Better Call Saul ***Spoilers***

I have no problem with Howard, he seems genuinely sorry for indulging Chuck in making life hard for Jimmy.

Their treatment of Howard is an interesting one as it only makes me dislike them more. Comparable to how Walt became increasingly reprehensible.

I was thinking maybe that is why they have Jimmy/Kim attacking Howard so the audience feel conflicted about them. Because Howard seemed to try and make amends with Jimmy a few times. Plus he seemed genuinely worried that Jimmy could drag Kim down.

The only thing they have left to use as an excuse is the Sandpiper stuff.

Pete Peppers does a good breakdown on Nacho in how he developed from not just another drug dealer

I find him odd and a bit creepy for some reason, he's almost robotic at times, no real personality. I'm glad he's in there as a character but I certainly have no sympathy for him, he was a proper a-hole in the beginning

Assume he didn't kill anyone else as he needed them not to suspect Gus and in turn protect his father.

No he as trying to unburden himself of the guilty of pushing Chuck out of the firm by confessing. What Kim didn’t like was that in the day of the funeral he dropped the bombshell that Chuck had probably killed himself.

However they showed us Jimmy smiling about it as though this was good news but they never followed up on it.

What doesn’t make sense about the Jimmy/Howard story is that Jimmy accepted way back in session that Howard was pressured by Chuck into rejecting him from HHM. They were at odds over sandpiper but after Chuck’s death it is Jimmy that brings Howard out of the doldrums.

Suddenly Jimmy starts to bully Howard for no reason and displays mental instability in public and then stops? And it is Kim who suddenly pushes it forward?

None of it makes any sense. All the more bizarre by the care they are taking in tying it all together with Breaking Bad.

There must have been a dozen ways to bring the 20% from Sandpiper into the story that made sense.

For Jimmy & Kim to target Howard in such a personal way makes zero sense.

it is like the writers needed them as enemies and didn’t put any thought into it.

The drug dealer side of the series is interesting but it is getting way too much screen time in a show that is supposed to be about Better Call Saul. They even give the episode and season cliffhangers to it when the more interesting stuff is going on with Jimmy and Kim. For example, it was obvious Lalo somehow survive the murder squad. Ending season 5 showing him do a cliched cool guy walk away from the bloodbath was not nearly as interesting as what happened between Jimmy and Kim in the hotel room.

Yes but it is clear that an early settlement for the elderly is an afterthought to justify what she wants to do.

Scheming to get the Sandpiper case warped is a good plot for Jimmy and Kim but the extreme malice towards Howard makes no sense at all.

I think this is deliberate though. Jimmy and Kim never seemed a good match. All they had in common was their humble beginnings and work ethic. They have no reason to be together beyond the scraps they keep getting into. It's a hollow relationship, but some relationships are like that though, although they usually burn out.

It's looking like Kim is going to take a swerve away from these shenanigans after her meeting with Ed Begley Jnr, but my prediction is that she is actually more toxic than Jimmy and may end up in cahoots with Lalo because Jimmy will not be enough of a bad boy for her.

Is that the first episode directed by Rhea Seehorn?

Such a dull episode. Zero interest in the scheming against Howard stuff. Neither plausible nor entertaining.

I’m sorry I ever bothered with this show, never got going, never stood up on its own two feet, but we’re near the finish line now so I’ll stick with it.