I love how Bob Odenkirk plays this role. He does such a great job, along with the writers, of making his character look bored and miserable when he's doing things that lead him down a respectable and financially prosperous path. But when he does sleazy less profitable 'Saul Goodman' type work that he did in Breaking Bad, he just looks happier. (Not a spoiler. That transformation from Jimmy McGill to Saul Goodman is what this whole series is about.)
Just like Season 1 did, Season 2 opens with a flash forward to events that take place after the entire Breaking Bad story with Jimmy/Saul being generally miserable that he walked away from his life in New Mexico. Nothing else in this series requires you to know anything about the events of Breaking Bad, though it does make this show more
