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Exuberant, greasy, and fantastically shady: Why we fell in love with Jimmy McGill and Saul Goodman

With season 4 of 'Better Call Saul' less than two weeks away, we look at what made us fall in love with everyone's favorite criminal lawyer.

"Hi, I'm Saul Goodman. Did you know that you have rights? The constitution says you do! And so do I!"

When Vince Gilligan announced the Saul Goodman-centered spinoff to 'Breaking Bad' in 2012, fans greeted the news with hopeful optimism. After all, the greasy, shifty, opportunistic, bottom-feeding lawyer was arguably the show's most prominent side act and had endeared himself to audiences over the course of its iconic five-season run. His cult-status is made even more impressive by the fact that he only made his debut in season 2 of the show and was originally intended to appear in just three episodes.

When 'Better Call Saul' finally made its debut in 2015, viewers found themselves six years before Walter White (Bryan Cranston) and Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul) went about making their mark in Albuquerque and at a time when Saul was still the meek, earnest and sweet Jimmy McGill version of himself. But all the signs indicate their patience is finally set to pay off, with season 4 set to pull the trigger on his much-awaited metamorphosis.