20 Best Episodes Of Better Call Saul

In the end, though, Better Call Saul's finest hour was always Chicanery, the season three masterpiece that pits Jimmy and Chuck against each other in the courtroom.

The episode is first and foremost a fantastic exercise in acting, with Michael McKean in particular holding nothing back as Jimmy forces his way inside Chuck's head and plays a risky con to save his career. A con, it should be said, that comes as a mean twist, and shatters the brothers' relationship forever.

Watching the pair work off one another, constantly trying to trip each other up, makes for thrilling and occasionally amusing TV, until Jimmy makes his dirtiest move and throws Chuck's mental state into question.

Chicanery is Better Call Saul at its most harrowing, intelligent, and tragic, and all these years later remains the most vital chapter in Jimmy's birth to Saul Goodman. Watching it, it's impossible to deny Saul's place as an essential drama with few equals.