I can see where the creators might be developing it in the same direction as "Breaking Bad" -- an essentially good man driven to evil by what he sees as the inescapable forces around him, where the evil seems to be so much easier and profitable, while doing the "right thing" (itself a hazy concept) only seems to earn penury and disdain.
But in doing so, Jimmy McGill becomes a pathetic character, rather than a seemingly soulless clown.
In short, if this is a roadmap of how Jimmy McGill -- honest (if shady) working man becomes Saul Goodman, then I get it. But if not, it's going to suck royal.
They don’t want to develop into the humor of BB. Jimmy is a pathetic character, he’s a guy who wanted more than he could really get, more money, more respect, and more influence on the world. It’s the story of how he starts finding those thing not by being a good lawyer, but by compromising. By reverting to the conman of old he gets everything he ever wanted, but it’s tainted, and we know from watching BB it’s the eventual source of his downfall. Not only does he lose himself to get everything he ever wanted, he loses that too.
I loved Breaking Bad and Saul. I did not know it at the time but the producer earned his skills on the X-Files - he said he pretty much copied the style as his own because he learned it from Chris Carter.