Better Call Saul’s Rain Opening Is Deeper Than You Realize
Warning: Contains SPOILERS for Better Call Saul season 6, episode 3, «Rock and Hard Place.»
The opening scene of Better Call Saul season 6, episode 3 sees it rain, a rare weather occurrence in the Breaking Bad universe that connects to Nacho Varga’s (Michael Mando) fate. One of the biggest shocks of the show so far is delivered in Better Call Saul season 6, episode 3, as Nacho takes his own life. Having been boxed into a corner by Gus Fring’s (Giancarlo Esposito) plotting and the Salamancas’ need for revenge, Nacho was going to die regardless, but went again Gus’ plan and took matters into his own hands.
The episode’s opening scene gave some hint of what was to come, as it was actually set after the rest of the events had transpired. Set at the same spot where Nacho died, it showed the shared of glass he used to stab Juan Bolsa (Javier Grajeda), as well as blue flowers growing and, perhaps most notably, rainfall. With Breaking Bad and its spinoffs set mostly in New Mexico, it’s unsurprising that it hardly ever rains, which makes the choice to show it at this specific moment feel more symbolic.
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Notably, it never rained onscreen in Breaking Bad, whereas in Better Call Saul season 6's “Rock and Hard Place” the rain comes down heavily and takes a prominent placement in the cold open. This gives Nacho something of a connection to Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul) in El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie, another spinoff where rain played a meaningful role in the story of a well-meaning character trying to not only escape his fate, but secure his parents’ freedom and safety outside of his own life of crime.
In El Camino, while Todd Alquist (Jesse Plemons) earlier comments on the
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