Breaking bad season 1 episode 6 summary series#

Breaking bad season 1 episode 6 summary series#

Vince GilliganвЂ™s previous series was more of a linear thriller, with each episode building on the one before. вЂ“ Jimmy McGill is gonna have his hands full.It is also an atypical episode for a show spawned from Breaking Bad, which rarely shifted the focus from HeisenbergвЂ™s A-plot. вЂ“ вЂњI broke my boy.вЂќ ThatвЂ™s too much for me to handle. Hopefully, this is the first and last time something like this happens. This is a vibrant world that is being built no need to go back to the Breaking BadГ‚В well to make things better. Odenkirk is a master of the comedic in the dramatic, and he wouldвЂ™ve added a lot to this episode.ДЄlso, I miss Kim and the rest of the characters. There was very little levity in this episode there were very few breaks for the audience to catch their air. Jonathan Banks was a powerhouse in this episode but the problem with that kind of super dramatic, super tense, super dark television is that it loses nuance and starts shading things as black instead of gray. To put too fine a point on it:Г‚ Better Call SaulГ‚В should be able to stand on its own and deliver emotional right hooks independently.ДЄlso, more Bob Odenkirk, please. This is an okay episode of television, incredibly well-acted (well, exceptГ‚В by the woman who played MikeвЂ™s daughter-in-lawвЂ“I didnвЂ™t think she showed enough emotion) and very well-directed, but it required too much context. I am frustrated because I really liked it, and I shouldnвЂ™t. I donвЂ™t want Mike shuffled off, of course, but thereвЂ™s something to be said for taking it a new direction. The Tuco thing was cool, but he was immediately shuffled off and replaced by Nacho. It doesnвЂ™t mean that it should have to happen.Г‚ Better Call Saul is better than almost everything on the air right now, and to watch it lean back on the good olвЂ™ days like it did tonight is just totally unnecessary.Г‚В The worst bits of this show are the things fromГ‚ Breaking Bad. And this sort of thing was unavoidable.Д«ut that doesnвЂ™t mean itвЂ™s not frustrating. But them doing a standalone Mike episode absolutely requires prior knowledge to make it hit as hard as it should.

ItвЂ™s not that IвЂ™m worried about the direction the show is taking Peter Gould and Vince Gilligan actually did a pretty good job detailing who Mike is without the context ofГ‚ Breaking Bad.

HeвЂ™s a character fromГ‚ Breaking Bad, and that doesnвЂ™t sit well. Mike Ehrmantraut isnвЂ™t a character onГ‚ Better Call Saul. But what if I hadnвЂ™t? What if I had never seenГ‚ Breaking BadГ‚В before? Would this episode resonate as much as it did grip as tight as it did bring up emotions like it did? I donвЂ™t know. It took all that I knew of him and delivered.Д«ut thatвЂ™s the problem. Mike Ehrmantraut is a deep and varied character who I desperately wanted to know more about, and this episode delivered on that. ItвЂ™s so weird to even consider the idea that this was in some way a вЂњbadвЂќ episode, because it really wasnвЂ™t. The more thatГ‚ Better Call SaulГ‚В leans onГ‚ Breaking Bad, the worse things get. It needs to do that now, and it needs to do that as cleanly as possible, because the show starts to decline in quality the closer it is to its source material. Better Call Saul needs to stay away from its parent show.