There are still a couple of weeks left before the official "Better Call Saul" premiere, as the "Breaking Bad" prequel show about Walter White's lawyer with dubious ethics, Saul Goodman, airs in the first days of February - but, in any case, critics who have seen it are already loving the show!
Following the major critical and audience success of the AMC show "Breaking Bad," many had thought that the "Better Call Saul" premiere would be nothing short of disappointing, as it would be unheard of that it was even close to being as good as the original; however, the first reviews are out and there's still some hope for the new series.
According to Mashable's review of the "Better Call Saul" premiere episode, the "Breaking Bad" spinoff will be delivering their "fix" to those fans of the show about a high school chemistry teacher who becomes a drug lord and the most evil man in television.
Starring Bob Odenkirk (who played Saul Goodman in the original show, the lawyer in charge of laundering Walter White's and Jesse Pinkman's money), the "Better Call Saul" premiere will have a lot going on, as it shows the ethically devious Goodman (who still hasn't changed his name to a Jewish-sounding one and is called by his given name, Jimmy McGill, in the beginning of the show) trying to find his path as an Albuquerque lawyer.
As The Sydney Morning Herald reports, the greatest challenge behind "Better Call Saul" is the fact that it's directly competing against a show that many critics across the world have called the greatest in the history of television, as the Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul drama was surrounded with the best reviews since its start all the way to its series finale, considered by many one of the great endings of television.
Entertainment Weekly reports that the official "Better Call Saul" premiere will air on February 8 on AMC, and the show's creators have commented that it's a much lighter in theme series than its predecessor, although not a straight-forward comedy.
