Kim’s Justice Makes Her A Better Criminal Than Saul Goodman
Kim proves she's an even better criminal than Jimmy McGill in Better Call Saul season 6's opening episodes, but not for the reason you might think. Better Call Saul tells the tale of a legitimate lawyer who descends into a life of criminality… and her name is Kim Wexler. Over the course of 5 seasons, Better Call Saul has shown Bob Odenkirk's Jimmy McGill transform from a small-time con artist into a fully-fledged criminal but, more subtly, the Breaking Bad spinoff also charts Kim's journey from a talented, respected lawyer who occasionally aids Jimmy's scams into the main driving force encouraging him to commit increasingly ambitious, ethically-dubious crimes. Better Call Saul makes little attempt to hide how Kim is by far the better crook. Back in season 5, she talked down a gun-toting Lalo Salamanca as if he were a rambunctious child throwing a tantrum, while Jimmy lingered in the background watching on.
In Better Call Saul season 6's opening two episodes, the Kettlemans are conned into unwittingly taking part in Jimmy and Kim's character assassination of Howard Hamlin. Everything proceeds as planned, and the final step is simply silencing the Kettlemans. Jimmy intends to pay them off (the carrot), but Kim isn't so sure, and insists on accompanying her husband for the meeting. Betsy Kettleman starts talking tough, so Kim intervenes and takes a tougher approach back (the stick) by threatening to have their tax business investigated for fraud. Needless to say, this proves far more effective than Jimmy's method.
Related: Kim Throwing Away Saul’s Coffee Mug Means More Than You Realize
On the surface, Kim looks like the more professional criminal here, and while that may be true, the reason she's a better crook than Jimmy
Read more on screenrant.com
