<em>Better Call Saul</em> Stages Its Bittersweet Showdown
The fifth episode of the third season finally had Chuck and Jimmy confront each other before the eyes of the law.
by Spencer Kornhaber
May 08, 2017
4 minutes
Something that serialized TV can often accomplish better than movies is the slow buildup to, and payoff from, tragically thrilling confrontation. Game of Thrones’s trials by combat and by priest, resulting in burst brains and green-tinted explosions, hit harder for being so lengthily anticipated within the show. Same went for the revelations of the Breaking Bad episode “Ozymandias,” the unmasking of Brody to Carrie in Homeland, or even the trivia-night showdown of Big Little Lies.
has now had such a moment, and as befits the spinoff’s defiantly smaller-bore concerns, it happened not with bloodshed nor even
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