This season two opens with Jimmy accepting a new job offer but not changing in his application of the law. He has his relationship with his brother Chuck, severed and moves on with other friends.
The writing on Better Call Saul is as tight as any show on television, with every scene feeling like it has thematic or narrative purpose without being overwritten.
It's Jimmy's thorny relationships... that made up the most involving elements of Better Call Saul's sorrowful, emotionally knotty, fantastic follow-up season.
All of which is to say that Better Call Saul season two is not yet as gripping as season one's best episodes were. But there's plenty of reasons to bet it soon could be.
Saying that Better Call Saul season two is not quite as good as season one is praising with faint criticism. It's still funnier and more interesting than just about anything on television.
Better Call Saul's new season jumps right back in to the Sandpiper case, law firm culture, Chuck and Jimmy's now-frosty relationship, as well as Jimmy's budding romance with Kim, and his association with Mike