But Better Call Saul has been like Breaking Bad without the boring bits. Spin-offs are supposed to be worse than the shows that gave birth to them. Mike's probably not going to start letting Jimmy out of the parking lot without paying and/or having the requisite number of stamps on his parking card, but a friendship is forming between the two men, or at least a working relationship, and I know I can't wait to see where it goes from here.Warning: mild spoilers for the first season finale below.ДЇor a show that is literally derivative, Better Call Saul has been startlingly original over the course of its first season, which just ended with episode 10 tonight. For now, at least, Jimmy and Mike have come to an understanding about each other. When we first met Mike on Breaking Bad, we knew he had ties to both Gus Fring and Saul Goodman, but how those affiliations came to be we were never made aware. The best part of the night, aside from Jimmy finding the Kettlemans camping in the desert with their giant bag of money, goes to the exchanges between Jimmy and Mike. That has to pay at least enough for him to move out of the utility closet in the back of the nail salon, right? He probably earned a little loyalty and trust from Nacho by finding the Kettlemans (and their money) himself, thereby ruining Hamlin & McGill's case as well as his friend Kim, but now he's a gang attorney. Jimmy may have gotten off on the wrong foot with Nacho, but their relationship is about to be one that will make or break our protagonist. This is probably not the last we've seen of him.

Nacho will likely have something to do with creating these impossible situations. He made a promise to his brother and he's trying his best to keep it despite the fact that he's created a world for himself where doing so is nearly impossible.

He's a man who doesn't want to get involved yet finds himself inextricably entwined in these crazy situations.ДЄfter seeing the opening scene with Jimmy and Chuck, Saul's later conflicts between doing right and doing right by his clients are clear. He doesn't want to do it, because he doesn't want to get involved, but he knows he should.ДЇuture iterations of Saul Goodman are the same. Right now, Jimmy McGill is a man who wants to do the right thing, but the right thing is getting him pretty much nowhere.ДЄs proof of Jimmy's heroism, even after telling himself that he's not a hero, he makes a call to the Kettleman family to warn them that someone might be planning to do them harm. Eventually he'll be quite content to skirt the legal system and make his money by helping criminals launder theirs. We know what kind of man Jimmy McGill/Saul Goodman becomes.

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