Better Call Saul
Tags: comedy

Plot synopsis:
Season 1Following the events of Breaking Bad, Saul Goodman is living under the assumed name Gene in Omaha, Nebraska and managing a Cinnabon. That night he watches a tape of television ads made when he worked as an attorney. Back in 2002, James McGill (Saul's birth name) is a struggling public defender in Albuquerque, New Mexico. "Jimmy" lives and works out of a cramped storage room in the back of a Vietnamese nail salon while caring for his brother, Chuck. Chuck has become semi-reclusive and believes he suffers from electromagnetic hypersensitivity. On his brother's behalf, Jimmy passionately and theatrically confronts Chuck's law firm partner, Howard Hamlin, of Hamlin Hamlin & McGill (HHM), demanding HHM cash out his brother's US$17 million share in the firm. At Loyola's Diner, Jimmy exhorts Craig and Betsy Kettleman, the county treasurer accused of embezzling $1.6 million, to hire him; however, the Kettlemans decline and hire HHM instead. Frustrated, Jimmy sets up a skateboarding accident scam with con artist twins Lars and Cal to secure the Kettlemans as clients. The twins accidentally target the wrong car and Jimmy ends up a hostage at gunpoint by gangster Tuco Salamanca. Tuco drags Jimmy at gunpoint into the house where the skateboarding twins are being held. Jimmy explains that the twins were part of his scam operation, but they picked the wrong car. Tuco leads Jimmy to the garage, where the twins are tied up. After Jimmy frees them, Lars reveals that this was all Jimmy's idea, which infuriates Tuco. Later, Jimmy is tied up and on his knees in the desert. Tuco demands to know who Jimmy is and why he is coming after Tuco. Out of options, Jimmy lies about being an FBI agent. Nacho doesn't believe this and Jimmy confirms that he is actually a lawyer. Jimmy is released. He talks Tuco out of killing the twins, suggesting he break their legs instead. Jimmy drives the twins to an emergency room, with the twins calling him "the worst lawyer in the world." At the nail salon in his office, Nacho visits Jimmy and reveals his scheme to steal the million dollars the Kettlemans embezzled and offers Jimmy a 10% finder's fee. Jimmy declines to participate, telling Nacho that he is a lawyer, not a criminal. Surprised, Nacho leaves his number with Jimmy, encouraging him to call when Jimmy decides he's "in the game." During a flashback, Jimmy, who faces multiple charges and the prospect of being branded a sex offender, is visited by Chuck in jail. Chuck promises Jimmy that he would extend his legal help, in exchange for a solid promise to quit "everything [Jimmy is] involved with". In 2002, Jimmy is still working on the Kettleman case and warns them they are at risk of getting robbed. As Jimmy returns to the Kettleman house, he's informed they have been kidnapped. Nacho, whom a neighbor spotted casing the Kettleman house, is arrested; he accuses Jimmy of tipping off the Kettlemans, and threatens to kill Jimmy unless he proves Nacho's innocence. Jimmy comes up with a theory that the Kettlemans have kidnapped themselves and strives to prove it. The police do not believe Jimmy's theory, but Mike does. Later, following Mike's advice, Jimmy locates the Kettlemans in a tent near their home, along with the embezzled $1.6 million. In a flashback, Jimmy and his friend con a bar patron using a fake Rolex watch. In 2002, Jimmy offers his legal services to the Kettlemans; they reject his offer and counter with a $30,000 bribe. Jimmy successfully frees Nacho, but Nacho deduces that Jimmy warned the Kettlemans and warns him about "consequences". Jimmy uses the bribe money to purchase clothing and a billboard that exactly imitates Hamlin and HHM's logo. Hamlin obtains a cease and desist order and forces Jimmy to take the billboard down. Jimmy uses this as a way to try to make Hamlin look bad through college media, and in the meanwhile stages a rescue of a billboard worker who has fallen off. The next day, Jimmy's actions make it on the news, much to Hamlin's disgust. Jimmy then makes his daily drop off at Chuck's, but keeps the local paper out of his supplies. With great distress, Chuck runs outside to take the neighbor's newspaper and reads about Jimmy's act. After Chuck's neighbor reports him for stealing her newspaper, he is arrested and hospitalized. A doctor tries to have Jimmy commit Chuck into a mental institution, but Jimmy manages to convince her that he is fully capable of containing Chuck in his own home; however, the nurse proves to Jimmy that Chuck's "disease" is entirely psychosomatic. Jimmy's newfound fame seems to attract mostly weird clients, but he eventually comes across an elderly lady in need of a will, which prompts Kim to propose that Jimmy specialize in elder law. Jimmy takes her advice and begins promoting himself at a nursing home. Meanwhile, Mike is visited at home by several police officers from Philadelphia. In a flashback, Mike arrives to Albuquerque on a train and is met by his daughter-in-law, Stacey. Their conversation reveals that Mike's son, Matty, who was also a cop, was recently murdered. Mike finds a crooked veterinarian to treat his bullet wound; the veterinarian offers Mike assistance in finding a job, but Mike declines. In 2002, Mike is taken to the police station and demands Jimmy as his lawyer. He asks Jimmy to spill coffee on one of the detectives so that Mike can steal his notebook; Jimmy refuses at first, but ends up doing it. Reading through the notebook, Mike realizes that Stacey had called the detectives. He confronts her and reveals that Matty was the only "clean" cop in the precinct. In another flashback, Mike breaks into a police cruiser parked outside a bar before entering, then after drinking heavily, he tells two detectives, Hoffman and Fenski, he knows it was them. Stumbling, Mike announces his move to Albuquerque and leaves the bar. The two detectives pick him up in their cruiser, where Mike explains that they killed Matty because they were scared of what he might do. They plan to murder him in an empty parking lot using his own gun, but Mike, having feigned his drunken state and hidden a second gun in the back seat, kills them both. In 2002, Mike tearfully explains to Stacey that he was the one who "broke" Matty by convincing him to take the bribe, but his partners still saw the hesitation in his eyes and killed him anyway. Mike and Jimmy are called down to the station, and the younger detective accuses them of stealing his notebook. Jimmy returns the notebook and assures him they found it in the parking lot outside. Mike and Jimmy are then allowed to go and Mike tells Jimmy to go home. The next day, Jimmy takes Kim to his new office and offers Kim a partnership but she refuses. Back at HHM, Kim presents to the Kettlemans their best deal which would send Craig to jail for 16 months instead of 30 years. After hearing the deal, Betsy fires Kim and leaves HHM with Craig. Meanwhile Jimmy is hosting a bingo game with the elderly and is contacted by the Kettlemans. They all meet at Loyola's again, and the Kettlemans demand that he represent him and they want no jail time. Jimmy turns them down and strongly encourages them to go back to Kim. They inform him that in order for them to take the deal, they would need all the money, including the bribe Jimmy took. Later that night, Jimmy hires Mike to steal the Kettleman's million dollars from their home, and returns all the money that he took from the bribe. The next day, Jimmy visits the Kettlemans and tells them he took their money, and forces them to take Kim's deal. Jimmy returns the Kettlemans to HHM, and visits the office he had to give up in order for the deal to go through. Jimmy angrily kicks an office door shut and sobs on the floor, only to pull himself together to answer a phone call. In a flashback, Jimmy works in the mailroom at HHM. Jimmy asks Kim to open his bar exam results; he passes and she kisses him on the lips. Jimmy then shows Chuck his results and explains that he studied law via distance learning from the "University of American Samoa". Chuck seems to be happy for him. After, there is a small mailroom party to celebrate, but Howard tells Jimmy that HHM refuses to hire him as an attorney. In 2002, Hamlin holds a press conference to announce Craig Kettleman's plea deal, as Jimmy visits clients at a senior care home called Sandpiper Crossing. Jimmy visits a client, discovering that Sandpiper is overcharging her. Jimmy returns to Chuck's house, and points out fraud by Sandpiper Crossing. Chuck tells Jimmy he needs more information, Jimmy returns to Sandpiper, but is forcibly thrown out. Meanwhile, Mike receives a call from Stacey, asking him to babysit Kaylee. Later that night, Jimmy searches the Sandpiper's dumpster for shredded documents. He brings bags of the shredded documents to Chuck's house, but makes no progress and falls asleep. Chuck manages to put some of the documents together, which proves Sandpiper's guilt. Mike meanwhile spends the day with Kaylee, and is asked by Stacey what she should do with the money Matty accepted. Mike tells her to spend it and returns to the vet for a job. Jimmy meanwhile sets up a meeting with Sandpiper's lawyers at Chuck's house, and Chuck demands 20 million dollars from them. After, Chuck explains he sees a way to win which Jimmy is visibly ecstatic. The next day, Jimmy returns to Chuck's house with new client files and naps on his sofa. Chuck absentmindedly walks outside to Jimmy's car to grab some documents Jimmy forgot, and they stand outside in amazement. Chuck and Jimmy are enjoying time outside on a park bench. It seems Chuck is able to spend more time outside than he originally thought, but after a while insists they go inside. Meanwhile, Mike brings Stacey and Kaylee a dog (seen last episode), and receives a call about a job. Jimmy goes to court to argue against a restraining order from Sandpiper Crossing, and ultimately wins. Returning to Chuck's house, Jimmy finds boxes of paperwork and Chuck convinces Jimmy to bring the case to HHM. Later that night, Chuck sneaks outside to place a phone call. The next day, Mike, a loudmouth mercenary named Sobchak (Steven Ogg), and a very large man wait for the job. The client arrives and Mike manages to subdue Sobchak and scare off the other man, accepting the job on his own. Meanwhile, Chuck and Jimmy prepare to visit HHM, lining Chuck's space blanket in his suit. The McGill brothers present their case to Howard, but Howard informs Jimmy that he wants the case, not him. Frustrated, Jimmy refuses the consultation fee and tells Howard to go to hell. After, Kim confronts Howard on his decision, but not after Howard reveals something to her. At the job, Mike and his client wait for Nacho and a new gang of thugs to show up and buy the pills the client is selling. After the deal is concluded, Mike explains to the client, who insists he is not a "bad man", that he is now a criminal, and that morality doesn't enter into it. Back at the nail salon, Kim meets up with Jimmy and urges him to take the deal, causing Jimmy to get angry at her. Jimmy enters his office and has a realization when he charges his phone. The next day, Jimmy goes to Chuck's house and confronts him about the phone call he placed to Howard before their meeting. Jimmy has realized it was Chuck who told Howard not to hire him, and has been blocking him from being hired at HHM ever since his days in the mailroom, and demands to know why. Chuck reveals his opinion of Jimmy as not being worthy to be called a real lawyer and that he has not changed since his "Slippin' Jimmy" days. Jimmy tells Chuck he's on his own and angrily drives off, with Chuck calling out to him as he goes. In a flashback to Cicero, Illinois, Jimmy says goodbye to his friend and con artist partner Marco, telling him that he is moving to Albuquerque. In the present, Jimmy meets with Howard Hamlin to receive his $20,000 "of counsel" fee, and to discuss arrangements for delivering groceries and supplies to Chuck. After having a breakdown while calling Bingo at the retirement home, Jimmy then returns to Cicero where he catches up with Marco at their usual bar. They run a rare coin scam on an out-of-town businessman with a Kennedy half dollar. Over the next week, they run several successful scams. One morning, Jimmy explains to Marco that he is now an elder law attorney and must return to Albuquerque. Marco insists on one last fake Rolex scam for kicks but succumbs to a heart attack during the con. A grieving Jimmy, now wearing Marco's pinky ring, receives a phone call from Kim. A large Santa Fe firm, Davis & Mane, is assisting with the class action suit and considering Jimmy for partner. Jimmy returns to Albuquerque, but backs out of the Davis & Mane meeting. He asks Mike why they gave back the embezzled $1.6 million, then proclaims that whatever stopped him from taking it "is never stopping [him] again." Jimmy drives away, smiling and humming "Smoke on the Water", the same song Marco hummed whenever they pulled off the Rolex scam.

Review: And the original music by Dave Porter feels as organic to 'Better Call Saul' as it did in 'Breaking Bad'.The writing, directing and acting (so far) are on par with BB; anyone afraid this would be a rushed production trying to surf on BB's success can relax; not for a second did I get the feeling this was somehow not well thought through or cheaply constructed by a committee of writers - and although we do of course get some of our favorite characters back, new ones are introduced that promise to be just as original and interesting as the ones that helped turn BB into a cultural phenomenon.
But unlike other TV spin-off's that are just 'extra' episodes that degrade the original show, Better Call Saul has significant promise as a standalone series that could come to rival it's predecessor.From the very beginning, the show returned me to the universe of Breaking Bad. Not in the obvious ways of reviving characters and settings, but through the subtle cinematography and script writing of Vince Gilligan.
This artistic and cinematic experience that begun with Breaking Bad is now continuing with Better Call Saul, once again proving that television can be as good, if not better than films.The acting in the series is incredible.
I don't think anyone will be able to top Cranston's portrayal of Walter White, but Odenkirk forms far more depth in the character of Saul Goodman than we ever see in Breaking Bad. Moving away from just comic relief, Saul is now a darker version of his false identity, and Odenkirk finds the balance between these two personas very well.
I really hope that the writers continue to play around with time, shifting between past and future guises of Saul Goodman.Better Call Saul has a lot of promise to extend itself beyond its Breaking Bad spin-off status.
Now that two episodes have been released however, any concerns should be put aside by anyone interested, because this is fantastic.Gilligan's camera work is masterful and similarly creative to that of Breaking Bad, and Saul as a character or should I say 'Jimmy McGill', is not as vacuous as I once thought, and whilst it was obvious Saul Goodman was a facade, to see his other side in the flesh is great.
No other show encapsulated a slow unfurling of characters so well that it was as if we were getting to know them in our real lives.I finally decided to give Better Call Saul a shot after hating it's first episode on release.
Better Call Saul might be my favorite show off all time because of three reasons, it is slow but never drags, it jumps between different genres without being inconstant and it has that Breaking Bad feel but it doesn't lean too much on it.
I absolutely loved Breaking Bad. So when I finished binging it about 2 years ago, I started watching Better Call Saul immediately afterwards.
As well as offering interesting hints as to what happens to Saul after the events of Breaking Bad.Bob Odenkirk portrays Jimmy McGill's descent to Saul Goodman spectacularly.
Breaking Bad in my opinion is the perfect show and is my all-time favourite and Walter White's seedy lawyer Saul Goodman has always been one of my favourite characters of the show.
I have to say based on the 2 episodes that have aired so far I have to say it has not disappointed and if the show continues to be this good then I will have another perfect show in my watchlist.It has been great to see Saul Goodman (Jimmy McGill as he is known here) back to his roots, here we see a very different version of the character as a down on his luck lawyer as opposed to the criminal lawyer who handed Jesse Pinkman bags of dollars without a care in the world, yet his charm and his cocky persona and sometimes hilarious one liners stay exactly where we want them.
I was also surprised to see another fan favourite although i wont spoil this for those who don't know.As the series goes on i will post about my opinions more but i feel this show is great and will continue to go up and be on par with Breaking Bad. Vince Gilligan has proved himself as a force to be reckoned with.
Six episodes in to Better Call Saul now - and like Breaking Bad did - it just gets better and better.
Tonights episode was something really special IMOI look forward to Tuesdays like never beforeTerrific plots - writing - acting - direction - cinematography etc etc etc in short a really great story very well told by all the cast and crewHow brave of everyone involved to take this project on after the HUGE success of Breaking Bad - knowing so many eyes would be on them - comparing and judging from the very first episode !!!
Better Call Saul hit the road running though and has never disappointed me (and it would seem the vast majority of other viewers) The hopes and expectations of so many people were in their hands and EVERYONE involved with Better Call Saul has done us proud Bob Odenkirk is doing a fantastic job as the main character - in recent years he has been wonderful in Breaking Bad, Fargo and now BCS - not a bad catalogue of work to put in your resume !!!Got the DVD ordered already.
Watching the first episode of 'Better call Saul' just plunges you right back into the world of 'Breaking Bad'.
Bob Odenkirk's acting is as always genuine and just awesomely good, for those of you who watched Fargo, the series, you'd know he is fairly versatile and to up the task of being the main character of his own series.Do note that Better Call Saul is utterly different from your traditional law drama.
OK, i appreciate it's hard to judge any new series after just one episode, but with Better Call Saul, we already have the benefit of what went before with Breaking Bad & we can instantly relate to the protagonist.
As far as opening episodes go, this ticked all the boxes, it gave us just enough information to make us want to see more, & introduced Saul brilliantly.From start to finish, we get to see how the shady lawyer from Breaking Bad came to be, from dodgy deals, to creating stress for himself, it's always been in a days work for him it seems.Anyway for an opening episode this gets an 8 from me, but going forwards, the show looks to have enough promise to put it alongside some of the best.Sausage1.
The episodes end without suspense, cliffhangers or even the slightest curiosity - you simply never feel like you need to watch the next one.I feel as if all this material could've been great as a side dish for a real story.
Instead it's a lot of filler but no real meat.Breaking Bad was great because it had a great story to tell, great characters, quotes, music, drama and comedy.
No great dialogues or quotes, forgettable soundtrack, no humor like Breaking Bad (Jesse, Saul, so many jokes), the drama is very little, and the characters, well, other than James and slightly Mike, there isn't much to write home about.It's simply not an enjoyable show and it does not look like it'll get better..
We die-hard fans are waiting on the sidelines of this laborious cross-country race cheering you on - cups of water in hand, hoping against bloody hope that the NEXT episode will herald the triumphant victory we've been promised.But how can a show be revived when it's already collapsed in a broken heap before it's reached the finish line?There were several 'Summary Titles' I had thought of in writing this review, some that stood out for me were: "TIME FOR A STUNT!!", "BCS Goes Off The Rails", "Street Pizza", "BETTER CALL...For Backup", "Throwing Bricks at the TV".
My lady pal was alarmed to see the typical 'bad-ass girl' trope seeping into the writing and expressed through the dialogue between Jimmy & Kim. At one point she exclaimed: "When in the hell did BCS become The Kim Wexler Show...?Copious amounts of screen time for Kim, and a bumbling Jimmy lacking confidence and forever seeking the approval of Kim got old real quick.If I had to choose between the boring vibe or the male bashing Jimmy endured through most of this second season, it wouldn't matter -they both did us in.
We want to see the devil-may-care confident SAUL GOODMAN, not what's been showing up since S1E1.It's a damn shame that the producers felt the need to explore feminist themes in a show that is supposed to be fun and interesting - two qualities feminism is known for, said no one ever.Please get back to the magic of SG.And for god's sake Vince: give us more MIKE, more TUCO, and for the love of fried chicken, get Gus Fring and Jesse back into the BCS universe.
I know you said you don't want to feature BB characters if it feels like a stunt, but at this point it might be the only thing that saves this show for another season.
I mean Saul is a great character, as is Mike, and it was breaking bad that got most of us here.
it's quite dull.I'll continue to watch, purely because I'm sure it will get good, but entire episodes pass without incident, I get the feeling it's not that good but people are rating it higher purely because of the character they liked from a better show.
Even though diehard Breaking Bad fans tend to connect Saul with Walter White, this show stands its own merit and if you're the type to equip unpredictability with ingenuity then this is a show for you.All the characters such as Kim, Saul's uberexaggerated, neurotic elder brother are closer to real life than the overtly smart characters you'll find in other glossy, ' we know the legal world ' type of series which are more on the superficial side.
As an enthusiastic fan of Breaking Bad, I really tried to like this show...but after four episodes, I refuse to watch anymore.
You must have seen Breaking Bad, i mean who hasn't because it is one of the best series in history, so you remember the character Saul.
The first season alone gave us great incite and further development of the already great character Mike, set up the basis for the transformation of Jimmy McGill.I loved this show even in its un eventful somewhat filler moments, such as in the beginning of the 5th episode, Jimmy goes from house to house to get new clients and it offers some hilarious moments (personal favorite tony the toilet buddy).
Not everyone will he as captivated or pleased as I am, however, if you still have the void left by Breaking Bad better call Saul fills it thanks to the great performances by the cast (Bob Odenkirk, Johnathan Banks, Michael Mckean, and more), the great writing (by Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould), and the cinematography is a standout as well.In conclusion I hope this show continues to grow in further seasons.
We see how Jimmy and Mike's stories converge and how Jimmy slowly becomes the Saul Goodman we know from Breaking Bad.Good drama series: engaging with some interesting episode-specific stories and solid season/series-wide stories.
So the longer the Jimmy part is drawn out and the Saul part delayed, the more impatient you get.In Season 2 this is far less of an issue, as the sub-plots are good enough to stand on their own, without even knowing that Breaking Bad even exists.Only other negative is that I find the character of Chuck quite irritating and always tend to feel anything involving him is a sideshow and a distraction from the main events.
Jimmy uses the name Saul Goodman for the first time and things with Chuck reach a breaking point, the fall-out from which pushes the series in a different, more interesting direction.
As a spin off from Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul has proved itself to be a worthy successor to the beloved series.
Better Call Saul is a massive disappointment to me after all the hype i just cannot for the life of me see what all the fuss is about .The plot is boring slow and obviously dragged out to pad for time..one example of that is during the last show of the season when Saul is calling the bingo and a ball with the letter b before the number comes up continuously..talk about over done..really what was the point of dragging it out like that..and how anyone can possibly compare Better Call Saul with Breaking Bad i have no idea..BCS is not even in the same league as BB.
Every episode so far has just been a painful exercise in bringing in old characters from Breaking Bad and burning up the clock with them in hopes they'll finally do something, ANYTHING entertaining...
I'll just skip the pseudo opening act/prequel/spin-off and fast forward to the good part:Breaking Bad: Season 1, Episode 1..
The first 5 episodes of Better call Saul seem to build a deeper main character than all 5 seasons of Breaking Bad..
Better Call Saul takes place 6 years before Breaking Bad. The main character is Jimmy McGill aka Saul Goodman in BB.
Although he takes it to extremes, one identifies with the antagonist because the "it could happen to me" thought occasionally manifests itself while watching the character muddle through life.Like Walter White in Breaking Bad, Jimmy is trying to survive against mounting odds.
It comes down to survival, and doing the right thing ofter proves futile in a world where hacking off your pound of flesh seems to work better, and nobody seems to mind anyway.I am thoroughly enjoying watching Jimmy in his struggle as he morphs into Saul, who seems to be the persona that both represents him, and that he can detach himself from long enough to return to the more sane person he truly wants to be...but cannot be.The bottom line is that I love this series, and eagerly wait in anticipation for the next episode as the weeks go by..
It seems, just then, that the "Better Call Saul" creative team — most of them (like co-creator Peter Gould, who wrote and directed the finale) veterans of "Breaking Bad," a show largely defined by the patient way it moved through its arcs — will be playing a particularly long game in getting us from Jimmy McGill to Saul Goodman.
Also many of the characters are totally hateful, in that regard the series taking a page from its far superior spin off, Breaking Bad. I just watched the 3rd season closer in which we're asked to sit through nearly twenty minutes of Jimmy's wack-ed-out monster of a brother tearing his house apart trying to locale a mysterious electric current.
" obviously there is this connection to make but after three seasons (this is what it took for me) Better Call Saul is its own, very great thing, which is different but in no ways worse or better then breaking bad, its just really great and everybody who likes intelligent storytelling should watch it.
I eagerly anticipated this spin-off series as I really liked the character in "Breaking Bad".
I suffered through the 1st season 'cause Breaking Bad was an original, compelling, dramatically ironic story but Better Call Saul is just like that other B.S. show with Aaron Paul playing upon the old fan base.
This show isn't just another "hit," it's another master piece.The only moment you might need Breaking Bad is to understand the very first 5 minutes of the first episode, which shows Saul under a new name, nervous and anxious, looking for people that might recognize him and call him out on the deeds he has done in his life.
The deeds that got him to where he is in that scene evolves from Breaking Bad, but the actual story of Better Call Saul and the emotion and thrill of it all is completely independent of BB.
If Breaking Bad was The Godfather, then Better Call Saul is The Godfather Part II to that work.Gilligan is man who doesn't fluff away from true development of character or story.
I thought it's a bad move by Vince Gilligan to spin off our beloved Saul from Breaking Bad. But he proved it all wrong by delivering 5 great episodes so far.Nostalgia..
Having enjoyed Breaking Bad so much and the first two seasons of Better Call Saul, I was always giving this show the benefit of the doubt when great characters like Jimmy & Kim were about, but having seen the final episode of series 4, I'm now jumping ship.
If you are a fan of Breaking Bad (who isn't?), you are going to be teleported back to the good old days where the story moves at a pace which leaves you reeling and wanting for more every time.This show is great, Saul Goodman, attorney at law, in a dog eat dog world, how does he reach to the level where everybody including you and I go - "Damn, I'm in trouble, better call Saul".
So far just the first four episodes have aired (and I have wrote reviews for all of them individually) but I can already tell this is going to go down in history as one of the best TV shows of the 21st century, just like Breaking Bad did.
Better Call Saul centers around the story of Jimmy McGill (Goodman) prior Breaking Bad. turning him into a more complex character than he was on BB.
While Better Call Saul may stumble in pace compared to some episodes of Breaking Bad, it sure has potential.
Better Call Saul may not be as intimidating as Breaking Bad, but that doesn't mean it's anything less than great.