Better Call Saul's Gene Timeline Means Jimmy Can't Have Walt's Redemption
Walter White was able to claw back a slither of virtue in Breaking Bad's finale, but redemption won't come quite as easily for Jimmy McGill in Better Call Saul. Loud, brash, and dripping in cheap cologne, Saul Goodman couldn't have felt further removed from Walter White when debuting in Breaking Bad season 2, but Better Call Saul has drawn a parallel between Vince Gilligan's two anti-heroes. Both men began their journey from a place of innocence (one more than the other), but were gradually magnetized into criminality after discovering they had quite the knack for it. In Better Call Saul season 5, Jimmy even delivers his own spin on Walt's famous "I am the one who knocks" speech.
In Breaking Bad's final season, Walter White's world collapses spectacularly, leaving a broken, lonely man with only his money and a vacuum cleaner salesman for company. In an iconic final episode, Heisenberg does his best to make amends. Walt leaves all the remaining cash he accumulated for his children via some loophole shenanigans. He then apologizes to his family in the most genuine way he can muster and, finally, sacrifices himself to rescue Jesse Pinkman. Whether Walt achieves redemption is left for the viewer to decide, but he certainly gives it a fair crack in Breaking Bad's finale.
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As Jimmy McGill's transformation begins to mirror Walter White's more closely heading into Better Call Saul's last season, viewers may wonder whether Jimmy will make a similar play, atoning for his many sins before running out of chapters to do so. Unfortunately for Bob Odenkirk's criminal lawyer character, redemption won't be a simple matter of stringing a few good deeds
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