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Bob Odenkirk · Filmography Ranked

Best Bob Odenkirk Films, Ranked by IQ Score

From Mr. Show to Saul Goodman to Nobody. Every Odenkirk film, ranked.

Bob Odenkirk's career-defining work is Saul Goodman / Jimmy McGill, across Breaking Bad and the six-season Better Call Saul. Multiple Best Drama Actor Emmy nominations. The 2020s shift into action-leading-man register (Nobody) is rare actor-career evolution.

Anchor picks: Better Call Saul, the canonical Jimmy McGill / Saul Goodman work. Breaking Bad. Nobody (2021), his against-type action turn. The Post (2017, Spielberg).

5 titles · ranked by IQ Score

  1. 1
    Better Call Saul poster, IQ Score 171/200, Masterclass tier

    Better Call Saul

    Masterclass crime, drama

    Jimmy McGill's transformation from con man to lawyer mirrors the moral compromises required to succeed legally. The show's cognitive achievement is depicting how institutional systems can corrupt even good intentions. Ed…

    171/200
  2. 2
    Breaking Bad poster, IQ Score 163/200, Masterclass tier

    Breaking Bad

    Masterclass crime, drama

    Walter White's arc functions as a moral inversion: watching a respectable man's incremental compromises lead to barbarism. Extraordinarily high cognitive engagement from tracking the chess-like consequences of Walt's dec…

    163/200
  3. 3
    The Post poster, IQ Score 161/200, Masterclass tier

    The Post

    Masterclass drama, historical, biography

    Spielberg's 2017 Pentagon Papers film anchored by Meryl Streep as Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham and Tom Hanks as editor Ben Bradlee. The structural commitment to letting Graham's executive-decision agony be…

    161/200
  4. 4
    Lucky Hank poster, IQ Score 157/200, Stimulating tier

    Lucky Hank

    Stimulating drama, comedy

    Paul Lieberstein and Aaron Zelman's 2023 AMC series adapted from Richard Russo's Straight Man, anchored by Bob Odenkirk as the chair of an underfunded Pennsylvania English department. The structural commitment to letting…

    157/200
  5. 5
    Nobody poster, IQ Score 151/200, Stimulating tier

    Nobody

    Stimulating action, thriller

    Ilya Naishuller's 2021 John-Wick-coded action film anchored by Bob Odenkirk as a suburban father whose past as an Auditor catches up. The structural commitment to letting Odenkirk's against-type-action-protagonist regist…

    151/200
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Questions about this ranking

What is the best Bob Odenkirk film?

By IQ Score on TV Intelligentsia, Better Call Saul anchors the catalog at 171 (Masterclass tier, exceeding Breaking Bad's 163). The Post (2017, Spielberg) and Nobody (2021, his unexpected action-leading-man turn) round out the canonical entries.

Why is Better Call Saul scored higher than Breaking Bad?

BCS scores 171 vs Breaking Bad's 163 on the TVI rubric because its character density and slow-burn structural commitment exceed the parent show. Odenkirk's six-season transformation arc (Jimmy → Saul → fully Saul) is canonical lead-actor work that subsequent prequel adaptations have rarely matched.

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