Review of Breathe

Better Call Saul: Breathe (2018)
Season 4, Episode 2
10/10
What does goldfish symbolize?
15 August 2018
Warning: Spoilers
What does goldfish symbolize? Saul's new family.

While Kim sleeps, Saul juices blood oranges and fries bacon, even adding cinnamon to the morning brew for the first time. Goldfish looks on, Saul's only company until Kim wakes up.

One night after the day's events create intense emotions, Kim follows the guy she thinks is Jimmy to the couch for a romantic evening. An eerie blue glows nearby from goldfish's aquarium. Nonetheless, she pounces on the man she thinks she loves. Goldfish jealously observes. Three's somehow a crowd now. Kim may not belong anymore.

Kim denies something is wrong, taking her confusion out on Howard and his ridiculous theory of Chuck's suicide. She'll still no doubt get curious and snoop, perhaps finding bitter truth at Santa Rosa Insurance in episodes to come. Will she then try to stay for better or worse with Saul and goldfish? Might this put her life further in danger?

Meanwhile, Saul is either interviewing for jobs or casing joints. Either way, he wants to bring Mike in to score on a rare Hummel figurine (what is "Bavarian Boy" supposed to symbolize, if anything?). Would a careful ex-cop be interested in assisting Saul's petty theft? Perhaps Mike is too busy souring his relationship with Lydia, with Fring's apparent blessing.

Fring secretly monitors Don Hector's health, twistedly hoping his archenemy improves. He employs a fancy bilingual doctor from Johns Hopkins-thanks to a generous grant that falls into her lap.

Above all, "Breathe" ironically and sadistically says adios to poor suffocating Arturo, during the violent final scene when Fring grabs Nacho squarely by the cojones. Not even goldfish's bubbler gives a further hint as to who else is metaphorically inhaling and exhaling.
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