Walter White and Jesse Pinkman's Return Was Exactly What It Needed To Be

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I’ve always admired Better Call Saul’s unwillingness to rely on our nostalgia for Breaking Bad throughout its lengthy tenure. It remains one of the greatest television shows ever made, so less ambitious prequels would simply lean on its grandeur and call it a day.

This personal legal drama never does such a thing though. Choosing instead to build a cohesive universe around Jimmy McGill with new characters, new struggles, and new surprises. Sometimes you forget Walter White and Jesse Pinkman ever existed, their brilliance outshined by characters like Kim Wexler and Howard Hamlin that not only equal their iconic presence, but have arguably surpassed it. Yet as the final season comes to a close, the crossover we’ve all been expecting is finally here, and it’s been worth the wait.

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Since Jimmy and Kim’s tragic break-up we’ve gone back to the future. ‘Fun and Games’ and ‘Breaking Bad’ are two episodes predominantly depicted in black and white, a stylistic choice with both aesthetic and thematic weight that informs the dissonance between Saul Goodman and Gene Takovic. One is a trickster who believes he is untouchable and on top of the world, while the other is a disgraced Cinnabon manager trying to recapture a slither of his former glory. It’s undeniably tragic, and the final destination remains shrouded in mystery as our protagonist tries his best to repair bridges that have long been reduced to rubble.

One particular scene presumably has him contact Kim, but we’re taken away from this conversation the second it begins, only given the privilege of muffled speech and frustrated screams as Jimmy slams the phone down upon the receiver. We don’t need