![]() In this prequel to Breaking Bad, where everyone’s fates are sealed, being corrupted is inevitable – the question is how it happens. It’s not the fact that his instinct is to deceive and cheat to get what he wants that sets an ominous mood, but the fact that she, despite herself, goes along with it anyway. Almost immediately, she finds herself trying to convince her client to take a deal rather than go to court and, when they won’t agree, Jimmy tries to lead her into a short-con to trick them into taking the deal. She’s already knees-deep, though, and the moments when she realises it bring Better Call Saul to life. That starting point means that there’s tension bubbling from the off, as Jimmy’s already-compromised perspective is thrown into sharp relief by Kim (Rhea Seehorn), who stands firmly outside of his world-view – or, to be accurate, thinks she does. That’s the kind of world that Jimmy McGill has come to inhabit, a world that has been twisted by, and steeped in, his own moral justifications, where there’s a difference between good crime and bad crime, between good lies and bad lies. It’s telling that this is where we’re at in Better Call Saul’s penultimate season: we’ve reached the point where doing something illegal isn’t the problem, but what kind of criminal activity is being done. ![]() The killing of a man he grew to like? That rankles. The drugs? The dodgy building work? Those aren’t problems. He seems to want to walk away from the whole shebang, after he killed construction boss Werner last season to make an example of him – he doesn’t take kindly to the other workers speaking badly of the deceased, but he takes even less kindly to the fact that he’s far from innocent himself. “I would choose my next words very carefully.” Those are the ominous words from Gus (Giancarlo Esposito) to Mike (Jonathan Banks) near the start of Better Call Saul Season 5, as Mike struggles with the things he’s done as Gus’ fixer. This contains minor spoilers for the set-up of Better Call Saul Season 5.
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