cult film freak: BETTER CALL SAUL SCRAWL: EPISODE 108 RICO

Written by James M. Tate / 3/24/2015 / No comments / 2015 , bob odenkirk , cable , michael mckean

BETTER CALL SAUL SCRAWL: EPISODE 108 RICO

3/24/2015 | No comment

Episode 108 RICO

Now we really get to see Jimmy McGill being a lawyer aka defender of the people, and, it seems, without any angles...

Grade C+

But an important connection occurs as his older, once successful lawyer brother Chuck, still ill but getting slightly better, teams for a case against a franchised old folks home overcharging their residents, who are Jimmy’s Elder Law clients…

Suspend disbelief as Jimmy starts piecing together piles of shredded documents… And yet it’s more realistic when Chuck actually pulls off the impossible jigsaw – being such an enigma, this extraordinary accomplishment seems more legitimate: Speaking of which, as Jimmy straightens out, Mike morphs into the crooked gun we knew in BREAKING BAD and, as a whole, like Sunday's WALKING DEAD, this BETTER CALL SAUL Episode 108: RICO is more of a bridge than a worthwhile crossing… Hinting at a possible cure for Chuck – but with such a vapid “disease” to begin with, who gives a flying...

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