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A review of the evening of You better call Saul to come as soon as I justify a giant horse statue …
"I have to move on." -Jimmy
If "Quite a Ride" offered us bookends on Saul Goodman's legal career, then this week's episode – "Pinata" – seems to do the same. Jimmy McGillS. We're opening up again in Jimmy and KimThe days of the mailroom, when Jimmy's difficulty in understanding MandrelGreat legal victories – and his recognition of Kim's dazzle, Howard and everyone at the firm is by him – inspires him to enter the law library HHM. We have long known that Jimmy went into law to try to impress Kim (success!) And Chuck (whoops!), So the scene is not stricter than that of Saul and Francesca. . "But like this scene, he offers a valuable emotional counterweight to the steps Jimmy is performing in the rest of the episode, from Jesse Pinkman's spokesperson to the criminal lawyer. criminal lawyer.
We find that the criminal law is not even in his mind when we come back from the credits. Kim, who struggles to get work done at Mesa Verde when she cares about her clients, discovers Jimmy's sketches for a new Wexler & McGill logo, and compares her work in banking law to that of bankruptcy law . (This seems to be a good specialty for him with the care of the elderly.) This always gives him the kind of interpersonal contact he is developing on, even though he can leave a certain amount of creativity to help the clients. desperate to conceal property.) learns that Geraldine Strauss, her first-ever elder care client – and star of her one and only publicity for Davis and Main – died in her sleep, her conversation with her nephew is both a good opportunity report for him to cry and cry in a way that he's never allowed to do for Chuck. After last week's criminal scheming at the Dog House, he seems to have found Jimmy, the benefactor we fell in love with when he first met Mrs. Strauss. (Note that when he brings up his Hummel figurine, it's not an attempt to rip him off, but to make sure she's done where she wants to.)
Jimmy is still on the edge of the abyss, still preparing for a life of professional and romantic partner of Kim, although slightly more disproportionate, and he is about to be 10 months ahead. The problem is that a big part of her plan depends on Kim and that she has her own life and that she wants to worry, even if she has no idea that she is the last barrier that the separates from the terrible future we know. In an attempt to satisfy her lucrative responsibilities to Mesa Verde and her emotional investment in pro bono work, she belatedly agreed to join Schweikart and Cokely (*) as a partner, thinking that she could do both with a larger team around her. ;she.
(*) Is it a coincidence that Jimmy's star Sandpiper dies about the same time Kim joins the firm defending Sandpiper? The events of last season suggested that the deal could last a long time, but I would not be shocked if Kim and Jimmy were sort of on the opposite sides of a courtroom before the end of the series.
It's a big step for her, and she feels perfectly in tune with the course she's had at least since the start of the season, if not when she found out how Jimmy helped her land to Mesa Verde. But that's the worst news Jimmy can hear. He respects her and always cares enough to tell her to take the job, but we see immediately after the announcement of the founding of her world, providing Slippin & Jimmy an easy path to to follow. go out and get in trouble.
After a stop at the reduced wreck of HHM – where he still has enough decency to give Howard a hard talk about the love to try to fix what he did at this place which he cared so much – he passes his derisory Chuck's inheritance will be on a pallet of burner phones. It includes everything that Ms. Nguyen rejects as a quick plan to become rich, but what he understands is a reliable shortcut to setting up his own business because he will no longer have Kim at his side. And where he impulsively entered his first night as a burner salesman, he's a scammer with a plan to make sure the three punks in the laundry do not cause him any problems.
Jimmy's vengeance on these children – recording them backwards like human pinatas threatened by his masked batmen – is both a thrilling sequence and a disturbing sequence. This is by far the biggest showcase of the time for the talents of the very special guest director Andrew Stanton (The world of Nemo, WALL-E) both in the way the thief spills the thieves and the way one of Jimmy's assistants drags a baseball bat along the warehouse as Marco Salamanca prepares to cut off an officer's head AED with a silver ax. After this junior team took Jimmy's money last time, it's momentarily satisfying to see them totally helpless and scared-wanting not only to fire Jimmy in the future, but also to warn other potential attackers. At the same time, Jimmy McGill, a relatively good man and within a year of practicing law, is using hired thugs to kidnap three children and terrorize them, so they will stop disrupting an extra-legal business. It's a gangster act, and much more than crossing a legal or ethical threshold, he told ABQ detectives about Hoboken Squat Cobbler. That's exactly what it means to break.
Earlier in the day, Kim confronts Jimmy's reluctance to see the therapist even after he promises to do so. He insists that he just needs to try his new life and see how it goes. She lets him slide on it – emotionally, they are already too far away for it to become a real fight – and his argumentation seems as convincing in the moment as most of his scraps. But we know a lot more than Kim does about what he's doing and what he's becoming. While his decision to tear the therapist's number was inspired by Howard's lack of help, Jimmy also understands that at some level, turning his gaze inward will hinder his ambitious plans. A Jimmy who begins therapy – and who is honest with his therapist – would be forced to recognize the moral realities of this pinata stuntman. A Jimmy who has been cut in different ways by the two people who inspired him to become a lawyer does not have to answer to anyone, including himself. He can do what he wants, take what he wants and burst in doing it. That's the kind of life that Chuck took away from him when he entrusted her with mailroom work, and that's the kind of evil power – Slippin 'Jimmy with a law degree – that Chuck has always feared.
Some other thoughts:
* Another nice achievement of Stanton: the persistent cliche of Hector's resounding hand at the end of the stage with Gus (nice restraint of not getting it twisted even slightly, we know what that hand will do one day ), the world seemingly falling from Jimmy as he crept into the kitchen of the restaurant to absorb Kim's news, and another unreasonable montage on the phones, this one unpacking them in his old office while Ms. Nguyen looked at them disapprovingly.
* I spotted Lavell Crawford's name in the guest's credits and thought that Huell would be one of Jimmy's two masked assistants. But I assumed the biggest was Ira, until the mask came off in the end to reveal another bearded guy. This is Man Mountain, played by David Mattey, who was last seen running away from Mike in the season 1 'Pimento', after Mike demonstrated why 'Pryce' only needed of a single bodyguard.
* The flashback of opening has bets on Howard's End and The scent of a woman to win various Oscars, which places it in the spring of 1993, 10 years before the events of this series. This seems to be going in the right direction, as it would take Jimmy some time to do his law school part-time, and he was not totally new to law when Season 1 started.
* Plus, it's amusing to see that Odenkirk, Seehorn and McKean (wearing the same shirt he wore in the Slippin & Jimmy era flashbacks) were a little younger than in the 2003 scenes (even if it was not the case) always convincing), while Patrick Fabian was exactly the same. As Jimmy says, Howard never lost his hair.
* I do not know if it was intentional breaking Bad remember or not, but when Kim said about her PD job, "I like it, and I'm good at it", it was hard not to think about the final conversation of Walt and Skyler .
On the one hand, Gus's speech to Hector about the Coati that he trapped and kept around him to see him suffer was a piece of action by Giancarlo Esposito, who is often at his best when his voice is as sweet as she was here. And he sets in motion the mechanism of the end of Gus's story breaking Bad as he did not let his nemesis die. But a season and a half in Esposito's time on SaulIt really feels like an opportunity is missed to deepen our understanding of Gus in the same way that the show did for Jimmy and Mike. He's all in business, all the time. Even if you assume that he had no personal life (when Walter White comes home for dinner, no one else is there), he shows more views on his personality in the parent series that he is here. Mike is also involved in a lot of fan / Easter Egg stories, but he still has human moments like his clumsy reconciliation with Stacey; Gus exists almost entirely to fill spaces in the larger narrative of both shows.
* As he is setting up a complete support system for Werner's crew (including potential Kai troublemaker), Mike is making his first reference of the series to "my guys", although the only thing I've ever done is to make sure that he does not have to. I am told that those we saw breaking Bad. The season is juggling with a lot of stories right now, but it seems like some steps have been skipped here: we went from Gus asking Mike to do Mike a favor as a member to full time of the organization, and we do not see exactly how Mike finds a group of trustworthy people in a new city where we have seen virtually all of his previous criminal activities.
* In connection with this, I wonder if we will really see Kim's conversation with Paige and Kevin about his entry into a big company. The crux of his initial sales pitch was that they would be his only customer and that they would have his attention 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. On one hand, the creation of the Banking Division of a business is a violation of that promise – especially since it's really an excuse to focus on the kind of work she did not even talk to Paige about. On the other hand, it is clear that expansion plans will be superior to those that Kim can handle, even with the help of Viola. Paige can be happy to have an entire external legal team to meet your needs.
What did everyone think?
Previously: You can not keep a Goodman Down
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