The slow, slow, slow churn of the relationships between Jimmy McGill, Chuck, Kim, and Nacho is so much more tense and memorable than any of the great Breaking Bad heists or the grand unfolding of super baddie Walter White.
As testified by the cartel plotlines and the return of other BB characters to Better Call Saul feeling so throwaway.
Gilligan is a master of the anti-sublime, horizontal-axis drama of the mundane. Who else would make a show about the huckster lawyer on the billboard you hurry past? Which makes his occasional self-indulgence (737 down over ABQ) the more baffling.
The natural next move for Vince Gilligan as a storyteller is a series focused on the backstory of @PearlsFromMyrna.
