Only Saul in the Building

Last night brought new episodes of Better Call Saul and Only Murders in the Building. This week, Better Call Saul was definitely the more interesting of the two but Only Murders in the Building wasn't bad.

More scenes of Selena Gomez and Cara Delevingne making out were worth the admission price alone. Though, honestly, Gomez doesn't seem that into it.

It seemed a bit late in the game to establish Martin Short's character having an ability to spot a killer. But I thought Steve Martin starting to get cosy with Jan (Amy Ryan) again was funny.

Better Call Saul went close to how I was expecting. I figured the aftermath of last week's trauma would cause a split between Jimmy and Kim. It was interesting that writer Ann Cherkis made the split around Kim's realisation that she has too much fun being bad with Saul and then Saul apparently accepting the break after Kim confesses how she'd forecast their breakup if she'd told him Lalo was back. It was a scene that really said a lot more about Kim than it did about Jimmy and maybe Cherkis was unable or uninterested in exploring the man's perspective in this. But with a big jump cut, it was enough to establish Jimmy's full conversion to Saul.

Waking up with a prostitute in his palace of tackiness, we see "Saul" is no longer merely an act. It's who he is. The tragedy that began with Jimmy's tension with Chuck ended with Jimmy's trauma with Kim. Now he's in the depths of Hell. Can he climb back out?

Of course, the episode spent too much time with Mike and Gus but, as boring as I think that subplot is, I do have to appreciate the subtlety of Giancarlo Esposito's performance, particularly in the wine tasting scene.

Only Murders in the Building is available on Hulu in the US and Disney+ elsewhere while Better Call Saul is available in various places. I watched it on Netflix.