"Better Call Saul" begins where Saul Goodman's character ends. The prequel to the hit series "Breaking Bad" will answer the question: how does he get there from here?

The show retains the stylistic beauty of "Breaking Bad." "Uno" opens with a flash-forward to Saul Goodman working as a manager at a Cinnabon in an Omaha mall in present time.

Beginning in black and white, the camera takes in all of the small details; Saul's bald spot, the spinning dough in the blender and the wide-angle view from the top of the escalator. Once the show returns to color, we're taken back to early 2000s New Mexico. Jimmy McGill isn't yet Saul Goodman and he's attempting to make a living as a flailing public defender.

The show has a lot of backstory to cover and takes its time revealing small details of Jimmy McGill's life.

In "Breaking Bad," Bob Odenkirk's character was the loud-mouthed comic relief. This time around the show often relies on long stretches of silence that reveal far more than if the characters were speaking.

In an Albuquerque courthouse, Jimmy fails to win an acquittal for his three teenage clients who stand accused of decapitating a corpse and having sex with the head. All very glamorous.

Financially Jimmy is going through a rough patch, receiving only $700 for his case. He returns to his mismatched Suzuki Esteem and refuses to pay the $3 for parking where viewers are treated to an appearance by character Mike Ehrmantraut as the parking attendant.

The cherry on top of Jimmy's life is the boiler room office he works from inside of a nail salon.

Despite his sad conditions, he tears up a $26,000 check he receives from Hamlin Hamlin & McGill. The check is meant for Jimmy's brother Chuck, played by Michael McKean, who is owed nearly $17 million from the law firm, by Jimmy's calculations.

Chuck requires visitors to leave their phone and keys in a mailbox. He lives by lantern light and keeps groceries in an ice filled cooler. His paranoia of electromagnetism leaves him confined to a dark house with the belief he will get better, while Jimmy is forced to support both Chuck and himself.

In an attempt to make a little money, Jimmy reaches out to two skateboarders who attempted a hit and run shake down earlier. He enlists their help to go after Betsey Kettleman, the county treasurer's wife, whose route to pick up her kids intersects with a blind corner and plenty of witnesses.

The car hits one of the ginger-haired boarders, but instead of stopping, the car takes off. Rather than admit defeat, Jimmy sees dollar signs at the prospect of defending a felony hit and run case. But it turns out the driver wasn't the suburban mom he was targeting, but rather an elderly Hispanic woman. Expecting a big payday, Jimmy tracks down the car, leading him to knock on the door of surprise! "Breaking Bad" flamboyant meth dealer, Tuco, who greets the lawyer with a gun.

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