Like much of Better Call Saul, Smoke is a very slow episode, and not slow on the pacing of a story - although that might be the case with the series as a whole - it's slow on sitting down to what each character is thinking or doing.
After what happened with Chuck, Jimmy spends time deeply sad and thinking: if only I would done this differently, if this had not happened like that. He's carrying the guilt of the death of his brother, a guilt that - miserably - not even Saul Goodman himself could have endured. The important thing about Jimmy as a character in this series is his elusive responsibility for the consequences that he provokes, and in Smoke at least for 25 minutes we could see Jimmy taking the blame for one of his actions, because yeah, Chuck's suicide is Jimmy's fault, maybe not all, but it's a big part of the reason why Chuck did what he did. And as viewers we have the fortune -or misfortune- to know the whole truth about what lies behind these characters and their relationships. And it's in cases like this episode where the characters are on the same narrative page as we are, this makes an intimate and outstanding tv show.
Quick note: That scene of Mike writing down: Find the stars. Bravo! I would never change that scene for another one with bullets or explosions. That's how you write a tv show la chsm.
After what happened with Chuck, Jimmy spends time deeply sad and thinking: if only I would done this differently, if this had not happened like that. He's carrying the guilt of the death of his brother, a guilt that - miserably - not even Saul Goodman himself could have endured. The important thing about Jimmy as a character in this series is his elusive responsibility for the consequences that he provokes, and in Smoke at least for 25 minutes we could see Jimmy taking the blame for one of his actions, because yeah, Chuck's suicide is Jimmy's fault, maybe not all, but it's a big part of the reason why Chuck did what he did. And as viewers we have the fortune -or misfortune- to know the whole truth about what lies behind these characters and their relationships. And it's in cases like this episode where the characters are on the same narrative page as we are, this makes an intimate and outstanding tv show.
Quick note: That scene of Mike writing down: Find the stars. Bravo! I would never change that scene for another one with bullets or explosions. That's how you write a tv show la chsm.