Better call saul season 2 episode 5 recap

Ina 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, Rebeccaprepare dinner. Jimmy arrives early, six-pack in hand, and is impressed by Chuck's house. Chuck invites him inside.

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.

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.

You need to login to do this. Deflated, she returns to doc review to keep working. Rebecca humors him with a polite chuckle, then resumes reading.

Outside of the United States, the episode premiered on streaming service Netflix in several countries. In a flashback to , Chuck McGill has not yet experienced the symptoms of electromagnetic hypersensitivity , and he easily changes a light bulb in his dining room chandelier. During dinner, Rebecca is charmed by Jimmy's personality and charisma, which makes Chuck obviously uncomfortable. Jimmy meets Kim Wexler in the HHM document review room, where she is relegated to entry-level work, and proposes that she sue HHM for discrimination and creating a hostile work environment. Kim rejects this idea, suggesting it would be career suicide because no one would ever hire her again. She tells Jimmy to worry about his own job while she worries about hers. Kim decides that bringing a major new client to HHM is her best course of action for escaping document review, so she spends her free time calling contacts from law school, law firms, and local businesses.

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.

Better call saul season 2 episode 5 recap

Soon after the final chapter in the saga of Walter White wrapped, Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan joined forces with writer-producer Peter Gould to create another comic epic of corruption and crime in the American Southwest, making what some considered a counterintuitive choice of protagonist. Better Call Saul is anchored by two Breaking Bad regulars: Saul himself and Michael Ehrmantraut Jonathan Banks , a former cop who becomes a fixer for a powerful Mexican cartel, setting his life on a course that will ultimately intersect with that of Jimmy and his most notorious future client. Better Call Saul carries the implicit assumption that any character not seen in Breaking Bad will inevitably be killed off, but proved it could sidestep bloodshed when it wanted to. Account Profile. Sign Out. Smith Mr. Robot Mrs. America Mrs. Davis Ms. Episode 10 Marco.

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Measure advertising performance. Over dinner, Jimmy congratulates Rebecca on her impressive career as a concert violinist. After dinner, Chuck and Rebecca lay in bed, a considerable chasm between them. Howard visits Chuck to share the good news about Mesa Verde. Granted, some of this is probably Pragmatic Villainy as well, with Hector more likely wanting to punish Tuco for being stupid enough to needlessly start a fight in a public place technically Mike had to provoke the fight after Tuco initially just settled for mugging him, but even the latter was a needlessly risky over-reaction to that situation. Chuck's sheet music sits undisturbed in the foreground, in the dark. 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. Advertise with IndieWire. She tells Jimmy to worry about his own job while she worries about hers. Newsletter Sign Up. Download as PDF Printable version. So anyway …. Erin refuses to budge under the clerk's withering glare. And everyone is left picking up the pieces.

Justice For MJ! He has a good heart.

Categories : Better Call Saul season 2 episodes American television episodes Fiction set in Kim tries desperately to bring in new business. Hector throws a bill on the table and leaves. Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description is different from Wikidata Television episode articles with short description for single episodes Television episode articles with short description and disambiguated page names. He takes a seat across from Mike. Her solution, to drum up new business for the firm, seems to work… until Hamlin sticks her back in in the dungeon. Mike Ehrmantraut is approached by Hector Salamanca , the leader of the Salamanca drug cartel and Tuco Salamanca 's uncle. Submit Email. Jimmy: I get it, first rule of Fight Club, right? Not exactly jerkish but annoying is Erin's supervision of Jimmy. 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.