Saul (Bob Odenkirk) and Kim (Rhea Seehorn) have a final encounter in jail within the sequence finale of "Higher Name Saul."
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WARNING: Spoilers forward for the sequence finale of “Higher Name Saul.”
“Higher Name Saul” ended its six-season odyssey with Jimmy/Saul/Gene (Bob Odenkirk) sentenced to 86 years in federal jail, the place he bid an emotional goodbye to ex-wife Kim Wexler (Rhea Seehorn) — however not earlier than exonerating her, in a closing colourful courtroom flourish, of any wrongdoing in overlaying up Howard Hamlin’s execution-style loss of life a number of years earlier.
“I noticed the [finale] for the primary time Monday evening,” Seehorn advised The Submit Tuesday. “I watched it with a few folks from the present and family members and vital companions and it was very transferring.”
Monday evening’s finale, “Saul Gone,” included scenes from all three timelines within the “Higher Name Saul” universe and featured shock appearances from Marie Schrader (Betsy Brandt) — the widowed spouse of “Breaking Unhealthy” DEA agent Hank Schrader (Dean Norris) — and, in a flashback, Chuck McGill (Michael McKean), Jimmy’s brilliant-yet-troubled older brother who killed himself within the Season 3 finale of “Higher Name Saul.” Walter White (Bryan Cranston) additionally materialized in a “Breaking Unhealthy” flashback.
The episode turned its major give attention to Saul’s shattered relationship with Kim, now residing a colorless, boring life in central Florida designing brochures for a sprinkler firm and sporting shorter (and darkish) hair. Within the sequence’ penultimate episode, she flew to Albuquerque, New Mexico, to admit to Howard’s spouse that his “suicide” was something however, and to provide a full assertion to legislation enforcement about her previous life with Saul — together with their involvement with cartel kingpin Lalo Salamanca (Tony Dalton), ultimately murdered by Gus Fring (Giancarlo Esposito).
In “Saul Gone,” Kim returned to Albuquerque for Saul’s sentencing … and, of their closing scene collectively, they shared a cigarette — hearkening again to their salad days. (It was additionally the final scene Seehorn and Odenkirk filmed collectively.)
“In fact, the load of the present ending for me was, personally, a troublesome goodbye, and I’ll undoubtedly watch [the finale] once more,” Seehorn stated. “I used to be capable of see it as a fan of the storytelling and as a fan of the present outdoors of being in it.”
Seehorn, who was nominated for an Emmy for Greatest Supporting Actress, applauded sequence co-creator Peter Gould, who “did such an excellent job find a approach to adhere to the intelligence of this sequence and of our viewers.”
“It’s a really darkish ending nevertheless it has mild — and there's some hope, love, redemption and salvation there,” she added.
Whereas “Higher Name Saul” — and supposedly future dives within the “Breaking Unhealthy” universe — have concluded, Seehorn stated she thinks that Kim and Saul’s relationship will proceed regardless of his lifelong incarceration.
“Peter needed to put in writing an ending that impressed folks to proceed the story of their heads and I feel he did,” she stated. “There are a number of interpretations of what occurs the subsequent day and subsequent 12 months and [for] the remainder of their lives. Personally, I’m a hopeless romantic and I feel [Kim] very a lot continues to see him and go to him and that she makes her approach again, little by little, to the legislation.”
She additionally stated she was happy with how Kim developed in the previous couple of episodes of the sequence after transferring to Florida within the wake of Hamlin’s loss of life.
“I really feel at first she tried to only disappear — not conceal from the legislation, however to be a shell of an individual and thought that she was doing penance by eradicating herself from any sort of ardour,” she stated. “She lived a muted life — there’s nothing flawed with that — however she couldn’t even belief herself to select ice cream for somebody’s party.”
“We see the tragedy of it as a result of we all know what she might’ve been — she was usually a full of life and passionate individual — and I feel she determined she will be able to really be lively in atoning for her actions … partially on a dare from Jimmy but additionally realizing that he’s proper, she might do extra about it aside from residing underneath a rock. So she goes and atones and makes her peace.”
Seehorn additionally mirrored on Gould’s alternative for her character Kim, amid her redemption try, to proceed holding one fact hidden.
“The one lie she nonetheless tells on the finish of the day is ‘if in reality, Saul Goodman is alive’ — she by no means offers him up or lets the feds faucet her cellphone,” the actress stated. “I believed that was telling — it’s the one line she received’t cross, so far as she simply can’t bear to be the one who’s going to seal his destiny. That’s as much as him.”
As for Saul’s destiny of spending his life behind bars, Seehorn believes it’s bittersweet for Kim.
“I don’t assume she’s glad that he’s in jail for this a few years however she’s glad he had an opportunity to avoid wasting his soul and that he selected to,” she stated. “And he or she selected that for herself as properly …. however I feel she’s able to face all of the music … to provide herself any probability to have an genuine life once more.”
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