SPOILER ALERT: This article contains details of tonight’s Better Call Saul 6A finale. EXCLUSIVE: “I mean, we lived together for the majority of the season, and he is absolutely my big brother.” Better Call Saul’s Rhea Seehorn says of co-star Patrick Fabian after his Howard Hamlin character met a sudden end in tonight’s conclusion of the first part of the Breaking Bad prequel’s final season.“We’re very close and I love him, and it also was just another side of like oh, right, the show is actually ending,” the acclaimed actress who portrays self-destructing lawyer Kim Wexler on the Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould created series. “Like for real.
Like they’re not going to take this back. It’s happening.”After Kim and perpetual con man Jimmy McGill’s drawn out revenge trap on the arrogant Hamlin snaps shut in his disgrace and embarrassment, the Thomas Schnauz directed and penned “Plan and Execution” episode finds the HHM partner almost incidentally shot dead for being in the wrong place at the wrong time by bloodless drug kingpin Lalo Salamanca (Tony Dalton).
For a show that prides itself on the mayhem of the seemingly minuscule, tonight’s seventh episode in the 13-episode sixth and last season eschews the traditional mid-season cliffhanger.
Among other moves, the episode instead pivots Better Call Saul towards what many presume is a tragic consequence for Wexler as she spirals into an abyss – or not.Because why we know the New Mexico-set, Bob Odenkirk, Jonathan Banks, and Giancarlo Esposito co-starrer will end up with the beginning of the rise of Walter White in the Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul-led BB, how BCS gets us there remains a mystery.
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