I don’t think she needs to remain static, but there needed to be more between the Kim they’ve showed us so far and the Kim who decides to ruin someone’s life.  The step was too big and doesn’t make sense for her character.

Totally agree.  I could see if she just decided she didn’t care about what Jimmy did with the hookers, and even applauding it.  That was a fair step I could live with.  They needed maybe another one or two steps before they got to “let’s ruin someone’s entire life because he annoyed me one day.”

Thank you for daring to say it’s bad writing. Because it is.

Shark-jumping moment for that character. Destroy Howard? Really? That’s just absurd.

The point is more of a cautionary tale showing how easy it is to “break bad” than for us to extend our compassion to these bad people

Uh, thanks, uh, I, uh, obviously, uh, did, uh, pick, uh, up, uh, on, uh, that. All I said was I didn’t like it. Am I allowed not to like it, or do I have to like it because, uh, it’s the entire point?

He was kind of a dick. That’s not “let’s ruin his life” worthy.

Agree, and I also think that at the end of the day, she knows Jimmy is a shady character in and out, but that she hitched her wagon to him, so when anyone calls her on it she has to ruin them because she doesn’t like this mirror being held up to her terrible choice to stick with Jimmy.

This isn’t taking the law into her own hands, though. It’s not vigilantism for a noble cause. She’s just being a dick because she feels she was insulted. I think you’re right that really she’s just a manipulator who pretended to do it for good, just like Dexter was just a killer who pretended (sort of) to be doing…

Change is fine. It’s when there is no defining event that makes the change plausible it’s just change for change sake. I will have to go back and see how this person who was furious with Jimmy for embarrassing her and compromising her client and reputation decides that “wait, let’s get married”? Where does this come…

I can see why the writers made that choice. They needed to end with a surprise. And this one reverses the fooled-you conclusion to last season. But there’s not enough connective tissue between her character now and the one we got to know earlier in the show. Her embrace of the dark side feels too ad hoc.

I agree. Not as clumsy as genocidal Daenerys but a plot twist that felt too engineered.

I’m not buying it. A problem with this show and Breaking Bad is that the major characters are so well written and well acted that the viewer completely understands and most often sympathizes with their motivations and rationalizations. Everything you say is true in that it’s the way that the fictional character of Kim…

It isn’t a question of whether I like it. It’s a question of whether the narrative thus far, the script, has brought Kim to such a place in a believable way. I don’t think it has. It was a leap. 

Well said, and I agree that’s what the show creators were going for. Still, it felt a little “too far, too fast” for me. What I’m missing is the rest of the story of what happened when Kim was a teen and she walked home in the dark rather than ride with her intoxicated (and hateful) mother. What happened to her? Rape?…

That’s just rationalizing bad writing. Which is a shame in an otherwise outstanding season. They didn’t need this, and now we’ve taken a main character who we loved and respected and turned her into a small vengeful person. Nothing Howard said or did justifies this and candidly if this were all about money she easily…

Maybe Kim is the one who knocks..

I’m so glad that someone wrote what I was thinking. Admittedly, I thought that the last few episodes before this finale were fantastic, but this finale seems to have deliberately cut things short or taken Kim in a wildly different direction that doesn’t make sense (“Has Kim ‘broken bad’ ?”). This was the only season…

“The show always skews towards the human and relatable rather than the overly dramatic.”

Well, that was underwhelming to say the least. I feel like this was just another episode. Another step on what is now a death march toward Breaking Bad. I believe season six is going to be nothing more than a mailed-in lame duckathon, a series of check boxes that need to be crossed off in order to set everyone up for…