Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould and Bob Odenkirk are making this really hard for me.
I’m a writer. I have a decent grasp of English vocabulary. But there are only so many ways you can write, week in and week out, about the continued, consistent excellence of Better Call Saul.
And the hardest part is realizing that it’s only getting better.
I’m really just speaking for myself, I know, but I think one of the great hooks of Better Call Saul is the appeal of looking for that moment, or that series of moments, that shapes the hapless PD Jimmy McGill into the sharp manipulator Saul Goodman.
And one of the great hooks of watching the premiere was seeing the moment when Jimmy hatches his first Goodmanesque scheme, his first plan to gain him notice, money, renown, respect.
So, of course, one of the great hooks of watching the next episode is seeing how that plan turns out.
It doesn’t go very well.
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Lee Hurtado, Writer 