Better Call Saul Insider Podcast - 3x08 Psycho reference

Thanks for the link. I just saw this episode and didn't make the connection with Norman, but yes, the scene with Nacho trying to switch Don Hector's medication unnoticed in order to kill him is, as pointed out in that segment of the podcast, like Norman at the swamp watching the car with Marion's corpse momentarily stop sinking. We root for Norman to "hide the body" of someone we loved just minutes earlier, just as we root for Nacho to make the "pill switch". And Nacho is, like Norman, acting as a "dutiful son" (in Nacho's case he's trying to protect his father from a dangerous drug lord).

An interesting point made in the podcast was that the idea that "likability" is deemed by "the business" to be essential for a character is "terribly misguided." I would agree, but this doesn't apply to Norman; Nacho is a thug and criminal (also young, like Norman, but scary looking), and he's trying to eliminate an even more vicious criminal, while Norman is charming and likable (at first, anyway), and his victim was innocent and harmless, which complicates our feelings even more.