No longer Saul’s overworked secretary, Francesca is a small-time landlord who deals with stoner tenants clogging sinks with seeds and stems. In the case of “Breaking Bad,” a trip down memory lane echoes potentially destructive events in the show’s Cinnabon-glazed present, with Gene Takovic succumbing to the same vices that ruined his previous lives.Īfter teasing Walt’s and Jesse’s cameos by opening with Saul tied up in the back of their RV, a sequence that vaguely name-dropped Nacho Varga and Lalo Salamanca in “Better Call Saul,” the episode switches to black-and-white for a post– Breaking Bad check-in with Francesca Liddy.
Mail call season 4 series#
But Better Call Saul isn’t the kind of series that simply panders to nostalgia-like the many scams Jimmy McGill has orchestrated, every detail is deliberate. With the name of the episode generating its own news cycle over the past week, the thrill of Better Call Saul revisiting the Breaking Bad timeline speaks for itself. As a result, Better Call Saul has finally delivered the highly publicized return of Walter White and Jesse Pinkman-bringing the audience back to the moment when the duo first required Saul’s services as a “criminal lawyer.” In other words, just as Better Call Saul starts bleeding into Breaking Bad, the episode “Breaking Bad” informs prior events in “Better Call Saul.” (Saul was intended to have only a three-episode arc on Breaking Bad.) Now, 13 years since the character’s debut, Better Call Saul has completed the inverse: an episode named after its predecessor.Īs expected, the antepenultimate episode of the series, “Breaking Bad,” sheds new light on some of Saul’s actions in, well, Breaking Bad. As Bob Odenkirk told me last year, a cameraman said he wanted a job on the Saul spinoff when they were filming the episode, but it was nothing more than an on-set gag.
At the time, nobody would’ve expected the character-or the catchphrase-to have such a long shelf life. When Saul Goodman first appeared in the second season of Breaking Bad, the episode got its title from the tacky tagline for his law practice: Better Call Saul.
0 kommentar(er)
