10 Better Call Saul Moments That Broke TV
Better Call Saul is finished, so let's look back on its most iconic scenes!
With the last episode of season 6 finally out, Better Call Saul has now officially come to an end. Like its predecessor, Breaking Bad, the series will no doubt go down in history as one of the most intense and memorable shows on TV. The series did not only flesh out the characters we've grown to love in Breaking Bad, but also established some new cool cats on the block with characters like Nacho Varga and the menace himself, Lalo Salamanca.
It was the perfect mix of catering to the old fans of Breaking Bad and establishing a new and exciting story that could keep anyone on the edge of their seat. Better Call Saul wasn't afraid to push the boundaries of your average TV show, and it clearly paid off, with beautifully shot action scenes and powerful moments built up by whole seasons of character development.
What the fans got in return were lawyers fighting psychopaths, an enemies-to-CPR relationship, and a man taking out an entire death squad with a frying pan! These are the scenes that broke our expectations for a TV show and never let us look at the world of Breaking Bad in the same way.
10. Tuco And The Twins
You know a show is going to do some crazy things when it starts off with an attorney negotiating with a psychopathic drug addict to break his clients' legs instead of chopping them up into little pieces!
The ending of "Mijo", the second episode of the show, is brutal and visceral. It shows Jimmy in quite a pickle as he is kidnapped along with his new clients, two conning twins named Calvin and Lars, because the brothers messed with the wrong grandma. It turns out the sweet old lady they were trying to rip off had a not-so-sweet grandson, namely the vicious cartel boss, Tuco Salamanca.
Tuco brings Jimmy and the twins to the desert, so he can serve the grandma-scammers his own sick idea of justice. As he is thinking of increasingly more violent ways to dispose of the twins, Jimmy has to step in and use his negotiation skills to save their lives.
After a stressful and exhausting discussion with Tuco, Jimmy manages to convince the cartel boss to ONLY break the twins' legs, and the cacophony of screams that ensues is something that won't just keep poor Jimmy up at night...
The brutality of the scene aside, the ending of "Mijo" also sets the overall tone of the show rather well. The silly antics of the twins were reminiscent of Jimmy's scams throughout the series, while their "just" punishment delivered by Tuco's legs was a swift and harrowing reminder that no bad deed can go unpunished...