Better Call Saul returns, along with our excitement—and dread
Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Monday, August 6. All times are Eastern.
Top pick
Better Call Saul (AMC, 9 p.m.): This Breaking Bad spin-off has been quietly great for much of its run, but the fourth season—a truly impressive balancing act of pathos and humor—might finally catapult it out of whispered, Halt And Catch Fire greatness. Season four kicks off in the immediate aftermath of Chuck’s (Michael McKean) death, as Jimmy (Bob Odenkirk) struggles with the precipitous end of that relationship and his miraculously still intact partnership with Kim (Rhea Seehorn). As TV editor Erik Adams notes in his early review, the new episodes are full of a “heart-palpitating sense of tension” even as the show finds “chemistry in grief.” As always, Donna Bowman will be witness to Jimmy’s ongoing decline.
