20 Best Episodes Of Better Call Saul
7. Lantern (Season 3, Episode 10)
Poor Chuck McGill. Arrogant, fragile, intelligent, warm, cold, obsessed -- Jimmy's older brother was all of these things and more, at once unlikable and tragic, and the season three finale works wonders to brings his complex story to a close.
Lantern finds Chuck passed the point of no return, overcome by his hypersensitivity to electricity, trapped in a house he's tearing apart because he can no longer bear it, his career and personal relationships in tatters. The end is predictable, and yet the episode still makes it shocking.
At the centre of the episode, Michael McKean gives us one of his best performances as a brilliant man destroyed by his pain, whilst desperate mole Nacho threatens to steal the show when he causes the stroke that leaves Hector paralysed.
Chuck may die here, but his influence hangs over everything to come. To watch Lantern is to be reminded of how vital a figure he was to those around him, and of how Jimmy's evolution to Saul really kicked into high gear.