Better call saul season 2 episode 5 recap

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In , a hypersensitivity-free Chuck replaces a dead bulb in his dining room chandelier without flinching. He puts on music, then makes his way to the kitchen to help his wife, Rebecca , prepare dinner. Jimmy arrives early, six-pack in hand, and is impressed by Chuck's house. Chuck invites him inside. Over dinner, Jimmy congratulates Rebecca on her impressive career as a concert violinist. When Jimmy awkwardly brings up their wedding, she politely changes the subject and asks Jimmy about his first week in the mailroom at HHM. The conversation lulls to an uncomfortable silence, so Jimmy begins telling lawyer jokes.

Better call saul season 2 episode 5 recap

You don't save me. I save me. Tropes All for Nothing : Mike's plan of having the police arrest Tuco. He now knows that the very thing he tried to avoid having more Salamancas looking into Albuquerque has just happened and he's also being bribed to take the heat for the gun charge, which would significantly reduce Tuco's jail sentence. Kim feels this way after Howard won't let her out of the Cornfield, even after all the trouble she went through to bring in Mesa Verde as a lucrative client. Although things will change in that respect in future episodes. Author Catchphrase : In-universe example. One of Erin's critiques of Jimmy's paperwork is that he over uses the words "clearly" and "obviously". Big "YES! And unlike in Breaking Bad , he's walking and talking perfectly fine. For now. Call-Forward : During the dinner flashback, one of the places Jimmy says he's considering finding an apartment at is the Beachcomber, where Walt temporarily stays after Skyler evicts him. The tense dinner scene itself seems very similar to the scene where Jesse has dinner with Walt and Skyler. During the scene where Mike gets an unexpected visit from Hector at the diner, Fran, the waitress serving him, is the same one who serves him and Lydia at their meeting.

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Chuck elucidates Jimmy's lifelong slippery habits. The more we learn about Jimmy McGill, about his chicanery and utter disregard for rules and professional etiquette, the more Chuck's contempt makes sense. As with Howard, who seemed like Jimmy's arch-nemesis for most of last season, it's not Chuck who's changing, but our perspective of him. Better Call Saul is one of the best dramas on television because it has no obvious heroes and villains, no one to really root against. Well, Tuco is pretty much a textbook villain, but everyone else, even Nacho, defies easy categorization. But the post-Tony Soprano landscape, piebald with gritty anti-heroes like long swaths of dandelions, is frustratingly single-minded in its depiction of middle-aged men having lapses of judgment and trying to redeem themselves. Think of the loudest, and thus most recognized, anti-heroes, the Walter Whites and Nucky Thompsons, or more recent ones like Richie from the aesthetically phantasmagoric Vinyl and whoever's still alive on Game of Thrones.

Things you buy through our links may earn Vox Media a commission. Undoubtedly, his early bird quips and lawyer punch lines lack panache. And panache is what Jimmy has for days. For years, in fact. Actually, decades. He scraped and saved and opened his own corner store.

Better call saul season 2 episode 5 recap

Two enterprising young men take full advantage of Saul Goodman's promotional rate for non-violent felonies. Remember that time, not so long ago, when Jimmy McGill assured a worried Kim that his "50 percent off for non-violent felonies" promotion on legal services would not, nay, could not, create an incentive for his clients to commit the crimes they would have always gone ahead and committed anyway? It seems like it was only yesterday! In this case, probably because it was, in fact, yesterday — with a big thank-you to Better Call Saul for rewarding our patience during the long between-seasons hiatus with two episodes in a single week. We'll give this much to Jimmy: when he said that, he probably believed it. It's still early days in the legal career of Saul Goodman, and it's possible that he has yet to grasp how truly, spectacularly stupid his client base actually is.

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Kim is quick to point out how stupid this is: as even if by some miraculous chance she actually won the case, it would still be career suicide as there would be no law firm willing to hire a woman who would sue their own firm. Tools Tools. And she told him it would happen. Current Wiki. Search Icon. Box Office. Awards Spotlight. He requests a hearing for Thursday morning. When Jimmy sneaks into HHM to talk to Kim notice the shot from the POV of the glass door, which lasts maybe half a second , she tells him he's like Judas Priest — he just can't stop breaking the rules, breaking the rules. How to Pitch IndieWire. Use profiles to select personalised advertising. And now, Mike has to contend with the loose ends of his dust-up with Tuco. She nags him at night about proofing depositions, appears in his office at 9 a.

Justice For MJ! He has a good heart. Sometime in the recent past, Chuck Michael McKean prepares a dinner with wife Rebecca in their seemingly picture-perfect home.

Rebecca smiles, genuinely amused. After sipping at a black coffee, Hector leaves Mike to tensely ponder the situation at hand. Archived from the original on 21 March Erin will not be given the slip again. Craft Considerations. What do you call 25 attorneys buried up to their chins in cement? An offer you can't understand! Not many, but there were a few subtle callbacks and a visit from a familiar face. Actually, decades. During dinner, Rebecca is charmed by Jimmy's personality and charisma, which makes Chuck obviously uncomfortable.