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Better Call Saul: Chicanery (2017)
A long-earned payoff
This episode was a risky, yet carefully crafted episode that could have bombed. The show was reminiscent of Breaking Bad's season three episode, "The Fly," which was a self-contained bottle episode meant for exploring emotional character depth.
This episode did much the same for Better Call Saul. Not only did the last five minutes of the courtroom scene eviscerate Chuck's vendetta against his brother, it put a bow on 2 1/2 seasons of a slow boiling arc and simultaneously proved that Better Call Saul is its own show. For sure, this show has been heating up as it evokes Breaking Bad nostalgia all over this season with the criminal element being introduced, but in one big bang this episode gave us Saul Goodman thanks to a tremendously written script.
This slow paced episode is not for everyone, especially given its biggest set of fans is due to the faster, suspenseful Breaking Bad. But critically, I'm impressed with how masterful this episode was. Now Saul has been born and this was a great sendoff to Jimmy.