“The reflex is a lonely child, who’s waiting by the park / The reflex is in charge of finding treasure in the dark”
As Sam Richardson from I Think You Should Leave might put it, Better Call Saul cuts the music hard at the conclusion of the flashback that opens this week’s episode, involving Kim Wexler first being reprimanded and then rewarded for shoplifting by her mother. The casting and acting here is frankly incredible—Beth Hoyt nails Rhea Seehorn’s eventual mannerisms as if they were twins—but I adored that hard cut away from Duran Duran’s “The Reflex” more than anything else in the segment. There’s something truly disconcerting about cutting off a familiar pop hit like that, a sense that something has gone unfinished, that something is missing, that something is wrong.
I reviewed this week’s episode of Better Call Saul for my Patreon.
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