Better Call Saul - Season 06 [DVD]

**THE SEASON IS 13 EPISODES NOT 12. AND 24.99 BUYS YOU ALL 13 AS OF THIS EDIT 8.29.22**The customer concers:As of writing this review (8.15.22), the season episodes are complete and 24.99 will buy you all the 13 episodes of season 6 of BCS. No waiting needed. Many people bought in earlier and still had to wait for weekly releases.As of now, on AMC, you also can only see episodes 8-12. Earlier episodes are probably only available on cable, or maybe their amc+ service. No guarantee though. And this is all before the eventual release to Netflix which I'm sure they'll do just like all previous 5 seasons, breaking bad, and the film El Camino. I still don't know how the actual channel that creates this show manages to have less attractive streaming options than amazon or netflix. They need better negotiators to stop 'giving away' their best content to these companies. Had they held on to the rights I would have gladly rather supported buying the episodes through the amc services directly, which would have given the actors and creators more of a cut I'm almost certain.The actual show review, mild spoilers:If two words could sum up the theme of this character, this show, and this season, it would be: Full circle.Your actions, your past behavior, your past choices, without any willingness or fair effort to change, will eventually come for you. In Saul/Gene's case, he did do a good job of keeping his nose clean after such a treacherous history in Albequerque.It's only until someone ultimately recognizes him, that present day timeline changes for the worst. Jimmy/Saul/Gene finally has a chance at repentance, to give in to his past, and let this stranger go through with his threats to turn him in. But Jimmy uses his most powerful weapon: his words, as usual, to find a way out of it... for now. He has always been a person capable of leveling the playing field with his enemies, and getting them to share his best interests too. "Mutually Assured Destruction."Anyways, it is not without it's flaws. There were times, as the same with earlier seasons, where the cinematography felt more like an attempt to eat up screen time. This was mainly with certain episodes, and specifically when the episode was starting. But it is cinematography, so it's all subjective. I just felt in some moments it could have been trimmed a few seconds sometimes.Mike Earmantraut easily takes the cake for the best villain you want to hate, but don't. He is sometimes the only grounded person in this story of chaos and violence. Kudos to Jonathan Banks for being able to play the multi-faceted grandfather, cartel advisor, friend, sympathizer, ethical war mind, but also a man who has to make peace with very dark parts of his current job/life.You will most definitely feel like you receive closure for the storylines. Maybe Kim, I would have liked to have seen some real consequences. Rhea herself acted amazingly. This kind of falls on the writers. She was complicit in a lot of the things that went down being with Jimmy, and it feels like the slap on the wrist the writers decided to give Kim was a little bit too light of a sentence.The show travels through several years in a small span of time, namely towards the end of the season.And I won't lie once the Lalo arc came to an end, they did do a good job of still keeping the viewer interested. To see the protagonist's end, after so many people in his life have fallen.That would be my only critique though, way too much sympathy for Wexler.PLEASE WATCH UNTIL THE VERY END. THE SEASON IS 13 EPISODES NOT 12The Infamous "Episode 13":An amazing farewell to the series wrapped up in about an hour of screen time, where not one second is wasted. I will admit present-day Jimmy in greyscale was not something I loved, but I grew to love it towards the end. It helps as well with differentiating timelines. There can be a lot of reasons why the artistic choice to go black & white in present day was made, but for the last episode it was especially effective. I can't begin to imagine why, but maybe Vince and the creators literally want to convey that life, your choices, people, decisions, our reasoning, is not always black and white, but rather full of grey areas? At least that's what I like to think.Episode 13 really did an amazing job at reminding us that Jimmy - really all his life - has put up with being put inside of a box by everybody. His brother, his criminal cohorts, his wife, everyone deeply believed he was just a very selfish, sneaky worm only interested in himself, destined only to chase his pleasures of money, feeling untouchable, and doing whatever he wants. You really start to wonder, maybe he decided to defend criminals because they are the people that society decides to trap in a box, never allowing a chance to get out. The perfect people, to give a chance to have the last laugh and have the would-be "winners" of life think twice before they're written off.I won't really go into it. It is a beautiful episode that simply, leaves you at peace. It renews hope in some ways, it leaves you sad in some, but at the end of the day, we never really forget that Jimmy is, as he wheelchaired tuco's broken-leg victims to the hospital in season 1: "the greatest lawyer ever." And we finally see a world where Jimmy can still win, by proving to the most important people in his life (who are still alive), in the most clever way, the one thing that has plagued him all his life - Who he really is. And it was never what we thought him out to be.Beautiful end to an amazing show.As for what the future holds of the Breaking Bad universe? I only see the Winklemann husband and wife duo the only tolerable characters in the season who I would entertain seeing some episodes for. Their screen chemistry is really good, they are both a bit cynical, with the husband being more civilized. However the husband is good at expressing both of their desires since the wife acts too proud to admit what she wants. They have a good back and forth energy so seeing a prequel of the shady legal crimes or operations and adventures they've shared, or their origin story of how they met, or their time before having a kid would be really interesting to see. Maybe a series of their time before Jimmy is in their life.Just an idea!But kudos and 5/5. So glad this show got to see it's closing curtain.

Exceptionally well written, outstanding cinematography, and heart-wrenchingly beautiful story.

Wonderful 👍👍

Another amazing series that destroys a main character like Kim Wexler. When Kim walks out on Saul it shows she never loved the poor guy, he made five times more sacrifices then she did, he worked harder at making her happy, and when she was bored she would call him.Once again we have in the running for the worse ending in history. Nobody would pick 92 years is it? In jail once he had it down to 7 years for a woman who would not spit on his hair if it was on fire.She remarries , starts a new life, and never looked back. People make a big deal when Howard got shot, shocking yes, sentimental absolutely not. Coul care less his brains were all over the wall. I cared about Saul and Kim And how they would end it. I would rather Kim was killed then have her leave Saul after all he put into their relationship. He did all he could to make her happy. Kim just moved on like he was a pebble on her shoe.The series is a 5 star for sure. Problem is I can't watch season 6 because the writers destroyed it.This series is not even close to being as good as Breaking Bad. BB was unique, the first of it's kind, and without it, there would be no Saul.I would encourage watching it through season 5 then half way through season six then stop. That is all you need.I will say if they did a better job on the finale this would be very close to Breaking Bad but they didn't. But it is still an amazing show so binge watch it. You will love it. Just not the ending.

I am not going to play spoiler, I just would of liked jimmy to keep fighting. It ended well but I root for jimmy. Always in the shadow of his brother always failing to gain his approval.Two brothers from a working class family, you see the contrast one a high achiever who one could argue forgot where he came from, but I would argue he never forgot and saw what he wanted to forget in Jimmy always a reminder of who he really was.After all Jimmy did for him he still despised him and worked against him. Jimmy the classic case of a guy the whole world is against because outwardly he appears to be a malevolent force and he thrives on it, but inside he actually cares about people especially his people the other “dregs” the throw aways and forgotten who deserve a second chance or maybe a first chance at redemption.Through it all there was one person one thing the only real thing he ever had was Kim who knew the real Jimmy and loved him for who he was without question. There are no happily ever afters in life but it worked out.Kim was still there even when she wasn’t Jimmy was always thinking of her when it seemed he didn’t care and when everyone thought Jimmy would turn on her to save himself but he didn’t and there she was.Jimmy may have seemed like a scumbag but he wasn’t he was a stand up guy, a fighter and survivor there’s a little jimmy in all of us.

Great Entertainment, Very Funny, Great Acting. Watched it a few times already!