This episode needs to come with a special content warning: BELOVED CHARACTER'S PLANS WRECKED BY SELFISH IDIOT (BCPWSI). I swear, few things on television send me into as steep a tailspin. The night before I watched "Wexler v. Goodman," I caught up on the episode of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel where (spoiler coming, skip down to the next paragraph if you must) Sophie Lennon just trashes the opening night of Miss Julie while Susie watches in horror from the audience, powerless to stop the destruction of everything she'd worked so hard to build. That one-two punch left me gutted and enraged at the same time. It's not just the betrayal and the out-of-control nightmare spiral that the two episodes have in common. Both turn on theater — doubly so, in the case of Better Call Saul. There's the suite of commercial solicitations that Jimmy directs, with big auteur energy, to put pressure on Mesa Verde. We, the audience, knew that all of that activity wasn't going to vanish without us seeing the results. And from a character perspective, Jimmy can't possibly let it get memory-holed; he invests way too much of his identity in the performance, the spectacle, the excess… Read full this story
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