AMC's Better Phone call Saul
Season four , Episode eight : "Coushatta"
Directed by Jim McKay
Written past Gordon Smith

* For a recap & review of the previous episode, "Something Stupid" – click hither
* For a recap & review of the next episode, "Wiedersehen" – click here
Screen Shot 2018-09-25 at 12.15.57 AMJimmy (Bob Odenkirk) is set to hit the road, as Kim (Rhea Seehorn) does what she can to help him with Huell's (Lavell Crawford) legal situation. Clearly her rope's wearing thin with all this, and she's just having to salvage Jimmy from himself. Either fashion, he'south off on the passenger vehicle correct now. He uses the various supplies Kim bought recently to write different postcards and letters in diverse colours and styles. All function of the big programme. Similar nighttime magic watching Mr. McGill at work. He even enlists the help of other passengers on the bus. By the time the rides over he's got himself a bag full of mail to transport. His terminal terminate is Coushatta, Louisiana'southward mail role.
At the restaurant, Nacho (Michael Mando) has to mitt out a little subject field for a short count from one the dealers. "What yous owe, yous owe," he tells the man, at that place'south no paying late, no paying next time. He besides makes sure Krazy-viii (Max Arciniega) knows he should be handing out discipline, too.
At abode, Nacho has a couple women waiting for him. But this life is conspicuously draining him. He'south become an emotionless, ruthless man. We see he wants another life. He has fake IDs for himself and his father, looking like they'll caput for Manitoba, Canada. Let'south hope whatsoever happens to Nacho for him to disappear earlierBreaking Bad doesn't also happen to his dad.
Screen Shot 2018-09-25 at 12.21.00 AMAt a strip gild, Mike (Jonathan Banks) watches over the engineer'due south team while they party. He realises the engineer would rather become for a quiet beer. And then, Mike takes the man with him for something less loud. There, the engineer buys a beer for a guy who mangles the German pronunciation— Mike doesn't dig that, they shouldn't bring whatsoever attention to themselves. At that place's a trouble with one of the crew at the strip club. While Mike's gone looking after it, the engineer draws architecture for his new pals at the bar. Fuck. Not a skillful scene when Mr. Ehrmantraut returns. The next twenty-four hour period, Mike confronts him about information technology, and he'south promised information technology won't happen again. One time could've been plenty.
Note: Cracking soundtrack with Stereolab's "Tempter" featured on Kim's playlist!
We meet Jimmy's not totally oblivious. He knows at that place's a strain on his human relationship with Kim, he'south just not sure if he can fix things. He's not unaware of his personality, near good liars are very aware of their shittiness. This is why Jimmy has been such a strong character, he's genuinely sympathetic instead of totally abhorrent.
Meanwhile, Kim's taking a bunch of other lawyers to talk to ADA Suzanne Ericsen (Julie Pearl). They're bringing lots of legal ability to the tabular array. They're doing their all-time to jam up the process a while, heading into discovery to look at the officer in question'south record. Might turn into a case of Huell having his "civil rights violated" if they dig also deep. The ADA'southward non bankroll down from "stupor and awe," though she can tell at that place's something else going on. And, of course, Kim won't be bankroll downward anytime soon, either. The more than she keeps it up, the worse she feel inside. She's probably the character I feel for the worst.
Screen Shot 2018-09-25 at 12.26.13 AMAll those letters sent by Jimmy take arrived to piss off the guess. Coushatta'southward where Huell is from, and Jimmy'southward brought every "swamp domicile practice–gooder" out of the woodwork to fight for his rights. This doesn't faze the attorney. She starts reading the letters. Some actually accept numbers. DA Ericsen calls i and a adult female answers to tell her well-nigh how Huell'southward such a adept human being. Patently Huell'southward a staple of their local church— he'due south all over their website, also! This is the stray work of Jimmy. He's got the film students back again, using those burner phones to keep upwardly the ruse. Then far, it's working like a charm. DA Ericsen's looking pretty defeated.
Jimmy waits anxiously to hear from Kim, who lets him know the case is settled. They fall into ane another's arms, heading dwelling to bed. As much as Kim'south morals are tested by their relationship, she finds Jimmy endlessly bonny in his role as insubordinate. Back at work, Kim seems lost in the excitement of walking on the wild side with her homo. In her function she keeps the top of the Zafiro Añejo tequila she and Jimmy drank together, as if holding onto a reminder of their craziness together.
On the construction site, Mike fills Gus Fring (Giancarlo Esposito) in on how things are going with the piece of work, every bit well every bit the engineer. He's taking personal responsibility, keeping his center on the homo, so information technology won't look proficient if the guy screws up again, and worse still if information technology causes Gus any issues.
Looking at more function space, Jimmy finds his "toll range" doesn't do much for feng shui. He's interrupted past a visit from Kim. She'due south doing a lot of thinking, whereas he'southward been feeling a bit of guilt for dragging her into the mix. Yet, she'south been bitten by the thrill of illegality. "Let's do information technology again," she tells him obviously. This is headed bad places for Kim.
At the eating place, Nacho walks in to detect one of the other Salamancas, Eduardo a.m.a Lalo (Tony Dalton) in the kitchen cooking. He's in that location as a "helping mitt," or improve yet as a man to watch over things. This makes Nacho experience trapped worse than he is already.
Screen Shot 2018-09-25 at 12.53.32 AM Screen Shot 2018-09-25 at 1.04.54 AMFantastic episode, we're truly growing towards big things every episode. Recently, Guillermo del Toro spoke my own feelings in that he saidAmend Call Saul, for him, is the better of the two shows, simply for the fact the gradual downfall of Jimmy towards becoming Saul, and subsequently Gene, is such a irksome decline that it's somehow more painful.
"Wiedersehen" is next, the penultimate Season iv episode before our finale.

C.H. Newell is starting time and foremost a passionate lover of film— especially horror. He'south also a PhD student at Memorial University of Newfoundland with a concentration in postmodern critical theory and Queer Gothic. He wrote for Movie Research frequently during 2016-17, and regularly contributed to Scriptophobic during 2018-2019 in a column called Serial Killer Celluloid focusing on film adaptations about existent life murderers. As of September 2018, C.H. Newell is an official member of the Online Film Critics Society, and as of April 2019 he's currently listed every bit a Rotten Tomatoes-canonical critic. He has covered major film festivals such as Fantasia Festival (2019, 2020) and Fantastic Fest. During September 2019, Father Son Holy Gore was i of several media outlets helping to nowadays Randfilmfest in Germany, & will be once once more in 2020— Newell will also serve as part of the jury for the prestigious Rand Honor. View all posts by C.H. Newell