Well…I’m gonna need therapy after that episode…that was about as messed up as when they shot Jesse’s girlfriend in front of him….
I had nothing against Howard I actually liked the guy but after 6 seasons he gets whacked point blank by Lalo…I did NOT see that coming.
Nobody saw that coming. That was the most senseless killing of either series. I hope that asshole Lalo gets killed.
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I didnt realize how much I liked Howard until Jimmy and Kim started escalating their schemes against him, combined with his show of guilt over Chuck and his crumbling marriage, the end was such a stark contrast to whatever karma, if any, he deserved. He might've been unlikable to some viewers, but not so unlikable to deserve that kind of malice.
There are several instances where I gained respect for his character: his challenging jimmy to the boxing match in the ring to hash out their differences. Jimmy was passive aggressive and sneaky and Howard was willing to just let it all air out in the open and give jimmy a chance to let his steam off in a fair(er) fight. That's class. Also his offering jimmy a job back with HHM despite knowing jimmy was shifty. His speech to jimmy and Kim at the end was really poignant and spot on, he could see they were borderline sociopaths and he called them out on it. You could tell they knew everything he said was true. It was a bit like Nacho's final speech to Hector. He just didn't know it would be his last.
There was another comment somewhere that Howard dying the way he did was EXACTLY what Jimmy and kim deserved to see. The trauma of witnessing the brutal execution of a man they were conspiring to tear down really is such karma. Its possibly the only thing that could've made them feel any guilt for their actions. Howard actually seemed to have a bit of an arc, despite being a minor character and this was just perfection from the writers to really understand how we felt about him after all.
I didn't see that death by that perpetrator, but I predicted there was going to be a death in this episode because I saw the ratings on IMDB prior, and this one spiked to a 9.9/10 rating and that doesn't happen unless there is a death of a main character or some other insane event going on. With about 10 minutes to go of a relatively low-key episode up to that point, it was obviously going to climax to a death, and there were only a choice of 3 it could be who are not a part of the BB series. Kim and Lalo dying was probably too early at this stage so that left Howard.
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