Review: Better Call Saul, "Plan and Execution
Howard Hamlin is right.
He didn’t deserve any of this. Yes, he’s privileged. Yes, he’s ambitious. Yes, he listened to Chuck’s biased portrayal of Jimmy. But Kim using him purely as a means to even the most laudable end of defending the defenseless? That requires freezing your soul, convincing yourself that any pain Howard feels is inconsequential—he’ll land on his feet! It’s a temporary setback for one annoying prick!—and celebrating his humiliation. And then it turns out you’ve gotten him killed.
An essential part of any con is to make the truth seem farfetched. The mark tells the true story of what happened to them, even figures out how the thing was done, and it seems like the ravings of a paranoid. Because who would go to such unbelievable lengths to set up Howard? Believing you’re the target of drugged and switched photos makes you the focus, and nobody is going to listen as you try to point them toward somebody else. What possible st…
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