Better Call Saul season 6 star Julie Ann Emery reacts to the return of the grifting Kettlemans in episode 2 “Carrot and Stick.”
Better Call Saul season 6 star Julie Ann Emery reacts to the return of the Kettlemans. Audiences first met Emery’s Betsy and Jeremy Shamos’ Craig Kettleman in season 1 of AMC’s acclaimed Breaking Bad spinoff. The seemingly homespun but actually crooked couple soon found themselves embroiled in Jimmy McGill’s haphazard schemes, and quickly became fan favorite characters.
The Kettlemans’ initial foray on Better Call Saul of course ended in negative fashion for them, as Craig went to jail for embezzlement despite his and Betsy’s best efforts to wriggle off the hook. That might have seemed like the end of the road for the plucky criminal couple, but producers indeed never forgot about the characters and finally elected to bring them back for Better Call Saul’s second season 6 episode “Carrot and Stick.” In the episode, Craig is out of jail and he and his wife are now running a fly-by-night tax services business out of a trailer (advertised with a very familiar inflatable Statue of Liberty), and of course can’t resist bilking their mostly elderly customers along the way. Realizing how desperate the Kettlemans’ situation has become, Jimmy and Kim suck them into their own scheme to frame Howard Hamlin, but find Betsy less-than-willing to go along with things due to her warranted…
