Kim Wexler is still the best.
Petty document fraud intercuts with major border-hopping action.
Season 6 begins with the married attorneys partnering for a complex bit of subterfuge.
Bob Odenkirk as Jimmy McGill in ‘Better Call Saul.'.Greg Lewis/AMC
Their target: radiantly tan Howard Hamlin (Patrick Fabian).
The aristocratic uber-lawyer came off like a jerky antagonist back when the show debuted.
Now I’m worried he will beSaul’s final victim a testament to the drama’s steady evolution.
Hard to figure out whoisn’thunting poor Nacho at this point.
Lalo’s a Salamanca and, of course, he has cousins.
Saul’s split narrative used to trouble me.
In the two episodes I’ve seen, everything happening with Kim is totally fascinating.
By comparison, some of the cartel stuff is… very solid!
But not too surprising which could be an inevitable prequel problem.
But these early episodes confirm the prequel as its own unique entertainment.
Odenkirk finds some new notes to play in the criminal pairing with Kim.
And Seehorn is just unstoppable, shading Kim’s dark turn as a simultaneous act of self-immolation and self-realization.
Look closely in these early episodes and you keep spotting a dogeared copy ofThe Time Machine.
Its placement feels meaningful on multiple levels becauseSaulhas always been a time machine.
The season-starting Gene scenes have turned into the longest tease in TV history.
Inventing tantalizing new mysteries right as the end begins?
