Review: Better Call Saul, “Waterworks” | Season 6, Episode 12
Time to face the music, and the difference between Jimmy and Kim is who’s holding the baton
I missed my chance to use the word “antepenultimate” last week. Luckily Myles used it for me. So I’m not going to miss my chance to call this the penultimate episode. And that adjective seems apt in more than just a chronological sense.
The last we see of Kim, in the timeline established, is an extraordinary sight: Sobbing uncontrollably on a shuttle bus, heading to the Albuquerque airport. It seems quite possible that is her last appearance in this story. She weeps -- she wails -- unable to hold in the emotion. She’s utterly emptied out, hollow, bereft. Her visage, always so composed and forthright, is an uncontrolled wreck. It’s something we’ve never seen. It might be our farewell.
“Waterworks” (in reference both to Palm Coast Sprinklers and to that breakdown) shows us definitively that Saul Goodman buried his humanity under the facade of his cathedral of justice, and that nothing in his Omaha exile has opened a route to restoring it. When Kim serves him with divorce papers, he decide…