Maybe something like the Breaking Bad barnburner ending. I just think the characters and story line were wasted once the Salamancas were gone. I expected more. The whole Jeffy/Carol Burnette story line was stupid and out of place. What was the time machine silliness? To me, the writers just mailed in the ending. Saul gets caught, convicted and goes to jail where his ex clients are. Are you telling me you couldn’t have mailed that story line in?
We’re re-watching the last episode again.
I am with you here.
For my taste the ending with his sentencing and him ending up in prison was just such a soft landing compared to the body of work of BB and BCS. The last ‘real’ BCS story line was when Kim decided to leave.
A far more compelling story would be that time frame from there until she files for divorce and ends up in Florida. Let’s assume they have no plans for any follow up series and the fate of Saul could be anything. I would have dug into their breakup, his turmoil to leave her or start fresh. He follows her to Florida where he gets mixed up with some shady characters. Maybe Kim’s new BF is an abuser. Saul is trying to help her, she wants none of it, but Saul knows what a POS her BF and his circle is. Maybe they are drug dealers and Saul even gets into some weird ass legal representation of that group to try and penetrate them to help Kim. She calls the cops on him (Saul) and he eventually leaves to start the BB life. Then when the Gene story starts, still bothered by her life choices, he goes back down to FL and in a series of events he ends up killing her abusive BF but in the process, the BFs peeps ends up kidnapping, and killing Saul. That would be a more appropriate ending than what we saw.
Such a straight toward milk toast ending to a brilliant run.
Regardless, I am grateful for the years of entertainment, it was a great run.