my all time favorite episodes of anything ever until the midseason finale to season 6. Amazing stuff so consistently~

Formula for a great Better Call Saul episode: - We watch Jimmy and/or Kim and/or Mike execute a scheme - We don't know exactly what the end game is, but bits and pieces are slowly revealed and each piece usualy makes things more baffling while simultaneously giving us enough info to piece it all together if we really think about it - The scheme looks like it's about to fail, the target has them figured out, or seems too suspicious, or something outside of their control seems to go wrong - Against all odds, the scheme works! Suddenly we know the full extent of the plan, and holy shit, this is even more ingenious than we thought. Jimmy and/or Kim and/or Mike win in gloriously entertaining fashion. - Later, be it a scene later, an episode later, or full seasons later, the consequences of the scheme rear their ugly heads. - These consequences go far beyond whatever the initial goal is and result in horrific tragedy - We feel bad for cheering the scheme on... but oh hey, here's another scheme. Maybe this one will go differently.

Better Call Saul really should get all the love BB got - it's just so good! Seahorn better get an Emmy nomination this year, she is riveting!

Truly one of the most tense television episodes of all-time. McKean was incredible. This was Jimmy's Order 66. "The boy you once saved, gone he is. Consumed by Saul Goodman."

one of the hardest moments in the episode is watching Chuck have to rehearse the lines I love my brother. it's so hard to watch him having his love for his brother be completely tourn apart for petty revenge and jealousy. this is truly the episode where they fall apart, which is why it's hard to watch. You really want them to reconcile, but that's not how the show ends

God this series is amazing. As soon as I saw the title of this video, I knew what episode you would be talking about.

Jimmy's plan here was genius. He allowed Chuck to feel in control through weaker attempts to break him like the cellphone and bringing Rebecca in. Chuck is at maximum confidence right when the bomb is dropped because he thinks he's beaten Jimmy at every turn, so once it's revealed, Chuck's can't emotionally take this drastic a change of circumstance (had Jimmy led with the battery, it's possible Chuck would be able to compose himself and argue it's irrelevant to the case (which it is)). They managed to do this while also using the smaller plots to subvert expectations. Take notes Game of Thrones, that's how you do subversion without destroying the themes and continuity of the show