The prequel no one asked for, but immensely lucky to have. I honestly did not expect anything from this series. It is after all a prequel to one of the best shows ever created, and so it would be very hard to top it.
And while the show isn't as thrilling or exciting as Breaking Bad, over time, it developed into its own unique show with an incredibly enriching and compelling main character.
While BB is the story of how Walter White, a run down chemistry teacher turned into a drug kingpin named Heisenberg, this is the story of how Jimmy McGill, a struggling lawyer and accomplished con-man became the notorious, flamboyant and colourful "Criminal" lawyer Saul Goodman. And while Saul was mostly the one dimensional, yet likeable comic relief character in BB, in this one, he has far more layers than you would expect.
Jimmy desperately wants to become a good lawyer and make his older brother Chuck proud. But Chuck, who is jealous of Jimmy's charisma and sense of humour, as well as suspicious of his con artist antics, repeatedly sabotages him, while suffering from a condition that leaves him allergic to electricity. Meanwhile it also tells the story of how Mike came to be involved in Gus's organisation as he makes plans to take down the Salamanca family.
Jimmy is told over and over by the people he loves and admires the most that he is bad, is not sincere and will always be a lowlife conman. He's not a bad person, but if you're around bad people, you tend to pick up their bad habits. And he eventually becomes the friend of bad guys and criminals.
Walt was a bad man. Jimmy just wanted approval from the wrong people. And the more Breaking Bad went on, the less sympathetic Walt became. The more Better Call Saul goes on, the more sympathy you have for Jimmy/Saul.
Without giving away too many spoilers, the series is also about the different ways people deal with guilt. Either they fully accept what they did was bad and embrace the consequences, or they blame it on everyone else and brush it away.
In end, it's a more complex series than BB. It's an intense character study and the relationships between them all.
I really love this series more than I ever thought.
10 out of 10.