One of TV’s most acclaimed series ends on Tuesday. Is it really the last we’ll see of the cast of characters it and its predecessor Breaking Bad introduced?
Shady lawyer Saul Goodman was first introduced in the eighth episode of the second season ofBetter Call SaulAcross six seasons and 63 episodes we’ve learnt that Goodman was Jimmy McGill before the events ofThe worlds of the two shows have collided this season, all but guaranteeing a bloody retributive finale when the series ends on Tuesday.has not won a single Emmy.
Gould first introduced Goodman, played brilliantly by Bob Odenkirk, toward the end of the second season of“I was fascinated by this guy and I wanted to see him again,” he says, “but I was worried, and I think some other folks were worried, that we were going to break the show because he was going to be too silly or too out there.”Gould admits part of his motivation for wanting Saul to hang around was selfish. “You get a character payment if they show up again, which is always good.
“You can see he’s said to himself, ‘This time it worked’. And I started feeling, ‘Well, this guy does have an inner life. Maybe he’s not quite as confident as he appears’.” Across the seasons of the show, we’ve come to appreciate how complicated and conflicted Goodman – aka Jimmy McGill, aka Gene Takavic – really is. And for all we might root for him to overcome his many failings and find a path to redemption, he always lets us down.“Yes, I do like him. I want him to do better,” says Gould. “As a viewer I feel bad for him when he makes these terrible decisions. But as writers we rub our hands together at what we’re going to get from these terrible decisions.
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