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An action-packed closing to a superb follow up to the global hit first season, this episode does leave a lot of loose ends. If you're looking for closure, you won't find it here, but with a third season on it's way you need to take what we have on it's own merit, and this episode was exciting, emotional and packed with a frenetic energy. My main drawback is that it left me wanting more, but with more to come, that is not necessarily a bad thing. There is no need for every season to have complete closure and to tie up all loose ends, so even if audiences may be unsatisfied with the conclusion, for me, as an episode this was excellent.

To be honest, I'm surprised this show was even made.

In a couple of months when the full season is out I may come across as a fool and this may be an outstanding piece of comedy television, but based off the first 2 episodes, I am not optimistic. I am confused as to what the hook is to this show, it appears to simply be exaggerated and yet uninteresting events occurring around a beleaguered Odenkirk and his shockingly unmemorable cast of side "characters". Odenkirk does chew through the large majority of lines with a believable animosity towards the world and tempered rage as a man suffering a mid life crisis, but even his good, if not outstanding, performance is not enough to save an essentially premise-less series.

I have not read the source material. I don't know if it has the depth to sustain a series or if this series (so far) is just a weak adaptation. Either way, it needs to improve rapidly and find some grounding in some form of a plot, as so far I have been felt unsatisfied by the episodes that have been released.