Catching up with 'Better Call Saul' like a con artist would
There's no law against a couple of shortcuts when you're catching up on a beloved TV show. And even if you were, Better Call Saul's Jimmy McGill would tell you to take them anyway.
by Linda Holmes
Jul 22, 2022
5 minutes
(Caution: this piece contains Better Call Saul spoilers.)
I absolutely loved Breaking Bad. If you think about consistency, quality, freshness, direction, acting, everything — I could easily argue for it as my personal best show ever. I wrote about it quite a bit, but when it ended, I was relieved, as I said close to the end of its run. It had been a brutal story to watch. So when Better Call Saul premiered about a year and a half later as the prequel spin-off tale of Walt's corrupt lawyer — played so brilliantly by Bob Odenkirk — I didn't stay with it. I didn't feel the need to be in that world again, regardless of my admiration for the personnel.
Fast forward to the show's current tear
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