Better Call Saul Season 6 Trailer Confirms S5 Ending’s Kim Theory

If Better Call Saul season 5’s ending suggested Kim Wexler was leading Jimmy McGill down a darker path, the new Better Call Saul season 6 trailer confirms it. Across Better Call Saul‘s five seasons thus far, Jimmy McGill appeared very much the archetypal bad influence upon Kim Wexler. Working at the prestigious HHM law firm, Kim was the studious, talented professional making a rapid ascent up the legal ladder. Jimmy was the hapless joker coaxing Kim to indulge in his less-than-legit chicanery, and although she clearly enjoyed the rebelliousness, Jimmy always seemed to be leading Kim by the hand…

Better Call Saul season 5’s finale shockingly asked whether Kim might’ve been doing the leading. Kim gradually ingratiates deeper into Jimmy’s criminal lifestyle throughout season 5, and shows shocking calmness when dealing with a volatile Lalo Salamanca. The more Kim proves herself the World’s Best (Criminal) Lawyer, the more she seems at home in New Mexico’s underworld. When the final moments of Better Call Saul season 5 arrive, Kim suggests she and Jimmy take down Howard Hamlin for good, shocking even her con artist husband. Kim’s idea forces Better Call Saul viewers to reconsider who the relationship’s bad influence really is. All this time, it looked like Jimmy was dragging Kim back from an honest legal career, but is Kim now the one encouraging Jimmy to let his inner criminal hang loose?

The Better Call Saul season 6 trailer confirms those suspicions. In the trailer’s most meaningful exchange, Jimmy recites the line, “The wicked flee when no man pursueth,” to which Kim replies, “You think we’re wicked?” This difference in perspective encapsulates their changing dynamic perfectly. Jimmy has accepted his place within the criminal machine, almost becoming one with “Saul Goodman” by this point. Kim, on the other hand, can’t yet see herself as the villain. Perhaps she thinks ruining Howard counts as unofficial justice, or maybe Kim still mentally separates her legitimate persona from her new taste for wrongdoing.

Kim’s bad influence is rammed home further when the Better Call Saul season 6 trailer shows Jimmy wide awake at night… while Kim sleeps like the proverbial baby. Jimmy’s inner turmoil – the moral conflict giving him red, baggy eyes – contrasts starkly against Kim’s relative lack of empathy and awareness. Jimmy McGill has experienced a rapid descent since Better Call Saul began, but learned to become comfortable with the moral discomfort. Those feelings are evading Kim like objections off a lawyer’s back. Is she treating the gravity of Jimmy’s cartel business too lightly in Better Call Saul season 6? Does she view destroying Howard as just another “Slippin’ Jimmy” con? Is Kim under the impression she can dip a toe into the criminal world, then ping back to her proper career when she’s done? In any scenario, such nonchalance around hardened cartel gangsters is unlikely to end well.

Finally, the Better Call Saul season 6 trailer focuses on Kim smoking cigarettes. Jimmy and Kim sharing a smoke has become a reliable running theme throughout Better Call Saul, but it’s usually Kim lighting up and Jimmy following her lead. We have seen Jimmy smoke cigarettes elsewhere, but it’s typically whenever Kim’s around – as if he’s tacitly influenced by her habit. Kim’s smoking in Better Call Saul season 6 is another way of demonstrating how she’s always been the one nudging Jimmy down mischievous avenues, not the other way around.

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Craig first began contributing to Screen Rant in 2016, several years after graduating college, and has been ranting ever since, mostly to himself in a darkened room. Having previously written for various sports and music outlets, Craig’s interest soon turned to TV and film, where a steady upbringing of science fiction and comic books finally came into its own.
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