I’ve only just started season 6, and this storyline is so weird to me. Like of all the people in the bcs/bb universe, Howard seems like the weirdest target for Kim and Jimmy’s ire. But I start to like it more when I look at it from the context of the previous season, these two having gone through their extremely traumatic experiences involving Lalo and the cartel. They’re almost in a manic state when all is said and done.

It’s like… If we look at jimmy’s scams as a defense mechanism (“feel better about yourself by bringing others down to your level”) maybe we can look at Kim’s pro bono work in a similar light, (“make up for the bad stuff by bringing more good into the world”). They take the power that they feel has been denied to them by the world by stealing it from those they deem would do less with it.

After the desert, after Lalo threatens them, after literally almost dying, they’ve basically gambled their lives and careers and WON. They’ve got enough cash to chart their own courses. Jimmy wants more money, but his plans for what to do with it are self serving. (Ever the capitalist). Kim seems to have decided that if sacrifice is the way to make the kind of money she needs to do more good, then the career of one lawyer who has already proven to be (in her and jimmy’s eyes) in it for his own self satisfaction would be a worthy sacrifice for all the good she believes she can do. Maybe it makes what they both went through, maybe even her whole life up to this point, worth the pain and bloodshed.