Better Call Saul Season 6 Episode 3 Review
In the second week since its return, Better Call Saul gives a deserved break to its hard-working protagonist to focus on Ignacio Varga, the young man who became the Jesse Pinkman to this prequel but whose fate ultimately is not as rosy as the El Camino star. The closing of this chapter though is definitely delivered exactly how one would expect Vince Gilligan to do, with it being equally beautiful and tragic at the same time.
Series veteran Gordon Smith pens and directs “Rock and Hard Place”, doing a great job at controlling the pace of the episode after last week’s double-header premiere that now seems even more adequate to get the ball rolling in the aftermath of Lalo’s assassination attempt. Speaking of which, while Tony Dalton’s character was an absolute standout in the first two episodes, he is completely absent from this, although it’s definitely for a good cause as Michael Mando shines through like he’s always done so in Better Call Saul.
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The opening shot could easily pass off as one of so many other Breaking Bad intros, it’s the very desert where later Nacho faces his demons, yet unlike more obvious instances where the showrunners show exactly what goes down later, this piece of glass is more subtle. It could very well be that Nacho was caught by the Salamanca twins, but that’s not the case, against all odds he’s escaped and he has a plan to, at least, get the chance to die another day.
This sequence with Nacho jumping in the oil tank is classic Breaking Bad, it’s a tense moment out of which he could or could not come out alive of, and one that’s obviously complemented by the twins’ imposing presence. However, our hero knows he’s a dead man
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