<em>Better Call Saul</em> Finally, Tragically, Ignites Change
The first season of Better Call Saul ended with Jimmy McGill expressing some regrets. The ever-striving public defender pulled his yellow Suzuki Esteem up to the booth of the parking attendant/fixer Mike Ehrmantraut and recalled to him that they’d both recently had their hands on $1.6 million in stolen cash. Why in the world hadn’t they kept it? “I remember you saying something about doing the right thing,” Mike replied. Jimmy scoffed. “I know what stopped me,” he said, before driving off. “And you know what? It’s never stopping me again.”
When that episode aired in 2015, it seemed like a clear turning point: Jimmy was about to scrap a career as a straight-and-narrow law partner and instead take the more ethically liberate route, transforming into. But the show, somewhat bafflingly, hit the “undo” button on that epiphany for Season Two, sending Jimmy back into the often-tedious world of corporate and elderlaw while developing his relationship with his hardworking girlfriend, Kim, and his snooty brother, Chuck.
