#Index of better call saul s03 series#

Those caught up in the ensuing turmoil include Ignacio 'Nacho' Varga ( Michael Mando), a Salamanca associate who wants to protect his father from harm, and Mike Ehrmantraut ( Jonathan Banks), a former Philadelphia police officer who becomes a fixer for Gus. These arcs include the uneasy truce between the Salamanca family that serves the Juárez Cartel drug interest, led first by Hector Salamanca ( Mark Margolis) and later by his nephew Lalo ( Tony Dalton), and Gus Fring ( Giancarlo Esposito), a fried chicken entrepreneur whose restaurant chain is a front for the drug trade. Jimmy's life and career begin to intersect with the illegal narcotics trade and feature characters and story arcs that continue into Breaking Bad. He later begins to build a practice in elder law, which leads to a prolonged lawsuit against a nursing home chain he discovers is defrauding its clients. Īfter attaining admission to the bar but being denied employment at HHM, Jimmy's pursuits focus on low paying clients including working as a public defender. Jimmy is motivated by Chuck's success to finish college and complete a Juris Doctor degree through a correspondence law school, The University of American Samoa. While at HHM Jimmy befriends Kim Wexler ( Rhea Seehorn), a fellow mailroom employee who completes law school and becomes one of the firm's associates, and their friendship later turns romantic.

He initially works in the mailroom at his brother's Albuquerque law firm, Hamlin, Hamlin & McGill (HHM), where managing partner Howard Hamlin ( Patrick Fabian) becomes his nemesis. Jimmy is inspired by his older brother Chuck McGill ( Michael McKean) to leave his Chicago-area conman past, when he was known as 'Slippin' Jimmy'.

#Index of better call saul s03 series#

At the time of its airing, the series premiere held the record for the highest-rated scripted series premiere in basic cable history.īetter Call Saul follows the transformation of James 'Jimmy' McGill ( Bob Odenkirk), a former con artist who is trying to become a respectable lawyer, into the personality of the flamboyant criminal lawyer Saul Goodman (a play on the phrase ''s all good, man!'), over the six-year period prior to the events of Breaking Bad, spanning from approximately 2002 to 2008. It has garnered many nominations, including a Peabody Award, 21 Primetime Emmy Awards, eleven Writers Guild of America Awards, five Critics' Choice Television Awards, four Screen Actors Guild Awards, and four Golden Globe Awards. Odenkirk, Banks, and Esposito reprise their roles from Breaking Bad, as do many others who make guest appearances.īetter Call Saul has received critical acclaim, with particular praise for its acting, characters, writing, direction, and cinematography many critics have called it a worthy successor to Breaking Bad and one of the best prequels ever made, with some deeming it superior to its predecessor. Their operations are disrupted by members of the murderous Salamanca family, including Lalo Salamanca ( Tony Dalton). After hiring Jimmy as legal representation, Mike provides advice and security for Nacho Varga ( Michael Mando), an intelligent drug dealer who later becomes a mole for Gus Fring ( Giancarlo Esposito), a drug lord and legitimate businessman. His romantic interest and former colleague, Kim Wexler ( Rhea Seehorn), is an attorney at Hamlin, Hamlin & McGill (HHM), a law firm co-owned by Jimmy's brilliant but unwell brother, Chuck McGill ( Michael McKean) and proud associate, Howard Hamlin ( Patrick Fabian). He lives in the back room of a nail salon which doubles as an office. A sixth and final season, consisting of 13 episodes, is set to premiere in mid-2022.Īt the start of the series, Jimmy struggles financially while working as a public defender. The show premiered on AMC on February 8, 2015, airing five seasons to date. Jimmy and Mike's interactions remain sporadic until their respective storylines fully converge.

Also shown is the moral decline of retired police officer Mike Ehrmantraut ( Jonathan Banks), who becomes closely affiliated with the Juarez drug cartel to support his granddaughter and her widowed mother. Set primarily in the early to middle part of the first decade of the 2000s in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the series develops Jimmy McGill ( Bob Odenkirk), an earnest lawyer and former con artist, into a greedy criminal defense attorney known as Saul Goodman. It is a spin-off, prequel, and a sequel to Gilligan's previous series, Breaking Bad. Better Call Saul is an American crime drama television series created by Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould.