I always thought Kim would leave Jimmy and that would be what put the finishing touch on Saul becoming a sleazoid. He “learned” that, when he sincerely loved someone, it hurt too much, so he became the over-the-top con man.

I rewound that and watched it 3 times. Amazing. 

Of course! It is part of the over-the-top nature of the whole project. But actors have played other ages for as long as there’s been drama. Whether it is High School kids putting talcum in their hair to look old, or 39 year olds playing high school kids on Happy Days. When the audience is saying “you can’t do that!”,…

I immediately said “Hell” out loud, too. But I saw Mike as the Devil, as that is pretty much what Nacho’s Dad called him.

I thought it might have left more options for writing Kim in the future, if she retained the powers of a lawyer. But I guess she could regain them some day. Jimmy did.

I like your take. She could have gone even crueler though. She could have said “Howard said that you made him sleep in the guest house for the better part of a year. But I know you had your reasons.” Howard tells them this for some reason and they could have used it. 

I loved it. Many things in life really are sudden, so Kim’s decision works for me. I can see her not shrugging it off as easily as Jimmy; that she watched Howard’s brain become wall pizza. But I think they hit just the right tone with Jimmy, too: like seriously shaken and in grief, but still totally confident that he…

I still see comments where people think Kim must get smoked or else she would still be with Jimmy. No way. No way Jimmy would be joking about jerking off in public the first time we see him in Breaking bad if he had just watched Kim get splattered. My pet theory is that she sent the cabdriver to find Jimmy in…

You want slow-paced? We haven’t even gotten to the protracted Gene Takovic Cinnabon subplot yet.

It WILL be something like that if the manage to put Walt and Jesse in the next 5 episodes.

I was in food service. I don’t think I EVER sang the theme song of the places I worked. Certainly not when no one was looking.