Better Call Saul shows the futility of trying to escape a life of crime - Sitcoms Online Message Boards

TMC · 05-25-2022, 06:09 AM

https://www.vulture.com/article/bett...im-future.html

"In (the) closing minutes of the first half of the final season of Better Call Saul, Jimmy and Kim have unwittingly traded in their status as flawed antiheroes who get a kick out of running a long con or two," says Jen Chaney. "They are now associates of people on the wrong side of the law, which puts them firmly on the wrong side of it, too. There’s no coming back from that. Standing before Howard, their former superior at HHM, and Lalo, the drug kingpin who holds their future in his hands, it’s clear who their boss has become. Guys like Howard Hamlin — arrogant, entitled, but working within the bounds of the legal system — are, quite literally, dead to them. In a lesser show, these shifting winds might’ve been telegraphed through some on-the-nose dialogue or a showier means of conveying where Kim and Jimmy now stand. Better Call Saul is too elegant for that. Instead, through subtle but intentional filmmaking choices like that candle, combined with events that hearken back to key scenes from previous seasons, the series tells us plainly that Jimmy and Kim must now roll with the lowlifes and give up any notion that they could still take the higher road."

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05-25-2022, 06:09 AM	#1
TMC Member Forum Idol Join Date: Jan 09, 2001 Posts: 126,243	Better Call Saul shows the futility of trying to escape a life of crime https://www.vulture.com/article/bett...im-future.html "In (the) closing minutes of the first half of the final season of Better Call Saul, Jimmy and Kim have unwittingly traded in their status as flawed antiheroes who get a kick out of running a long con or two," says Jen Chaney. "They are now associates of people on the wrong side of the law, which puts them firmly on the wrong side of it, too. There’s no coming back from that. Standing before Howard, their former superior at HHM, and Lalo, the drug kingpin who holds their future in his hands, it’s clear who their boss has become. Guys like Howard Hamlin — arrogant, entitled, but working within the bounds of the legal system — are, quite literally, dead to them. In a lesser show, these shifting winds might’ve been telegraphed through some on-the-nose dialogue or a showier means of conveying where Kim and Jimmy now stand. Better Call Saul is too elegant for that. Instead, through subtle but intentional filmmaking choices like that candle, combined with events that hearken back to key scenes from previous seasons, the series tells us plainly that Jimmy and Kim must now roll with the lowlifes and give up any notion that they could still take the higher road." ALSO: Bob Odenkirk regrets tweeting the midseason finale spoiler in December: “Well the truth can be told. I screwed up,” he tweeted in response to a fan question. “I did not know you could see a little bit of make up that told story… my bad." Patrick Fabian: "Six years of Better Call Saul, and I never shared a scene with a bad guy, unless you want to say Saul Goodman is": "I participated in a lawyer show that has some emotional problems," he says. "That’s really what I was in. I don’t know what’s going on in the rest of the show, except for those last few seconds." Writer-director Thomas Schnauz explains how a simpler approach and a respect for everyone’s intelligence has led to two chillingly memorable episode-ending showdowns