He heads back to the nail saloon whose back rooms serve as his office and living quarters, stopping as always (in a nice throwback to the first season) to drink from the cucumber water that the outraged manager keeps insisting is only for customers. Jimmy's clearly ready to make some changes, though. Exiting the parking lot, he talks to Mike, working the barrier as always, and bemoans giving up the hefty sum of money they recovered during the last season. But though they offer a compelling, bright future, he declines, still unsure about his place in life. He's suited and booted again, and seems interested in a job with a mainstream law firm called Davis & Main.
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It's another beautifully judged opening, full of pathos, but also of punishment Saul did this to himself with his criminal deeds, but we're not done learning how he got to that point.īack in the "present" of the show, Jimmy has had a change of heart. So he spends hours overnight there, and when he emerges, he's carved the words "SG was here" into the wall. As the anonymous "Gene" slaving away in a Cinnabon, it's a monotone mini-movie of despair, and ends with Gene accidentally locking himself in with the rubbish bins at the mall, trapped because he can't risk using the emergency escape and summoning the police. Switch, the first episode of season two, written and directed by Breaking veteran and Saul regular producer Thomas Schnauz, begins as season one did, with a tragicomic flash-forward to Saul's life post-Walter White et al. Could the transformation into Saul be approaching quickly? In the first season, Jimmy dabbled in helping criminals for the first time, including violent drug kingpin Nacho (Michael Mando) and, when given the opportunity, seems ready to drive off into the sunset and go back to his old life as a full-time con-man. We see how Jimmy first crosses paths with the stoic fixer Mike Ehrmantraut (Jonathan Banks) and meet Kim Wexler (Rhea Seehorn), the woman who inspires both love and lust in our main schlub. We're introduced to Jimmy, his various associates and the more twisted and tragic story of his older brother Chuck (Michael McKean), once the picture of success, now a shut-in suffering from (he claims) electromagnetic sensitivity. The prequel to Breaking Bad follows the earlier days of Bob Odenkirk's hustler, the time before the confident, smug, fast-talking lawyer emerged to help the criminal masterminds of Albuquerque and to advise Bryan Cranston's Walter White. It goes without saying that there are spoilers in this review, so don't end up looking like one of Slippin' Jimmy's marks.īefore he was Saul Goodman, he was "Slippin'" Jimmy McGill, small-time shyster, con-artist and wannabe lawyer.