He loved his family and he was dying and the only way he could help them (in his mind) was by starting up a meth business. The tenets of his personality were very basic. It has become something more, too: a show that not only follows on from its predecessor but has become a commentary on it, a companion show to the original.īoth fall under the by now well-established category of the study of "Difficult Men." From The Sopranos on, these shows have articulated the same dramatic situation over and over again: What happens to men living in a world of decline? Breaking Bad was the purest example of the genre because it framed the question in the starkest possible terms: a dedicated chemistry teacher and dad who, due to cancer and poverty, converts himself into a drug kingpin.īut Walter White, and the show in which he starred, was always a simple formulation: He did what he had to do. 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. Warning: mild spoilers for the first season finale below.įor 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.
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