'Better Call Saul' season 4 episode 5: Gus wants an underground meth lab and Howard is struggling in 'Quite a Ride'

'Better Call Saul' continues to inch its way toward 'Breaking Bad' territory, with Gus setting the foundation for building his underground meth lab.
PUBLISHED SEP 4, 2018

'Talk' would ironically unfurl with a lengthy silence; 4:55 to be exact, if you're not being a pedant and don't count the singular sentence in between. The episode would be a rare showcase of Mike's (Jonathan Banks) emotional side, as the former cop is shown to still be struggling to come to terms with his son Matty's death.

Portrayed as stoic, meticulous, ever-suspicious, and prepared, it's a side to him that's seldom seen. Though it was all of a twitch of the eye here and a scowl there, his annoyance at daughter-in-law Stacey (Kerry Condon) is most definitely something new.

The return of murder muchachos (it's got a better ring to it than the Salamanca brothers or the murder twins) Leonel and Marco Salamanca (Daniel and Luis Moncada) to the series was always going to be a precursor to more violence. 'Better Call Saul' had so far proven to be just as much a slow-burner as its more decorated predecessor, though the random and spectacular bursts of violence were one of the aspects noticeably missing.

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