This Breaking Bad spin-off is probably the biggest disappointment in the franchise (& it's an animated prequel to Better Call Saul)

Better Call Saul stands tall among the hallowed list of those few spinoff shows that have risen to equal greatness as the original, if not more. While Better Call Saul was initially pitched as a thirty-minute comedy with a fast-talking conman lawyer at its epicentre, it soon transformed itself into a deep dive character study of the titular criminal lawyer Jimmy McGill, a.k.a Saul Goodman.

While many might consider Better Call Saul to be the only spinoff in the Breaking Bad universe, there's a lesser known animated cartoon by the name of Slippin' Jimmy that was once presented as a prequel to the Bob Odenkirk led show.

Here's everything that you need to know.

Slippin' Jimmy failed to live up to the expectations set by Better Call Saul

Slippin' Jimmy was created by the writer duo of Kathleen Williams ar Ariel Levine, and they initially belonged to the writer's room set of Better Caul Sall. It is owing to this reason that one could expect the prequel to match up with the spin-off show. However, things didn't quite look up for Slippin' Jimmy. For starters, much of the audience couldn't comprehend the reason why AMC would greenlight an animated cartoon that didn't in any way correlate to the complex and grim tonality of the spin-off show. Slippin' Jimmy aired for just six episodes before it was inadvertently scrapped.

The cartoon employed slapstick comedy and presented several forms of pastiche to make the audience laugh by force. The manner of the cartoon was manifested to recall classic examples and instead of presenting Jimmy's backstories in a nuanced manner, the show made fun of them in an inimical way, often degenerating into mindless parody. The target audience of the show was never clear and neither new viewers nor die-hard fans of the franchise could put up with it.

Vince Gilligan opens up about Rhea Seehorn's emotional breakdown on Better Call Saul

Waterworks, i.e., the penultimate episode of Better Call Saul Season 6, dealt an emotionally moving performance from Rhea Seehorn as her Kim Wexler broke down on the bus while on her way to meet Jimmy.

Speaking in an exclusive interview with The Hollywood Reporter, creator Vince Gilligan shed some light on how the scene was shot:

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"Well, I always wanted it as a single shot and it is, indeed, a single take. That was a rental car shuttle bus, in use currently in Albuquerque, New Mexico. If you visit the beautiful Duke City and you rent a car, the odds of you riding that very bus are probably pretty good. We drove around in a big half-mile or one-mile circle. We did it twice. We did two takes. I felt very guilty about even asking Rhea to do it twice, but I’m very neurotic and I don’t ever want to have just one take of something."

Better Call Saul is available for streaming exclusively on Netflix.

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