Better Call Saul

2022 - 8 - 16

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The Most Memorable Moments From 'Better Call Saul' (Rolling Stone)

From left, Michael McKean as Chuck McGill and Bob Odenkirk as Jimmy McGill. Michele K.Short/AMC/Sony Picture. Better Call Saul ended last night with a wonderful ...

“I love you, too,” she says, her composure finally breaking in that way that Seehorn can play so well, “but so what?” She can no longer stomach the kind of fun they’ve had going back to their evening with Ken Wins, so she walks out of Jimmy’s life, and he responds — in a harsh and unexpected time jump — by embracing all that is wicked about being Saul Goodman. That is the devastating climax of the story Better Call Saul was telling for six seasons, and it’s worth all the time and effort it took us to get there. (He could jump from superhuman heights, for instance.) But as much fun as it was to see him run roughshod over Gus and the other cartel characters, it was even more exhilarating to see him get verbally dismantled by Kim Wexler in a rare lawyer world/cartel world crossover. But the last one we got — the last scene of the series to feature Gus, in fact — was extraordinary. “JMM” offers our first unnerving glimpses of the real Saul Goodman in the series’ present-day, rather than Jimmy just using that name professionally. By the end, our severely dehydrated protagonist has become so battle-hardened — and/or mad at himself for letting Lalo talk him into the idea — that he takes a long, disgusted pull on a bottle filled with his own urine. I save me.” And then we see her do just that, in a fabulous montage (scored to a “A Mi Manera”) where she tirelessly works the phones on her lunch break, day after day, week after week, trying to land a client big enough to get her out of the dungeon. Chuck assumes he is much too smart to fall for one of Slippin’ Jimmy’s tricks, which is exactly how Jimmy — with nimble-fingered help from future best friend Huell (Lavell Crawford) — is able to get over on his brother. Jimmy spends most of Season Four repressing his grief over Chuck’s suicide and trying to keep busy during his one-year bar association suspension. Every terrible thing that these two will cause in later seasons is born out of this long, drunken night where they pose as “Viktor with a K” St. Clair and his sister Giselle in order to enjoy some expensive tequila without paying for it. He turned out to be pretty spectacular at the dramatic thing (more examples of that below), but it was still a joy to behold those moments when he was truly ridiculous. We recapped the finale and spoke with Saul co-creator Peter Gould, but we’re not ready to say goodbye to the classic AMC drama just yet. Better Call Saul ended last night with a wonderful episode that brought the entire Breaking Bad universe to a satisfying conclusion.

Why 'Better Call Saul' Was More Than 'Breaking Bad 2' (The New York Times)

The title would seem to give us the answer. The series reintroduces us to Saul Goodman (Bob Odenkirk), whom we met in Season 2 of “Breaking Bad” as the sleazy ...

Maybe he is finally less comparable to Walter White than to Don Draper of “Mad Men,” another fast-talking slick in a suit whose words save him until they don’t, who is taken with the idea of time machines, who has a history of changing his name and running from trouble. At last he can be himself, and, in its closing run, so could “Better Call Saul.” I don’t want to make too much of the much-heralded End of the Antihero — “Barry” is still around, for starters. As Saul says to Walter White in one of their first “Breaking Bad” meetings, “Conscience gets expensive, doesn’t it?” The final run of “Saul” keeps finding little pockets of story to revisit within it, restaging Saul’s first run-in with Walter and having Kim meet Jesse during the “Breaking Bad” timeline, at a crucial moment in both their lives. The climax of “Saul” seems at first to be going a similar way. Despite the reappearance in flashbacks of Bryan Cranston as Walter White and Aaron Paul as his sidekick, Jesse Pinkman, the last half-season is less an attempt to reprise “Breaking Bad” and more a productive conversation with it — maybe even a friendly argument. Instead, the protagonist utters something you would never expect to hear from Saul Goodman in a courtroom — the truth — and blows up his plea deal. As Saul says of Walter, in a late-season flashback, “Guy with that mustache probably doesn’t make a lot of good life choices.” Now he seems to be proving his own point. In “Better Call Saul,” crime is mostly just sad, the more so the closer the series gets to its end. In its closing run, “Better Call Saul” has jumped about in time, shuffling these identities like the moving targets in a shell game. The series reintroduces us to Saul Goodman ( Bob Odenkirk), whom we met in Season 2 of “Breaking Bad” as the sleazy lawyer to the chemistry teacher turned drug lord, Walter White. Each has a little of the others in him.

'Better Call Saul' Stars Break Down That Final Cigarette Scene and ... (Variety)

"Better Call Saul" stars Bob Odenkirk, Rhea Seehorn and Peter Gould discuss the finale, cigarette scene and more.

I got a cold breeze on my back, because I felt so strongly the right ending for Saul was to be in the system that he’s made light of and twisted around for his own purposes…In terms of the trilogy of the shows, it feels very elegant that Walt dies, which he was always going to do. He’s in a prison of his own and he gets away and starts healing. After Walt (Bryan Cranston) dies in “Breaking Bad” and Jesse runs free in the spinoff movie “El Camino,” Gould said he’s satisfied with how all three of the protagonists had a different ending. “At that point, Vince [Gilligan] was out of the room working on ‘El Camino’ and he pitched potential endings to ‘El Camino’ and one of them was very similar to this, except for Jesse. It was beautifully pitched. It felt more honest to have the two of them apart instead of together.” It’s more about, this is the one bit of color in his world, his relationship with Kim. He’s the one person who sees him as he is and as he was. There was a version that didn’t have that; it ended with the two of them smoking. The first was in the penultimate episode, when Marion (Carol Burnett) revealed to Saul that she discovered his lawyer commercials and they were reflected in color in Saul’s glasses. “[It’s a] horrible place, but they’re without artifice and armor, sort of maskless with each other, which is the best part of their relationship. “It was the easiest scene we ever shot,” Odenkirk added. Peter is so great not overwriting it: trusting us and the audience.” “This is them at their best,” she told reporters.

'Better Call Saul': Jonathan Banks Says Goodbye to Mike (The New York Times)

Killed off in “Breaking Bad,” Mike Ehrmantraut had a long second act in “Better Call Saul.” Banks said playing Mike made him “a little more silent, ...

And part of his misery is that he can read “The Little Prince” with Kaylee, and then he’s going to go do something that he knows is not good. In spite of all his fears and trepidations, the world is good for a moment with that innocent child and that innocent book. I have a quote in my kitchen — I’m going to take you over here with me so I can read this to you. It’s a passage where the little prince says, “My flower is ephemeral, and she has only four thorns to defend herself against the world.” What do you think this scene means for Mike? I love “The Little Prince” so much. The first thing that comes to my mind is in “Breaking Bad” when Mike left his granddaughter in the park and had to escape. I still have a tough time with Mike leaving his granddaughter in the park. And I was going, “No, Mikey would never leave his granddaughter.” And of course, the reasoning is, the police department — they’re there in the park. In the Sunday comics, there is “find the six differences in between two photos or two drawings.” I have difficulty with that. I wouldn’t have missed that for the world. Morally conflicted, with plenty of wrinkles but little mirth, Ehrmantraut was mostly a blunt, coldblooded crank — with a soft spot for his granddaughter — in “Breaking Bad,” arriving in the second season and getting killed off three seasons later. The last scene that Bob Odenkirk and I had together in the desert, and where I say to him, “You regret nothing?” — Mike was still looking for the humanity in this guy.

Better Call Saul - Season 6 Episode 13 Recap, Review & Ending ... (The Review Geek)

Season 6's end is nothing as flashy or grandiose as Breaking Bad's was. Remember when I wrote in episode 10 how that was the day Jimmy died? Well, this ...

The door to the outside world opens and Kim exits. Jimmy stands in the courtyard; Kim is on the other side of the fence. Jimmy also confesses that Kim has no part in the wrongdoing and he lied to the government because he wanted her present. He is the ultimate criminal. Winning back Kim is everything to Jimmy; maybe not Saul. Jimmy is relentless in establishing that he was pivotal in keeping Walt’s operation going and keeping him out of jail. He pauses at the point in the story when Jesse and Walter unbound him and he actually senses an opportunity. He notices Kim sitting in the back and keeps looking. He starts getting cocky and even asks to be relocated to an amicable prison in North Carolina. He cannot take the place he is in for granted and be sent to a place like ADX Montrose. The AUSA reluctantly agrees but signals they’re done. Saul asks Bill to stop on his way to the bathroom. “You’re the last lawyer I would have gone to”. I wonder what Chuck would think about that and how he could hide his chuckles. He goes to his house and escapes out the back when he sees officers arrive. He also apologizes for not coming to work and asks Kritsa to call the management: they would need a new manager.

Kim Wexler's Curtain Call (Vulture)

Following the series finale of Better Call Saul, Rhea Seehorn discusses six seasons spent getting inside the head of the inscrutable Kim Wexler, ...

Because he had some rehabilitation to do, I actually shot at least a week and a half of stuff that was always supposed to be without him: the walking up to Gus’s house, the driving scenes. It’s just how I work, that I do a lot of homework so that I am free to let it all go when I get there and then be organic and respond to whatever. Her final look to him, Peter and I talked about it and Bob and I talked about that there’s great compassion, fear, love, worry for him in that moment when he exits the courtroom. So I just tried to go about thinking like, “Okay, saying goodbye to somebody is a very real thing that one can use, but even more so the idea that she can’t let it go right now. You said something that I absolutely knew that Kim had to be playing, and that the audience would know she was playing, which is, “Is this real this time?” Someone that’s a professional scam artist, it’s like, “How do I know when he’s not bullshitting me?” I would rather him articulate exactly what he found was the shift, but to me, when he came back and did it again, there needed to be that question of like, is he contrite? They showed me the route we were going to take, so that was a bit of a rehearsal for me to just understand, “Where are people going to be near me and what will I be able to see in front of me?” And that way, I can rehearse it to the degree of understanding, “Okay, on each take, when we come around that corner and I see that skyline, let that skyline inform the life I could have had. You can’t rehearse it in a traditional way, but I did a lot of thinking about it and then gave myself some tactile markers that I knew that I could have as a reminder of my starting point each time when I get on the bus. I literally just put the things physically that we have all felt in extreme shame in our lives or extreme pain in our lives and then try to not let them come all the way out. It is not fair for her to be the one that has to be consoled in any way, which is why I’m so stoic in those scenes. She’s crying for the entire Shakespearean tragedy of Jimmy McGill and of Kim Wexler and of their relationship and of Chuck and of Howard and of people that try to be a good person and how hard that fight could be in day-to-day real life. I had not thought of that but I’m sure it’s among the infinite interpretations that Peter wants there to be.

Better Call Saul Series Finale Secrets Revealed: Jimmy and Kim's ... (TVLine)

The 'Better Call Saul' stars and EP speculate on Jimmy and Kim's future after the series finale, reveal an alternate ending and more.

Brandt surprised fans by reprising her Breaking Bad role as Hank Schrader’s widow Marie in the Saul finale, and Gould says she was a late addition to the script, but “I think we wanted very much someone to be the voice of the victims… Gould agreed that “it was a really important scene,” so he went back and “simplified the dialogue a little bit” for the third day of shooting. Years ago, when Saul co-creator Vince Gilligan was working on the Breaking Bad sequel movie El Camino, he pitched a number of possible endings for the movie to the Saul writing staff, and “one of the endings was very similar to this, except for Jesse,” Gould remembers. “This is the one bit of color in his world,” Gould notes, “the relationship with Kim, such as it is… I think ultimately, we all felt like ending with the two of them felt like the strongest way to go.” Also in the original version, Jimmy “was fearful about what was going to happen to him in prison, and it was a lot about the fear. Odenkirk made that connection when speaking about Bryan Cranston’s cameo as Walt in the finale: “Jimmy finds himself in a f–king room with a guy who’s just like his brother Chuck, and he realizes he’s done it yet again. “It was scheduled for two days of shooting,” but they had to come back for a third day, and the actor told Gould, “‘If it’s OK with you, I want to reshoot the whole monologue.’ And everybody who overheard that little conversation wanted to kill me.” But Odenkirk wasn’t satisfied with the version they had: “It got very emotional, and I’d become more and more skeptical of gushing emotion on screen. Then ultimately, having watched them both, I felt like it was right, and it felt more honest to end with the two of them apart rather than the two of them together.” The climactic scene where Jimmy confesses to his crimes in a soul-baring courtroom monologue was “very hard” to shoot, Odenkirk recalls. Gould, who wrote and directed the finale, said he had actually written several different versions of that scene where “there was a lot more said, and a lot more catching up.” But “it just kept getting leaner and leaner as I worked on it, because in a weird way, they don’t have to say that much to each other. Odenkirk called it “the easiest scene we ever shot,” adding that “it’s one of the few times that one of them isn’t trying to manipulate the moment [or] push some argument in some direction… When the writers were first working on the finale, Gould revealed, they originally had Jimmy and Kim “meeting in Albuquerque before he went to prison, and the last scene was him in prison by himself, thinking.

Better Call Saul Could Have Ended Very Differently (Vulture)

Kim and Marie could (perhaps still?) have a buddy-cop spinoff. Gould referred to Betsy Brandt, who reprised her role as the widow Marie Schrader in the finale, ...

While Odenkirk described the scene as “the easiest scene we ever shot” because of the actors’ comfort with each other, the cigarettes they had to smoke posed some difficulty — Odenkirk and Seehorn were coughing, and Gould said he had cigarette smoke down his throat for days afterward. “I just felt so strongly that the right ending for Saul was to be in the system, the system that he’s made light of and that he’s twisted around for his own purposes,” Gould said. The writers’ room decided around season four or five that the series would be returning to the post–Breaking Bad world of Gene Takavic, Saul’s alias when he went into hiding and became manager of a Cinnabon in Omaha. And the last scene is the judge in jail crying.” While it may not have been in the cards for Better Call Saul, it’s one that would’ve worked just fine for a “Hopefully Vince won’t be mad, but I think some of us, I especially, said, ‘What about another ending for Jesse?’ And I think the ending he came up with for Jesse was exactly the right one.” One ending for Jesse was very similar to the ending Gould and the writers had in mind for Saul.

'Better Call Saul' appropriately ends with a whimper, not a bang (The Washington Post)

Note: This article contains spoilers for the series finale of “Better Call Saul.” Bob Odenkirk as Saul Goodman and Rhea Seehorn as Kim Wexler in “Better ...

In its latter half, Season 6 had focused on the minuscule — petty crimes by “Gene” and Jeff, who ripped off a department store and some drunks — in a reflection of the myopic denial that Saul had probably decided to see his past actions through. But in the case of the finale, the drama’s moralizing tendencies worked to its advantage. [Better Call Saul](https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/tv/amcs-better-call-saul-every-sleazeball-has-a-story-to-tell/2015/02/03/680b5fb2-a643-11e4-a2b2-776095f393b2_story.html?itid=lk_inline_manual_9)” began in part as a fraternal melodrama between Jimmy and his older brother Chuck (Michael McKean), with Jimmy constantly trying to swindle his way into the halls of power and respectability symbolized by Chuck’s white-shoe firm. But the person who loved Jimmy for who he was — and occasionally shared his willingness to thumb his nose at the rules, as long as he didn’t go too far — was Kim, who, like him, had clawed her way toward a law degree after a stint in the mailroom of Chuck’s firm. But over the AMC drama’s six seasons, creators Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould have exemplified the creative freedoms that might be more readily available to a prequel than a sequel, spinning an endlessly tense, funny and existential yarn that hardly needed “Breaking Bad” to justify its existence, while using the events of the parent series to rivetingly draw its protagonist to a Greek tragedy that he was helpless to avoid. Between them were two chain-link fences, one keeping Saul in prison, where he’ll most likely die after receiving an 86-year sentence for his various crimes, including his role in the murders of DEA agents Hank Schrader (Dean Norris) and Steve Gomez (Steven Michael Quezada).

TV Ratings: 'Better Call Saul' Ends With Three-Season High (Hollywood Reporter)

The series finale of 'Better Call Saul' drew the show's biggest same-day audience since the end of season three.

Elsewhere Monday, The Bachelorette led primetime on the broadcast networks with 3.29 million viewers and a 0.76 in the 18-49 demo. The episode, “Saul Gone,” also had more viewers than any episode in season five, or season four — or any Saul installment since the third-season finale back in June 2017 drew 1.85 million people on its first night. Those numbers will only grow, of course, with delayed viewing and streaming. [series finale](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-features/better-call-saul-series-finale-explained-interview-1235199278/) for the Breaking Bad spinoff averaged 1.8 million viewers for AMC, a same-day season high by almost 400,000 viewers (the season premiere in April had 1.42 million viewers). Fox News’ The Five was the most watched cable program with 3.6 million viewers, and WWE Monday Night Raw on USA led the 18-49 chart on cable with a 0.53 rating. The Better Call Saul finale also averaged a 0.47 rating among adults 18-49, its best mark in the key ad demographic since the season five premiere in 2020. Better Call Saul has been adding about a million viewers with three days of DVR playback this season, according to Nielsen, and AMC says the show has performed well on its AMC+ streaming platform (though as is often the case with streaming services, there’s no public data to back up the claim). [Better Call Saul](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/t/better-call-saul/) drew the show’s biggest audience in three seasons — a span of more than five years. [Subscribe Sign Up](https://pages.email.hollywoodreporter.com/signup/) [Share this article on Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/tv-ratings-monday-aug-15-2022-1235200151/&title=TV%20Ratings:%20‘Better%20Call%20Saul’%20Ends%20With%20Three-Season%20High&sdk=joey&display=popup&ref=plugin&src=share_button&app_id=352999048212581) [Share this article on Twitter](https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/tv-ratings-monday-aug-15-2022-1235200151/&text=TV%20Ratings%3A%20%E2%80%98Better%20Call%20Saul%E2%80%99%20Ends%20With%20Three-Season%20High&via=thr) [Share this article on Email](mailto:?subject=thr%20:%20TV%20Ratings:%20‘Better%20Call%20Saul’%20Ends%20With%20Three-Season%20High&body=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/tv-ratings-monday-aug-15-2022-1235200151/%20-%20TV%20Ratings:%20‘Better%20Call%20Saul’%20Ends%20With%20Three-Season%20High) [Show additional share options](#) [Share this article on Print]() [Share this article on Comment](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/tv-ratings-monday-aug-15-2022-1235200151/#respond) [Share this article on Whatsapp](whatsapp://send?text=TV%20Ratings:%20‘Better%20Call%20Saul’%20Ends%20With%20Three-Season%20High%20-%20https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/tv-ratings-monday-aug-15-2022-1235200151/) [Share this article on Linkedin](https://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=1&url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/tv-ratings-monday-aug-15-2022-1235200151/&title=TV%20Ratings:%20‘Better%20Call%20Saul’%20Ends%20With%20Three-Season%20High&summary&source=thr) [Share this article on Reddit](https://www.reddit.com/submit?url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/tv-ratings-monday-aug-15-2022-1235200151/&title=TV%20Ratings:%20‘Better%20Call%20Saul’%20Ends%20With%20Three-Season%20High) [Share this article on Pinit](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/link/?url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/tv-ratings-monday-aug-15-2022-1235200151/&description=TV%20Ratings:%20‘Better%20Call%20Saul’%20Ends%20With%20Three-Season%20High) [Share this article on Tumblr](https://www.tumblr.com/widgets/share/tool/preview?shareSource=legacy&canonicalUrl&url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/tv-ratings-monday-aug-15-2022-1235200151/&posttype=link&title=TV%20Ratings:%20‘Better%20Call%20Saul’%20Ends%20With%20Three-Season%20High) The final episode of

'More profound than Breaking Bad': goodbye Better Call Saul, the ... (The Guardian)

After 61 immaculate episodes, this cinematic, immersive drama ends today. It was visually beautiful, detail-oriented TV that became so much more than Vince ...

From the get go, all that said, this wasn’t a promising premise. Sometimes, all plot development suspended for a few hypnotic moments, the camera would linger on a worn-out dollar bill caught on a cactus thorn, or on some abstract composition of a piece of metal foil blown about the desert. When Jesse Pinkman drove off into the desert, leaving Walter White murdered by cartel goons at the end of Breaking Bad’s final episode nine years ago, the safe money would not have bet on Bob Odenkirk starring as the reptilian “Slipping” Jimmy McGill in a prequel that traced his mutation from small-time schlemiel into still more slimy attorney Saul Goodman.

Better Call Saul: The Most and Least Deserved Character Deaths (Den of Geek)

6. Howard Hamlin. There has perhaps never been a more shocking and undeserving death in modern television than when Howard Hamlin (Patrick Fabian) fell victim ...

Nacho will forever be a legend to all of us, and one of the most likable antiheroes in Breaking Bad lore. The death is deserved, both from the perspective that Lalo is a horrible person who didn’t deserve to live, and that his arch-nemesis throughout the series was the one who got him. As we got to see Nacho’s relationship with his father, his unique code of ethics in the cartel game, and his friendship with Mike Ehrmantraut ( Jonathan Banks) blossomed, he became a fan favorite on par with Jesse Pinkman. [kicking a lantern over in his house](https://www.denofgeek.com/tv/better-call-saul-season-3-episode-10-review-lantern/), it is clear that Chuck’s pure contempt left nothing left to live for. He’s a man doing his job, and he becomes a cog in the cat and mouse game between Mike (Jonathan Banks) and Lalo. His scathing monologue that laid waste to the Salamanca name, along with calling out Gus on his cowardly act before shooting himself in the head was the high point of the beginning of season six. He’s a man who is doing something criminal, but he doesn’t really understand the entirety of his situation or the misdeeds he’s performing. The friendship that developed between Mike and Werner also served a great purpose in Mike’s character arc. He could be a mean person in his life outside of his job. He also treated Kim (Rhea Seehorn) and Jimmy (Bob Odenkirk) with some disdain that seemed a little petty at times, but he paid a price that was completely unnecessary. Now that the show has wrapped its run, we thought it would be a great time to recap which departed characters got the most and least deserving fates. Did their death signify a turning point in the story, or could Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould give these people more of a dramatic farewell?

The 'Better Call Saul' Series Finale Is as Close to a Happy Ending as ... (GQ Magazine)

Near the end of that series' run, Jimmy, a.k.a. Saul Goodman, and Walter, a.k.a Heisenberg (Bryan Cranston), hid in a basement as the two awaited the Vacuum ...

“In drama, we always say, ‘Oh, it’s about character change,’ but it’s sometimes characters just becoming more of what they were, or they’re continuing down the tracks that they’ve laid for themselves.” The question of whether Saul has always been “like this” and if he could possibly change has been at the heart of Better Call Saul from the start. Attempting to lighten the mood with the perpetually snappish Walter, Saul spun a tale of his Slippin’ Jimmy con-man days. He proved himself to be a gifted lawyer capable of tremendous compassion for his elderly clients at Sandpiper Crossing. Near the end of that series’ run, Jimmy, a.k.a. After previously brandishing his superhuman ability to cast doubt on even the most clear-cut set of facts for a jury, he had initially spooked the prosecutor into settling for an unjustly brief jail sentence. One of the most remarkable stretches of “Saul Gone” revisited the timeline of its predecessor, Breaking Bad.

Hear Us Out: Better Call Saul Is a Better Show Than Breaking Bad (Rotten Tomatoes)

3. Strong female characters changed the game. Rhea Seehorn as Kim Wexler, Bob Odenkirk as Jimmy McGill - Better Call Saul _. (Photo by Greg Lewis/AMC/Sony ...

And Lalo Salamanca ( [Tony Dalton](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/tony_dalton_3)) brought a terrifying new face to the Salamanca empire, with his calm, cool, and collected simmering intimidation. By the time Better Call Saul premiered, critics could view the new series in context. That question is first asked by Saul Goodman in a flashback scene to Mike Ehrmantraut in the opening moments of Better Call Saul’s series finale and later posed to Walter White in yet another revelatory moment from the fugitive lawyer’s past. [Michael Mando](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/michael_mando)) got roped into a life of crime he never wanted. [Michael McKean](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/michael_mckean)), though Jimmy’s shenanigans with Chuck ended tragically. But he got to live and relieve Kim of the weight of her involvement. Throughout the show, fans were more worried that Kim would die before Breaking Bad than whether or not Jimmy would live after. Saul Goodman was inevitable, and yet you don’t hate him. Slowly, steadily, with the help of impeccable writing and top-notch performances by every single cast member, led by the Emmy-nominated work of Odenkirk and We needed that Saul Goodman to grease the proverbial wheels, to pull the strings, and enable Walter White’s (Bryan Cranston) alter-ego Heisenberg to wreak havoc and reap the rewards that came with these evil deeds. When viewers first set eyes on the greedy, fast-talking, criminal lawyer Saul Goodman ( [Bob Odenkirk)](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/bob_odenkirk) in Breaking Bad’s second season, it was evident Odenkirk’s role in the groundbreaking series was to provide a steady dose of levity as the program delved further into its violent, blue meth-fueled depths. In fact, hear us out here, it has even surpassed Breaking Bad.

Better Call Saul's finale flashback is more important than you first ... (digitalspy.com)

After six seasons of Bob Odenkirk's Slippin' Jimmy, the colourful suits of Saul Goodman and the sweet smell of Gene Takovic's Cinnabon buns, Vince Gilligan ...

Even though both Jimmy and Walt did some pretty awful things in their lives, the Better Call Saul finale gave them both a shot at redemption. The star explained: "He was leaving everything behind, and that was a symbol of that... Ridding himself of any talisman that put him back to who he was at the beginning of the show or any association with that." In reality, Walt knows he's about to rescue Jesse from Jack and the neo-Nazis with little chance of returning. Jump forward to the Breaking Bad finale, and Walt leaves it behind on a payphone to show his full transformation into Heisenberg. On the Better Call Saul

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