syncing the dopamine…
S3E10
Lantern
Better Call Saul · 2017-06-19 · 57 min
FLICKFEEL
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from 14 comments
COMMUNITY
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nobody yet
YOURS
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what happens
Kim takes time off. Jimmy tries to make amends. Nacho gambles with his future. Hamlin pushes Chuck to make a decision.
how it went
Left to right is this episode — its opening to its closing minutes. This is the one span the comments were always describing.
FUN
10
how good a time it was
MEANINGFUL
35
how much it moved you
Read from 14 comments — 12 said when.
Not enough to put a number on. The shape below is drawn from what there is, with the widest uncertainty band we use — it is the start of an answer, not one.
Not enough people said when to name this shape. The line is what the evidence draws, not a finding.
Hover the curveDrag across the curve to see what people said at any point.
- height
- how intense it got, 0–100
- gold above
- how tender it felt. violet below — what it cost. Thick on both at once means it was doing both.
- tension rail
- how much was still unresolved
- grey haze
- how sure we are — wider means fewer people described it
openingending
what people actually wrote
Grouped by where it was written, because a considered review and a reaction typed an hour after the credits are different things. Every quote links to its source.
Reddit20 read
“And finally the end. The thump. And another. The sound of Chuck's shoes thumping against the table—rhythmic, tragic, until it finally stops beating with a crash against the floor, engulfing everything he ever worked for.”
Sty87▲ 2,616about 90–100% inread it ↗
“But he was so alone and vulnerable in that last scene -- with no one to save him from himself.”
MMonroe54▲ 1,822about 85–100% inread it ↗
“Opening with that scene of the earlier phases in his life before the episode culminates in its end.”
DabuSurvivor▲ 1,442about 0–15% inread it ↗
“Ending the cold open on a zoom-in of the then-innocuous object that would later brutally take his life - as the music soars into static.”
who made it
- directed
- Peter Gould
- written
- Gennifer Hutchison
guest cast
Billed for this episode only — the turn people remember an episode for.
Michael Mando as Nacho Varga
Giancarlo Esposito as Gus Fring
Efrain Villa as Carlos
Bonnie Bartlett as Helen
Phyllis Applegate as Myrtle
Carol Mansell as Rose
Gabriel Rush as Young Chuck