What matters most to him now is the game. But the lack of sincerity with which he says it proves that the motto, at least to him, is also severely out of date. We see on Kim’s face that it doesn’t work. “Justice Matters Most,” Jimmy lets stumble out as an acronym for a motto in place of his name, an attempt to make her feel better about the now out-of-date gift. She earnestly buys him a briefcase with the initials of Jimmy McGill on them, and suddenly they no longer apply. The doomed Jimmy and Kim romance is Better Call Saul’s greatest and most gut-wrenching slow burn. Worst of all, he’s inviting her to be like him. He’s excited to represent the guilty and try to cut them impossible deals, giving out burner phones that he’s programmed to have a one-button push to call him directly.
Her long-term partner has changed his name into a bad pun. Here is a strictly Better Call Saul character looking directly into Breaking Bad’s aesthetic. In this scene after the cold open, it feels like Kim Wexler has entered a different world.
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But director Bronwen Hughes (returning to this world after helming seminal Breaking Bad Season 1 entry “Crazy Handful of Nothin’” way back in 2008) smartly doesn’t run the perspective of this pivot through Jimmy’s eyes she puts it through Kim’s.įor Season 5, the outstanding Rhea Seehorn is one of just two series regulars who doesn’t appear in Breaking Bad or isn’t directly tied to the Salamanca crime family (the other is Patrick Fabian, absent from the premiere, his role as Howard seemingly continuing to shrink after Chuck’s death), and that makes her one of the most fascinating pieces of this prequel’s puzzle, if not the most. This is our first indicator that the series is getting close to its inevitable end, as Jimmy is publicly buried under the façade of Saul.
After the annual tradition of a black and white opener set after Breaking Bad’s finale (more on this later), we catch up with Jimmy McGill as he’s taking the leap to change his name to Saul Goodman once and for all. The divide still exists in “Magic Man,” but it feels like every piece each now has two linking shadows, one of the past, and one of the inevitable future we already saw play out from 2008 to 2013.
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