By chris-chris92 on Skatehive
Source 56 Emmy nominations and not a single win. Seven straight years as one of the most watched and most critically acclaimed series around the world. Two years separate the final episode of Breaking Bad (2008–2013) from the very first episode of Better Call Saul (2015–2022). And there it is… a handful of numbers that only begin to hint at the weight behind a story that had to stand right next to its own mother series. Not only that, it had to live up to a loyal and skeptical audience, one that time eventually placed exactly where it deserved to be. February 10, 2025. Ten years since the premiere of the story of James Morgan McGill. Known as Slippin Jimmy, Gene Takovic, Saul Goodman, or Viktor with a K, what started as nothing more than a minor character in the second season of Breaking Bad eventually became a masterpiece of audiovisual storytelling. A series that surpassed every expectation its creators Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould might have had at the time. The legacy these two m