Yeah, you could see it coming from miles away, but it all worked all great for me. Having him do an off-the-cuff, heartfelt speech about Chuck's impact on his life on then mean it would not have been true to the character or the show at all. The way it unfolded followed the through-line from the first ep of the season until his talk with the high school student.

The only thing I could complain about is whether having him appeal was "necessary" to the story, but they had to show the lengths that he'd go to be a lawyer again (the dedication, the graveyard). And they had to find a way to resolve the dynamic between Jimmy and Kim. Now she has no illusions about how much he wants to be a lawyer and the steps he'll take to reclaim it, and how much he's come to despise his brother, even in death.

The Mike stuff worked too. Sets up the "No Half Measures" Mike of Breaking Bad. And the dynamic between him and Gus. The Lalo stuff was a lot tacked on, but it showed how evil Lalo really is, and it drove home that there was no way Werner was making it out of this alive.

So, yeah, excellent season.