"Better Call Saul's" highly anticipated series premiere finally aired on Sunday with an explosive one-hour episode.
The long-awaited spin-off of AMC's widely popular "Breaking Bad" series started strong, showing Saul Goodman (Bob Odenkirk) in the present time, following the events that happened in the series finale of "Breaking Bad."
The new series began by showing the former cunning big-shot Albuquerque lawyer working for a Cinnabon branch in Omaha. He normally spends his free time watching recorded videos of his old TV ads when he was still in the limelight. Then, the show shifted to the real story of the spin-off when Saul, harboring a new identity, remembered through flashbacks how his legal profession started, even before Walter White (Bryan Cranston) hired him in "Breaking Bad."
In the first episode of "Better Call Saul" titled "Uno," Saul was still using his real name, Jimmy McGill, as he was trying to start practising his profession as a lawyer back in 2002. He was first seen representing a group of deranged teenage boys who were caught violating a headless cadaver.
His woes came one after another as he struggled to make a name for himself in order to gain new clients and make bigger money. But his luck seemed to run out every time he attempted to do something.
Jimmy's attempt to sign in the Kettlemans in his private firm that has an office in an obscure part of a nail salon did not push through, but he was further insulted when he found out that Mrs. Betsy Kettleman (Julie Ann Emery) approached Hamlin, Hamlin, and McGill, the law firm where his sick brother Chuck (Michael McKean) is a senior partner.
Chuck is presently resting at home because of a rare psychological ailment that makes him terrified of anything with electricity in it. However, Saul has no idea that his brother is secretly accepting payments from the law office, or about Chuck's plans to go back to the firm.
For the second part of the two-day series premiere, viewers will find out what's next for Jimmy after another "Breaking Bad" icon Tuco (Raymond Cruz) pulls him from the driveway after his two teenage protégés knock on the front porch of the psychopath drug lord from Mexico.
"Better Call Saul's" season premiere part two will air on Feb. 9 on AMC.
