Alison Morretta

This article contains spoilers for Better Call Saul S6E13 (“Saul Gone”), written and directed by Peter Gould.  We’ve finally reached the end of the line in the Breaking Bad/Better Call Saul universe, and it seems almost unreal that there will be no new episode on this Monday or any other Monday. The Better Call Saul […] More

This article contains spoilers for Better Call Saul S6E12 (“Waterworks”), written and directed by Vince Gilligan. There are some episodes of television that stay with you for a long time after you finish watching them—and not in a good way. “Waterworks” is one of those episodes, and if I had my way, I would have […] More

This article contains spoilers for Better Call Saul S6E11 (“Breaking Bad”), written and directed by Thomas Schnauz. With this week’s episode, it seems clear that we’ve left the Better Call Saul timeline in the past, and it makes sense. All the main BCS characters are either dead (including, I would argue, Jimmy McGill as we […] More

The following includes spoilers for Better Call Saul S6E10 (“Nippy”), written by Alison Tatlock and directed by Michelle MacLaren. Ask anyone who knows me and they’ll tell you I’ve been manifesting a full-length Gene episode since the very beginning. I find Gene so incredibly fascinating and I have since the series premiere. I’ve always especially […] More

The following contains spoilers for Better Call Saul S6E9 (“Fun and Games”), written by Ann Cherkis and directed by Michael Morris.  After last week’s devastating episode, Better Call Saul somehow managed to make things worse. In “Fun and Games,” we see all our main characters trying to regain some sense of normalcy in the aftermath […] More

The following contains spoilers for Better Call Saul S6E8, “Point and Shoot” (written by Gordon Smith and directed by Vince Gilligan). After the jaw-dropping cliffhanger of “Plan and Execution” (S6E8), which left all of us Better Call Saul fans anxiously awaiting the next installment of the series during the hiatus, “Point and Shoot” doesn’t give […] More

The following article contains spoilers for Better Call Saul S6E7 (“Plan and Execution”), written and directed by Thomas Schnauz. Well, we knew the midseason finale was going to pack a punch, but I don’t think any of us expected that ending. And yet, once we got there and got over the shock of what happened, […] More

The following article contains spoilers for Better Call Saul S6E6 (“Axe and Grind”), written by Ariel Levine and directed by Giancarlo Esposito. The penultimate episode of the first half of Better Call Saul’s final season gave me what I’ve been waiting for: more Kim backstory. Over the course of the first half of the season, […] More

The following article contains spoilers for Better Call Saul S6E5 (“Black and Blue”), written by Alison Tatlock and directed by Melissa Bernstein. As I predicted last week, this week’s episode of Better Call Saul (“Black and Blue”) saw the return of Lalo Salamanca. Lalo has been MIA since the end of “Wine and Roses,” and […] More

The following article contains spoilers for Better Call Saul S6E4 (“Hit and Run”), written by Ann Cherkis and directed by Rhea Seehorn. After the stress and jaw-dropping final moments of last week’s episode (“Rock and Hard Place”), we get a bit of a respite with “Hit and Run” (which also happens to be Rhea Seehorn’s […] More

The following article contains spoilers for Better Call Saul S6E3 (“Rock and Hard Place”), written and directed by Gordon Smith. Any Better Call Saul fan knows that when you see “written by Gordon Smith” attached to an episode, it’s gonna be a doozy. Smith is the writer who gave us some of the series’ most […] More

The following article contains spoilers for Better Call Saul S6E2 (“Carrot and Stick”), written by Thomas Schnauz & Ariel Levine and directed by Vince Gilligan. Oh, Kettlemans. How I missed you. The misadventures of Betsy and Craig Kettleman were one of the highlights of Better Call Saul’s first season, and I was delighted to see […] More