I hope he’s not, because I love working with Michael McKean. Is Jimmy done with Chuck? Can their relationship be fixed? Maybe even as Saul Goodman, he’s trying to build something and dealing with a more dimensional life than I was ascribing to him.
But now that we know Jimmy, maybe that’s not the case. I had this whole backstory that he was banging strippers and having his heart broken and indulging himself at every opportunity. I would love to see a scene or two or a story that plays out parallel to “Breaking Bad.” Because I do think when Walter White walks out the door of Saul Goodman’s office, we really had no idea where Saul’s life went to, and what he did. We never saw the other side of Saul Goodman, his home life. Maybe a nefarious one, not an entirely above-board one. And that resonated with me, that when he becomes Saul Goodman, whether it’s the beginning of next season or the end of the next, that he does feel unshackled from his own expectations from himself and his desires to please his brother. It made me think that being Saul Goodman must have been kind of fun. He is definitely feeling melancholy, but he has a little bit of a smile. A fan wrote to me and said in the Omaha scene, where he is in his sad little condo watching his old commercial, he has a little bit of a smile. And yet somehow finding revenge unsatisfying. And maybe, hooking up with the wonderful Kim. And maybe by doing so, rubbing it in his brother’s face. And we get to watch him have fun being Saul Goodman for a whole season. He goes on a spirit walk in the desert with peyote and comes back, gets the suit on and becomes Saul Goodman.
For me, total guess, he goes into a soul-searching mode.
All season long, we’ve seen him gathering notions that will become Saul Goodman, from hanging out in that tailoring shop and looking at the ties and shirts, to hearing him call himself Saul Goodman as a part of the scam that he was doing. I don’t know anything about what’s going to happen next, and I like it that way. “Now what?” is the question hanging at the end of the tenth episode in a good way.
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