There's No Way Kim Wexler Dies Now, Right?
WARNING: Spoilers ahead for Better Call Saul season 6, episode 8
Kim Wexler's chances of Better Call Saul survival just skyrocketed after season 6's latest huge death. With each passing Better Call Saul season, Kim Wexler became increasingly vital to Jimmy McGill's existence — largely thanks to Rhea Seehorn's standout performances making the character absolutely indispensable. Entering Better Call Saul season 6, Kim wasn't only Jimmy's wife, but his best friend and partner in crime too.
The more Kim ingratiated herself into Better Call Saul's landscape, however, the more unusual her Breaking Bad absence seemed. As Walter White's slimy lawyer, Saul Goodman features heavily, but Kim is not seen, mentioned or referenced even once over five whole seasons. For years, Better Call Saul viewers have wondered why Kim is but a ghost during Breaking Bad's timeline — but, more importantly, whether she's a figurative ghost, or actually dead.
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Better Call Saul season 6, episode 8 («Point & Shoot») goes a long way toward answering that question, and though nothing is ever certain in the Breaking Bad universe, the Wexler wagon looks set to keep rolling. Surely, Kim has to survive Better Call Saul now?!
When Better Call Saul season 6 began, four character fates remained up in the air: Kim Wexler, Lalo Salamanca, Nacho Varga, and Howard Hamlin. Each of them is absent during Breaking Bad, and Better Call Saul needed to address why. In an unexpected final season bloodbath, Nacho perished in episode 3, Lalo shot Howard in episode 7, and episode 8 continues the bloody pattern when Gus shoots Lalo. Better Call Saul and Breaking Bad are renowned for intelligent, inventive, and surprising
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