re: Has any show gotten so much better after a character left than better call saul

That post was probably too long, but it hit on the Howard part and the OP. I actually watched the episode I alluded to and the one prior where Howard was shot last night. I was listening on old episode of the podcast "The Watch" and they were talking about those 2 episodes, so I decided to watch them again. I was actually gonna make a thread this morning myself on whether people thought Jimmy was just a "bad" guy. The podcasters thought so, though they did love the character. I think there's more ambiguity to it.

Jimmy did bad things, but they were relatively harmless at 1st until he "got in with the wrong crowd"--what Mike tells Nacho's father in the same episode--and as the stakes got higher and higher, so did his "bad" deeds until they eventually became unredeemable. But I think, at his core, he was probably "good," he was just a really insecure frickup full of self-loathing and could never figure out how to get out of his own way.