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Why would Kim settle for such a mundane life?


Ok, she quit being a lawyer and wanted to get away, but that seems really excessive, She's not on the run like Saul and she didn't change her identity. Why does she pretend to be some sort of really boring suburban housewife?

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I can only think Vince wanted to shove down our throats how she is punishing herself for what she did. She's plain, with plain hair, a plain and unchallenging job, a boring home, boring social life, boring husband, and boring sex life. Like a prison of her own making.

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I guess that's what we are supposed to get from it, not very subtle though.

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Didn't seem so bad. She had her own office, an easy job, a nice house in the suburbs. And she wanted a boring guy so she wouldn't be led into an exciting and dangerous life again. Not sure what she was thinking with the hair though.

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Are you kidding? The house was as drab as her hair - nothing nice about it. Totally ugly kitchen.

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Having a beautiful kitchen and a beautiful coif is worth all the misery inflicted on yourself and others. That's the way people think today. America at its worst.

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I guess because people don't usually get shot in the head and killed when you settle.

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I think she wanted to completely separate herself from her previous life because she felt bad about it…

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Well, as someone else said, it really isn't that bad, technically. She's got her job, she's got a social life, looks to have a house. It's just the same boring real life that many other people have (somewhat exaggerated, almost like in an Alexander Payne movie, to emphasize how dull a comfortable, problem-free middle-class life is). It's just in contrast to the colorful life she had before that it seems so bad, really (putting her past inner demons and traumatic memories aside, I mean). Kinda reminds me of the last scene of Goodfellas, in that way. Or, heck, I guess it could be kinda similar to Walter White's story if it were told in reverse. Where, yeah, he had a boring life before getting into crime but at least it was an innocent one. Which is the "happier" life I suppose depends on how you look at it.

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I'm glad I'm not the only one who didn't get the change in lifestyle. It seemed way too drastic for Kim when she loved being a public defender and was good at it. I can understand the separation from Saul thinking he's a bad influence on her after the fallout from the Howard/Lalo situation, but I didn't really buy the idea that she also wanted to live the mundane, boring lifestyle, hang out with the type of people she was hanging out with, and hide into her shell so to speak. I didn't even think she felt overly guilty about Howard to want to disassociate so much from her current routine, just simply stay away from Jimmy because it's leading a bad example.

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Guilt

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