Better call Saul

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Breaking Good or The Art of Accepting Your Mistakes.
For 7.5 years we watched Jimmy Magill as he juggled between good and evil. Probably between the hard way and the short way. From a small child and the scene with the conman who tricks his father but not him in the family store, Jimmy learned that there are Wolves and Sheep in this life and that he must choose what he will be. He wanted to be a Wolf. But deep down he had the heart of a Sheep. He didn't take Kettleman's money, he was too afraid to cooperate with Nacho, he knew it was wrong to acquit Lalo of the murder of the Western Union employee, he was reluctant to accept that they would conspire against Howard. On the other hand he always had a penchant for deception and collusion as a means of showing how clever he was, an outplay of any naive. This side of him surfaced whenever he felt that a loved one was betraying him/abandoning him or didn't consider him worthy of standing by his side (Kim, Chuck). Then Saul Goodman took over who was clearly Wolf. In the series finale while he has once again managed to impose himself on people with a higher position than him and sell them his own version everything will change. He's managed to get a sentence of 7.5 years (as long as the series lasted) instead of life + 190. Triumph. Saul Goodman on a wave. But come on, Better Call Saul was also based on his love for Kim and while Kim is in danger and the big con thinks that she is the last person left to him and he can't bear to live without her love, he changes his mind. He puts on a show as only he knows how. Based in his favorite courtroom and in front of a judge, prosecutors and of course Kim he unmasks. He reveals every crime he committed, big or small, for which he carries a lifetime of regret. He clears Kim of all charges. Breaking Good. He admits to his crimes and is ready to face the consequences. In addition to Kim, three memories about repentance played an important role in his decision. The first with Mike when they were carrying Lalo's bail money out of the desert. She asks him what he would change about his past if he could. Mike automatically replies that he would go back to the day he caused his son's death and then to the day he was first traded. Jimmy of course chooses something that would make him a billionaire. Money; Is that all Mike tells him is all the point? I would see if some of my own are good after a few years. The second memory is in the Exterminator's basement just before he sends him to Omaha where he waits with Walter White. By asking the same question he gets the answer he himself gave to Mike. Gray Matter, the injustice to Walter by Gretchen and Elliot, belittling him to his face as a lawyer, money, and an ever so ironic : "So you've always been THAT way" by Walter. Punch in the gut when you know what Jimmy has been through. The third and final memory is about the time she had to take care of Chuck because of the condition she thought he had. His brother tries to talk to him. He tells him that if you think you've taken the wrong path, it's not too late to change. Say you do it, he answers and leaves. It was preceded by the heartbreaking: "why are you doing all this Jimmy? because you're my brother". The Jimmy-Chuck relationship has always been the series' barometer. Chuck saw him as an asshole who didn't want to change. 63 episodes later Jimmy refutes him. He agrees to spend the rest of his 86 years in prison. To live with whatever harm he caused. At least he will have taken the burden off Kim. They'll have one last cigarette like at EHM during the visitation, he'll give her the pistol-like fingers that killed the Saul inside him, they'll exchange one last Walt-Jesse-like look, and they'll say goodbye forever. Gilligan and Gould wrote a terrific series. They made their own multiverse. The two series are interrelated, one does not exist without the other. They are seen together and admired together. Thus ends the Game of Thrones main D&D series. Giving everyone the ending they deserve after 7.5 years. My only complaint is that there wasn't a track to accompany the final scenes like Baby Blue in Breaking Bad. If I heard the first notes of either Something Stupid or The Winner takes it all I'd put it right up there with the last episode of Mad Men.