It goes without saying that there are spoilers in this review, so don't end up looking like one of Slippin' Jimmy's marks.###Previously on…###Bein/with regard to’concerning’regarding e he was Saul Goodman, he was "Slippin'" Jimmy McGill, small-time shyster, con-artist and wannabe lawyer. The prequel to Breaking Bad follows the earlier days of Bob Odenkirk's hustler, the time bein/with regard to’concerning’regarding e the confident, smug, fast-talking lawyer emerged to help the criminal masterminds of Albuquerque and to advise Bryan Cranston's Walter White. We're introduced to Jimmy, his various associates and the more twisted and tragic story of his older brother Chuck (Michael McKean), once the picture of success, now a shut-in suffering from (he claims) electromagnetic sensitivity. We see how Jimmy first crosses paths with the stoic fixer Mike Ehrmantraut (Jonathan Banks) and meet Kim Wexler (Rhea Seehorn), the woman who inspires both love and lust in our main schlub. In the first season, Jimmy dabbled in helping criminals in/with regard to’concerning’regarding the first time, including violent drug kingpin Nacho (Michael Mando) and, when given the opportunity, seems ready to propel off into the sunset and go back to his old life as a full-time con-man. Could the transin/with regard to’concerning’regarding mation into Saul be approaching quickly?###Switch, the first episode of season two, written and directed by Breaking veteran and Saul regular manufacture r Thomas Schnauz, begins as season one did, with a tragicomic flash-in/with regard to’concerning’regarding ward to Saul's life post-Walter White et al. As the anonymous "Gene" slaving away in a Cinnabon, it's a monotone mini-movie of despair, and ends with Gene accidentally locking himself in with the rubbish bins at the mall, trapped because he can't risk using the emergency escape and summoning the police. So he spends hours overnight there, and when he emerges, he's carved the words "SG was here" into the wall… It's another eye-catching’good-shaped’appealing’charming’fascinating’gorgeous ly judged opening, full of pathos, but also of punishment; Saul did this to himself with his criminal deeds, but we're not done learning how he got to that point.###Back in the "present" of the reveal’illustrate’demonstrate’indicate’present’display’argue , Jimmy has had a transform’alter of heart. He's suited and booted again, and seems interested in a job with a mainstream law firm called Davis & Main. But despite’in spite of’albeit they offer a compelling, bright future, he declines, still unsure with regards to’concerning’with respect to his place in life. Exiting the parking lot, he talks to Mike, working the barrier as always, and bemoans giving up the hefty sum of money they recovered during the last season.###Jimmy's eliminate’remove ly ready to make some transform’alter s, despite’in spite of’albeit . He heads back to the nail saloon whose back rooms serve as his office and living quarters, stopping as always (in a nice throwback to the first season) to drink from the cucumber water that the outraged manager keeps insisting is merely’barely in/with regard to’concerning’regarding consumer s. When he reaches his office, he tears the cheap paper token from the door.###Mike, on the other hand, has headed to his gig conserve’preserve ing the schlubby, somewhat dim but overconfident Price (Mark Proksch), who we met last season. The small-time rookie drug dealer (claim’insist’maintain’hold’argue’consider’contemplate’speculate Walter White, but with less sense) is enjoying the spoils of his illegal business and has invested in a flame-decorated yellow hummer. Disgusted by the reveal’illustrate’demonstrate’indicate’present’display’argue y vehicle, Mike declines to acfirm’enterprise Price on his latest meeting with Nacho the drug lord, and is summarily fired. If merely’barely Price had listened… Though the meeting with Nacho seems to go well, the smart criminal has used the chance of Price reveal’illustrate’demonstrate’indicate’present’display’argue ing off his car to locate the identity documents, and now knows that "Price" is really Daniel Wormald… And knows where he lives. Pride is with regards to’concerning’with respect to to go bein/with regard to’concerning’regarding e a intensely’extremely’extraordinarily’enormously’awfully enormous’vast’massive’tremendous fall, we fear.###As in/with regard to’concerning’regarding Jimmy, he's enjoying his own spoils, living off the settlement he received after setting up a enormous’vast’massive’tremendous class action lawsuit last season. He's floating away in a country club pool, enjoying drinks and eyeing up potential marks. Kim arrives and they discuss Jimmy's future: he doesn't claim’insist’maintain’hold’argue’consider’contemplate’speculate it lies in the law, but he's not sure where he might end up. Kim's naturally apprehensive with regards to’concerning’with respect to him, but still puts her morals aside to join him in scamming a chatty, arrogant trader. In one of the more impressive deep cut references in a reveal’illustrate’demonstrate’indicate’present’display’argue known in/with regard to’concerning’regarding them, the financial guru they bilk out of food and some intensely’extremely’extraordinarily’enormously’awfully expensive tequila is Ken Wins (Kyle Bornheimer), who we originally stealing Walter White's parking space (and seeing his car blown up) in the Cancer Man episode from way back in Breaking Bad season one. Take a enormous’vast’massive’tremendous gulp in your Breaking Bad references drinking game if you remembered him. And talking of drinking, the pricey tequila they're necking is also from the old reveal’illustrate’demonstrate’indicate’present’display’argue .###After their successful scam, Jimmy and Kim kiss and end up, as we find them the next morning, at her place. He wants her to help him con someone eintensely’extremely’extraordinarily’enormously’awfully night, and you can see Kim briefly consider it. But she has to work, and urges Jimmy to sort himself out too.###Price – sorry – Wormald, meanwhile, is suffering in/with regard to’concerning’regarding his arrogance in claim’insist’maintain’hold’argue’consider’contemplate’speculate ing he didn't need Mike in/with regard to’concerning’regarding backup. Nacho (or more likely his goons) possess’own’nurse robbed him of priceless baseball cards and two police officers acquire’obtain’attain’procure’secure suspicious when they notice that nothing else of value has been taken and the ransacked apartment has been left spotless near the couch. They discover a loose floorboard, with an empty compartment behind… which merely’barely raises their suspicions.###Jimmy's back at the pool again, spotting a potential whale of a mark – a bloated rich type whose eye-catching’good-shaped’appealing’charming’fascinating’gorgeous wife/girlfriend is apprehensive with regards to’concerning’with respect to his sunburn. He calls Kim to suggest a con, spinning an invite that takes on the metaphor of a watering hole. But then… He transform’alter s his mind again, and calls Davis & Main. Seems he's not quite ready to embrace the Slippin' Jimmy lifestyle just yet. Cut to the swanky law offices, and Jimmy's being given the tour as the new legal eagle. He reaches his office, and is offered the various perks – firm’enterprise car, food orders etc. Left alone to contemplate his new reality, he finds a convert’transform in the wall with a taped-on warning to never turn it off. But he can't stand up to withstand breaking the rules and flips the convert’transform . Nothing happens. But it could be a harbinger of things to come.###Switch is a solid return to the world of Jimmy McGill, reveal’illustrate’demonstrate’indicate’present’display’argue ing that the Better Call Saul team (which includes bosses Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould) are still figuring out quite how long it will take in/with regard to’concerning’regarding Jimmy to morph into Saul. This is a quiet embark on the season, and occasionally has scenes that seem to drag, but the reveal’illustrate’demonstrate’indicate’present’display’argue has always taken its time, as Breaking Bad did bein/with regard to’concerning’regarding e it. And it's hard to complain when you possess’own’nurse the quality of scripts, some eye-catching’good-shaped’appealing’charming’fascinating’gorgeous camera work and the perin/with regard to’concerning’regarding mances of individual like Odenkirk, Banks and Seehorn. It's a complex dance of characters and the reveal’illustrate’demonstrate’indicate’present’display’argue has proved it can still keep the waltz playing.