When her car gets stuck in the dirt, there is so much happening in Kim’s life - yet another tight deadline taken on to make up for Jimmy’s probable financial shortfall - that she tries to take care of the immediate problem all by herself. The scene with her close scrape near the Texas-New Mexico border works well as plot-focused foreshadowing. No character represents that balance better than Kim Wexler.
#Better call saul s03 e08 ettv series
A major part of the show’s success (and that of its predecessor) comes from the fact that the series works equally well as a well-told story as it does a commentary on human nature and what relationships with rough-edged individuals do to us. There is no show on television that threads the needle between symbolism and literalism better than Better Call Saul. That part of him was always going to be there, rich or poor, success or failure, good or bad.Ĭontinue reading at Consequence of Sound → Jimmy was born to con and manipulate and use his silver tongue to open doors, regardless of whether he’s a humble (if colorful) elder law attorney or the local TV huckster who becomes Walt’s conscience-free fixer in Breaking Bad. There is a sense that Jimmy McGill’s true nature is irrepressible no matter his circumstances. Breaking Bad suggested that this type of change in circumstances could reveal the real you and that your true nature is just one big bang away.Īnd yet Better Call Saul, through its own protagonist, presents a very different idea of who a person is and who they might become and what can restrain or expose that. It took a cancer diagnosis and a series of increasingly wild events to turn him into the vicious kingpin he eventually became and yet somehow always was.
When fenced in by a middle-class life with domestic responsibilities, Walt was a meek science teacher who wouldn’t, and maybe couldn’t, hurt a fly. But that side of him, and the evil he would inflict, couldn’t emerge until his circumstances changed.
Walter White always had Heisenberg within him: the arrogance, anger, and self-satisfaction.
Breaking Bad posited that who a person is, what kind of choices they make, is situational.
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