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<em>Better Call Saul</em>'s Season 3 Finds Drama in the Details

As it revs up to the arrival of Gus Fring, the <em>Breaking Bad</em> spinoff highlights how real heroism and villainy take concentration.
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In Better Call Saul’s third season, viewers watch as a character agonizes over whether to use a period, semicolon, or em dash. They see a lengthy sequence of electrical and mechanical work for unknown purposes, involving such thrills as shoppingfor car partsand letting a battery pack run down. A major plot development is indicated by the method with which someone peels masking tape from a wall.

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