The last we saw of S aul Goodman, he was buying himself a new life. The whole idea of the new show, Better Call Saul, may make you skeptical. As Saul himself might say, faced with a disaster he can’t just lie his way out of, this could go a couple of ways: It could be a worthy prequel to Breaking Bad, or it could be a pitiful act of desperation, after the demise of a never-to-be-repeated desert-noir classic.