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Better Call Saul – Season 6, Episode 5 Black and Blue

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Better Call Saul – Season 6, Episode 5

Black and Blue

Aired May 9, 2022

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Jimmy brings in reinforcements as business booms; Howard doesn't pull any punches when it's time to put an end to a nuisance; the vise tightens on the cat-and-mouse game between Gus and Lalo.

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Alan Sepinwall

Rolling Stone

05/11/2022

Gus knows Lalo is coming for him, and perhaps even by what route. And he has the weight of franchise history behind him, even if Lalo appears to be in control right now.

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Steve Greene

IndieWire

05/11/2022

A-

This show has been painting a painful endgame for a while. Watching all its players realize just how much it will cost them (and everyone else) continues to be one of the more gut-wrenching parts of it all.

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Kimberly Potts

AV Club

05/11/2022

B+

Into every Better Call Saul season an exposition-heavy, downshifted episode must fall, and with “Black And Blue,” we have reached that point in the show’s final run.

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Kaleena Rivera

Pajiba

05/13/2022

Gus is a man who’s rapidly fraying around the edges, on the verge of becoming unhinged. This isn’t the calm, collected man we came to know so well on Breaking Bad, and it’s hard to tell which version of him is more unsettling to be around.

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Michael Hogan

Vanity Fair

05/11/2022

Now here comes one of those semi-brilliant, semi-absurd set pieces that you can imagine a writer’s room deciding to go ahead with because, hey, it’s the last season and why the hell not?

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Synopsis

Jimmy brings in reinforcements as business booms; Howard doesn't pull any punches when it's time to put an end to a nuisance; the vise tightens on the cat-and-mouse game between Gus and Lalo.

Director: Melissa Bernstein
Executive Producer: Vince Gilligan, Peter Gould, Mark Johnson, Melissa Bernstein, Thomas Schnauz, Diane Mercer, Gordon Smith, Alison Tatlock, Ann Cherkis, Bob Odenkirk, Princess O'Mahoney, Jenn Carroll, Trina Siopy, Alecia Weaver
Screenwriter: Alison Tatlock
Network: AMC
Rating: TV-14 (V|L)
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2022