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Better Call Saul: Point and Shoot (2022)
Feels like the Ozymandias of Better Call Saul
The episode was absolutely perfect, from the lighting to the score to the camera work. From 00:01 to the very end of a very fast-paced 50 minutes, not one moment passed where the episode wasn't extremely tense, keeping the viewers stuck to the edge of their seats. The entire episode was filled with a sense of doom and despair. It was an extremely dark episode, and was filled with beautiful, haunting shots that could almost work as pieces of art themselves.
And oh, the acting. Rhea Seahorn (Kim) gave a performance as powerful as Michael Mando (Nacho) earlier this season, or Michael McKean (Chuck) in Chicanery. You could feel her anger and distress as if it were your own. Gianparlo Esposito gave one of his best performances as Gus Fring, even including Breaking Bad. Tony Dalton, Bob Odenkirk and Jonathan Banks were all stunning as Lalo, Jimmy/Saul and Mike as well, though Patrick Fabian (Howard) was perhaps a little stiff.
This episode, barring an absolute gem or two out of the remaining five episodes, is, hands down, the greatest episode of the series. Though perhaps the same could have been said for "Plan and Execution", the very previous episode, and look where we are now.
The Boys: The Instant White-Hot Wild (2022)
Underwhelming finale
First of all, great fight scenes through the episode, though the use of slo-mo did get annoying. Brilliant acting, as always, especially Jensen and Starr. Ryan's actor was also amazing.
The writing, however, was surpisingly below-par.
The show had been building up Black Noir's arc over the last couple of episodes, and, instead of a decent ending, decided to have him interact with Homelander for five minutes and then kill him off halfway through the episode.
Maeve got her sacrifice scene, and it would have been perfect to have her die taking out Soldier Boy, but instead, after making viewers mourn her for about five minutes, they reveal she is alive, making her "sacrifice" and her entire arc kinda lame. Besides, we've already had 2-3 fake deaths in the season; it's annoying.
Soldier Boy's story led absolutely nowhere.
The ending, unlike the last 2 seasons, didn't do much to up the stakes. Homelander killed a person in public and Ryan seemed to approve of it, and though the thought of two unchained Homelanders running around is scary, the fact that one of them has basically been the same throughout the season, and the other came out of nowhere in the finale after spending three episodes without even being mentioned kinda undermines it.
TL;DR, episode was decent overall but the way character arcs were tied up and new plots introduced was sloppy at best.
Better Call Saul Presents: Slippin' Jimmy (2022)
What a masterpiece!
Better than Breaking Bad or Better Call Saul, or Sopranos. On par with Morbius in writing. This show sold 6353 Slippillion tickets, and deserves much more! Exquisite!
I'm never watching anything again, because this absolutely stunningly shockingly good animation has turned everything else sour for me! I'm crying so hard right now, because I can't watch this a million more times.
The Wheel of Time: The Eye of the World (2021)
A failure on epic proportions
The first seven episodes of Amazon's Wheel of Time, while with multiple flaws, including underwhelming quality of production, bad CGI and several inconsistencies, were still enjoyable to an extent.
This episode had no positives at all.
Even disregarding the fact that none of the scenes in the season finale were even remotely close to the books and several plot-points completely contradicted book lore, the episode had plenty of its own problems.
The Dragon reborn reveal had no impact, and the Dragon himself didn't do anything of significance in the entire episode, instead giving the big scenes to some random character we met in the last episode. Male characters have been reduced to arrogant, incompetent idiots, whereas five untrained female characters are suddenly capable of wrecking an army 10000 strong. CGI was rubbish during the final battle. Of the five "main characters", only Nynaeve and Egwene had anything real to do in the entire episode, with Perrin sitting quietly as Padan Fain stabbed Loial, Uno and Ingtar and ran away with the Horn, which the show hasn't explained at all, and for all anyone knows has zero importance to the story.
The episode ends up contradicting itself in multiple scenes. Moiraine tells Rand not to touch anything in the Blight, while brushing aside branches herself, and later rest on the same roots and brush she told him to avoid.
I was with the show from the beginning, all the way up till now, but I'm going to drop it and hope it gets cancelled soon before it goes onto completely butcher my favourite series of all time. If you want to know the story of Wheel of Time, read the books.