Spoiler alert: this recap is for people watching Better Call Saul season six, which airs on Netflix in the UK. Do not read on unless you have watched episodes one and two.
Welcome to the Guardian’s recaps of the final season of Better Call Saul. This late addition to the golden age of TV finishes in 2022 after seven years, a pandemic and a near-death experience for its star. The final 13 episodes will be shown in two blocks between now and July and we start with a double bill – Wine and Roses followed by Carrot and Stick – both of which are discussed here. I hope you enjoy and, as ever, these recaps work best when there is engaged and informed commentary above and below the line, so please do get stuck in.
Rock around the Ocotillo
We’ll get to Jimmy and Kim soon enough but, in these opening episodes, the heat is to be found in the desert. Nacho Varga (Michael Mando) is as on the run as a man can be: literally dashing for miles through the scrub to try to escape the consequences of his actions.
He thinks he’s hiding from the responsibility of killing Lalo Salamanca. We know he’s actually being chased by the man himself. Nacho finally holes up in the decrepit Motel Ocotillo after bundling over a wall and taking silent receipt of some keys from a landlady who’s seen it all before and has a creaking rocking chair. From there, Nacho begins several days of increasing paranoia, and with good reason.
Having survived his assassination attempt, the inexorable Lalo (Tony…
