Alpine Shepherd Boy

This episode is very funny. That's all I can say 😀😀

I actually enjoyed this episode even more on rewatch! It has some great humor, while also giving us drama, and deeper dive into Chuck's condition!

This episode struck me cause you start to get a glimpse of that the relationship between Chuck and Jimmy, might be more complicated than you think! I like thise subbtle hints to what Chuck thinks of Jimmy, cause I know how important that will be, as the show goes on!

The rest of the episode offers some hilarious moments, as Jimmy visits different clients, who has one outrageous request after the other!

The end offers a calm build up towards next episode!

"Alpine Shepherd Boy" is the midpoint of Better Call Saul's first season. It's a calm, collected, and very informative episode. The pacing is slower from previous episodes, but that's okay because its essential for the viewers to see Jimmy McGill at practice. I also like the dynamic between Jimmy and his brother, Chuck. With Chuck in the hospital for the majority of the episode, its proven to us how much Jimmy cares for his elder brother. There are moments of hilarity, sweet lines of dialogue, great direction from Nicole Kassell, and an unsuspecting ending.

After the publicity stunt Jimmy pulled, he receives voicemails from potential clients. It turns out these clients are not useful. There's a psycho political client and there's an inventor who is trying to invent a toilet designed...with a purpose. His last client is an older lady who wants to create a will. Kim offhand suggests to Jimmy elder law is a thing, so Jimmy decides to pursue that line of law. Meanwhile, Chuck has the police called on him because he stole the newspaper from his neighbor. He is taken to the hospital because of his disorder where the audience still needs to figure out if the disorder is psychological or not. Finally, the episode ends when Mike's past comes to haunt him.

Despite the slower pace, Vince Gilligan created another engaging episode. The dynamic between the two brothers is on point. There are some moments of humor, especially when the police break down Chuck's door and used their tasers on him after he said please don't use them. Poor Chuck! Of course, I also thought Tony the Toilet is a crazy, amusing invention...in the worst way. On the whole, a very enjoyable episode!

My Grade: A-

There are two major strains here. The major focus of the episode has to do with a couple of bullheaded police who break a man's door down because he took a fifty cent newspaper belonging to the nosy lady down the street. Of course he has all kinds of issues--a fear that magnetic and electric fields are going to destroy him. He is afraid of light and technology and the outdoors. He has such a panic attack that he ends up hospitalized. Saul is faced with the possibility of committing him, but he is his brother and, nutty as he seems, he love him. Saul also has an interesting series of potential clients: a man who wants to secede from the union and prints money with his own picture on it; a man who has invented a toilet that talks to potty training children, and a woman who has a Hummel collection who needs a will. Finally, we are taken into the life of the man who runs the parking lot at the courthouse. He is played by the guy who was the ever-present MIke in "Breaking Bad." There is an intriguing scene at the conclusion of this episode.

I keep asking myself every single day, "How many underrated episodes of television are there in the world?". I think there are just countless, because this was just another one of them. I love the connection between Jimmy and Chuck. I love their dynamic alot so far, and I am starting to prefer them over Walter and Jesse. Anyways, my favorite characters in this episode were Saul, Chuck, and Kim, which Saul and Chuck were obvious. My favorite things about this episode were the storyline, the pacing, and the Cinematography. This was honestly my favorite episode of the entire series so far, and I am starting to think that the next one will be one of the greatest I will ever watch.