Better Call Saul is the ultimate midlife crisis show: "It knows boredom, breathes unfulfillment"

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"If Breaking Bad was the ultimate 'genius dude has a midlife crisis” show, Better Call Saul is what happens when the same crisis hits the rest of us: frustration, complacency, and failure," says Jacob Oliver. He adds: "If Walt became a god-king doomed by his hubris, Saul and his co-stars are long-suffering Greeks always pissing off the pantheon. These aren’t hot-blooded characters, like so many people in TV dramas and so few outside them. They’re not impulsive. They seethe. They fester. They may be in Albuquerque, but they’re as Midwestern as they come. Everything is bottled up until the small, void-screaming eruption rattles their lives just enough to stave off an ulcer. They’re mundane as hell, and they’re not going to take it anymore."