Howard Hamlin’s Tragedy Reminds Us Privileged People Are Also People

From the outside, it’s really easy to hate Howard Hamlin. His father helped him reach the top of the legal profession. He grew up wealthy and with a silver spoon in his mouth. By 2023 standards, the fact that he’s privileged, wealthy, and privileged because he’s White also makes him easy to hate among Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul’s more liberal viewership. However, Howard Hamlin’s villainry is also pretty personal to our protagonist and anti-hero in Better Call Saul, Jimmy McGill, or better known as Saul Goodman in Breaking Bad. I will refer to our protagonist as Jimmy throughout the show, but Howard is sometimes a stark contrast to Jimmy because he has earned the friendship, respect, and approval of Jimmy’s brother, Chuck McGill, who despises and disdains Jimmy (or at least just has a very complicated relationship with him) despite Jimmy being Chuck’s caretaker when Chuck can’t even leave the house due to Chuck’s electromagnetic hypersensitivity. <a href="https://fanfare.pub/howard-hamlins-tragedy-reminds-us-privileged-people-are-also-people-1a984d5c2b29">Learn More</a>