At the end of the previous season, it seemed like the creators were ready to move Jimmy into the next step of his journey. Making him Saul Goodman would have taken the show in the direction that a lot of us expected it to go, but it would also have granted the audience a reveal that they were not quite ready for yet. It would have been perfectly fine to assume that they would be going to do one of those smart tricks again with this finale, setting up another possible point of passing on to becoming the lawyer that we know and love. However, they turned it on its head once again, providing a storyline for Jimmy that simply puts him and Chuck more at odds, while instead making the "Breaking Bad" connections somewhere else. Mike has been trying to get back at Hector Salamanca ever since he threatened his family, but there is someone else out there who will also have his day with Hector. And instead of bringing Jimmy to his destined goal, the show instead put Mike right on the doorstep of that passage that he has to go to so he can get to "Breaking Bad." And it was a subtle, yet brilliant inclusion in an episode that is mostly focused on Jimmy's main storyline, which is full of even more backstory that really manages to break down the core of the resentment that Chuck has towards his brother, and it's even more heartbreaking than anyone could have ever anticipated.
For the entire season, Mike has been at odds with the Salamanca clan. It's a cat-and-mouse game that has now resulted in someone getting killed. Despite Mike's questionable antics, he's still a good soul at heart, and hearing that innocents have been killed as a result of his actions isn't something that he can just let go. This all goes back to his brilliant "half measures" speech, and one could easily assume that this is where he learned that. And it obviously brings him closer to his fate and closer to a meeting that will definitely be memorable and awesome.
However, the core of this episode - and in many ways, the season - is the relationship between Jimmy and Chuck. In the previous episode, it hit a very strong decline as they're now officially adversaries. In the episode, Chuck manages to get the upper hand against Jimmy in a scene that's heartbreaking, mostly because of Chuck's obvious cold nature and disregard for any love that there may still be between the two, as long as he gets what he wants and is able to prove his thoughts about his brother. Even when Jimmy tries to do good, Chuck turns it around.
There's a clear contrast between the two brothers in this. Jimmy is clearly very worried about Chuck and would even give up his own pride to make sure that Chuck doesn't give up being a lawyer; on the other hand, Chuck is someone who would never give up his pride for anything, which is why he never acknowledges anything Jimmy has ever done. Even the fact that he was their mom's favorite - which is shown in one of the show's most heartbreaking scenes - is something that hurts Chuck's pride to his core and may have diminished his ability to love.
It's a very complex way of storytelling, but it's an incredible dissection of this relationship. Chuck doesn't know what to do with Jimmy if he isn't the scumbag he thinks he is. If Jimmy actually tries to do something right, Chuck has to somehow get him back to the track he was on before, because if Jimmy isn't being Jimmy anymore, then who is Chuck. To have been able to turn a show about how Saul Goodman became Saul Goodman into a show about brothers is only one part of the immense genius that Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould possesses.
"Klick" is a great ending to a season that has been about a brotherhood falling apart because of those things we never really speak of. It's a heartbreaking episode that leaves a lot of questions for the future, both in terms of Jimmy and Chuck's relationship, but also Mike's eventual meeting with a certain someone.
For the entire season, Mike has been at odds with the Salamanca clan. It's a cat-and-mouse game that has now resulted in someone getting killed. Despite Mike's questionable antics, he's still a good soul at heart, and hearing that innocents have been killed as a result of his actions isn't something that he can just let go. This all goes back to his brilliant "half measures" speech, and one could easily assume that this is where he learned that. And it obviously brings him closer to his fate and closer to a meeting that will definitely be memorable and awesome.
However, the core of this episode - and in many ways, the season - is the relationship between Jimmy and Chuck. In the previous episode, it hit a very strong decline as they're now officially adversaries. In the episode, Chuck manages to get the upper hand against Jimmy in a scene that's heartbreaking, mostly because of Chuck's obvious cold nature and disregard for any love that there may still be between the two, as long as he gets what he wants and is able to prove his thoughts about his brother. Even when Jimmy tries to do good, Chuck turns it around.
There's a clear contrast between the two brothers in this. Jimmy is clearly very worried about Chuck and would even give up his own pride to make sure that Chuck doesn't give up being a lawyer; on the other hand, Chuck is someone who would never give up his pride for anything, which is why he never acknowledges anything Jimmy has ever done. Even the fact that he was their mom's favorite - which is shown in one of the show's most heartbreaking scenes - is something that hurts Chuck's pride to his core and may have diminished his ability to love.
It's a very complex way of storytelling, but it's an incredible dissection of this relationship. Chuck doesn't know what to do with Jimmy if he isn't the scumbag he thinks he is. If Jimmy actually tries to do something right, Chuck has to somehow get him back to the track he was on before, because if Jimmy isn't being Jimmy anymore, then who is Chuck. To have been able to turn a show about how Saul Goodman became Saul Goodman into a show about brothers is only one part of the immense genius that Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould possesses.
"Klick" is a great ending to a season that has been about a brotherhood falling apart because of those things we never really speak of. It's a heartbreaking episode that leaves a lot of questions for the future, both in terms of Jimmy and Chuck's relationship, but also Mike's eventual meeting with a certain someone.