Looks like Jimmy has a new career!
And a familiar name.
Marco), here he truly began the path to committing to character.
Credit: Michele K. Short/AMC
Between a flurry of star wipes, he effused lines like, You cant affordnotto be TV!
and Look at you!
and I can make you a TV star for a price it’s possible for you to afford.
Call me, Saul Goodman; the world needs to know about you and your business.
Call me now!'
Its just a name, responded Jimmy with a shrug and a sip of beer.
PerhapsBetter Call Saulexecutive producer Peter Gould could shed some light on what we just saw?
Lets pick up the phone andcall now!
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Look who came to play this episode!
Where you been hiding that guy?PETER GOULD:Well, thats a good question.
But this season, here he is, on television, calling himself Saul Goodman.
Where have we been hiding him?
Hes been hidden in plain sight.
This was not the way we expected to meet Saul again.
What are the results of that?
And it really took off from there.
We know in the past hes used Saul Goodman.
And now we have at least an early version of him.
The question that weve come around to is: What does itmeanto be Saul Goodman?
Weve always said that the arc of this show is how Jimmy McGill becomes Saul Goodman.
And now weve seen him call himself Saul Goodman, but is hereallySaul Goodman?
What does it mean to be Saul Goodman?
How seriously does he take this new vocation as TV director/ad man?
And that money means an awful lot to him.
But what means even more to him is that office.
The office that he has with Kim.
So the question is: How far is he willing to go to keep that office?
And how far is he willing to go to keep that relationship with Kim Wexler?
You said that we may see other incarnations of Saul Goodman.
Or at least I was as we broke this season.
We have this dramatic problem, which is that hes not going to be a lawyer for a year.
After all, what was all that conflict about in episode 5?
It was, Is he going to be a lawyer?
So its central to him.
And you’re able to guess why.
There are a lot of good reasons why.
But the question is: As Jimmy McGill or Saul Goodman?Thats a good question.
The one thing you know is that Saul Goodman is probably Chucks worst nightmare.
Its an interesting thing.
People do things and characters do things for all kinds of reasons.
Is Saul Goodman just a screw-you to Chuck?
But lets remember that Kim does enjoy Jimmys rogue-ish side.
To an extent, yes.
That has an asterisk on it, though.
She had her limits.She scammed with him.
She enjoyed his billboard stunt.
So her reaction there is not simple.
Theres a lot to it.
Kim is a complicated person.
Its very hard to picture those two together.
Which tells me that this may not end well.
Now its time to do whats right, and he responds, Yeah… no.
We saw him drive off at the end of the season 1 saying,I know what stopped me.
And you know what?
So I think theres more to Chuck than just the lawyer with a broom up his ass.
… What could be more difficult than changing your idea about who are?
And what could be more difficult for Chuck McGill than to admit that he cant trust himself?
Or that he cant trust himself.
So, for Chuck to make any kind of serious change is agiganticjourney.
It just kind of happens organically.
I think its in the DNA of this show, because of the two characters that were talking about.
So it really made sense that we see more of that.
And of course, this season we also have Giancarlo Esposito as Gus Fring.
So, those things naturally are evocative ofBreaking Bad.
Theres always a little bit of a tonal difference between this show andBreaking Bad.
OnBreaking Bad, he was really in relation to Walter White.
Where Walter White was impulsive and angry, Gus Fring was incredibly controlled.
No matter how much we start overlapping the two worlds, I do see these two shows as separate.
But I think with this show, we can do something a little bit different.
And certainly Lydia is a big part of that.
How great is Laura Fraser?
Theres something very, very satisfying and exciting about that.
What can you tease about the return of additionalBreaking Badcharacters?
Hector and Tuco (Raymond Cruz) are far gone down the path of darkness.
So the question is: How far will Nacho go before he snaps?
Hes got himself into a situation that really has no good outcome.
Nacho has hidden it.
I dont know if Nacho has a lot of time to waste.
Hector Salamanca can do a lot of damage.
He is also a fascinating character.
By the way, I cannot hear the sound of a bell without getting stressed now.
Youve ruined bells for me.As long as you have still have meth, youre okay.
But its also one of the funniest weve ever done.
I am just bursting with pride about episode 7.
