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Better Call Saul: S4, Episode 2 (Breathe) - Patreon Version (Patreon)

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2025-10-29 16:00:11
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Better Call Saul: S4, Episode 2 (Breathe) - Patreon Version

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N.T. Stars

I like that you two can sense the darkness creeping into the show. You're even hesitant to be excited for Jimmy's schemes now!

Francesca Langer

Here is my interpretation of the job interview scene: I think Jimmy's disgust towards those guys for being suckers is sublimated guilt about Chuck's death. With Chuck gone, Jimmy feels orphaned. Chuck was the adult in his life, the superego that kept him in line. Without Chuck, there is no safety net under Jimmy anymore, no one to stop him. He feels forced to be responsible for himself, and he hates it. Jimmy is emotionally childlike: he wants to be coddled and babied and endlessly validated by his favorite people, Chuck and Kim. He puts the people he loves on a pedestal and worships them, and anxiously tries to please them and gain their approval; He's completely dependent on external validation (Kim) to feel good about himself and external discipline (Chuck) to control himself; He outsources his responsibility to other people. In the job interview scene, Jimmy views himself from the outside, he sees how powerful his manipulative charm is, how easily he can control these idiots, and he sees what Chuck saw: The chimp with a machine gun. Chuck's ghost is taunting him. But he can't face those feelings, so he projects it back onto those two guys. Jimmy is an extremely sophisticated and dangerous criminal, but with the heart of a petulant little kid. He's like "No, I won't eat my broccoli!" except that the broccoli is the fact that he may have inadvertently driven his own brother to suicide. I think Jimmy deciding to steal the hummel figure at the end is part of Jimmy's general pattern of doubling down. We see him repeat this cycle again and again: He feels guilty, so he's like "I don't feel bad! I didn't do anything wrong! Look how much I don't feel bad! In fact, I'll do it again, just to prove to myself that I don't feel bad!" The heart of all tragedy is the sunk cost fallacy.

ArcadeAndy

Kim's lecture to Howard in this episode is one of the best performances I've seen. It's crazy that Rhea Seehorn never won an Emmy for this role.

RabidMango

I think Rhea Seehorn is phenomenal. I can't wait for Pluribus coming up.

David Caine

Kim is definitely one of the best characters in this Breaking Bad universe, thanks to Rhea's phenomenal acting. The character has more passion, more depth, more layers. She was robbed of all the Emmys, but that's how it goes, sadly.

RabidMango

I feel the same, but I didn't watch a lot of the other shows so I can't really have an opinion one way or another.

Ian A

Nah, I don't think you were too harsh on Chuck. This episode to me, seem to be were BCS is starting to become way more serious with bigger consequences for everyone's problems. Thanks for the video!

E L Δ T E

"I'm surprised Gus cares so much." Dear God... Hector literally killed Gus' business partner and love interest; half of BB and BCS are about Gus tormenting Hector and wanting revenge. It's one of the main plot lines of both shows. I can't believe how oblivious these people are to anything that's going on in this show lmao. Of course Gus cares; he wants Hector to stay alive so he can torment him. He quite literally explained this to mike a season ago.

Todd Bolton

Chandra: “If this whole story was from Chuck’s perspective instead of Jimmy’s we would be the exact same except on Chuck’s side and really hating on Jimmy because we would see everything Jimmy’s doing wrong and how it hurts Chuck.” Profound, both as insight into the (profound) writing and, maybe even more, that you are willing to change your own perspective. I would absolutely love to see y’all react to Deadwood, sometime (36 episodes and a movie). It’s a western and only one of three shows that ranks above Better Call Saul for me. Such flexibility of perspective is perfect for appreciating its complex characterizations.

Todd Bolton

Francesca: brilliant analysis. Scarier in that I see myself in Jimmy.