'Better Call Saul' Season 1, Episode 2 Review: Dios Mijo

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Spoilers for AMC’s ‘Better Call Saul’ and ‘Breaking Bad’ follow.

Last night we met Jimmy McGill, the man who would become Saul Goodman of Breaking Bad fame.

Jimmy, played by Bob Odenkirk, is a struggling attorney, a once-upon-a-time conman, and a bit of a loser. He can’t pay his bills. His office is a closet in the back of a nail salon. And he’s barely scraping by with public defender gigs—the bottom of the attorney barrel.

The one client he desperately wants—a county treasurer who likely stole over a million and a half dollars—has a wife who wants nothing to do with Jimmy. He even spots them at his older brother Chuck’s old law firm Hamlin, Hamlin & McGill.

A chance encounter with a pair of twin skateboarder con-men leads him to an idea: He can use their fake hit-by-a-car scheme to come to the rescue of the treasurer’s wife, Betty, thereby securing her business. It’s not a terribly bright idea, and when the skaters screw it up matters get considerably worse for all involved.

As luck would have it, the bumbling twins picked the wrong car, and follow the wrong person back to the wrong house—a house belonging to the abuela of one Tuco Salamanca—one of the craziest gangsters we encounter in Breaking Bad.



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