Fans of Breaking Bad are so attached to the supporting characters in the series that they were more than thrilled upon the release of the pilot of Better Call Saul back in 2015. Although it's hard for fans to say goodbyes to the characters they loved, the series is ending strong with its final season.RELATED: Better Call Saul Recap: The Most Important Things That Happened In Each Season So FarThe story follows Jimmy McGill (Bob Odenkirk), otherwise known as Saul Goodman, the eccentric lawyer from the groundbreaking series Breaking Bad. Though sometimes unable to decipher what’s truly wrong or right, he always fights for what he believes to be right. Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould are masters of telling a tragic story with a twist of humor, and Better Call Saul does just that.

It Provides Context for the Characters of 'Breaking Bad'

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Saul Goodman, Mike Ehrmentraut (Jonathan Banks), and Gus Fring (Giancarlo Esposito) are characters who defined the world of Breaking Bad. Yet, before meeting Walter White (Bryan Cranston), their lives are hardly touched upon. From Goodman's helpless nature as a con artist to Ehrmentraut's defeated but tough approach to everything and Fring's undeniable deviousness, the intricacies of these complex characters certainly satisfy our appetites in Better Call Saul.

No one would’ve guessed the number of times Mike Ehrmentraut and Saul Goodman worked together and did favors for each other or that Goodman unknowingly met Gus Fring for the first time when visiting Los Pollos Hermanos.

It Takes a Hard Look at Human Nature

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A con artist becoming a lawyer is about as bad as handing a chimp a machine gun. This dichotomy, however, is what makes Saul Goodman a relatable character as he's torn between doing what's right and what's wrong, a struggle that lies deep within everyone. He is a reminder of how people can be loved despite their flaws and mistakes, with his relationship with Kim Wexler (Rhea Seehorn) being a perfect example of this.

Most importantly, Jimmy McGill/Saul Goodman's story is cautionary. Jimmy becomes Saul because he lives in a system where it's much harder to do things the right way. Jimmy's criminal past hangs over him like a cloud. With its intricacies and punitive nature, the American legal system has created a jaded lawyer that uses the law to level everything in his path.

Knowing How it Ends

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The start of every season always opens in a black and white sequence, with them usually showing a much older Saul Goodman working in a Cinnabon. The short sequences show Saul’s future and how he ends there, the inevitability of fate.

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Most shows have the classic “what happens next?” because that is what an audience wants from a binge-worthy series. However, what makes this series different is telling its story with “how will it happen?” Viewers know what happens to Saul Goodman — all that he has been working towards is taken away from him, and he ends up working in a Cinnabon.

The World Gets to Come to Life

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Better Call Saul perfectly shows the opposing worlds of New Mexico, with high-powered law firms juxtaposed against the underworld of Gus Fring and Don Hector Salamanca (Mark Margolis). And then you've got Saul Goodman, who doesn't know which side to choose and is constantly floating in the middle.

The series carefully shows how crime bosses and drug cartels operate; mistakes are not allowed. Building the structures of the underworld sets up the story for when Walter White and Gus Fring take them down near the end of the Breaking Bad (and how big of a deal it is).

Empathy

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There are reasons why Saul Goodman has become one of our favorite anti-heroes in television history. Good is never good enough for him, and he persistently shows his need to excel in everything he does. His position as a lawyer has never deterred him from going into the nitty-gritty of whatever he needs to do to get things done. His brother, Chuck McGill (Michael McKean), has always treated him poorly and looked down upon him, but this has never stopped him from being nothing but a caring brother. The most admirable attribute that Saul has is that despite all the hardships he faces in life, he never fails to get back up and move forward with his life.

Throughout the series, viewers have come to accept Saul as he is. He can be unpredictable and erratic, but mostly kind. However, his downfall comes from believing he's doing the right thing rather than being right.

Its Distinct Characters

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The characters in Better Call Saul (and Breaking Bad) make the series so special. Each character has highly distinct personality traits, and no one could have imagined what it would be like without them. Saul Goodman’s never-ending cons and trickery, Chuck McGill’s hypersensitivity to electromagnetism and controlling nature, and Kim Wexler’s constant battle of being morally right but loving Saul (as he's always going to be Jimmy to her), are what make these characters very distinct and relatable to the audience.

No other actor could’ve played Saul Goodman’s role as brilliantly as Bob Odenkirk has. The same can be said about Mike Ehrmentraut, Gus Fring, Hector Salamanca, Kim Wexler, Chuck McGill, and even down the myriad of one-off characters that provide so much color to the show.

The Slow-Burn Pacing

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Though slow-burners are usually tiring and hard to watch, the brilliant storytelling in Better Call Saul forces (in a good way) the audience to be patient with the story. It can sometimes feel like not much is happening, but every detail is vital to story progression and world-building. Viewers will usually only realize the importance of the tiny details later when they blossom into something bigger or if a character references back to something that was previously mentioned.

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The importance of all the characters naturally draws Breaking Bad fans to want to know everything there is to know about them, so they don't really mind the wait.

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Legal dramas are among the most common genres in television series, such as Law & Order, Suits, and How To Get Away With Murder, just to name a few. Lawyers in film and television are usually depicted as black or white; either they’re the bad guy or trying to prosecute the bad guy.

Better Call Saul's depiction of legal practice demonstrates that the law is a gray area, primarily through the things that Saul has managed to pull off. It’s all about approving or disapproving of the opposition, and sometimes they have to do something out of the books to defend their arguments. The series also shows that instead of spending most of their time in court, lawyers spend more hours going through the mountain of documents for the case they're working on.

A Ton 'Breaking Bad' Callbacks and References

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Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould are masters of attention to detail. They don't forget Saul's throwaway jokes and one-liners said in Breaking Bad. In one of the last episodes of Breaking Bad, Saul sarcastically tells Walt that the best-case scenario for him is that he will end up working in a Cinnabon in Omaha, Nebraska. And as seen in the Better Call Saul flash-forwards, that’s exactly where he ends up, working as a manager in a Cinnabon branch in Nebraska.

Another callback is from an episode in Breaking Bad's Season 3 as Saul tells Walt that he once convinced a woman that he was Kevin Costner. Lo and behold, this callback happens at the end of Season One of Better Call Saul. After a presumably drunken night, Saul wakes up next to an angry woman who is shouting at him after realizing that he is not Kevin Costner and that she had just slept with a nobody.

The Stunned Cinematography

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Creators Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould, along with cinematographer Marshall Adams, have certainly not forgotten to align the cinematography style of Better Call Saul to that of Breaking Bad. Both series look like they belong to the same universe but are flavored differently. Breaking Bad has a guerilla, grainy, handheld style, while Better Call Saul takes its cues from slow cinema, with relatively long takes, lots of negative space, and minimal camera movement.

Every frame matters. Certain angles convey emotions the characters carry, while others show establishing shots of the New Mexico landscapes. The cinematography and color grading choices made for the series, which consists of many brown-yellowish hues, perfectly tie in with the sense of grittiness of the world; isolated and corrupted.

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