Better Call Saul Just Broke Our Hearts, But It's For The Best

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Spoilers for the latest episode of Better Call Saul

This week’s episode of Better Call Saul was all about consequences. Almost six seasons of love, loss, and debauchery from Jimmy McGill and Kim Wexler came crashing down as the outcome of their actions stepped into the light. Howard Hamlin is dead, and a life once defined by chasing thrills and abusing the very law they sought to uphold has ended in sombre tragedy. Now, the only way to move forward is to break apart.

But it isn’t that simple. Kim and Jimmy’s lives are integrally linked to that of Howard Hamlin. Their entire legal careers learned from the law firm they intended to annihilate in their affair with destruction, believing that years of resentment justified the pursuit of making one troubled man’s existence an unending misery. While they didn’t pull the trigger that ended his life, blood is almost certainly on their hands.

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Lies piled upon secrets piled upon schemes all culminated in a moment of loss so monumental that it tore apart foundations our main characters once thought unbreakable. We knew this ultimatum was coming, the existence of Breaking Bad dictates that Kim and Jimmy inevitably go their separate ways, either through death, heartbreak, or betrayal. But the show has done such a phenomenal job building these people up into flawed figures we care for and despise in equal measure, begging them not to linger so close to the precipice in the fear they’ll fall victim to their very worst vices. Fun and Games saw that happen and it broke my heart, while also ensuring that, for now, Kim Wexler escapes the clutches of death.

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