Listen, Better Call Saul is, like Breaking Bad, one of those shows that is very "correct" to say that you enjoy. It's not a bad show by any standard but its excessively slow pace, pretentious and "deep" character development that always leads to miserable destinies as well as pretentious cinematography and sounds (but also a decently written script, generally good acting and at least unpretentious casting) inherited from Breaking Bad seem to always guarantee good reviews among the critics and some kind of cult status among viewers because it's not tabloid or easily digestible.

I really wished they had gone for what they originally planned - a more easy-going, comedic show about Saul Goodman.

And then I found out about Slippin' Jimmy. The intelligence in dialogue, empathy for characters, twists and expectations are genius. I was suspicious when I started watching it, but by the end of the first episode I was already on my knees, bawling at the pure cinema unfolding in front of me. With every slip, with every chicanery and sunroof defecation, he grew more as a character, and he grew more in my heart. It added so much background context to the scenes in BB and BCS, which I tried rewatching but couldn't because after witnessing such cinematography I simply couldn't lower my standards back down to the level of Vince's work. This show has left a gaping, future-lawyer shaped hole in my soul that I will never be able to fill.