Better Call Saul and Mental Health

Breaking Bad was a story about a person with cancer and no access to quality health insurance or medical treatment.

Better Call Saul seems like a story about a person with mental illness and how the person, their surrounding people, and the system all fall to come to terms with it or provide help until they take their own life.

In truth, Better Call Saul is a show that cynically used a mental-health train wreck to jump-start a prequel in an unexpected way, a story hung on an unexpected peg, to move the prequel from Day-0 to Season Four, where the "real" characters, now well-established, can move beyond Chuck and get their business on.