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Better Call Saul fans praise ‘perfect’ finale as it becomes one of the top-rated TV episodes ever-Tori Brazier-Entertainment – Metro
Others from the show’s final season made the list too.
Viewers were more than happy with the final outing for Jimmy/Saul (Picture: Rex)
Better Call Saul’s emotional final episode has gone down well enough with fans to have been voted one of the top TV episodes in history, alongside others in the season.
The popular prequel series brought hard-working-but-slightly-crooked lawyer Jimmy McGill to the end of his journey, ahead of popping up as full-on ‘criminal lawyer’ Saul Goodman in Breaking Bad, where he was first introduced to audiences as Walt (Bryan Cranston) and Jesse’s (Aaron Paul) representative over 10 years ago.
Following its airing on Monday, the episode – the title of which alone had viewers anticipating it as a ‘masterpiece’ – has already seen the top ratings pile in on IMDb.
With ‘Saul Gone’ initially boasting a 9.9 star rating on tens of thousands of votes, it’s currently settled on 9.8, taken as a weighted average from a whopping 35,528 voting viewers.
This vaults it way up into the top reaches of the site’s best-voted TV show episodes in history, where it currently sits at 69.
Fans were raving about the piece of television on Twitter too, as one said it ‘perfectly encapsulates everything I’ve loved about the series all these years’, while another commented: ‘Finally a season finale that didn’t disappoint, incredible series.’
Others were raving about its ‘perfect’ finale and comparing it to The Wire and The Sopranos as the ‘best ever’ ending.
In the top 70 individual episodes of all time – from a list of 22,175 – it is in good company with other instalments from the popular show’s sixth season, including ‘Point and Shoot’ at 66 and stunning mid-season finale episode ‘Plan and Execution’ right up at 18 and a 9.9 rating.
Better Call Saul’s episodes are nestled in among gems from TV series such as Succession, Community, The Office and Game Of Thrones.
Actor Bob Odendirk was also grateful that the series was ‘given a chance’ by fans (Picture: Gary Gershoff/WireImage)
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However, the site’s top-rated single TV episode of all time belongs to Better Call Saul’s origin series Breaking Bad, with Ozymandias – its series finale – triumphing.
Saul actor Bob Odendirk also thanked fans as he bid farewell to the character for ‘giving us a chance’ with the show as he felt their support had meant they ‘wanted us to succeed’.
Better Call Saul is available to stream on Netflix now.
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