Better Call Saul was, on one level, a show about the law—its uses and its abuses, its complexity and its morality, and the ways a clever lawyer can bend it to suit his or her purposes, to both good and rotten ends.
The Breaking Bad spinoff, which aired its final episode in August, followed small-time con artist Jimmy McGill as he tried and failed to become an honest corporate lawyer and eventually transformed himself into the sleazy criminal legal defender Saul Goodman. Despite being surrounded by more honorable models—his corporate lawyer brother and a romantic partner whose true passion is helping the downtrodden as a public defender—Goodman becomes a self-dealing legal schemer, and, eventually, a bagman for a murderous drug cartel.
