Yes, Better Call Saul was one of the best TV surprises of last year. Rather than exhaustively recap each episode, though, we thought we’d chart Jimmy McGill’s moral journey by paying attention to his various decisions and assigning him a Dungeons & Dragons-style alignment. Chaotic good? Lawful evil? Neutral…neutral? Depends what the writers decide to do with him. For now, we’re just happy to be along for the ride.
At the end of season one, it looked like Jimmy McGill had taken a significant step toward his final destination as Saul Goodman (who we all know is basically Lawful Evil). He drove away from the courthouse in a huff, vowing never to let ethical scruples hold him back in his professional life. But the season premiere takes a left turn, instead finding Jimmy in the wilderness, relying on his scamming instincts to keep himself adrift—until his blossoming romantic relationship with Kim forces him back into the law, and to the veneer of respectability.
With a real, stable connection to another person, one that he tentatively values and grounds him to a job, where does Jimmy stand now? Even he’s not really sure (especially since he and Kim only sleep together after they rip off KENWINs)—and with Mike off in his own story, trying to wash his hands of the Walt-lite buffoon paying him protection money, real crime still seems far away from our hero. For the moment, Jimmy appears to be back where he started: a scrappy lawyer, doing his best to make people’s lives better from within the institution of the law.
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