That would be wonderful.ĭEADLINE: Well, my argument is with so much packed in, so much back and forth, I now feel that Better Call Saul is not a prequel to Breaking Bad, Breaking Bad is the hidden midseason to Better Call Saul. GOULD: The best thing is that people are watching it and thinking about it, and arguing about it, and so that the show lives on that way. It puts a lot of pressure on the 63rd episode. You guys have been putting this puzzle together for a while now, been leading up to this…
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"But, with good behavior, who knows?" #BetterCallSaulĭEADLINE: Season finales are hard, and series finales are very hard. You need a time machine for that (LAUGHS) He certainly can’t take back all the things he’s done. I could also buy saying that, you know, he got his soul back, you know, however, tarnished it may be. Gould also addressed how Better Call Saul made it over the finish line and transforming the advocate into the client.ĭEADLINE: So, Jimmy McGill is now king of the correctional facility, facing life behind bars, but he came clean in the end, kind of… Which is to say, solidly bookending the flagship show narratively, Better Call Saul completed its final season journey with precision and poignancy.Īs Gould prepared to meet up with Odenkirk, Gilligan, Seehorn and other cast and scribes to watch the nearly 90-minute finale together in L.A., the showrunner spoke with me about the final episode, and both differentiating and forever linking it with Breaking Bad. While the series closer does leave open several doors for more on the Emmy-nominated Seehorn’s now Sunshine State-set Kim Wexler after a final jailhouse noir-ish meet-up and callback cigarette with the 86-year stint-serving Goodman, true closure may be in the redefining of the 2013-ending Breaking Bad. In that, after pushing the narrative rock up the hill to the conclusion for most of this last 13-episode season, Gould’s fifth Better Call Saul directing effort reaches the Olympian heights achieved by the Newhart and Six Feet Under finales. Saul does receive his comeuppance, but actually ends up pulling triumph out of tragedy, as only he can. The first BCS episode to be both directed and entirely penned by showrunner Gould, the layered finale seeks and satisfactorily achieves resolution for the title character in a yarn that intertwines the color of the past with the black and white of the ultimately-confining present.
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Dressed in Saul’s ostentatious outfit of loud suit and louder tie plus uttering his “it’s showtime” inspiration line pulled from All That Jazz, Odenkirk performs a full masterclass to transform a bland court hearing into a mixtape of therapy, performance art and admission. Yet, there’s no easy resolution to be had here.īob Odenkirk On Bidding Adieu To ‘Better Call Saul’, Thanks Fans & Co-Workers In Emotional VideoĪs the reality of the pain and legal suffering about to be unleashed on the fidgeting Wexler is made clear to Goodman by former Albuquerque Deputy D.A and now defense lawyer Bill Oakley (Peter Diseth), things take another turn amidst talk of time machines and regrets. To that end, throwing his love and once fellow lawyer Kim Wexler ( Rhea Seehorn) under the proverbial bus for the death of rival Howard Hamlin (Patrick Fabian) earlier in the season, Goodman tries to escape decades behind bars with a mix of coercion, Heisenberg victimhood, and a big roll of the dice.Īs the likes of Cranston, Jonathan Banks and Michael McKean show up from past Breaking Bad and BCS episodes, Saul almost pulls off getting a mere seven-year sentence in a sweet deal with prosecutors and serving it at the near country club environs of FCI Butner in North Carolina. Of course there are several sleights of hand as Saul aims to prove confession is good for the soul, but bad for keeping out of the dark hole that is the American justice system. Having carved out its own distinct path since its 2015 debut, the Breaking Bad prequel from Gould and Vince Gilligan finds Odenkirk’s savvy but reckless character captured at last for the crimes he committed with Bryan Cranston’s Walter White and Aaron Paul’s Jesse Pinkman.
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