Better Call Saul Season 6, Episode 4 Makes Nacho's Tragedy More Brutal
Better Call Saul pulled absolutely no punches with Nacho Varga's shocking death - but episode 4 somehow makes that loss even more brutal. Absent throughout the entirety of Breaking Bad, the writing was always potentially on the wall for Michael Mando's Nacho as Better Call Saul'slong-awaited climactic run loomed. Predicted though his demise might've been, «Rock & Hard Place» shocked audiences on multiple levels, from Nacho pulling the trigger himself, to watching such a massive character die as early as episode 3.
Nacho's Better Call Saul departure rifled home the harrowing reality of cartel life. The sheer, unflinching violence on display as Gus Fring's trapped rat put a gun to his head — having not long rammed a secreted shard of glass in Juan Bolsa's leg — is unsettling enough, but Better Call Saul also plays on the sad futility of Nacho's position. All through his final episode, the shard of glass feels like a slither of hope that Better Call Saul's most sympathetic gangster can survive but, ultimately, the desperation of his predicament proves too great. After Jesse Pinkman's happy ending in El Camino, Nacho's Better Call Saul death served a timely reminder that fairy tale endings are rare in this business.
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Having delivered such a hard-hitting farewell, Better Call Saul faced a tough task making its Nacho Varga situation any more affecting, yet season 6, episode 4 («Hit & Run») somehow does exactly that… by completely avoiding the subject altogether. The episode largely focuses on the latest phase of Jimmy and Kim's Howard Hamlin scam, and since neither lawyer knows the Nacho news just yet, there's little cause to discuss him. But then «Hit
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