Pick of the week
Better Call Saul
There’s an inbuilt problem with prequels: viewers know which characters survive. Better Call Saul has suffered from this – we know, for example, that Mike (Jonathan Banks) appears in Breaking Bad while Rhea Seehorn’s Kim does not. This element of foreshadowing needn’t be a massive problem, though – absence doesn’t necessarily mean death, and Kim has been offered various routes out of the narrative murk – but this final run has felt muted at times. Quibbles aside, the concluding part of the series remains a treat for the eyes and a masterpiece of staging. Seeing how the writers clean up the calamitous mess left on Jimmy’s carpet is sure to be intriguing. Netflix, from Tuesday 12 July
