Better Call Saul Ends The Gene Story It Spent 5 Seasons Setting Up
Better Call Saul season 6, episode 10, «Nippy,» was the first ever to be set entirely in the Gene timeline, the show seems to have now ended the reluctant Cinnabon manager's long-term story. Whether or not Better Call Saul is as good as or better than Breaking Bad will be debated for years to come, but one thing that is hard to contest is that Better Call Saul is intricately well-plotted. While most of that plotting has been in service to facilitating Jimmy McGill's transformation into Saul Goodman,Better Call Saul has also told a fascinating sub-story concerning an unassuming man named Gene Takovic.
Gene is, of course, who Jimmy McGill became after his alias of Saul Goodman wound up a person that the authorities would very much like to put in prison. Not wanting to face decades in the slammer — or the wrath of those he had otherwise crossed — Jimmy arranged for a new life in Omaha, Nebraska, far away from his New Mexico home. Instead of keeping criminals out of jail, he spends his days and nights as «Gene Takovic» overseeing the operations of a shopping mall's Cinnabon location.
Related: Better Call Saul Season 6’s Cinnabon Mall Scam Fully Explained
Throughout the Gene scenes leading up to Better Call Saul season 6, episode 10, it was always clear that Jimmy/Saul/Gene was struggling with his identity, understandably. After Kim Wexler left him and ended their marriage, Jimmy McGill appeared to be no more, subsequently spending years cultivating a public presence and opulent lifestyle as «Saul Goodman,» complete with omnipresent TV commercials, an enormous house, and a flashy car. As Gene, Jimmy obviously pines for those aspects of his old persona, and Better Call Saul's Gene scenes repeatedly reinforced that always
Read more on screenrant.com
