Better Call Saul Season 6: Trailer, Release Date, Cast, and Everything Else to Know
Bob Odenkirk, Higher Name Saul AMC The top of Higher Name Saul is on the horizon. The AMC drama, which TV Information named the finest present on TV proper now after Season 5, returns April 18 for its sixth and ultimate chapter, and each have a look at this season makes us as sweaty as Jimmy (Bob Odenkirk) within the…
Bob Odenkirk, Higher Name Saul
AMC
The top of Higher Name Saul is on the horizon. The AMC drama, which TV Information named the finest present on TV proper now after Season 5, returns April 18 for its sixth and ultimate chapter, and each have a look at this season makes us as sweaty as Jimmy (Bob Odenkirk) within the desert. A brand new trailer confirms that Higher Name Saul is barreling towards an intense ending, and though some characters’ fates had been already set in stone in Breaking Dangerous, there’s nonetheless a lot up within the air. Will Kim Wexler (Rhea Seehorn) be her personal downfall? Can Nacho Varga (Michael Mando) escape the cartel life? Even the story of Cinnabon supervisor Gene Takovic, Jimmy’s future assumed id, is not wrapped up but.
Season 5 left Jimmy and Kim on the precipice of one thing unforgivable as Kim advised scheming to damage the fame of their former boss, Howard Hamlin (Patrick Fabian), with a view to rating a significant payoff. “That kind of Robin Hood complicated that she’s had from the start at all times appeared just a bit bit harmful to me,” Seehorn advised TV Information after the season ended. That hazard may very well be compounded by Lalo Salamanca (Tony Dalton), who’s on the unfastened after Nacho’s plot to take him down failed.
As we sit up for the top of the collection, here is all the pieces we all know up to now about Higher Name Saul Season 6.
Trailer
Everybody’s at risk within the Higher Name Saul Season 6 trailer. The official trailer for the ultimate season, launched March 10, reveals Jimmy and Kim worrying about their newest scheme. “You assume we’re depraved?” Kim asks. The brand new footage additionally teases some recognizable pictures from the Breaking Dangerous days, like Saul’s white Cadillac DeVille with the LWYRUP license plate, his workplace’s inflatable Statue of Liberty, and the Crossroads Motel.
There are hints that Howard is constructing a case in opposition to Jimmy, whose fame with the cartel appears to be getting round; a possible consumer refers to him as “Salamanca’s man.” In the meantime, Nacho spends the whole trailer in worry for his life after double-crossing Lalo. Mike (Jonathan Banks) sums up the message of the ultimate season finest: “No matter occurs subsequent, it isn’t gonna go down the way in which you assume it’s.” It is all set to Andy Williams’ tune “Days of Wine and Roses,” from the film of the identical title a few couple who spiral into their addictions. Ominous.
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Poster
The Season 6 trailer launch was accompanied by new key artwork for the ultimate season, exhibiting a black-and-white Jimmy with a mustache — which means he is in his Gene Takovic period — placing on a stark purple swimsuit. It seems to be like Gene is about to embrace his interior Saul Goodman.
Higher Name Saul
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Premiere date
Higher Name Saul Season 6 premieres Monday, April 18 at 9/8c on AMC and AMC+. Two episodes will air again to again on April 18 to kick off the season.
The ultimate season consists of 13 episodes — expanded from the present’s ordinary 10 — and will likely be cut up into two halves, with seven episodes within the first half and 6 within the second half. However the midseason break will not final too lengthy; the second a part of the season premieres July 11.
Teasers
For a few of us, probably the most thrilling Tremendous Bowl business this 12 months was the one which dared to ask, “Who’s right here to see Saul Goodman?” The primary footage launched from Season 6 was peppered into an AMC+ teaser shared in the course of the large sport, narrated by Giancarlo Esposito, who performs Gus Fring. The teaser kicks off with Saul greeting potential shoppers on the nail salon, and it gives a glimpse at Esposito as Gus and Seehorn as Kim — in a really un-Kim-like shirt or jacket.
The Season 6 premiere date announcement got here with a black-and-white clip of Jimmy as his assumed id, Gene, taking down a flyer that gives a hefty reward for data that might result in his arrest.
Earlier than revealing the premiere date, AMC also dropped hints in a pair of teasers. The primary reveals the Salamanca cousins strolling as much as an energetic crime scene, and the second reveals Gus getting his mail.
Forged
Bob Odenkirk will return as Jimmy McGill completes his transformation into Saul Goodman. He’ll be joined by Rhea Seehorn as Kim, Giancarlo Esposito as Gus, Patrick Fabian as Howard, Michael Mando as Nacho, Tony Dalton as Lalo, and Jonathan Banks as Mike Ehrmantraut.
Giancarlo Esposito and Jonathan Banks, Higher Name Saul
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One actor who won’t return is former collection common Michael McKean, who performed Jimmy’s older brother, Chuck, within the first three seasons. McKean has appeared in a pair of flashbacks since Chuck’s dying — one among which landed him a visitor appearing Emmy nomination. However talking to TV Information in the summertime of 2020, the actor mentioned he did not wish to threat diluting Chuck’s energy by returning too typically. “I feel possibly the essence of a extremely profitable haunting is to not make too many in-person appearances,” McKean mentioned on the time. Then once more, something can occur.
Season 6 is anticipated to convey the motion within the Breaking Dangerous prequel even nearer to the occasions of its predecessor — it would even overlap — however no cameos from Breaking Dangerous stars have been introduced. Dangerous alumni Dean Norris and Steven Michael Quezada did reprise their roles as Hank Schrader and Steve Gomez, respectively, in Season 5 of Higher Name Saul.
Spoilers
A New York Times Magazine profile of Odenkirk, printed in February 2022, gives a handful of tantalizing glimpses on the ultimate season. The article takes place partly in the course of the filming of an evening scene at a home with snow on the bottom — which might counsel that it is a Gene scene. The scene entails Odenkirk sneaking round the home in a wordless cat-and-mouse chase with one other character.
In NYT Journal, Odenkirk also shared his initial reaction to the series finale: “It isn’t flashy. It is substantial, and on some stage it is issues I hoped for, for years, on this character’s mind.”
Rhea Seehorn advised NYT Journal that the ultimate season is “fairly humorous, after which very darkish — brutally darkish. They turned the amount up on all of it. No matter path somebody was already entering into, they made it extra excessive.”
Kim’s destiny has been a query mark hanging over the collection because the starting. When she spoke to TV Information in 2020, previous to filming the ultimate season, Seehorn mentioned she believed there are loads of endings extra tragic than dying for Kim. “In the event that they wished tragic, it isn’t essentially probably the most tragic factor for her to only be picked off. To only kill off everyone that is not in Breaking Dangerous, that is in all probability not probably the most fascinating and it won’t even be probably the most tragic factor that might occur to her. I imply, I say that, after which watch, I will be lifeless,” Seehorn mentioned. “However her being in jail, her having to run, her altering herself or revealing herself to be so totally different that she really might keep and tolerate what he does is equally tragic.”
Rhea Seehorn, Higher Name Saul
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Odenkirk advised TV Information in 2020 that he anticipated to spend extra time with Jimmy’s life as Gene within the ultimate season, a narrative that has been teased initially of every season premiere. “I do assume they wish to inform the story of how this man strikes ahead, not directly,” he mentioned. “I wish to inform that story.”
Co-creators Peter Gould and Vince Gilligan, who had been writing the ultimate season once they spoke to TV Information in 2020, supplied totally different takes on what sort of destiny Jimmy deserves. “I really like the story of somebody who has carried out loads of dangerous issues nonetheless redeeming themselves,” Gilligan mentioned. Gould took a tougher have a look at all the pieces on Jimmy’s conscience. “I feel he has an ethical burden for all the pieces that Walter White does,” Gould mentioned. “Can he redeem himself in any case that?”
Gould additionally told The Hollywood Reporter in August 2020, “I feel by the point you end watching Higher Name Saul, you are going to see Breaking Dangerous in a really totally different gentle. I feel we’ll be taught issues concerning the characters in Breaking Dangerous that we did not know. We’ll be taught issues concerning the occasions of Breaking Dangerous that we did not know. And we’ll be taught issues concerning the fates of loads of these characters which will shock folks or actually throw them into a unique gentle.”
Learn how to watch Higher Name Saul
Higher Name Saul Season 6 premieres Monday, April 18 at 9/8c on AMC and AMC+.
Higher Name Saul Seasons 1-4 can be found to stream on Netflix. Season 5 arrives on Netflix on Monday, April 4. Breaking Dangerous can also be on Netflix.
Season 5 can also be out there for buy on Amazon Prime Video.
