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Better Call Saul 1.09
Rarely have I ever...
...wanted to be wrong more. So my suspicion from last week turns out to be true. It was Chuck. It was Chuck all the time. That's... great storytelling, but oh so evil, Vince Gilligan, you bastard. Woe!
But really, the "as what?" in last week's flashback was the decisive clue. And the sibling dynamic at the core is recognizable. Chuck can handle Jimmy as a screw up. But never Jimmy as his equal. And it really had to be Chuck landing this worst blow, because Chuck is whom Jimmy was trying to live up to all this time, who formed his idea of who a good lawyer and a good man should be. But now that he's realized that Chuck not only will never see him as anything else but Slippin' Jimmy but also deceived him by using Hamlin as the bad cop to his good cop all this time?
It's all good, man. Saul Goodman.
Arggggh. Vince Gilligan, curse and bless you for making me care about Jimmy so much.
Btw, I suspect the Doylist reason for Chuck's specific psychosomatic condition (i.e. that it's this one, and not agraphobia or something else) is so that Jimmy's phone could be the proverbial Chekovian gun going off at this point. The feeling of foreboding just grew and grew through the episode, and incidentally, Chuck's actor gave a great performance, because you could tell in the conference scene his indignation was faked but it wasn't so obvious that Jimmy (believing in Chuck as he did) would catch it, and later, in the big revelation scene, when he finally admitted his reasons and we saw him angry for the first time, he almost reverted to a teenager with that type of fraternal pettiness.
And oh, Kim. Fighting for Jimmy with Howard Hamlin, only to find out this, and then her scene with Jimmy where she still wants to protect him from the devastating truth. Something has to happen with or to Kim as well, I know, but I can't handle it right now, show, please let Jimmy stay friends with Kim a while longer before you devastate me a second time.
*shakes fist to the tv heavens*
...wanted to be wrong more. So my suspicion from last week turns out to be true. It was Chuck. It was Chuck all the time. That's... great storytelling, but oh so evil, Vince Gilligan, you bastard. Woe!
But really, the "as what?" in last week's flashback was the decisive clue. And the sibling dynamic at the core is recognizable. Chuck can handle Jimmy as a screw up. But never Jimmy as his equal. And it really had to be Chuck landing this worst blow, because Chuck is whom Jimmy was trying to live up to all this time, who formed his idea of who a good lawyer and a good man should be. But now that he's realized that Chuck not only will never see him as anything else but Slippin' Jimmy but also deceived him by using Hamlin as the bad cop to his good cop all this time?
It's all good, man. Saul Goodman.
Arggggh. Vince Gilligan, curse and bless you for making me care about Jimmy so much.
Btw, I suspect the Doylist reason for Chuck's specific psychosomatic condition (i.e. that it's this one, and not agraphobia or something else) is so that Jimmy's phone could be the proverbial Chekovian gun going off at this point. The feeling of foreboding just grew and grew through the episode, and incidentally, Chuck's actor gave a great performance, because you could tell in the conference scene his indignation was faked but it wasn't so obvious that Jimmy (believing in Chuck as he did) would catch it, and later, in the big revelation scene, when he finally admitted his reasons and we saw him angry for the first time, he almost reverted to a teenager with that type of fraternal pettiness.
And oh, Kim. Fighting for Jimmy with Howard Hamlin, only to find out this, and then her scene with Jimmy where she still wants to protect him from the devastating truth. Something has to happen with or to Kim as well, I know, but I can't handle it right now, show, please let Jimmy stay friends with Kim a while longer before you devastate me a second time.
*shakes fist to the tv heavens*
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Thing is, I already know Jimmy is going to lose all this we're seeing now. I know it's gonna happen, and I brace myself, but I still get gut-punched.
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