Sadly, Better Call Saul Proves Chuck Was Right About Jimmy All Along
WARNING: This contains SPOILERS for Better Call Saul season 6, episode 11.
Both the Breaking Bad show and the Better Call Saul “Breaking Bad” episode prove, sadly, that Chuck was right about Jimmy all along. While Chuck died in Better Call Saul season 3, the character continues to cast a large shadow over Jimmy’s life – even when he is not brought up. Direct mentions to Chuck have been rare in the later seasons of Better Call Saul, but Jimmy’s transformation into Saul Goodman and later his life as Gene in Omaha echoed a lot of Chuck’s words from the first half of the show.
Of all the Better Call Saul characters who are not in Breaking Bad, Chuck McGill might be the most important one for viewers to understand who Saul Goodman really was before the events of the original show. Kim, Howard, Nacho, and Lalo may have changed Jimmy’s life in many different ways, but it was Chuck who, directly and indirectly, shaped who that character was going to be. Jimmy and Chuck had one of the most complicated relationships in the Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul universe, if not the most, as viewers could never know for sure if their banter stemmed from love, jealousy, or a mixture of both.
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Chuck’s death coincided with Jimmy’s business getting more and more dangerous, with Jimmy becoming involved with Lalo Salamanca and even Gus Fring a little more than a year after it. Following Howard Hamlin's death and Kim’s departure, there was nothing else left for Jimmy, and Better Call Saul wasted no time jumping right into the Breaking Bad timeline. Viewers were already aware of how much Jimmy’s moral code would change given the events of Breaking Bad, but now the
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