So now he has caught up with him, his former or future client: Jimmy McGill (Bob Odenkirk) aka “Better Call Saul” Goodman goes into the final sixth round and puts himself in front of a certain Walter White, whom he worked in between 2009 and 2013 four out of five “Breaking Bad” seasons had to save their butts again and again. In terms of quality, it has long since caught up with Vince Gilligan’s legendary series masterpiece. And that’s a small miracle when you consider that many initially thought the spin-off about the resourceful second-best lawyer in the world was more of a well-staged gag at the expense of the viewers. Wasn’t it just about reintroducing the unequal father-foster son team Walter White/Jesse Pinkman as effectively (and soon) as possible and benefiting from the “Breaking Bad” bonus?
Instead, “Better Call Saul” became the series that many “Breaking Bad” fans avoided precisely because of the absence of their favorite characters and that critics embraced a little more with each new season. With the roly-poly Jimmy McGill, brilliantly embodied by Odenkirk, and his story of the transformation from Paul to Saul, a whole cosmos of secondary characters became the focus of a series that was initially not so much interested in drug dealing and clan crime and all the more interested in the characters behind it. As if the focus of a camera was suddenly sharpened onto the usually only shadowy background.
So the sleazy lawyer Saul Goodman becomes the upright and clever loser Jimmy McGill, who is only driven by circumstances to become sleazy. And instead of telling the story of an unequal father-son relationship, Gilligan and partner Peter Gould, now in their sixth year, tell an actually fantastic love story about two people who obviously just can’t do without each other: Jimmy McGill and his colleague and finally wife Kim Wexler (Rhea sea horn). In an almost breathtaking volte-face at the end of season five, it was suddenly she who seemed to take the “Breaking Bad” step of morally switching sides, while McGill still had a remnant of sincerity. And it will be the task of the final season to show us in two blocks how McGill made it to the lawyer on the golden shithouse throne (in the nicest “Breaking Bad” manner there is a kind of flash-forward to see this right at the beginning) and brought back again. And yes: to finally let Walter White and Jesse Pinkman perform.
The sting of the two-year season break, caused by Corona, as well as Odenkirk’s heart attack on the set, is extremely deep. Anyone who doesn’t re-binget again will be thrown right into the middle of the scenario, which has long since said goodbye to the lawyer farce towards Tarantino & Co. Chicken and drug dealer Gus Fring (Giancarlo Esposito) has recruited Nacho Varga and Mike Ehrmantraut for his campaign against Lalo Salamanca (Tony Dalton). He barely escapes the attempt on his life and now begins to tie the threads together in such a way that a showdown between the different interest groups seems to be inevitable.
Exactly what Saul Goodman and his increasingly awkward wife Kim have to do with it remains vague, at least in the early episodes. They plunge into their next mutual scam, in which former joint employer Howard Hamlin (Patrick Fabian) is the victim. Figures from the first season of Saul are skilfully used. Characters from a time when Saul was Jimmy, Kim was a straight-up lawyer, and the Albuquerque criminal swamp was just a premonition. The field is cultivated in order to allow further old acquaintances to enter. But until then, there are still a number of close-ups of dusty boots, aggressive insects and mustaches to be expected. After all, we’re still in Saul Goodman’s pre-transformation territory. At the end of it could be a spaghetti western. Much more likely, however, there will be a reunion. And the tearful farewell to characters whose existence seemed to have been forgotten during the five years of “Breaking Bad”. (Netflix, new episode every Tuesday).
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