There was a secondBreaking Badspinoff afterBetter Call Saulthat hardly anyone watched,Slippin’ Jimmy— and there’s a very good reason why hardly anyone watched it. Ever sinceBetter Call Saulended with an equally satisfying series finale as its predecessor, there’s been a lot of talk aboutwhat another series in theBreaking Baduniverse could look like. The producers could make a prequel about Gus Fring’s rise to power, a sequel about Jesse hiding out in Alaska and trying to avoid being detected, or an original story set in the same universe.
The possibilities are endless for a new installment in theBreaking Badfranchise. BothBreaking BadandBetter Call Saulrank among the greatest TV shows ever made — the latter may have even managed to top the former, against all odds — so the bar has been set very high for a new show set in this universe. But AMC already released a third series set intheBreaking Baduniverse, and it sadly broke the franchise’s streak of producing great shows.
Slippin' Jimmy Was An Animated Companion Show (& It Wasn’t Good)
In 2022, AMC released an animatedBreaking Badspinoff calledSlippin’ Jimmyto coincide withthe final season ofBetter Call Saul.The short-form cartoon consists of six eight-minute episodes that tell standalone stories from Jimmy and Chuck’s childhoodin Cicero, Illinois. Jimmy was voiced byThe Goldbergs’ Sean Giambrone. Each episode is animated in the style of a different genre, ranging from silent comedy to supernatural horror to spaghetti western. Suffice to say,it was a drastic tonal departure from the other shows in this franchise.
AfterBreaking BadandBetter Call Saulhad each delivered the captivating saga of a deeply complex antihero,Slippin’ Jimmyfelt like a massive let-down. On its own, it would’ve arrived as an innocuous, short-lived animated show, butsince it was tied toBreaking BadandBetter Call Saul, it set sky-high expectations for itself. It was following in the footsteps of two of the greatest achievements in the history of television. It was likeThe Godfather Part IIIifThe Godfather Part IIIwas a cartoon parodyingThe Exorcist.
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At every turn, the writers and producers ofBreaking BadandBetter Call Saulhad put integrity and creativity ahead of everything else. They always served the needs of their story and their characters and not the needs of AMC’s shareholders. What madeSlippin’ Jimmya disappointment above all is that it felt like it betrayed all of that. It was an obvious cash grab produced to get easily manufactured content in front of the eyes of a dedicated fan base.
