Better Call Saul: S4, Episode 3 (Something Beautiful) - Patreon Version
Added 2025-11-05 17:00:06 +0000 UTC
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We always seem to get multiple Breaking Bad character appearances in one! This week we saw Ira, who was the head of the Vamonos Pest burglar crew that Walt, Jesse, Mike & Saul worked with in S5, and Gale! The intro scene with Nacho is horrible. Just after he said to his Dad "i'm working on [getting out]" this is what happens... No way out for him now, it seems. I think Mike can see that Jimmy is spiralling, hence him bringing up Chuck's death after saying that he didn't think the heist should be for Jimmy. And of course Jimmy brushes it off without any emotion, just like at the end. He is the master of burying his feelings & guilt. To get a bit more of a perspective on what may be going on in Kim's head - they tend to show characters thinking without always necessarily explaining directly to us what they're thinking... She said in S3E10 when talking with Jimmy about changing the world that she's "helping a mid-sized local bank become a mid-sized regional bank." I don't think she feels quite as passionately about it as Kevin does. She maybe thinks that her talents are better served elsewhere in law. A funny sidenote is that in BB, Saul is the middle-man for all the underworld contacts. It seems the Vet is that guy at the moment (though he has far tighter boundaries than Saul ends up having...) and here we get a snippet of Jimmy's talent for that sort of role with him quickly selling Ira on the job. The end scene is brutal and so well done. The letter is nice & heartfelt from Chuck, though it definitely is from Jimmy's HHM days and not from when he was a lawyer. But Jimmy's total absence of feeling toward a loving letter from his recently dead brother is very hard to see. We know deep down it's affecting him, but he's put up a wall there. Kim just staring at him begging for him to show something, and her crying at his (lack of) reaction :( I do wonder what prompted Chuck to write the letter. We find out in S1E10 that their Mom died about 3 years prior so maybe it has something to do with that. Maybe it was Chuck's way of apologising for not telling Jimmy about their Mom's last words o.O
Max Hassam
2025-11-07 03:21:03 +0000 UTCHa, I don't think I ever realized the guy Jimmy hired to lift the hummel figurine was part of Vaminos Pest in Breaking Bad. Another cameo spotted. π
N.T. Stars
2025-11-05 17:38:54 +0000 UTC
