This summer we said goodbye to a series of creators, Better call Saul. Vince Gilligan It will shelve (or stop altogether, we’ll see) the Breaking Bad universe. A beautiful black and white afterword that puts the finishing touch on the legend and is of the same quality as before. For those who haven’t enjoyed it yet, it’s a good time to rewatch it, even though the final season is on Movistar, not Netflix yet. After Walter White’s Swan Song (Brian Cranston) It was time to say goodbye to Saul Goodman at the end of the mother series (Bob Odenkirk), the lawyer with the garish-colored suits, the prominent bangs, and the tricky words. Needless to say, a lot of spoilers are coming for the end of the series.
If only we had witnessed the rise and fall of chemistry teacher Walter White in Breaking Bad. world of drug dealing when you are diagnosed with cancer; In Better Call Saul, we see Jimmy McGee, the black sheep of a family that has made a name for itself in the legal world, as the lawyer who defends the bloodthirsty mafia cartel where Walter works. Saul Goodman was Jimmy McGill’s Heisenberg, and over these six seasons we’ve seen his evolution towards the dark side. The character has always had a funny past, but we learned to see his most tragic side in his drama. In true Star Wars fashion, the road to salvation has finally been opened.
Since the events described in the series took place years before Walter arrived and his innovative formula for methamphetamines, it was clear that Better call Saul was destined to be that person. precursor From Breaking Bad. But something broke this formula. We have always taken care at the beginning of each season of Better call Saul black and white serials, far from the striking colors of the other scenes in the series. When we got to those colorless moments, we jumped to a moment after the end of Breaking Bad. The gray days were when Saul Goodman hid from Justice under a false identity at a mundane job in the kitchen of a fast food restaurant in one of the thousands of malls scattered across the United States. The use of colors in some of the aircraft’s objects helped the directors underline the different moods of the characters at the time. In these colorless series, the series ceased to be a prequel and told us something more about what happened after the end of the mother series. Small brushstrokes that go much further as a result. The second part of this sixth final season is almost gone. in that black and white futurepassing us the most emotional meeting of the whole series. Which was the least we could imagine.
Better Call Saul was a show about reuniting with old acquaintances from the very beginning. As we reunited with characters we thought were embedded in Breaking Bad over the course of different seasons, we met entirely new characters that expanded the universe created by Vince Gilligan. We were very pleased to meet Mike again (Jonathan Banks), but the return of Gus Fringe moved us even more (Giancarlo Esposito) and his commander stare into space as he stands in the middle of his office. Naturally we knew the pearl would be left for last: the arrival of Walter White and Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul). While the climax of the series was being experienced, the expected moment was saved as a flashback to the last episodes. However, as we said, this was not the most emotional reunion.
Many of us know that the character of Kim Wexler (Rhea Seehorn), Saul’s wife would not survive to the end. Since we were given no clue as to her presence in Breaking Bad, we thought that Kim’s death would be an emotionally comparable sequence to Walter’s brother-in-law we saw in the mother series. It’s that episode that marks the point of no return for Walter White. but the moment Ozymandias Better Call Saul didn’t come with Kim’s death, but with another character, possibly one of the few. The emotional bonds Saul left with his brother. Murder of Howard Hamlin (patrick fabian) we did not see it coming. The lawyer was brutally executed by Lalo Salamanca, who aimed Saul and Kim to kill Gus Fringe. A test very similar to the one Jesse had to pass in Breaking Bad. Howard’s murder caused Kim to rethink her life and distance herself from Albuquerque and Saul. In the first episode of the sixth and final season, we saw the culmination of Jimmy McGill’s transformation (if it were now) into Saul Goodman, the drug cartel lawyer. There was no point in following the story because everything that happened after that was told to us in Breaking Bad. But there were five more episodes.
From the ninth episode, the series is a black and white epilogue, from both Better call Saul and Breaking Bad itself, aimed to recount how Saul Goodman spent his last days free and eventually arrested and jailed. Is Saul returning to crime because he can’t stand his monotonous new life or because he wants to be caught deep down? And already with Saul in prison, we saw the most emotional reunion of the entire series. In the end, it wasn’t Walter’s or Jesse’s. It was Kim’s, even though we said goodbye to her relatively recently, we already thought it was forever. In this new life in black and white, Kim is no longer blonde but brunette. What he told us in this epilogue is how Saul got the love of his life out of hiding and how he was willing to see her during his trial and in prison. The trick Saul uses to lure him is to negotiate one of these scandalous deals with the prosecutor, with a minimum prison sentence, in exchange for his confession to a life of crime.
In the final episodes, we see several of Saul’s comebacks, along with the other heroes of the series, where Saul asks what they will change in their lives. if they could time travel. The moment Jimmy got it wrong, the murder of Howard? Who left the day? The moment when Lalo accepts Salamanca’s defense? Contacting Walter White with the poster? In the end, it turned out that the key moment was the day her estrangement with her brother began, and she openly confronted him. Had he stayed by his side, the chain of wrong decisions that could have ended in the most tragic way could have been avoided. In his latest lawyer show, Saul shows that he’s still the best at cunning by giving Kim a jail sentence. only eight years in prison. A deal where he is responsible for breaking into a thousand pieces as a declaration of love for her. His character embarks on a path of redemption by giving up on his cunning and causing him to be imprisoned for 86 years, forever bury Saul Goodman’s identity. His testimony and self-reproach at the trial becomes a time machine to try to right what he did wrong. At the end of the series, Saul dies, but Jim McGill is reborn. Something that could be the first step to many other things. Between them she tries to maintain her relationship with Kim. If only Jesse could have a happy ending in the sequel to Breaking Bad: El Camino. Saul could not have been less.