But of an underwhelming finale, but overall a spectacular S5.
I wanted a big death, dammit! Why couldn't they kill Lalo and just have his equally charismatic and capable identical twin brother show up looking for revenge!?
But of an underwhelming finale, but overall a spectacular S5.
I wanted a big death, dammit! Why couldn't they kill Lalo and just have his equally charismatic and capable identical twin brother show up looking for revenge!?
I'm gonna copy and paste a great comment I saw on the avclub review for this episode that highlights Kim this season.
"It really felt like the development of Jimmy and Kim’s relationship this ENTIRE season was “a textbook example of somehow blindsiding us with what the character would obviously do.” From maybe the third episode onward (after the cold open with the ants devouring the ice cream), I can think of each episode having a moment where Kim did something that completely subverted our expectations. Driving back to Acker’s home in the evening, asking Jimmy to pull the con against Mesa Verde, proposing marriage after the fiasco meeting, standing up to Lalo, not allowing Jimmy to end their relationship right then and there. The episode titles like Wexler V. Goodman and Something Unforgivable were misleading. BCS always finds a way to go in unexpected directions, but this particular season really felt like a lesson in how to bring depth to your story by constantly subverting cliches.
Interestingly enough, Jimmy’s disbelief to Kim’s “pew-pew” in this finale mirrors perfectly with her being stunned by Jimmy’s “S’all good, man” in the season 4 finale. They are truly in this together."
This is really insightful, but I still don't like this heel turn Kim took in the last couple episodes and my main question in response to this comment is: why though? What precipitated her transformation this season, whether it was abrupt or not? I get that she has always been attracted to the lightweight danger of the "grifting" lifestyle, but her response to her boyfriend getting shot at by a drug cartel is: I'm all in on destroying this affable douchebag colleague?
Kim, in the last couple episodes bothered me not because she broke bad but because she turned stupid. She's gonna get disbarred next season. Spoilers!
I still really like this show, but some of the moves being made by Kim, Lalo, AND Gus in the last couple episodes didn't really track for me.
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Kim, in the last couple episodes bothered me not because she broke bad but because she turned stupid. She's gonna get disbarred next season. Spoilers!
I still really like this show, but some of the moves being made by Kim, Lalo, AND Gus in the last couple episodes didn't really track for me.