Better Call Saul: Plan and Execution (2022)
Season 6, Episode 7
10/10
Well, maybe there are more important things.
24 May 2022
Warning: Spoilers
With a simple scientific explanation and demonstration of how to depressurize an overly carbonated soda can before opening it, Howard Hamlin attributes his method of spinning the can to "the greatest legal mind he ever met," Charles McGill (the "M" in "HHM"). That means after his bouts with debt, depression, and failure at marriage, Howard could even be starting to learn what we know his partner Chuck never learned: "Well, maybe there are more important things."

Narcissistic lawyers living elitism as super-citizens can be just as disgusting as out-of-control, homicidal Salamancas. Although Kim Wexler and Jimmy McGill manage to jump off that fast-moving train for "more important things," things they still need to learn shock them.

As irritating as Howard could be, hurling bowling balls at his Jaguar was unfair. Knocking him off his super-citizen pedestal during the Sandpiper mediation falls under the category of all's-fair.

As D-Day peacefully ended, Kim and Jimmy knew their plan had all the justice in the world. But the title of the episode is "Plan and Execution," and the plan gets Howard executed by someone he didn't know and who didn't know who he was.

BCS depicts pitfalls of good and efficiency of bad, but also fair and unfair. Howard's end (named all along after the E. M. Forster novel?) sets it up brilliantly.
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