It took “Better Call Saul” six seasons to build up to Saul Goodman’s downfall, which was foretold in the show’s title, and “Breaking Bad,” which won an Emmy, put the bar extremely high for its successor, “Better Call Saul,” which presented its final chapter.
The show added callbacks from other series and built on its own run to give a reflective examination of what changed the title character and whether there was any way for him or her to be redeemed.
Although it was never exactly a racehorse in terms of pacing, the extra-long finale continued to pursue the show’s slow-and-steady strategy.
The show’s slow-and-steady strategy this season included an entire episode that appeared to be devoted to one hilarious sight gag set inside a department store.
Despite this, the show came to a finale that was both reasonable and modest. In it, Jimmy/Saul (Bob Odenkirk) performed a single heroic and self-sacrificing act in the hopes of reuniting with his ex-girlfriend Kim Wexler, even if only for a brief moment (Rhea Seehorn).
Her demise had always been the show’s most fundamental mystery, as well as the key to understanding Jimmy’s development (or decline) into the smooth-talking con man that he eventually became.
After Saul was caught in a dumpster, of all places, by a medical-alert bracelet, of all things (producing a wonderful guest starring role for Carol Burnett), he set about doing what he does best, which is manipulating the system.
It was something that he was perpetually prone to do, as Walter White (Bryan Cranston) pointed out in a pointed flashback. This explains why he couldn’t avoid reverting to his thieving ways, which eventually led to his capture.
“So, you’ve always been like this,” Walt remarked. “I see.”
Saul appeared to have outsmarted the suits yet again by winning a ridiculously small sentence. He was back in his element when fighting on his own behalf, and it worked out well for him.
This was even though another former cast member of “Breaking Bad,” Marie Schrader (Betsy Brandt), demanded justice for his role after the fact in the killing of her husband, Hank.
The “Bad” characters served a function, such as the fellow transplant Mike (Jonathan Banks), who expressed thinly veiled derision when Saul asked him about a time machine and said that he would use it to invest well and become a billionaire.
“What, that’s it? Money?” Mike scoffed.
However, in the end, Saul was able to find something more significant, and it did not appear to be as much about rescuing Kim or protecting her from a prospective legal action as it was about simply seeing her again.
It was a costly cigarette in terms of the additional years that would be added to his sentence, but all things considered, it was worth it to him because he was able to retrieve at least a little of his soul.
“Saul,” which was written and directed by Peter Gould (who, along with Vince Gilligan, co-created the show), was plainly unable to give the same fireworks that defined the “Breaking Bad” finale, but it did prove rewarding in a way that seemed true to the program.
Before the start of the current season, “Better Call Saul” did not have a single Emmy to its name for any of the categories it was nominated in.
This second batch of episodes, which aired after the current eligibility window had closed, will likely put the series, and perhaps, especially Odenkirk, who survived a near-death experience to deliver the performance of a lifetime, in contention for next year, assuming anybody can remember back that far. These nominations are in addition to the nominations that are already in the works for the show.
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Saul’s goals were made clear when he attempted to grab his money and escape as soon as his cover was broken early on in the episode.
In the end, though, first Kim and then Saul/Jimmy had to make amends for what was, in retrospect, the defining moment of the show: how their shared joy in perpetrating scams eventually ended, even if only unwittingly, in the death of Howard (Patrick Fabian).
At that very instant, Jimmy’s childhood innocence was irretrievably damaged, so making a direct connection between himself and the “Breaking Bad” years as well as his dreary, colourless future.
Even in that case, his expertise with baked products, which he had perfected at Cinnabon, would come in handy. This is a skill that he was shown employing in his new duty as a prisoner. Because much like “Breaking Bad,”
“Better Call Saul” always found ways to link the past, present, and future together, even if it was something as little as Jimmy’s aptitude for manipulating a different kind of dough. This was because “Better Call Saul” is a spin-off of “Breaking Bad.”
