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Tragedy Has Reinvigorated <em>Better Call Saul</em>

The show’s soulful fourth season uses death to springboard to <em>Breaking Bad </em>levels of emotion.
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was always a show whose premise—the relatively nice guy Jimmy McGill breaks bad before , becoming the sleazy lawyer Saul Goodman—carried tragic dimensions. But now, more than three years in, there’s an actual tragedy in the story. , after losing his prestigious job and relapsing into his mental illness, Jimmy’s brother Chuck set fire to his own home and—I’d put a spoiler alert here if ads for

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