Better Call Saul (season 6)
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The sixth and final season of the AMC television series Better Call Saul is scheduled to premiere in 2021, in the United States, and consist of 13 episodes. This will be the highest amount of episodes in a season, as the previous seasons each ran 10 episodes. Better Call Saul is a spin-off prequel of Breaking Bad created by Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould. Bob Odenkirk (Jimmy McGill / Saul Goodman), Jonathan Banks, Rhea Seehorn, Patrick Fabian, Michael Mando, Tony Dalton and Giancarlo Esposito will reprise their roles from previous seasons.
Cast and characters[edit]
- Bob Odenkirk as Jimmy McGill / Saul Goodman / Gene Takavic[1]
- Jonathan Banks as Mike Ehrmantraut[2]
- Rhea Seehorn as Kim Wexler[3]
- Patrick Fabian as Howard Hamlin[4]
- Michael Mando as Nacho Varga[5]
- Tony Dalton as Lalo Salamanca[4]
- Giancarlo Esposito as Gus Fring[4]
Production[edit]
Development[edit]
In January 2020, AMC renewed Better Call Saul for a sixth season. Showrunner Peter Gould and AMC representatives confirmed it will be the series' final season, and will consist of 13 episodes rather than the usual 10. This will bring the series' final episode count to 63, one more than its predecessor Breaking Bad. Gould stated, "From the beginning when we started this, I think all our hopes and dreams were to be able to tell the whole story ... and make it to be a complete story from beginning to end [...] We're going to try like hell to stick the landing of these 63 episodes."[1]
Writing[edit]
In February 2020, Gould suggested the sixth season would explore Saul Goodman's flashforwards as Gene Takavic to a greater extent than previous seasons.[6] By April 2020, scripting for the season had already begun. Gould did not want the season to be anti-climactic, and to deliver a satisfactory conclusion to Better Call Saul, he brought Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan to the writer's room "for a good chunk of the season [...] so we can finish this show that we started together."[4] Gould later said, "Anybody who watches the show carefully and is thinking about where this is all going, one of the questions you have to ask yourself is: ‘What does this man deserve?’ [...] Not just: ‘What's going to happen to him?,’ but ‘What would be a deserving end to this? Does Jimmy McGill/Saul Goodman/Gene Takovic [sic] deserve death? Does he deserve love? What would be the most fitting end for this guy – for the show?’ Obviously the end for everybody is death, but that may not be where we leave this guy. Is there any way for him to win any redemption after everything that he's done?".[7]
Filming[edit]
In April 2020, Michael Mando and Tony Dalton said filming was scheduled to begin that September, but both were unsure if it would be delayed due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.[5][8] Rhea Seehorn said in July that filming would not begin until it was safe to do so.[9] In August, Gould said there was no scheduled date to start filming and that it was unlikely to happen in 2020 due to the pandemic. He added that while Sony Pictures Television was doing "everything humanly" possible for the series to resume filming safely, "I think we are probably going to delay a little bit unfortunately."[10] In October, Giancarlo Esposito said that filming would begin in March 2021.[11]
Broadcast[edit]
The season is scheduled to premiere in 2021,[1] though that will depend on whether the cast and crew will be able to film in the last half of 2020 due to the ongoing pandemic.[12]
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Porter, Rick (January 16, 2020). "'Better Call Saul' Ending With Season 6 on AMC". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on January 17, 2020. Retrieved February 24, 2020. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Koo, Carolyn (March 2020). "Better Call Saul Q&A – Jonathan Banks (Mike Ehrmantraut)". AMC. Archived from the original on July 15, 2020. Retrieved July 15, 2020. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Patten, Dominic (June 20, 2020). "'Better Call Saul' Stars & Co-Creator On Season 5 Surprises & What's Next – Contenders TV". Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on June 27, 2020. Retrieved July 1, 2020. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Schneider, Michael (April 21, 2020). "'Better Call Saul' Co-Creator Peter Gould on That Explosive Season Finale and How Kim May Be Breaking Bad". Variety. Archived from the original on April 22, 2020. Retrieved April 22, 2020. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ 5.0 5.1 Agar, Chris (April 22, 2020). "Michael Mando Interview: Better Call Saul Season 5". Screen Rant. Archived from the original on May 13, 2020. Retrieved May 13, 2020. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Topel, Fred (February 19, 2020). "'Better Call Saul' Showrunner Peter Gould on Season 5 Flashforwards, 'Breaking Bad' Cameos, and the Looming Ending [Interview]". /Film. Archived from the original on April 20, 2020. Retrieved April 20, 2020. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Snierson, Dan (August 11, 2020). "'Better Call Saul' boss reveals the big questions of the final season". Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on August 12, 2020. Retrieved August 12, 2020. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Roffman, Michael (April 21, 2020). "Better Call Saul's Tony Dalton on Creating Lalo Salamanca: "He's the Mirror Evil Brother"". Consequence of Sound. Archived from the original on October 15, 2020. Retrieved October 30, 2020. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Darwish, Meaghan (July 2, 2020). "'Better Call Saul' Star Rhea Seehorn Reflects on Kim's 'Erratic' Season 5 Journey". TV Insider. Archived from the original on July 3, 2020. Retrieved July 4, 2020. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ D'Alessandro, Anthony (August 16, 2020). "'Better Call Saul' Co-Creator Peter Gould On Kim Wexler's Fate & The Final Season – Contenders TV". Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on August 17, 2020. Retrieved August 19, 2020. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Bonomolo, Cameron (October 29, 2020). "Giancarlo Esposito Confirms Early 2021 Shooting Start for Better Call Saul Season 6". Comicbook.com. Archived from the original on October 30, 2020. Retrieved October 30, 2020. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Sepinwall, Alan (April 20, 2020). "5 Burning Questions About the 'Better Call Saul' Season 5 Finale – Answered". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on April 29, 2020. Retrieved May 13, 2020. Unknown parameter
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