How Better Call Saul Connects to Breaking Bad

Saul deserves betterThe show is back for its sixth and final season, and the star Bob Odenkirk promised that the Breaking BadThe prequel will have a stronger connection to its predecessor than ever. “It’s just amazing how many overlaps [the writers] discovered and mined for this season of our show,” Odenkirk, who plays the titular Saul Goodman, told Entertainment WeeklyBefore the premiere of season 6, April 18 “For people who watch this [season], it’s going to be like, ‘I gotta go watch Breaking Bad again,’ as soon as they’re done,” he said. “There’s just so much interaction now. It’s more than any season before. By A Lots.”

Odenkirk’s slick lawyer ​​Saul made his debut in season 2 of Breaking Bad This was from 2008 through 2013, and saw him help the blue-meth producing duo Walter White (Bryan Cranston), and Jesse Pinkman(Aaron Paul). He went on to play a pivotal role—it’s Saul who introduces Walter and Jesse to former cop-turned-cartel heavy Mike Ehrmantraut (Jonathan Banks) and drug kingpin and restaurateur Gus Fring (Giancarlo Esposito), setting up the bloody events of Breaking Bad’s later seasons. Saul’s unexplained connections to the legal and criminal worlds were mysterious enough to warrant the character his own spinoff. Saul deserves betterIt premiered in 2015. Breaking BadKick off. This five-season series has followed how Jimmy McGill (a Chicago small-time conman) lost his soul, and how he became friends with the cartel called Saul Goodman. This is the final season. Saul deserves better will conclude Jimmy’s complicated journey to becoming Walter White’s consigliere, and also offer conclusions to the stories of Breaking Bad no-shows, like the crafty drug cartel leader Lalo (Tony Dalton), the cartel’s double-agent Nacho (Michael Mando) and Jimmy’s love interest and partner-in-crime Kim Wexler (Rhea Seehorn).

Saul deserves better’s last season also marks the first time the series intersects directly with the events and timeline of Breaking Bad But Jimmy’s story doesn’t end with Breaking Bad—in black-and-white flash-forwards shown throughout the series, viewers see Odenkirk’s character fleeing New Mexico as a fugitive and living under the new identity of Gene Takovic, the manager of a Cinnabon in Omaha who longs for his glory days as a stripmall attorney. It’s a sweet callback to the final season of Breaking Bad when Saul tells Walt amidst the chaos of his meth empire crumbling, “If I’m lucky. A month from now, best-case scenario, I’m managing a Cinnabon in Omaha.”

Saul deserves better It is filled with many Breaking Bad Easter eggs that include cameos from notable characters including Krazy-8 (​​Maximino Arciniega), DEA agent Hank Schrader (Dean Norris) and his partner ​​Steven “Gomie” Gomez (Steven Michael Quezada). You’ll see Walt and Jesse in the final episode. Breaking Bad Fans may not remember the storylines. “These two worlds cross over in a way that you haven’t seen before, that’s for sure,” Saul deserves better Peter Gould was co-creator, showrunner. VarietyThis was April. Here are some of your lingering queries Saul deserves betterHow details are obtained from? Breaking Bad These answers could assist you.

Lalo’s revenge tour

Season 5 concludes with Lalo (the nephew of Hector Salamanca, Mark Margolis) narrowly escaping an attempted assassination by Gus Fring using a hot oil frying pan. He’s now on a mission for revenge against Gus, as well as anyone he believes could have been involved in the failed hit, including Nacho and his recently appointed lawyer Saul Goodman. Lalo never appears in Breaking Bad Saul did, however, say his name one time during his season two debut. After being kidnapped by a masked Walter and Jesse in the appropriately titled episode “Better Call Saul,” a panicked Saul tries to convince them he’s a friend of the cartel. “No, it wasn’t me. It was Ignacio. He’s the one,” he blurts out only to discover they are not with the cartel. “Lalo didn’t send you? No Lalo?” he says with a sense of relief. Final episodes Saul deserves better be used to provide context for the seemingly insignificant line. It shows how fearful Lalo is still in Saul’s heart.

Last season, Saul became unwittingly enmeshed in the battle between Lalo and Gus—and nearly lost his life in the Mexican desert while trying to retrieve $7 million Lalo needed to bail himself out of jail after committing a murder in cold blood. In Breaking Bad Saul is a friend to Gus, and even helps him team up with Walt, a partnership that doesn’t end well for the Los Pollos Hermanos founder. Season 2: Walter joins Gus’s team. Breaking Bad Chicken Man operates an underground drug lab disguised in an industrial laundromat. The construction of this facility becomes an important plotline. Better Call Saul. By season 5 of the prequel, the building of Gus’s superlab has been put on hold by Lalo, who has become increasingly suspicious of Gus. Lalo may be out of the picture now that Gus has completed the lab. It is possible that Saul was involved in Lalo’s removal. Is it possible that Saul violated his client attorney privilege to give Lalo over to the District Attorney An extended prison sentence would explain why the mustachioed drug runner doesn’t make an appearance in Breaking BadSaul would be haunted by it. This would explain also why Saul is so kind to Gus. Breaking Bad

However, there are some limitations to the Breaking Bad season 4 episode “Crawl Space,” Gus taunts Hector by telling him that all the other Salamancas are dead. While this implies that Lalo didn’t survive, is it possible that he was able to fake his own death and is living like a ghost? Dalton suggested that viewers will see how clever Lalo in his final season. “You see him in circumstances and places that you would’ve never ever pictured this guy going,” he told The Ringer in April. “You find out how smart and tenacious this guy can be, because he turns out to be a very strategic thinker.” Maybe even calculated enough to convince people he had been assassinated? Gene may want to keep an eye on him.

Where’s Kim Wexler?

That is the key question for everyone Saul deserves better fan’s mind as the series comes to a close. Kim is the wild-eyed, do-gooder lawyer. He’s never mentioned. Breaking Bad so it’s hard to find clues to her whereabouts in the Walter White-focused series. Rhea Seehorn teased that this upcoming season will explore Kim’s backstory and offer some context for her motivations. “Can you operate in a bubble and can you have actions not have reactions and consequences?” Seehorn told Entertainment WeeklyThe April premiere. “Kim is very much flirting with thinking that you can.” In season 6, Kim’s “actions are larger and the consequences are larger,” Seehorn said. “People finding out the consequences for their actions and having opportunities to get out of something before it goes too far is a constant question, and Kim’s facing those same dangers. It was obvious to me that these dangers would arise. [would]They are intertwined. We even saw Lalo come to her safe haven, and I think that the reckoning with that is not over.”

This is the final episode. Saul deserves better season 5, Lalo shows up at Jimmy and Kim’s door to interrogate him over what happened in Mexico when he went to go get his bail money. After finding Jimmy’s car in a ditch covered in bullet holes , Lalo doesn’t believe his alibi that he just experienced a little car trouble on his way back. Kim ends up calling Lalo out for not having “his house in order,” questioning why he would send Jimmy, his lawyer, to do his dirty work for him when he’s got other guys who could do that. “Lalo is not okay with being embarrassed like that and pushed around,” Odenkirk told Entertainment Weekly. “My assumption is that Lalo thinks, ‘Well now, I’ve got two lawyers. Both of them owe me. And she’s sharp. So now I’ve got a really high-class, sharp lawyer.’”

Peter Gould the showrunner teased that Kim’s distinctive bottle-stopper, which she got in season 2 from Jimmy after her initial scam with him, should be kept under watch. The agave leaf-covered cork from the fictional brand of tequila known as Zafiro Añejo has become a symbol of Jimmy and Kim’s relationship. Kim also took it from her workplace when she quit her corporate job to become a public defender pro bono. In the Season 6 premiere, the topper is revealed.

The brand name of tequila is important Breaking Bad connection. In the season 4 episode, “Salud,” Gus uses a poisoned bottle of Zafiro to take out Don Eladio (Steven Bauer) and the rest of the cartel leaders, finally earning his freedom. The bottle topper may be a sign Kim is alive and free of Lalo, or any other person trying to control him. It’s also possible Don Eladio wasn’t the first person Gus took out with a shot of tequila.

Walter White and Jesse Pinkman return

The news broke that Bryan Cranston, Aaron Paul and Aaron Paul were coming to the finale of the series. Better Call Saul Paul said The Hollywood ReporterThe characters were bound to return in this last episode. “I’m excited that we did and How we did,” he said. Paul said that writers had found a surprising way to get them back. “It’s fun,” he said. “I think people are going to be excited.”

The official Saul deserves better Official Twitter account Walt and Jesse’s return by posting a photo of the duo from the season 2 episode “Negro Y Azul,” which is the episode that aired right before the one in which they meet Saul Goodman. Season 6 could see a time jump, which may show the life of Saul before and after Walt was born. It’s unlikely—though not impossible—that the late Walter White will cross paths with Jimmy/Saul/Gene in Nebraska. Jesse may also be able to escape Alaska after he fled from the USA in 2008. Breaking Bad sequel film El Camino,Could have unfinished business dealings with the ex-lawyer. It would not be expected.

You may not have seen everything. Breaking Bad It was what it looked like

The following are the Saul deserves better Timeline intersects with Breaking Bad Seehorn published Entertainment Weekly that “it’s not just specific to faces and places” but “also story lines from Breaking BadUnderstanding their peripherals and the implications of others is key. Rashomon effect of what was going on when.” The Rashomon effect is a reference to the Akira Kurosawa film of the same name which showed the same events from different characters’ points of view, often revealing drastic changes in how the events occurred for each person. It is hoped that Saul deserves better’s final season could help recontextualize what fans thought they knew about Breaking Bad

“I think by the time you finish watching Saul deserves better, you’re going to see Breaking Bad in a very different light,” Gould told The Hollywood Reporter2020. “I think we’re going to learn things about the characters in Breaking Bad that we didn’t know. We’re going to learn things about the events of Breaking Bad that we didn’t know. And we’re going to learn things about the fates of a lot of these characters that may surprise people or certainly throw them into a different light.” That is to say: the devil’s in the details and the many devils of Saul deserves better They are well-worth keeping your eyes on.

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