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The five questions we have regarding Rob Gronkowski joining the Buccaneers, the story of how they made Better Call Saul's incredible fifth season, and a recap of The Last Dance's first two episodes.
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- SPORTS -
Here are five questions regarding Rob Gronkowski joining the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. [Rodger Sherman]

These are the best moments, stories, and Jordanisms from the first two episodes of The Last Dance. [Haley O'Shaughnessy]

The 2020 NFL wide receiver class is one of the deepest ever. And it’s just the beginning. [Robert Mays]

Defining moments of the NBA season: We all want Tacko. [Katie Baker]

Welcome to the NFL's first virtual draft. [Kevin Clark]

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Can a hand job heal a broken heart? An Outlander investigation. [Ben Lindbergh]

Even after 20 years, we keep returning to Love and Basketball. [Jordan Ligons]

Did you watch the Better Call Saul finale? If so, see if your feelings align with our staff's in the latest exit survey. [The Ringer Staff]

Fiona Apple is at her sharpest—and most playful—on Fetch the Bolt Cutters. [Julia Gray]
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We watched 12 hours of tape from the NBA Entertainment archive for a different look at Michael Jordan and the Bulls dynasty. [Jake Malooley]
With Jordan and his Chicago Bulls teammates back in the spotlight, let’s revisit Scottie Pippen’s standing on the Book of Basketball Hall of Fame Pyramid. [Bill Simmons]

Kim Wexler Is the Better Call Saul MVP | Season 5 Finale Reaction

 
As the bridge closes between Better Call Saul and Breaking Bad, there's one question on everyone's mind: What happens to Kim Wexler?

How They Made It: The Spectacular Fifth Season of Better Call Saul

Deep into the finale of Better Call Saul’s fifth season, Kim Wexler raises the idea of ruining someone’s life. Her target, the smarmy but reformed attorney Howard Hamlin, has long been stuck in her craw. “What if Howard does something terrible?” she wonders from under the sheets in the luxury hotel suite where she and her husband are holed up. Initially, he’s happy to play along. But after discussing several hypothetical scenarios, the lawyer formerly known as Jimmy McGill realizes that his wife isn’t playing at all.

“Kim, doing this, it’s not you, OK?” he says to her over a bowl of room-service ice cream. “You would not be OK with it.” Her reply is as cold as her sundae: “Wouldn’t I?”

The camera then cuts from a close-up of Kim to a nearly teary-eyed Jimmy, then back to her. “She had taken him by surprise,” says Peter Gould, who directed and also cowrote the episode with Ariel Levine. “He’s really uneasy with the direction she seems to be taking.”

“Kim,” Jimmy—or is it Saul now?—says softly, “you’re shitting me, right?” On her way to the bathroom she wheels around, pulls two imaginary pistols out of their imaginary holsters, fires twice, and pretends to blow away puffs of smoke. The only thing Jimmy can do is stare at her and force a laugh. “He’s looking at me trying to figure out, ‘Who is this person that I thought I knew?’” says Rhea Seehorn, who plays Kim.

“She fights it much more confidently and completely than Jimmy does,” Bob Odenkirk, the Breaking Bad spinoff’s star, says about Kim’s duplicitous urges. “But because she has that capacity it’s not even that strange to her, in a way.” In other words, he adds, “They’re more similar than when you first meet them and you think they’re not at all.”

[Read Alan Siegel's piece on Season 5 of Better Call Saul, which features interviews from Bob Odenkirk, Rhea Seehorn, Vince Gilligan, and more.]

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