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Better Call Saul Waterworks Season 6 Episode 12 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next « Previous Episode Next Episode » Photo: Greg Lewis/AMC/Sony Pictures Television/ The one consistent through-line of Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul is a pessimism about redemption — that once characters like Walter White and Jimmy McGill break bad, they lose themselves forever, sliding so far down the slippery slope that their former selves are a distant memory. They become the part.
But Jimmy is undoubtedly right about Kim’s new life. It isn’t worthy of her. Scripted by Vince Gilligan, “Waterworks” takes its time laying out the parameters of Kim’s banal new world before getting to the call. She’s the most overqualified sprinkler catalog writer in the business, but she can’t help but be great at the job, studying the minutiae carefully and deploying power verbs like “heralds” in her copy.
By contrast, Jimmy is pretty far gone. Picking up from last week, he personally executes the plan to rip off the cancer-afflicted rich guy, but greed and hubris finally get the better of him. Gilligan ramps up an already tense sequence when Jimmy gets away with stealing the man’s identity but cannot bring himself to walk out the front door and escape in Jeff’s cab.
Burners • The University of American Samoa is to law schools what Hollywood Upstairs Medical College is to medical schools.