6x03 "Rock and Hard Place" // Michael Mando on Nacho Varga's major moment in last night's Better Call Saul, Kimberly Potts // 4x04 "Talk" // 1x06 "Five-O" Script, Gordon Smith // Better Call Saul Q&A ā Michael Mando on Nacho's "Ultimate Sacrifice" in Season 6, Adam Bryant // 2x02 "Cobbler" // Better Call Saul star Michael Mando breaks down Nacho's fate, Dan Snierson // āBetter Call Saulā Writer-Director Gordon Smith Breaks Down Devastating Third Episode, Brian Davids // 6x09 "Fun and Games"
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Iāve never really been a fan of angst-heavy scenes. But I have to admit ā the post-breakup scenes with Jimmy and Kim have a strangelyā¦ delicious kind of angst to them. Itās not only about two people who love each other breaking up, but about what that loss does to their identities, and itās incredibly fascinating to watch.
The last shared scene where Kim sees Jimmy ā his real self ā is their breakup. Itās painful because he is completely open and vulnerable in front of her. His heart is entirely exposed, and yet it still isnāt enough. He still loses her.
And then the grief never really comes. Jimmy isnāt someone who knows how to process sadness, how to properly mournā¦ so he hides completely inside Saul. Not just in moments where itās useful, not just when he needs to perform for others. It becomes a full replacement of himself. He retreats into the shell of someone who doesnāt attach, someone who cannot lose, someone who only cares about material things because those things cannot hurt him again.
Then comes the divorce papers scene. Before Kim arrives, we briefly see Jimmy alone with the papers, and he clearly isnāt okay. And then, before she even walks in, he puts the mask on. When she enters, he barely acknowledges her, still playing on his phone as if none of it really matters.
Once she hands them to him, he puts his phone down and even gives the table a small theatrical double tap, a kind of āalright, letās do this.ā But when he actually holds the documents, you might notice his hands trembling slightly. He starts flipping through the pages and moving them around more than necessary, almost like heās trying to bury the shaking inside the motion so it wonāt be obvious to her. And then the performance returns, the casual tone and the āIām totally fineā act. Not out of disrespect, but because if he dropped it, it would reveal how much it actually hurts.
And then there is Gene ā the time when he could be neither Jimmy nor Saul anymore. He becomes someone afraid to be seen, living alone in a dull grey existence. Much like Kim, who doesnāt become someone else, but instead turns into a shadow of her former self. Both of them have to let a part of themselves disappear, whether behind a mask or without one.
Then comes the phone call after six years ā the moment Gene learns that Kim asked about him, that she still cared enough to check. And we see the shell slowly crack, Jimmy briefly visible again, real emotion returning. First in him, and later in Kim, with her confession and then the bus scene.
When Geneās shell falls away and Saul returns to negotiate the best possible deal, a single mention of Kim is enough to fracture that shell too.
And when he finally sees her in the courtroom, it all falls away completely ā until the person standing there is no longer Saul Goodman, but Jimmy McGill. The moment Kim can once again see the man she fell in love with years ago. Once again, he was seen as Jimmy and not as Saul by someone who mattered.
There is a kind of beauty inside the tragedy. Because Kim was, in many ways, the reason Jimmy became Saulā¦ and also the reason Saul was able to become Jimmy again. And I loved that.
I've previously argued that Jimmy's color is all of them, and I stand by that. But out of all of them, yellow is the most prominent.
The two most obvious yellows associated with Jimmy are his iconic Esteem and the mug Kim gifted him, both of which have a touch of criminal red.
The Wexler/McGill logo is a mix of Jimmy's yellow and Kim's blue (notice how the office is mostly yellow, because this is Jimmy's dream, not hers.)
So why yellow? Well, it's loud, it's bright, it catches the eye. Jimmy loves to be noticed. But most importantly - it's not red or blue. It's the other primary color! Because in the beginning, Jimmy's not quite criminal red, and not quite lawful blue. He's in his own category.
In 1x01, there's yellow lighting in Jimmy's office (his attempt to play it straight), but there's also yellow when he reveals his Slippin' Jimmy past (notice the blues there, too, as his natural yellow crowds out his lawful aspirations).
What does it mean? I think it means that Jimmy's colorful approach to the law is not inherently criminal. If it was, he'd be red. The implication is that Jimmy could have made it as a legitimate lawyer while still being himself.
And to prove it, here are some shots from 1x05, when he visits Mrs. Strauss for the first time. Everything in her house is yellow - the walls, her furniture, even her teapot (although she herself is dressed in lawful blue.)
Jimmy the Elder Law Lawyer was perfectly in tune both with his natural colorful nature (his slippin' ways were what uncovered the financial abuse of the Sandpiper residents) and the law. He couldn't cut it in the stifling halls of HHM or Davis & Main. But he could have struck his own path and been happy. In a kinder universe, maybe he did. Alas. :(
they are staring at each otherā¦ they can read each other so wellā¦ Lalo is asking āare you gonna tell me the truth?ā meanwhile Jimmy is asking āare you gonna hurt my wife? Are you gonna hurt me?ā ACTING!
Galaxy brain take here: I think in many ways, whatĀ āFun and Gamesā makes very clear is that Saul Goodmanās closest parallel and mirror is actually Gus Fring.
Both men live their lives behind a facade. Saul isnāt Jimmy, and the friendly chicken man isnāt Gus. They exist behind so deep an obfuscation that itās consumed them and left both with nothingĀ ārealā. And the question is why do they do that to themselves? With Gus, we learned all the way back in Breaking Bad that he did it because he lost Max. And now weāve learned Jimmy did it because he lost Kim.
The more I think about it, the more Iāve become convinced that Jimmy views the legal community the same way Gus views the cartel. He despises it. Jimmyās resentment of Chuck and the massive chip on his shoulder (coupled with festering insecurity) makes him want to break the precious law his brother held so dear. Whether consciously on Jimmyās part or not (Iām sure itās partly unconsciously), Saul Goodman is a tool he uses to undermine, humiliate, and chip away at the law, both in general and as a profession, every day. And that sounds a lot like Gus, doesnāt it? Gus, who wants nothing more than to eradicate the cartel that took his soulmate away, so he works for them to corrode it from within.
in the final shot of the episode, Jimmy's coffee cup said "World's greatest lawyer", which simply mustĀ be a dark joke on the fact that the "2nd greatest" on the old yellow travel mug no longer applies. Because Kim isn't a lawyer anymore. And now that the only bright spot of the legal world (from his perspective) has removed herself from it, there's no more reason to hold back from burning it to the ground.
The bus-bench lawyer and the chicken man are both compelled to live the rest of their lives behind a mask because they viewed their partners as the only 'real' things about them, and those partners are gone now.
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the worst thing about viktor!gene scamming the guy with cancer is that he did hesitate for a fleeting moment when the guy told him he had cancer. a little bit of jimmy came out when he said to his mark, "hey it's not my business, but should you be drinking?" you could see it in his face. but when his mark assured him he was fine, jimmy retreated back behind his viktor!gene mask and continued the scam with even more vigor (and probably hatred for himself)
