Early in the season, he fumbles his way into offering potential clients a 50%-off deal on nonviolent felonies, setting off a chain reaction that not only indirectly endangers other characters but also pulls him back into the cartel's orbit. In terms of his public image, Saul is immediately recognizable as the sleazy lawyer fans met in Breaking Bad, even if Jimmy is still earnestly trying to stay out of trouble. But Saul Goodman is."Īnd yet Saul Goodman isn't. He envisions Saul Goodman as a kind of comic-book legal hero: "a righter of wrongs, a friend to the friendless." But when Howard ( Patrick Fabian) prods, "Couldn't Jimmy McGill do all that?" Jimmy's answer is loaded with self-loathing: "Maybe he could. And yet his desperation to become Saul only makes it clearer how much Jimmy hates Jimmy. His schemes are as perversely entertaining as ever, and it's fun to see him in his element again, working a system that sometimes deserves to be taken down a peg. Jimmy enters Season 5 buzzing on the idea that he's finally found a way to leave behind his reputation - and his perception of himself - as "Chuck McGill's loser brother." In the first four episodes made available for review, Jimmy slips easily into Saul's colorful suits and slick fixer persona. The tragedy of Jimmy McGill this season is that he doesn't know that yet.
Better Call Sau l preys on a deeper fear: that it's the choices a person regrets that follow them the most.īob Odenkirk, Lavell Crawford, Better Call Saul Warrick Page/AMC/Sony Pictures Television Walter White ( Bryan Cranston) was the sum of the choices he kept making because he wanted to make them. But the fantastic new season, which has also been confirmed as the show's second to last, clarifies a fundamental difference between the prequel and its parent series: Unlike Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul doesn't believe it's possible to get away with anything. Jimmy McGill is officially practicing law as Saul Goodman, moving the show a big step closer to the world of Breaking Bad. 23, Better Call Saul is bringing that devastation to the forefront. (Keep an eye on this season's annual fast-forward to Jimmy's future, which forces mild-mannered Cinnabon manager Gene to confront his inner Saul.) The show has mastered a very specific form of devastation: watching people who are caught in problems of their own making try and fail to escape their past. The AMC drama has spent four-going-on-five seasons building an elaborate system of cause and effect, trapping people in such an intricate chain of consequences that, in some cases, they were living totally different lives when the first domino fell.
Better Call Saul is TV's best Rube Goldberg machine.
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