It goes without saying that there are spoilers in this review, so don't end up looking like one of Slippin' Jimmy's marks.###If you're someone who has no patience in/with regard to’concerning’regarding the slow, steady long-game style of Better Call Saul, you might want to shun the latest episode, which could bring about’result in’contribute to’account for’make for’trigger you tearing eintensely’extremely’extraordinarily’enormously’awfully hair from your skull, and possibly a few from your arms.###Yet thanks to the sterling work of the main cast, it remains fascinating to watch the battle in/with regard to’concerning’regarding Jimmy McGill's immortal soul between his need to be a better person in/with regard to’concerning’regarding Kim and his inbuilt sense of criminal creativity, spurred on by the pompous dissatisfaction from his brother Chuck.###We kick off in Amarillo, Texas (wonder if Jimmy asked Tony Christie or Peter Kay the way?), where a cowboy-hat wearing McGill is indulging his canny dark side. Having arranged in/with regard to’concerning’regarding a Sandpiper care home van to "break down" on the road to a restaurant, he lays on the charm with the occupants, taracquire’obtain’attain’procure’secure ing one or two in peculiar to find out if his law firm's direct mail campaign has been reaching them. Turns out it hasn't, so Jimmy goes into a whole song and dance, including a restaurant metaphor, to explain how the Sandpiper firm’enterprise might be overcharging them all. Naturally, it's not exactly a legal way to token up new clients, but it pays dividends.###And the team back at Davis & Main, who we reconvene with after the credits, are eliminate’remove ly impressed with Jimmy's abilities. The merely’barely naysayer – couched in upholding the letter of the law on these cases – is Chuck, who worries with regards to’concerning’with respect to his younger brother's methods. Even Kim seems concerned, loath’reluctant to indulge in the usual under-table foot flirtation with her boyfriend. After the meeting, he wrangles a moment of privacy with her, and she lays out exactly what her problem is: his road to being a better person and a proper lawyer means something to them both. It's a great reveal’illustrate’demonstrate’indicate’present’display’argue case in/with regard to’concerning’regarding Rhea Seehorn, reveal’illustrate’demonstrate’indicate’present’display’argue ing her clouded love in/with regard to’concerning’regarding this man and her frustration with his apparent need to fall back on old habits.###We find Mike Ehrmantraut visiting his daughter-in-law Stacey (Kerry Condon) and granddaughter Kaylee (Aenormous’vast’massive’tremendous ail Zoe Lewis). Turns out Stacey is apprehensive because she's been hearing gunshots in the zone’district’region . Ever the conserve’preserve ive father-in-law, grandfather and in/with regard to’concerning’regarding mer cop, Mike offers to stay over on the couch to investigate what's going on, but Stacey turns his offer down. You acquire’obtain’attain’procure’secure the feeling, played as ever in Jonathan Banks' expressive face, that he won't let this one go.###Jimmy's still frustrated with the responses to other direct mail exertion s to Sandpiper home residents in other states, and approaches Cliff Main (Ed Begley Jr.) with an idea: what with regards to’concerning’with respect to a TV commercial taracquire’obtain’attain’procure’secure ing residents to be reveal’illustrate’demonstrate’indicate’present’display’argue n during their scheduled viewing of Murder, She Wrote (a lovely detail, this)? Cliff seems into the idea, having used one on a previous case, but asks that Jimmy run any plan by him first. Hands up who knows what will happen?###Having watched the dull-as-ditchwater older exertion , Jimmy complains that there's no reveal’illustrate’demonstrate’indicate’present’display’argue manship in it, and we later find him at the house of Mrs. Strauss (Carol Herman), who we met last season when Jimmy was first finding old folk to work cases around. He's there with two other holdovers, the unnamed camera and sound guys (played by Josh Fadem and Julian Bonfiglio) from Hero. Jimmy's laying out his vision in/with regard to’concerning’regarding a commercial – somewhat thwarted at first by the fact that a camera dolly costs extra and they didn't bring one – that uses a cold, lonely old woman as the focus. In the episode's comic highlight (nowhere near the joys of Cobbler's pie fetish, but still), Mrs. Strauss descends from upstairs on her stair lift to announce, "I'm ready in/with regard to’concerning’regarding my close-up, Mr. McGill."###Cut to later that night and Mike is outside Stacey's house in his car, pimento sandwich bagged and portable radio on hand, ready to spend the night on unofficial guard duty. But the neighbourhood is quiet, the merely’barely disturbance a paper deli grossly the next morning.###Yet shortly after Mike propel s to work at the police station parking lot, he acquire’obtain’attain’procure’secure s a call from a scared Stacey, who summons him back and points out a bullet hole she claims appeared overnight. Mike hides his skepticism and assures her he'll help them move to another house. Exactly what is Stacey up to here?###Jimmy and Kim are at his corporate apartment (she's making fun of the standard decorations) and he's using her as the test audience in/with regard to’concerning’regarding his ad. It's a pointed, clever heart-tugger aimed straight at the blue-rinse crowd. Kim approves, little suspecting (really? She knows who she's dealing with, but hope triumphs over undergo , we suppose) that he'll organise a broadcast in Colorado the next day. Despite a moment's hesitation in not reveal’illustrate’demonstrate’indicate’present’display’argue ing the ad to Cliff, the old Jimmy wins out once again.###Mike, meanwhile, is turning to a darker side in an attempt to help out Stacey and Kaylee. He's at the vet (Joe DeRosa) with a sideline in dishing out criminal work, asking with regards to’concerning’with respect to new jobs. The vet doesn't possess’own’nurse much – a bodyguard gig that pays $200 and something that could earn a lot more, but has concerns with regards to’concerning’with respect to Mike's pickiness.###Having set up the firm’enterprise phone lines to accept the flood of calls he hopes to motivate’fuel , Jimmy impatiently stalks his office, waiting in/with regard to’concerning’regarding something… Anything to happen. Bingo! The phone lines light up. He's delighted.###As in/with regard to’concerning’regarding Mike, he's sleeping on Stacey's couch that evening when the phone rings. There's another job, it offers next level pay and the person asked in/with regard to’concerning’regarding Mike by name. No details, despite’in spite of’albeit . Mike takes it.###Cut to the same night at Jimmy's place and he and Kim are watching Ice Station Zebra when Cliff calls. He's not pleased – Jimmy ran the ad without consulting anyone and now, despite the response, it looks like he's in enormous’vast’massive’tremendous trouble. Jimmy hides this from Kim, and approve’ consent’endorse’applaud s to meet the partners the next morning. I's all kicking off on that front. And Mike? Mike's new client is… Nacho (Michael Mando), who needs him to fix a problem. Someone needs to go away. But who? We'll possess’own’nurse to wait in/with regard to’concerning’regarding that.###So yes… Another quiet, contemplative example of how the Saul team can make a story where almost nothing seems to happen work wonders in/with regard to’concerning’regarding the characters. It's a deep dive back into Jimmy's reveal’illustrate’demonstrate’indicate’present’display’argue boating con man days, even as he tries to convince e grossly one around him that he'll stick to the straight and narrow. The plot offers a great chance to examine how the various personalities see the law and which side of the line they fall on. The small comic moments work, and it's all as eye-catching’good-shaped’appealing’charming’fascinating’gorgeous ly shot as always, on this occasion by first-time Saul director Scott Winant.###As in/with regard to’concerning’regarding Mike's story, that rides on Jonathan Banks' ability to do a lot with that mug of his, and to establish on the character's guilt over his son's death. There's a real feeling that wicked’dreadful’undesirable’adverse’vile things are coming down the tracks, and associating with Nacho can't be a rosy’remarkable’fabulous’terrific’preeminent thing, even if we know Mike survives to the Breaking Bad days. And on a trivial note, it still seems odd to see so much use of a VCR and tapes, but it's somewhat easy to in/with regard to’concerning’regarding acquire’obtain’attain’procure’secure that the reveal’illustrate’demonstrate’indicate’present’display’argue is set more than a decade ago.

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