Chuck Tells Kim The Family History | Rebecca | Better Call Saul

Chuck gives Kim some insight on his father and Jimmy.

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From Season 2, Episode 5 'Rebecca' - Jimmy chafes under his restrictive work environment, and Kim goes to extremes to dig herself from a bottomless hole at HHM.

Better Call Saul is the prequel to the award-winning series Breaking Bad, set six years before Saul Goodman (Bob Odenkirk) became Walter White's lawyer. When we meet him, the man who will become Saul Goodman is known as Jimmy McGill, a small-time lawyer searching for his destiny, and, more immediately, hustling to make ends meet. Working alongside, and often against, Jimmy is "fixer" Mike Erhmantraut (Jonathan Banks), a beloved character introduced in Breaking Bad. The series will track Jimmy's transformation into Saul Goodman, the man who puts "criminal" in "criminal lawyer."

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[leonardorestrepo]

Michael McKean said, somewhat astutely, that Chuck's ultimate grudge ultimately boiled down to "Chuck made his parents proud, but Jimmy made his parents laugh."

[Soulful_Sorrow]

"At the funeral, no one cried harder than Jimmy"

Don't know why that line hits so hard.

[scottpofahl]

The way Chuck describes their father as knowing everyone’s name and how much the town loved him reminds me a lot of Jimmy. It’s ironic that what he admired in his father, he was never able to see in his brother.

[TheMannCrux]

One of the things I love about this scene is that Chuck thinks he's revealing the "truth" of Jimmy to Kim, whereas Kim is actually seeing the truth of Chuck; he's always despised and envied his brother on some level.

[TheLoganLives]

I thought something was wrong with the audio because I'm hearing crackling, then I realize it's because Chuck is wearing his foil-lined suit. Amazing attention to detail ❤️

[Thelightbringer]

He even says "MY father" before correcting himself to "our father." Chuck truly wants nothing to do with his brother.

[vadhub]

"He was born without the gene". And now his son is Gene, Bravo Vince

[ComicalRealm]

How Michael McKean (Chuck) was never even nominated for an Emmy for his masterful performance in this show, is still a mystery to this day

[amandeepdash]

Hate him all you want, Chuck is a very deeply written character though. He is the person who had missed the love he needed from his parents in his childhood, not that they didnt love him but they probably thought Jimmy needed it more. So Chuck had always been not-the-favourite kid and always had to be the bigger and mature kid while Jimmy had all the love for being himself. That caused Chuck's deep down fundamental personality to be of a child. He was great as a lawyer, a prodigy in his professional life, but as a person: spiteful, jealous, vengeful, insecure, all over little things which a mature person would get over easily.

Overall a very sad character, but we're wired to not being forgiving towards a person's evil actions even if we understand the reasons and accept that we probably should end up being just like that if we had it served to us. And I embrace that wiring, I hate Chuck.

[evelynkokemoor]

It occurs to me that Chuck is possibly/probably wrong in his story. 14k missing, automatically all Jimmy's fault? We saw for ourselves that their dad was eager to give strangers money out of the till.

[TihetrisWeathersby]

Chuck Is easily one of the Best written characters in the Breaking Bad / Better Call Saul Universe

[emperorreign]

I mean, we did see Jimmy steal money from the register as a child, which was obviously very wrong. But that was only the one occasion the audience is completely aware of, and it was only done immediately after Jimmy was angry at his Father for refusing to listen to him when he was trying to warn him about the bum who made up a sob story to get money off him.

Chuck automatically blamed Jimmy for the entire missing revenue for the store, even when it was more likely that their Father’s gross acts of generosity over the years was the real reason most of that money was gone. Even when Chuck knew their Father wasn’t a good businessman and was too good a person who carelessly and naively handed money out to everyone who asked, he lay the blame squarely at Jimmy’s feet and him alone. No one else. That’s how much he resented him.

[keithrg]

Never gonna forgive Chuck for not telling Jimmy their mother's last words

[LordLoss]

I love moments like these in a show. No music; no flashbacks; nothing fancy: you are just listening to a guy telling a really engaging story.
There's just something so _real_ that a scene like this captures.

[harmenheuvelman]

Scenes like this become more interesting when you know about Kim's past with her mother. Chuck no doubt thinks he's revealing some awful truth about Jimmy that'll pull Kim towards reason. If anything, Kim may have made to the connection between Jimmy and her mom here and wound up more on Jimmy's side because of little pep talks like this.

[davidgangemi]

That look on Kim's face at the end when Chuck goes for more coffee says a million things.
She's finding out about Jimmy, but she's also seeing Chuck for how he is as well.
She realizes too late about both of them.

[yourdailydoseofnegativity]

"But not our Jimmy! Couldn't be precious Jimmy!"

[lostsoul]

Whoever came up with Chuck's character and his lawyer and space blanket storyline deserves a raise

[cdrunner]

I always enjoy Chuck’s character he’s just so interesting. Everything he says also comes with the crinkling sounds of the space blanket inside of a suit so it’s as if you never forget what he’s suffering from.

[stipevedder]

This show is so good that they basically turned a character that was basically a joke into a genuinely facinating character