#Like I kept thinking they'd do a cheating subplot somewhere and NOPE or have her decide it's all too much and back out but NOPE | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

prolibytherium · 11 months ago

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First time watching Better Call Saul I was like, perpetually concerned they would make very boring choices for Jimmy/Kim's relationship so the thrill when they never Did That was just lifechanging for me

Like I initially was lukewarm about Kim's character because I was SO sure they were going to go the route where she's wholly reasonable/put-together/by the book. So that first scene where Jimmy runs her through a scam and he gives a out a fake name and you as the viewer are kinda thinking she's either just hesitantly playing along or entirely not into it, but then she calls herself 'Giselle' and starts riffing right along with him and you know she's not only playing along but 100% IN made me lose my mind. Rinse and repeat for basically the entire show

#bcs #They're legit probably my favorite fictional relationship of any tv show if not All Time #I think I'm too easily impressed by my expectations being like pleasantly subverted but whatever #Like I kept thinking they'd do a cheating subplot somewhere and NOPE or have her decide it's all too much and back out but NOPE #(or at least not until someone dies)#I LOVE that they made her just as weird and fucked up as Jimmy while constantly persuading herself she's still committed to her morals #and doing the right thing. It's such good stuff #BCS and BRBA impress me in particular just with the way it's being written as they go and turns out SO GOOD #Like the fact that Kim and Jesse respectively weren't even supposed to be major characters but turned out to be like #completely show-defining (largely due to the performances of their actors) is so cool #Or the fact that Gus was supposed to just be a background character initially???Which is honestly hard to believe #(Got through my like 10000th BRBA rewatch so I'm cycling through BCS again now)

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