Better Call Saulrecap: Destiny is a raw chicken on a greased ramp

Let’s talk about commitment, and let’s talk about what makes people afraid of it. It’s also about the roads not taken. The doors you close, the bridges you burn, the opportunities you lose forever. Credit: Greg Lewis/AMC A promise to love, honor, and cherish, to have and to hold, is a commitment. So is a molotov cocktail, ablaze and hurtling through the air. “So, we’re really doing this,” he says....

May 1, 2025 · 2 min · 344 words · Suzanne Wallace

Better Call Saulrecap: Lawyer-ence of Arabia

InBetter Call Saul’s fifth season, that episode is “Bagman.” Before you see their faces, you’d know them by the shape of their boots. The Salamanca Cousins pass through the garage and into a backroom lined with stacks on stacks of bills. Credit: Greg Lewis/AMC/Sony Pictures Television This money is Lalo Salamanca’s $7 million bail, which Jimmy is supposed to retrieve. It’s that he won’t do it for free. His voice cracks as he names his price: $100,000....

May 1, 2025 · 3 min · 477 words · Kelly Wolf

Better Call Saulrecap: This is dedicated to the one I love

You should remember Max, too. Certainly, Gus does. This series has always loved to load up a scene with symbolism, and here, it’s unmissable. Credit: Greg Lewis/AMC/Sony Pictures Television But for now, let’s leave Mike in Mexico (hey, he’s in good hands! Namaste, everyone.) They gave it their best shot. But nasty, personal, and dangerous is what Kim wants. With Mike still in Mexico (“Are you in a tunnel?” Mister X arrives to their meeting with some bad news: Kevin is a big, bald boy scout....

May 1, 2025 · 2 min · 227 words · Kevin Reilly

Better Call Saulrecap: When push comes to tugboat

Kim Wexler has always been a woman who knows how to set a boundary. She knows where her limits lie; she knows when to say “enough.” She knows this when Jimmy doesn’t, a key difference between them. Credit: Warrick Page/AMC/Sony Pictures Television “It was one beer,” mom says. Kim says, “It doesn’t smell like one beer.” What’s this about? Jimmy protests"There’s no way to prove anything!" he says, and man, isn’t that a perfect line?...

May 1, 2025 · 2 min · 287 words · Donna Wilson

Better Call Saulstar Bob Odenkirk to play lawyer onThe Simpsons

Bob Odenkirk has maintained a funny relationship with the law on bothBreaking BadandBetter Call Saul. (And even onMr. And hes about to bring his legal expertise and slippery interpretations of the law toThe Simpsons. Credit: Tommaso Boddi/Getty Images, Fox/The Simpsons The Emmy-nominated actor will guest-star on the forever-running animated Fox sitcom, EW has learned exclusively. This time, hell play not just a mob lawyer, but one who may represent Fat Tony....

May 1, 2025 · 1 min · 124 words · David Cardenas

Better Call Saulstar Rhea Seehorn breaks down Kim's stunning moves — and that final scene

The penultimate season 5 episode, “Bad Choice Road,” saw Kim once again rise and surprise. And in that one bold moment, she saved Jimmys. How should viewers interpret Kims game-changing decisions? Credit: Greg Lewis/AMC Is she now in the game with Jimmy/Saul, voluntarily or not? How did you go about getting a handle on her in season 5? And then there was an external scene happening at the same time....

May 1, 2025 · 7 min · 1315 words · Ryan Gilbert

Better Call Saulstar Rhea Seehorn says that season 5 is the show's 'most tragic' yet

Jimmy McGill is a new man, quite literally. (Especially with the return of Ed, Hank, and Gomey.) How doesSauls upcoming action compare to the drama from previous seasons? Greg Lewis/AMC It is the tensest, Seehorn tells EW. Its the most tragic. Its the most complex. Deep, deep, deep character explorations. Offers Jonathan Banks, a.k.a. Before any fusion, though, there just might be an unhinging of sorts. Things come apart at the seams in season 5, testifies Patrick Fabian, a....

May 1, 2025 · 2 min · 304 words · Tina Bean

Better Call Saulstar Tony Dalton on Lalo's revenge mission: 'It's time to die, bro'

Lalo Salamanca is going to die… tonight. But Lalo was able to fight his way to a secret tunnel underneath his bathtub. “That’s okay,” replied Lalo. Tony Dalton as Lalo Salamanca on ‘Better Call Saul’.Greg Lewis/AMC/Sony Pictures Television “I do.” What is the exact thought going through his mind? TONY DALTON:He’s pissed, man. Tony Dalton as Lalo and Michael Mando as Nacho on ‘Better Call Saul’.Warrick Page/AMC/Sony Pictures Television [Laughs] They killed his cook are you kidding me?...

May 1, 2025 · 4 min · 653 words · Julie Randall

Better Call Saulvs.Breaking Bad: We decide which is better

Two writers debate which of AMC’s acclaimed Albuquerque crime dramas is the best. I particularly loved the recent Saul-Kim-Lalo standoff. And before that, Nacho (Michael Mando) dropping off Lalo (Tony Dalton) at the well. Credit: AMC (2) The way the show played that moment out. “Do you want me to stay?” No, no, go. “Sure you don’t want me to stay?” No, no, it’s fine. Your feeling of tension started to rise....

May 1, 2025 · 5 min · 927 words · Scott Nichols

Better Things: Celia Imrie on Lenny Kravitz's awkward dinner scene

In fact, Ive just gone out on purpose to buy his latest record with Trombone Shorty. He sings this beautiful song called Something Beautiful. He could not have been more charming. Credit: Justin Lubin/FX Hes such a sport and so adorable. I quite fell for him. Hes just lovely in every way. I think Im terribly lucky because this is a British expression shes a naughty pickle. Sometimes she knows what shes doing, and other times she doesnt....

May 1, 2025 · 1 min · 196 words · Calvin Yang

Betty White's Lifetime Christmas movie delayed until 2021 due to the pandemic

The countdown to next Christmas has already begun. Attention,Betty Whitefans (and lets be honest, isnt that everyone? ): Your Christmas present fromLifetimewill be arriving a little late. Betty White.Credit: Kelsey McNeal/Walt Disney Television via Getty Images The movie is being pushed to next year due to COVID filming restrictions. The movie features White’s character helping would-be Santas prepare for the holiday season. But a question hangs in the nippy air: Is she actually Mrs....

May 1, 2025 · 1 min · 107 words · Mr. Glenn Melendez Jr.

Between hostingAmerican Idol,Live, and radio, even Ryan Seacrest wasn't sure he was going to be able to pull it off

He wasnamed permanent cohoston May 1, 2017, a year afterMichael Strahanmoved over toGood Morning America. And weve got it down to a science. Its the most Ive ever worked. Eric McCandless/ABC PhilandEllenhave seen small losses or held even. Whats the key to making it all work? Twonewseasons in,American Idolis the highest-rated reality show and is doing well week after week. Eric McCandless/ABC I was going to ask about these live coast-to-coast episodes…Its cool....

May 1, 2025 · 2 min · 230 words · Sharon Davis

Beverley Mitchell wants a7th Heavenreboot

In the age of reboots, reunions, and revivals,Beverley Mitchellwants in on the action. #tbt 23 years ago this week #7thHeaven premiered, Mitchell wrote. Thank you for letting the #Camdens be a part of your family! Credit: Everett Collection I am honored to have brought #LucyCamden to life! And I will be forever grateful for the family it gave me! Would you be down to watch? Eric Camden,admitted to sexually abusing three underage women....

May 1, 2025 · 1 min · 98 words · Steven Welch DVM