We saw him at the height of his debauchery as the soulless Saul Goodman in ‘Breaking Bad’, we got to know and love him as the well-meaning but tragically fallible Jimmy McGill in ‘Better Call Saul’. , and now we’ve got a whole new look at the character back when he was only known as “Slippin’ Jimmy.” The first episode of the animated series, titled “After Bedtime”, follows Jimmy and his disruptive friend Marco sneaking under their parents’ noses and trying to enact their plan to acquire a Lady Labyrinth comic book from their local store.
It’s not enough stakes as high as “Better Call Saul” or “Breaking Bad” have been at their peak, naturally, but it’s incredibly fun to see a lot of hustling, too-smart-for-its-own-good instincts take hold at such an early stage. his life. As we saw in “Better Caul Saul,” the distinctive black ring Jimmy wears under his Saul Goodman persona stems from his affection for his old friend Marco, whose trickster tendencies have certainly rubbed off on our protagonist. Here, however, it’s Jimmy who takes the lead, urging Marco to join their “adventure” which inevitably leads them to no good.
“Slippin’ Jimmy” is written by “Better Call Saul” veterans Ariel Levine and Kathleen Williams-Foshee, with a voice cast that includes Chi McBride, Laraine Newman and Sean Giambrone. It’s a brief but welcome way to help pass the time until “Better Call Saul” kicks off the final half of its final season, which is set to arrive Monday, July 11, 2022 on AMC.