Better Call Saul has never been better: Review
), the AMC drama’s fifth season is the best of times and the worst of times. In the increasingly distant past that forms’s present, he’s resurrected his legal career and changed his name. At long last, Saul Goodman patrols the Albuquerque courthouse, rinky-dinking settlements with case-loaded district attorneys. He looks like somebody Dick Tracy would punch: cabernet suit, yellow pocket square, ties loud enough for noise complaints.
Meanwhile, across town and TV genres, conflict simmers between the Salamanca and Fring criminal empires. Gus , a great villain for twoyear as The Man Who Waits Patiently For Stuff That Happened On Television In 2011. In the past, I’ve been frustrated by the dissonance: meticulous lawyering. The crime stuff can feel like an indulgence of the writers’ most fannish instincts — and an obvious attempt to reclaimCertain aspects of the new season do suggest the spin-off mostfans were expecting.
Meanwhile, the drug lord duel has a new energy thanks to Lalo , yet another nephew of Hector Salamanca . Lalo is the wild cardneeded, a master criminal not on rails toward an expected ending. Dalton imbues his malevolent operator with charming swagger, so that Lalo seems to be gleefully trolling his own show. In the premiere, Gus constructs an elaborate charade to stop Lalo’s ongoing investigation of his operation.
Twelve years into the lead role, Odenkirk keeps finding new shades of goofy charisma and freaky desperation, and the Saulification of Jimmy is a performance within a performance. You can always feel the little man peacocking himself into a big myth. That set piece I mentioned begins with Jimmy outside the courtroom door, repeating the pitch he’s about to try out: “Suzanne, I think we have something in common.
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