Better Call Saul Season 5 Episode 9 Review

Steve Varley gives his review of Better Call Saul season 5 episode 9 "Bad Choice Road" *Spoilers*

In the wake of Jimmy's traumatic misadventure, Kim takes stock of what is important; Jimmy attempts to return to business as usual, but it's more difficult than anticipated; Gus and Mike set a plan in motion.

Stars: Bob Odenkirk, Rhea Seehorn, Jonathan Banks

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[thatlife]

Lalo is, literally, the man who knocks.

[horkusone]

I was holding my breath throughout the whole last scene.

[jdog]

The tequila bottle top was from the expensive tequila that Kim and Saul conned the guy in the restaurant in an earlier season. So, for me, it was she was reminiscing about how she worked a scam on someone with Saul (Jimmy). I thought was interesting and maybe her mindset or how much she likes the 'bad' side of herself.

[denisilyayev]

I really appreciate the work of Tony Dalton (Lalo). His acting is impeccable. His character is so convincing as an intelligent yet insanely scary guy is just perfect.

[ronaldnasejr.]

Kim discovering the thermos with the bullet hole was like the moment Skyler heard Walt mention his second cell phone in BB.

[chrisluongo]

Best episode of the series IMO. Even better than Chicanery

[ZacTheFirst]

Kim grabbed the bottle trinket because of this:

Later in the episode, Jimmy tells her leaving S&C was a bad idea and says “what are you gonna do now?”, she says “I’ll figure it out”...

this is JUST LIKE when Jimmy turned down the Davis and Main job on S2E1, and Kim asked him why, he says he’ll “figure it out” or “find his calling” later. On that SAME episode, they have the rebellious bonding moment together which is where they got the trinket.

They screwed over the annoying earpiece guy together in the bar, they “used their powers for good”.

The trinket of course kind of represents rebellion, but Kim sees rebellion as “helping the little guy” (Pro Bono work), while Jimmy sees rebellion as an excuse to be greedy.

[subversivelysurreal]

I never compliment acting, but when Kim confronted Lalo, as professionally as she handled it, I do not know how she did whatever she did with her :breath. You heard her fear in her *breath*, not in quavering words.

[qualitycontent]

That last sequence was absolutely breathtaking, I am interested to see how this finale will conclude!

[djsalad]

Last scene my heart was beating I was so scared Kim was gonna get shot. My heart never beats like that during shows/movies

[AndréVilaFranca]

I think we're all afraid for Kim. We want her to survive and reappear on Gene's timeline. Watching them interact after all these events would be brilliant.
This is the best on going series by far and in my opinion it surpassed Breaking Bad a while ago. Writers please keep up the great work. \(^o^)/

[bulletinyohead]

In BB, we were able to see some themes pertaining to religion (Jesse being often called "son" by Walt, tortured and becoming a spectator of horrific stuff in an anti-hero's world, "Jesse" sounds like "Jesus", etc.)

Now this might be a reach, but Saul's experience in the desert is similar to that story about Saul in the Bible. I ain't religious and all, but there was a King named Saul (bad guy, tortured a lot of people) who traveled in the desert. While being there he got blinded by a light, and eventually changes into a good guy and changed his ways.

Since this is an anti hero's world, we get to see Saul change because of his experience in the desert- but this time, for the worse (from good to bad). He even got blinded by the whole scheme of things on how the cartel works, as seen in Saul's conversation with Mike ("What have I got myself into?")

Anyway, it's clever to think that Kim might've inadvertently sealed the even more apparent fate of Nacho by introducing Lalo the idea that there's a trust problem with his men.

[Midnight_Rider_]

Great review! I agree it’s a 10/10 show!!! If Rhea Seahorn doesn’t get the Emmy after this season I will be beyond disappointed! Great performances all around but Tony Dalton had me on the edge of my seat! I can’t believe only one more episode left! Thanks for doing a great job and getting your reviews out so amazingly fast!

[flyboysteven]

so my guess is, Mike had Saul put the phone down so he could hear the conversation between Saul and Lalo because he knew that Saul was gonna have to make up some excuse about what really happened out in the desert, and get Lalo to buy it....there's no way Saul could have told him Mike saved him because Mike is one of Fring's guys....so i guess if Saul couldn't have come up with a good explanation, Mike would have had no recourse but to shoot Lalo....wow....awesome

[Cethical]

Kim’s first pro bono client after Mesa Verde: Saul Goodman.

[StamfordBridge]

The scene in which Lalo confronts Saul and Kim has so many layers that it’s just magnificent. And Kim Wexler AND Rhea Seehorn were both so staggeringly impressive. I am bowled over.

[lucastout]

We all know it’s the fly that ends up in the super lab!

[dwntgrnd]

That last scene played out like a courtroom drama. Lalo the prosecutor, grilling Jimmy the defendant on the stand "tell me the story again" and Kim the badass, pro bono defense attorney stepping up and making the case against the odds. It was an Emmy level performance from all. Especially Rhea Seehorn.

[Deathkill]

Tell me again!

Tell me again!

Tell me again!

My god Lalo is terrifying Saul was cracking hardddd.

[luciano]

Kim's character is proof that you can write and portray strong female characters without the childish, chauvinistic comments that we're all used to nowadays.