It turned out that there was only one person who the future and once Jimmy McGill would put ahead of his own personal interests.
In the stunning and stylish final episode of one of the strongest dramas over the last 10 years, Bob Odenkirk’s Saul Goodman, to borrow the phrase, was a slacker.
Having finally been apprehended, Saul structured a plea bargain that would have him in and out of prison in a plausibility-stretching-but-who’s-counting seven years.
However, he spotted and decided to get rid of the names of his wife, Kim Wexler (Rhea Seehorn), and to claim his real name, which was the one he had prior to when “Saul” committed himself to full-time sexiness.
The spinoff of that show isn’t giving us the joy of watching Saul achieve one final big win, and forces us to consider the more nuanced pleasures of suffering for doing good.
The final scene was precise, in the way it drew into Saul’s moral dilemma and the confusion of the various ancillary characters in the illicit drug trade only a list of crimes that Saul has to answer in the end
Odenkirk probably has never been stronger than during the courtroom, looking completely confident in his decision to apply his skills as a lawyer on others’ behalf
The final episode in this spinoff from “Breaking Bad,” some 14 years after the original was first shown in the series on AMC will likely be the end of this universe.