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my grandmother had to go to the hospital yesterday for high blood pressure and then she somehow colluded with the nurse's to have herself released when she was supposed to stay overnight. her plan was to go to the casino with me today. well, after she went through all that trouble there was no way I could refuse. spent most of the day there as a result and obviously I was busy yesterday.

anyway I somehow found time during all of this to watch the Better Call Saul season 3 finale. here are my thoughts.


this was another good season of a show I've already been enjoying very much. the holistic completion of almost every storyline this season was a HUGE step up from how season 2 ended. as much as I liked season 2 those absurd cliffhangers left a bad taste in my mouth. this season had three main storylines and the only one that wasn't really wrapped up was Nacho/Hector. it felt like his plan to take out Hector at least succeeded but instead of showing us the result and the aftermath it just ends with Hector falling over. either way this is still a lot better than season 2 ending every plot in the middle of a climactic scene. big improvement.

characters

Jimmy: definitely went to some dark places this season. I don't have as much to say about his character as some of the others. he's consistently entertaining. there are some parts where I felt like his acting was a bit too hammy and these were often times when Jimmy (the character) was supposed to be 'acting.' the problem is that Jimmy is supposed to be good at fooling people and being charismatic. in that sense it feels weird that the director, and actor, would choose a less nuanced approach where it's obvious that Jimmy is acting. if WE the audience can tell then the character he's interacting with should be able to also tell. and in that case he shouldn't really be all that convincing or charismatic. oh well.

Chuck: I think Chuck is a great character, very well acted, but also really insufferable as a person. it seems as if he is designed to make you kinda loathe him and loathe the fact that you sympathize with him but maybe that wasn't the intention and those are just my personal feelings. either way this ending to his arc was satisfactory. he has already destroyed everything that was in his life and the worst part was that he kept spiraling out of control even further based on the delusion that he was getting better -- when he clearly wasn't. it was a nice, clean way to remove a frustrating character from the show while still keeping the excellent points about him intact. there's never a point where I feel like the writers forced his plotline to go somewhere, and the actor sold every moment of the trip along the way.

Howard: I think season 1 and early season 2 Howard are the best of all. this was the time when he came across as fairly ambiguous and we didn't know much of his internal thoughts. it seemed at first like he was kind of a douche pretending to be a good guy, then we learn he actually is a pretty good guy but is often in the position of looking bad due to other reasons (like covering for chuck). I feel like season 3 showed us that the true Howard is somewhere in the middle. he's neither entirely good nor entirely bad. makes perfect sense, really. I don't know any law partners all that well personally but the show and the actor at least do a good job of selling him as a realistic character.


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