With its slow burn approach to storytelling and complex characterizations of very bad people, BetterCallSaul explored issues of time, death, and regret.
Contents Better Call Saul could be a hard show to fathom. What, exactly, was it about? Other than an opportunity to extend the shelf life of the cultural juggernaut Breaking Bad by further exploring some of its most well-known characters – the con man/lawyer, Jimmy McGill, AKA Saul Goodman ; the drug kingpin, Gus Fring ; and the ex-cop turned cartel fixer, Mike Ehrmantraut – it wasn’t always clear.
The show forced us to have patience One of the reasons why the series could be so hard to parse was because of its deliberateness, especially when detailing the minutia of work or home life. Why linger on this stuff? One writer wrote that the show was actually about work, while another argued that it was a commentary on the nature of boredom.
The slowly turning wheels of justice The show, about criminals and lawyers, also attempted to convey the reality of how slowly the wheels of justice turn, and how teeth-grindingly long it can take to finally catch a break, particularly for people who are down on their luck. While they have some, ahem, time on their hands, Jimmy asks the two men what they would do with access to a time machine. Both White and Ehrmantraut talk of fixing things they now regret. White – more bitter and contrary than ever, and less remorseful about his own choices – is still fixated on his perceived victimization. Ehrmantraut, meanwhile, would go back in time and not take the bribe that led him to become a dirty cop.
But watching Jimmy head towards his final moral catastrophe – the one that may make him irredeemable – our pulses quicken as we realize that we have been rooting all along for this guy to choose good. He’s not really going to blow it now, is he? In the way it sets up this moral reckoning, as well as the viewer’s response to it, Better Call Saul ensures its place in the pantheon of great television shows.
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