I didn't understand Kim
During the first 4 seasons I had trouble understanding Kim Wexler as a character. I didn’t get her motifs and why she made the choices she did. That was until season 5 episode 3, ”The guy for this”. She might have made sense to other people, but for me this is when her character finally clicked for me. That’s why I’m writing an analysis based of on that episode.
The life she could have had
First, the background. She came from a poor family, and studied law to become more than a girl working at the local Walmart. Making that journey, and going from poor to rich, isn’t easy. But Kim seemed to be doing fine! She became a great lawyer and HHM (Howard specifically) seemed to believe in her and supported her. If she had continued walking the beaten path – she could have had it all. She could have lived the American dream; have a great career, marrying someone like Howard, move to a nice house and maybe have kids.
The life she chose instead
But, as we see over the seasons, she choses another route. She choses Jimmy and I love Jimmy, but he is after all the black sheep in the McGill family/at HHM and he brings her nothing but trouble. I totally see why a young girl would be impressed by Jimmy’s charm, but I couldn’t understand why she stayed with him for years and how she could risque her whole career and even life by involving herself in his schemes. Was she self destructive? Did she have hidden antisocial tendencies? Was she thrill seeking? Did she think Jimmy would love her more? I just couldn’t see why she did it. And by it I mean things such as pretending to be Giselle, lying to her clients, the Huel Babanoux letter scheme, taking on pro bono clients after promising Mesa Verde to be her sole focus etc etc. It didn’t make sense to me.
Season 5 episode 3 "The guy for this"
Until Season 5 episode 3. For those of you who have forgotten, a quick recap: Kim is in court working on her pro bono cases. Mesa Verde calls and she tries to tell them she's busy - even though they have previously warned her for doing just that "Mesa Verde is not a client you hang up on!". Then they tell her she have to drive to Tucumari to meet this guy who refuse to give up his property when they are building a callcenter there. So she does. And it's in this scene when Kim talks to Mr Acker it all became so obvious to me; it's all about Kim's self image and identity.
Kim starts the conversation by telling him she understands he's upset
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- Her mother is a bitch : so is Skyler (Furthermore her face is not clearly shown in that scene. Not a coincidence if you ask me, remember, Vince and Peter are maestros of their craft)
- Better Call Saul seems to take place in the same universe as Breaking Bad from what I understand from my 9th rewatch
- She clearly has some daddy issues : Walt was an absent father
- She hates orange juice because her big brother loves it and he is a fucking pussy
- Her feet are so soft because she uses baby lotion which is a reference to the fact that she was a baby in the critically acclaimed show Breaking Bad.
- But Mike Ehrmantraut from Breaking Bad could actually be her real father as Kim backward is Mik and Wexler kinda sound like Skyler, just saying
If true this could be a huge paradigm shift. Bravo Vince !
Time and time again Jimmy does something that is completely against Kim or her morals (or what we believe to be Kim's morals). Yet, every single time she ends up looking past it at the drop of a dime. Some examples:
- Jimmy starts selling his prepaid phones on the streets to criminals. Once he is reinstated as a lawyer, he offers the criminals 50% off discounts for his service as a lawyer solely for the sake of gaining new clients to churn through. Kim makes it clear that she isn't a fan of the idea given that it's shady business and can be seen as a way of supporting the crime, but she looks past it. It's just more of Jimmy's shenanigans, right?
- When Kim is trying to convince one of her pro bono clients to not take the case to trial because she knows that it would result in a much worse outcome for the client, Jimmy walks in and aggressively tries to get Kim to joint-scam the guy with a scare tactic to achieve their desired outcome. Kim puts her foot down and says no, I will not lie to my clients. But then immediately, right after she gets Jimmy to let this one go, she changes her mind and decides to go through with the scam on her own.
- When Jimmy and Kim are planning their scam on Kevin Wachtell in order to get Mesa Verde to move their call center to a different location, Rich Schweikart raises suspicion, so Kim gets cold feet and tells Jimmy that she wants to bail on the scam. Yet Jimmy goes behind her back and follows through anyway, dropping the huge bomb on Mesa Verde and betraying Kim directly. When they get home that night, Kim is pissed. Jimmy has effectively ruined everything that Kim has been working towards for so long. I've had enough. I think we need to break up. I can't go on living with all of this shit (read: Jimmy's shit) in my life anymore. But then 2 minutes later... Let's get married.
- Jimmy, representing Lalo who just murdered an innocent man at TravelWire, decides to singlehandedly DRIVE DOWN TO THE BORDER AND RETRIEVE THE $7 MILLION BOND MONEY FOR A COLD-BLOODED CARTEL KILLER AND THEREBY BECOME A FRIEND OF THE CARTEL. Kim: Ok. I'm with you on this one.
Look, I get it, Kim and Jimmy are their own people, and Kim can't control Jimmy or what he does with his life. As a matter of fact, Kim's ability to not become overly emotionally involved in these things is a quality that is admirable to me. But when Jimmy's shit starts to affect Kim's life to a very significant extent, and she just keeps looking past it like "yu
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She could disappear
She could be behind the scenes still in bb
She could be in jail
She could con jimmy
I’m leaning towards that she may be the ultimate bad guy by going against Saul. I only watched it last year and have seen it twice now. I’m sure this has already been talked about to death. But where is everyone at with the outcome for Kim for the season finale? I just wanted to talk about it before I have to leave the group from being behind time zones in Australia and not wanting to know spoilers. It’s the marriage that really sticks out to me because she was fuming after jimmy pulled the $4mill play without telling her and she was almost going to leave him but decided to get married.! Why then?! Everytime someone plays her or undermines her or doubts her she goes in hard. I think she could be saving her best play for last. The ultimate takedown of Saul Goodman and his million dollar empire he made for himself from sandpiper and the cartel.
Not a lot of us get to see routines up close of powerful women so it was actually really motivating and educating for me. First off, she get up and goes to the gym and showers every morning. While , I can't dramatically switch my schedule that much right now I have started working out every day.
It has really helped my brain. And I'm working on my clothing and hair because I really enjoy the idea of building my character. The way she holds herself professionally is very impressive too and I have been mindful of my posture and tact.
Throughout the series, people only have looked at Kim Wexler’s character through the lens of Jimmy. Many saw Kim as the good to Jimmy’s bad. For the first half of the series, this is what it seemed. Kim always seemed to be the motivation for Jimmy to stay “good.” After all, that has been Jimmy’s struggle from the start. A former con man who tries to turn his life around with the help of his respected brother, Chuck. Like Breaking Bad, Vince Gilligan once again got us to believe that the bad guy was the good guy. That was Jimmy. The guy with a good heart who uses slightly immoral means to meet moral ends. Jimmy’s immoral methods were always masked as moral through Jimmy’s good intentions and Kim’s support of Jimmy.
For most of the series, it seemed that Kim operated as the “good” to Jimmy’s “bad.” Every time Slippin Jimmy slipped up, Kim saw his true intentions as good and saved him. When Jimmy was down on his luck, Kim worked magic to get him a job offer at Davis and Main. When Chuck found out that Jimmy doctored the Mesa Verde paperwork, she defended him at the BAR hearing and argued that his actions were just that of a concerned brother. When he then got denied for reinstatement as a lawyer, she helped him get reinstated.
Throughout all of these events, Kim always seemed like the victim. She saw the good in Jimmy and she fought for him so that he could become the lawyer she thought he could be. She stuck by Jimmy because she saw the good inside him. But it started to become clear in the later seasons that this wasn’t true. Kim was not trying to save Jimmy. Kim was becoming Jimmy. When Jimmy wanted to con a wealthy stock trader out of expensive drinks, she did it. When Jimmy wanted to con an investor out of a $10,000 check, she did it. When Kim found out that Jimmy doctored the Mesa Verde documents, she helped him trick Chuck by placing a battery inside of his coat pocket. When she finds out that Jimmy is selling mobile phones to criminals and that Huell assaulted a police officer, Kim and Jimmy make up thousands of fake citizens and write letters to the judge praising Huell as a hero.
There are many other moments like this. Moments where Jimmy’s negative influence brings Kim down with him. All of these moments go back to Chuck’s proclamation about Jimmy seem even more true - “you hurt people over and over. That’s what you do.”
It has always seemed that Jimmy was pulling Kim down with him. But even that narrative is not true.
When you look at Ki
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Title says it all.
I only can find the pollos harmanos videos but not the rest :/
Edit 1: Found the one!
Madrigal Electromotive Security Training with Mike Ehrmantraut - Streamable Mirror
All the contacts/ideas Saul have been referring to in BrBa are explained pretty well in BCS, example burner phones, Vet guy, Mike ( and Gus via Mike), etc all but the dude who gives people new identities and a hiding place.
Since this guy comes up a lot in BrBa and we do see him in BCS ( altho that scene happens after BrBa timeline) I think this dude and his connection has not been explore. Since Kim is missing in BrBa I am thinking maybe Jimmy wanted to make her feel safe since he already believes he is trouble for her. She forges an identity and lives somewhere far away.
She is my favourite female character on any show ive seen easily who agrees?
In S5Ep6, we get the first and only glimpse so far of Kim Wexler’s origin story, but I think it is a very significant one that tells a lot about her relationship with Jimmy and her feelings toward Howard. Kim’s mother is revealed to be an active alcoholic, unreliable, selfish, and neglectful of Kim, who of course is furious.
Adult Children Of Alcoholics (ACAs) generally have experienced a lot of certain kind of traumas as children, and the experience tends to give them certain common personality traits (lack of trust, need for control, etc.)*
I wanna talk about a couple of these in relation to adult Kim’s character.
ACAs tend to be isolated and afraid of people and authority figures, and become approval seekers and lose their identity in the process.
—This is absolutely the side of Kim that we see in the first couple of seasons of BCS. She is extremely controlled and buttoned up and rigid, anxious to cross every t and dot every i in pursuit of approval from the firm, her clients, and Howard. Her “yellow” unlawful side that we see emerge later is completely subsumed by corporate “blue.”
—ACAs are also often caught in the trap of hating the very people they are working so hard to please. They have worked to gain the love of their parents, only to have the parents not reward them, but even inexplicably scold and ignore them. Howard’s opaque and erratic praise of Kim feeds right into this, and I think it’s the key of why she hates him so much.
ACAs either become alcoholics, marry them or both, or find another compulsive personality such as a workaholic to fulfill their sick abandonment needs/ ACAs live life from the viewpoint of victims and we are attracted by that weakness in our love and friendship relationships.
— Kim loves Jimmy’s spontaneity and his unpredictability. Loving someone who doesn’t show up for you or who lies to your face is an ACA’s normal. Both their less-than-ideal childhoods have left them with personality traits that suit them ideally to be enablers and cheerleaders for each other.
ACAs become addicted to excitement.
—definitely Kim. She takes to becoming Giselle immediately, and she and Jimmy are literally feeding off of each other’s risky behavior by the end of season 5. They are both compulsive and obsessive when it comes to perfecting their work, whether it’s Mesa Verde or tormenting Howard. And as an addict Kim (and maybe Jimmy) is seeking more and bigger thrills as time goes on.
ACAs confuse love and pity and tend to
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Is kim happy that Acker keeps his house but angry that Jimmy lied and did a switcharoo?
What exactly is going in jimmy and kims relationship? Wanting to get married after wanting to break up?
I've been thinking about this a lot lately. A lot of Breaking Badder's are left wondering what happens to Kim Sexler in the hit prequel series Better Call Saul as she doesn't appear in the famous AMC series set in Albuquerque, New Mexico Breaking Bad. A lot of theorists believe that she must die in Season 6, however, these theories are simply just wrong.
After a lot of hard thinking, I came to a conclusion. Kim Wexler IS in Breaking Bad. In fact, she's right in front of us. Kim Wexler is Skyler 'stupid bitch' White. I know that might seem like a stretch, but just look at the facts: they're both blonde, have blue eyes, engage in criminal activity, and are well acquainted with Saul Goodman! Plus, they're even played by the same actor.
You may be wondering, why did Kim change her name to Skyler and marry Walter White? This will be explained in BCS season 6 with Bryan Cranston returning for an appearance as the protagonist of hit show Breaking Bad, Walter White. Kim is under pressure from the police after being associated with Jimmy Goodman so she dials the vacuum service and asks for a Hoover Max Extract® Pressure Pro™, Model 60 and is placed under the new identity of Skyler Lambert. She meets Walter White shortly after and marries and sexes him.
Bravo Vince 👏👏👏.
Am I the only one who thinks Kim Wexler’s voice is hot although people say it’s a husky voice
I thought I'd buy a white pencil to fill in the highlights. Not a great idea I think in this case, or at least, not how I ended up doing it. The sketch looks ok to me, but I still can't seem to find the essence of a person, like, this looks like who I was trying to draw, but ... it didn't quite come out like I wanted (reference photo as well). I'm not proud, constructive criticism is always welcome.
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Ice Station Zebra Associates
Kim’s desk in Saul’s office
World’s Greatest Lawyer cup
“Put a dollar in my pocket”
Gene’s KC Royals lunchbox
Kim standing at the rainbow’s end, and the total lack of color in Gene’s life is also possibly a reference.
Are there any others the writers have included?
This scene comes at the end of the Squat Cobbler episode (an all around fantastic episode, one of the best in the series), when Jimmy is explaining the Squat Cobbler story he told the police- and the video that comes along with it. Kim points out that Jimmy making a video is fabricating evidence, and Jimmy is nonplussed, saying that it's just a nothing pro-bono case which no one will find out about. That's when Kim says the line in the title. I'd seen the scene pointed out as an example of how Kim changes over the course of the series, but never that exact quote, which is so on-the-nose about her trajectory. IDK, bravo Vince and gracias Gould or something.
Also, in the same scene, Kim makes a joke about "jumping off the roof" . . .
Kim Wexler is kind of a Mary Sue? She always saving Jimmy from trouble, she is really attractive, and she goes up against powerful men like Kevin, Howard, and Lalo. It’d be much more realistic if there was a like cartel secretary she could go against. I wish they’d could go back to how she was in season 1.
Why is Kim so loved by audiences while Skyler's so despised? Although I didn't particularly like Skyler so much the first time I watched not I don't don't dislike her less now that I'm watching BB again; I do love Kim, however.
Imo, the difference is that Kim is an accomplice and a moral compass, while Skyler's more of an antagonist. I wouldn't appreciate appreciate my husband taking off for long periods of time or admitting that they buy drugs from a dealer (keep in mind characters considered pot to be a "gateway" drug), I'd probably enlist the help of our closest relatives if I thought he were doing drugs. She's reacting like a concerned wife would. Hell, if I found out my husband's some drug lord, I'd probably act like Skyler too.
Why the hatred towards Skyler and the opposite reaction towards Kim?
