Better Call Saul Season 2: 15 Breaking Bad Easter Eggs You Might've Missed
'S all good, man!
Well, that was something special.
Better Call Saul rounded off Season 2 with a finale that was, in keeping with the rest of this second run, extremely close to being perfection. Tragic, yes, but close to perfect nonetheless.
While the first season was very good, this took what it built and turned it into what is the best show of 2016 so far. It's a show made for Breaking Bad fans, and yet in many ways it's the anti-Breaking Bad. Walter White was a good man turned corrupt; Jimmy McGill is a corrupt man trying to be good.
It doesn't have any of Breaking Bad's urgency either. While not always a fast paced series, there was a sense of it moving forwards. With Better Call Saul, sometimes nothing happens, and yet, at the same time, everything happens.
The devil is, of course, in the detail. Better Call Saul contains some incredible performances, not least from Bob Odenkirk in the lead role, a rare actor you can make you laugh one minute and break your heart the next. But it's those details that really set it apart. It's probably the best shot show on TV right now, every scene looks stunning. And it packs so much in. Where one show will have two scenes, Better Call has one. Where a show will have a quick shot, Better Call Saul lingers.
With that attention to detail and connection to the Breaking Bad world, it's no surprise that it's packed full of Easter Eggs, and these are the best of them.
15. The Return Of Ken 'Wins'
In the first episode of Season 2, Jimmy and Kim decide to scam a stockbroker they meet in the hotel Jimmy's staying at. After hearing the obnoxious man on the phone, Jimmy begins to circle his prey, with him and Kim pretending to be a brother and sister who don't know what to do with a large inheritance. Ken offers some advice, and buys a very expensive bottle of tequila. They leave him thinking he's won a lucrative contract, but all he's got is a huge bar tab to pick up.
You might feel some sympathy for Ken, until you remember that he's a massive a**hole. He initially appeared in the first season of Breaking Bad, in the episode Cancer Man. He steals Walt's parking space, and then loudly talks on his bluetooth headset, completely ignoring Walt. Later, when Walt recognises his car, he puts a squeegee between the battery terminals, causing it to explode. Ken's suitably shocked and angry, though you don't care, and Walt takes a tentative step to becoming Heisenberg.