Theres one scene from this season ofBetter Call Saulthat I cant get out of my head.
Kevin shows Kim a room full of model buildings.
And Lubbock, man, Lubbock!
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Kim walks around the room, a bit speechless.
Director Daniel Sackheim shoots with a dreamy stillness, the white room lit a 1992 shade of purple.
And Seehorn has a brilliant way of communicating a lot of clashing thoughts.
Kim looks mesmerized, intimidated, perplexed.
Theres been some incredible Kim Wexler material throughout this season ofBetter Call Saul.
Shes the one main character who regularly interacts in any meaningful way with Bob Odenkirks Jimmy McGill.
(Jimmy and Jonathan Banks Mike had coffee once.)
And the series has lately played up the Jimmy-Kim coupling asthedefining dynamic of the series.
while careless Jimmy begs her to big-picture it for his cant-be-bothered brain.
Episode 7 opened with Kim and Jimmy again, passing long months of regular life in a split-screen montage.
Then suddenly, Jimmy needed Kims help.
There was a running tension throughout the episode.
Kim got Huell his freedom, took Jimmy into a stairway and kissed him.
Lets do itagain, she said, ending the whole adventure on a note of eerie celebration.
Kims a great lawyer.
Jimmys a brilliant operator.
In a darkly funny way,Better Call Saulassumes those two things are precisely the same.
But Kims aiming in a different direction than Jimmy.
Kim is the one main character left onBetter Call Saulwith no obvious basis in the predecessor series.
And some of this material feels… a little off?
All these divergent strands could be merging together.
Here she was, Jimmy declared, kicking a man while he was down.
Jimmy, you arealwaysdown, Kim shot back.
It felt like a reckoning, a final schism for this couple after a season of glacier-shifting apart.
Jimmy returned to their apartment, ready to pack.
And then… Kim seemed ready to help him again, kinda!
But Kim Wexler canalwayssurprise us.
