“Once we land, I want you to tell the other side that I have more to trade,” Saul Goodman (Bob Odenkirk) tells his lawyer on a flight from Nebraska to New Mexico in tonight’s Better . The Call Saul series finale. “I just remembered something that will make their toes curl,” claims shameless attorney Jimmy McGill, aka Gene Takavitch, in the episode “Saul Gone.” Fates of ‘Better Call Saul’ Characters Revealed in Series Finale – Photo Gallery Toes are curled, deals are made and hard truths are sure to be revealed in the finale, directed and written by Peter Gould, which wraps up BCS’s increasingly acclaimed six-season run on AMC on Monday. Having forged his own distinct path since his 2015 debut, Gould and Vince Gilligan’s Breaking Bad prequel finds Odenkirk’s smart but reckless character finally caught for the crimes he committed with Bryan Cranston’s Walter White and Jesse Pinkman by Aaron Paul. Of course, there are plenty of leggings as Saul aims to prove that confessing is good for the soul, but bad for keeping out of the dark hole that is the American justice system. To that end, after throwing his love and onetime fellow attorney 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 mixture of coercion. Heisenberg’s victims, and a big roll. As Cranston, Jonathan Banks, and Michael McKean appear from previous episodes of Breaking Bad and BCS, Saul almost manages to get a seven-year sentence in a sweet deal with prosecutors and serve it at the nearby FCI Butner Country Club. in South Carolina. However, there is no easy solution here. As the reality of the pain and legal hassle about to be unleashed on the troubled Wexler is made clear to Goodman by former Albuquerque deputy DA and current defense attorney Bill Oakley (Peter Dyseth), things take another turn amid talk of time machines and regrets . Dressed in Saul’s flamboyant garb of a power suit and a louder tie and delivering the inspirational line “it’s showtime” drawn from All That Jazz, Odenkirk performs a complete masterclass in turning a gentle listen into a mix of healing, performance art and acceptance. The first episode of BCS directed and written entirely by showrunner Gould, the multi-layered finale seeks and satisfyingly achieves resolution for the title character in a thread that blends the color of the past with the black and white of the ultimately limited present. Saul does receive his competition, but he actually ends up making triumph out of tragedy, as only he can. In this, after pushing the narrative all the way for most of this final 13-episode season, Gould’s fifth directorial effort Better Call Saul reaches the Olympian heights achieved by the finales of Newhart and Six Feet Under. While the upcoming series leaves many doors open for more about Kim Wexler who has now directed Seehorn’s Sunshine State after a final prison noir encounter with 86-year-old Goodman, the real closure may be in redefinition of Breaking Bad that ended in 2013. That is, firmly closing the iconic show narratively, Better Call Saul tonight completed its final season journey with precision and dynamism. As Gould prepared to meet with Odenkirk, Gilligan, Seehorn and other cast and writers to watch the nearly 90-minute finale together in LA tonight, the showrunner spoke with me about the final episode and how it differentiates and forever connects it to Breaking Bad. . Gould also touched on how Better Call Saul managed to cross the finish line and transform the advocate into a client. DEADLINE: Well, Jimmy McGill is now the kingpin of the penitentiary, facing life behind bars, but in the end he came clean, kind of… GOULD: I could buy it. I could also buy saying that, you know, he got his soul back, you know, but it might be tarnished. He certainly can’t take back everything he’s done. You need a time machine for that (LAUGHTER) “But, on good behavior, who knows?” #BetterCallSaul — Better Call Saul (@BetterCallSaul) August 16, 2022 DEADLINE: Season finales are hard and series finales are very hard. You have been making this puzzle for a long time, leading to this… GOULD: It’s scary to end a show. He puts a lot of pressure on the 63rd episode. There is almost too much to talk about. DEADLINE: What do you mean? GOULD: The best thing is that people see it and think about it, and argue about it, and so the show lives on in that way. This would be great. HERE WE GO @BetterCallSaul! 💙 — Cinnabon (@Cinnabon) August 16, 2022 DEADLINE: Well, my argument is with so much, so much back and forth, I now feel like Better Call Saul isn’t a prequel to Breaking Bad, Breaking Bad is the sneaky midseason of Better Call Saul. Was that the intention? GOULD: I like it. I love it. So, you know, my hope has always been that you end up looking at Breaking Bad differently at the end of it all. I also hope that the shows can be enjoyed separately, but talk to each other and enrich each other. My worry honestly is that people who haven’t watched Breaking Bad might be completely lost, but I hope not. Hopefully, if they are lost, they will be lost in a pleasant way. DEADLINE: Peter, I doubt there are very few people who watched the Saul finale who didn’t get at least a Breaking Bad refresher, if not too much, to get this far. However, having said that, what do you mean when you say that you hope viewers end up seeing Breaking Bad differently? GOULD: Well, you know there was physical violence in Breaking Bad. The Walt character ends up holding a gun, ends up using a machine gun to kill a lot of people. Saul Goodman never picks up a gun. DEADLINE: Well, it has a… GOULD: Yeah, in Breaking Bad it’s revealed that he has a gun in his office, but you never see the guy pick up a gun. He might have threatened people once by beating them like a piñata, but that was about it. So the ending was always going to be different, even though this is a show about a guy who, in a way, bears the same responsibility for the events of Breaking Bad as Walt. DEADLINE: But you’re focusing on Saul’s final season, turning the Breaking Bad narrative into the story of Walter White and Saul Goodman in equal measure… GOULD: He might have been wearing a suit, he might have been sitting at a desk, but Saul made a lot of Breaking Bad happen. In fact, the violence they personally perpetrate may be just as responsible for all the world’s pain as those who pull the trigger. DEADLINE: For this story, how does that redefinition come about? GOULD: We wanted to shine a spotlight on Jimmy/Saul’s role in everything that happened on Breaking Bad and understand what was going on in his head and what was going on in his soul. DEADLINE: I know you’ve been toying with ending scripts over the years, how did you come to this particular conclusion for the show? was it always the way you wanted it to end? GOULD: Look, we didn’t know how it was going to end for many seasons. DEADLINE: Really? GOULD: Yes. Then in season 4 and 5, we started thinking about what is the right ending to this. I felt that Saul has spent so much time defending clients, that maybe it’s time to be a client, maybe it’s time to be a convict, maybe it’s time to be on the other side of these bars, and maybe that’s what he deserves after all he has done. DEADLINE: Speaking of people or characters getting what they deserve, Vince said at the virtual TCA last week that this is the end of the line for the Breaking Bad universe from you, but as Kim leaves this prison, she the last look at Saul. It sure seems like, with all we’ve seen her getting bored of in her life in Florida, volunteering at a legal aid clinic, she’s getting into a spinoff — in the new years? GOULD: Look, I can’t argue with you. I think I’d be very interested to see what happens with Kim, but right now, we don’t have any plans in that direction. DEADLINE: Sure Kim found his freedom in Jimmy taking everything, including Howard’s demise, but he’s also going full Saul Goodman, king of the joint. After the process of becoming Saul Jean, the call to the cops from Marion, the arrest and the courtroom drama, how did he get there, psychologically? GOULD: That was the idea we had before the end of the show. Ultimately, even if he becomes Jimmy McGill again in his mind and to himself, to the outside world, he will always be that two-dimensional cartoon character he did. Saul Goodman is going to have to live with it for the rest of his life, and this is his own purgatory. Of course, when he walks into the boardroom with Kim, she calls him Jimmy, and you can see the vulnerability on Bob’s face when she does that. You can see the tenderness and generosity of him calling him Jimmy, in that moment, because he knows he has seen the man he loved. DEADLINE: Yes, but for all the bows you’re tying here, Kim’s story remains noticeably unresolved. She’s never changed her name, she’s still struggling for legal life, she’s immune from being sued by Howard’s widow even after her affidavit and confession, so who is Kim Wexler in the end, the real star here and figuratively, the last living soul? GOULD: I mean, my hope and dream is that you describe the story…
