Better Call Saul's Kim Wexler has become the show's beating heart -- and central mystery

Paste Magazine

Rhea Seehorn's character has evolved to become the show's co-protagonist with Jimmy McGill, says Matt Brennan. "No longer 'the girlfriend' or 'the associate'—if she ever was—Kim has emerged, over time, as a heroine on the order of Mad Men’s Peggy Olson or Halt and Catch Fire’s Donna Clark and Cameron Howe, a female foil so essential to the drama that she turns out to be its backbone," says Brennan. "We’ve always known what happens to Jimmy—soon to be Breaking Bad’s unscrupulous Saul Goodman, and later a Cinnabon employee named Gene—and to drug kingpin Gus Fring (Giancarlo Esposito). With his death in the Season Three finale, we now know what happened to Jimmy’s brother, Chuck (Michael McKean). Kim’s fate is the series’ biggest unanswered question: She is Better Call Saul’s ace in the hole."