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Here are some of the highlights selected by The Times’s TV critics: Television this year offered ingenuity, humor, defiance and hope. What are his plans? It’s unclear, as he explains to his soon-to-be love interest, Kim Wexler, in a hotel bar, after a day of floating in a nearby hotel pool. The episode starts the very same day as the last episode, as he settles into a postlaw life. We learn more in “Switch” about the rationale for Jimmy’s quick professional about-face. The season ended on a strangely discordant note. Unfortunately, almost nothing prepared viewers for Jimmy’s decision to abandon his legal dreams. A person with a checkered past and little status can be fundamentally decent (Jimmy), and a person with a blue-chip education and the esteem of society can behave like a weasel (Chuck). Some interesting ideas about the slipperiness of labels like “good” and “bad” were explored in Season 1.

By the end of the last season, Jimmy realized that Chuck is a liar and conniver who has done everything in his considerable power to block Jimmy’s career. The implication was that Jimmy was done aspiring to respectability, the kind achieved by his older brother, Chuck, the co-founder of a corporate law firm that Jimmy had hoped to join. Season 1 of “Better Call Saul” ended with Jimmy bailing out of a meeting with Davis & Main, having decided, apparently, that the life of a lawyer at a high-end firm is not for him.

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