I said to a friend recently that I think Kim Wexler may in part be a reaction by Gilligan and company of how badly written female characters were in Breaking Bad, particularly Skyler. Skyler was obviously morally in the right, particularly in comparison to a truly evil person like Walt, but because Walt was the…

It’s not damseling and fridging if she voluntarily chooses to be with Jimmy and risk her freedom (as a far as getting imprisoned) or killed. That’s what i’ve been saying here that it seems you agree with. Nobody told her to stay with him even after he lied to her and embarrassed her in front of her boss, or when the…

You’re missing the point and the whole point of the series, and Kim and Jimmy’s arc as your personal life has nothing to do with anything.

Very well explained and described. I also think we can’t discount the few glimpses of Kim’s past we got, which show her deep sociological drive both to overcome her past and to enact justice, what with her less-than-privileged upbringing and Howard’s continued silver-spoon lifestyle. “It’s only one man’s career”…

I don’t think she’s doing it to be mean, I think it comes from a place of that she does get a thrill over standing up to the world and getting away with it. And with Lalo she just got her biggest high yet.

I am not being chosen for, Howard. I AM the chooser! A guy comes to court and gets screwed and you think that of me? I am the one who screws! 

If you don’t see how Kim, who probably raised herself, could despise Howard, who was born with a silver spoon in his mouth, you’re not watching the same show I am. Kim has the biggest chip on her shoulder. 

You’re not supposed to like it. Fear for her life has instead become fear for her soul.

Because it’s the right character transformation as determined by propulsive narrative development. It doesn’t have to be “right”—it just has to fit, and it fits. Oh, how it fits! For all of this show’s dynamite shootouts and setpieces, the writers also know and develops the characters extremely well.

Her question — “Wouldn’t I?” — is the hinge on which the show turns toward its final act.

I agree 100%. Kim didn’t intimidate Lalo down so much as make him think about how Lalo could trust and who he could not trust.

She wasn’t fully privy, but she did know from the coffee mug that Lalo was right. Not so much conning him as gaslighting him.

Great, smart take! Any chance the bullet would have been meant for Saul before he starting singing thus sparing Gus for having to answer to the cartel about Lalo’s death?! Is that why Mike had Saul open the phone line so he could listen it?

I think it was more this: You got your money and we’ve given you a plausible story — that should be enough.

She was great, not just for the gripping scene at the end but all of it. The way she looks when she finds the cup with the bullet hole you know she’s mad that he lied. Then when he freaks out with the juicer you can tell she’s thinking that maybe he didn’t lie so much as he just can’t talk about it yet.  Then she gets…

I think the idea is that Jimmy was clearly in trouble. He was shot at, so someone knew about the money, someone tried to take it, and not with insignificant force.

I haven’t got it all worked out, but if Lalo knows Jimmy got ambushed then that means somebody saved Saul’s ass. When Lalo goes looking for someone to thank for saving Saul, none of his friends will say they did it. If Lalo pulls on that thread, it leads back to Mike and Gus, who are definitely not Lalo’s friends. So…

Veronica Mars is another show he slipped right into as if he had always been there. Pity he screwed his friendship with Keith.

I hate Brenda!

Same here, and now I’m almost hate watching Jimmy/Saul scenes because the writing sucks and makes no sense to me. I cannot imagine Kim going through all that completely justified fury and then saying ‘let’s get married’. It is just a plot device that the show doesn’t need.