The sixth and final season of the Breaking Bad spinoff Better điện thoại tư vấn Saul is set lớn begin on April 18 on AMC. Like its predecessor, Better hotline Saul’s final installment will be split into two sub-seasons; after the first segment wraps up on May 23, the final run of episodes will begin on July 11 và conclude on August 15. It is easily one of the most anticipated shows of the year; Better hotline Saul is one of the rare television spin-offs that has managed to live up to, và maybe even surpass, the quality of the original. Even though Breaking Bad is often cited as one of the greatest television shows of all time, some fans have argued that the more nuanced, methodical approach of Better call Saul is even better.
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Better gọi Saul follows a parallel storyline focusing on the exploits of Breaking Bad’s Saul Goodman (Bob Odenkirk) both before & after the events of the core series. Years before he met Walter trắng (Bryan Cranston) & Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul), Saul was once a promising young lawyer named Jimmy Mc
Gill. Jimmy has always been drawn to lớn danger và deceit, but he manages to lớn surprise his successful brother Chuck (Michael Mc
Kean), the co-founder of the respected law practice Hamlin Hamlin Mc
Gill. Jimmy becomes an untraditional, yet effective lawyer, but he’s constantly drawn lớn the same moral grayness that would turn him into Saul Goodman.
In addition khổng lồ this backstory, Better điện thoại tư vấn Saul includes brief snapshots of what Saul’s life looks lượt thích once he’s in the witness protection program following the kết thúc of Breaking Bad. It’s unclear how much of the post-Breaking Bad universe we will see in the last season of Better hotline Saul, but the prequel storyline certainly has presented enough questions of its own. Chief among them is the fate of Jimmy’s love interest & law partner, Kim Wexler (Rhea Seehorn). Kim doesn’t appear on Breaking Bad, & Better call Saul will have to explain what her fate is as the two timelines grow closer.
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Season 5 was easily the strongest season of Better call Saul thus far, as it moved the show closer to Jimmy’s eventual fate. Over the course of the ten episodes, Saul becomes a corrupting influence over Kim, reunited his partnership with Mike Ehrmantraut (Jonathan Banks), and became the target of the brutal cartel leader Lalo Salamanca (Tony Dalton). Breaking Bad villain Gus Fring (Giancarlo Esposito) continues to expand his operation, và Nacho Varga (Michael Mando) finds himself in danger after failing to kill Lalo.
Mike has been reluctantly working for Gus, who is in the middle of a rivalry with Lalo. Mike has been trying to support his granddaughter Kaylee và provide for her, but he grows more distant after he’s forced khổng lồ kill the German scientist Werner Ziegler (Rainer Bock) by Gus. Mike begins lớn gather evidence that will aid the police in their pursuit of Lalo, which Jimmy ends up using to accuse the DEA of fabricating evidence.
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Jimmy’s relationship with Howard Hamlin (Patrick Fabian) worsens throughout the season. Jimmy continues to lớn blame his brother’s death on Howard, even after he’s offered a position at Hamlin Hamlin Mc
Gill. Howard begins to worry about Kim’s fate, as he fears that Jimmy has corrupted her integrity. After their lives are threatened, Jimmy và Kim decide to sabotage Howard’s case involving the Sandpiper Crossing retirement community in order lớn earn settlement money themselves.
Howard’s suspicions about Kim aren’t wrong. She begins lớn use Jimmy’s scheming techniques lớn gain advantages in the Mesa Verde case, & win over difficult clients. However, she can’t get over her feelings for Jimmy. They are married in the seventh episode, “JMM.” Although the marriage was plotted so that Jimmy will get spousal privileges when he’s questioned about his past crimes, they vày feel genuine affection for each other.
One of the most exciting reveals about the upcoming sixth season is the announcement that both Cranston & Paul will reprise their roles. They’re hardly the first Breaking Bad alumnus to lớn appear in Better call Saul. In the episode “The Guy For This,” Hank Schrader (Dean Norris) deals with Jimmy’s defense of Lalo’s henchman, Domingo Molina (Max Arciniega). Gus gets closer to lớn the legendary status that he had on Breaking Bad when he recruits Nacho to help him assassinate Lalo.
In the Season 5 finale “Something Unforgivable,” Jimmy is finally forced khổng lồ tell Kim about how he and Mike were nearly killed in the desert by gunmen. Kim had suspected that Jimmy was hiding something from her when he returned home, obviously shaken by post-traumatic bao tay disorder. After they are ruthlessly questioned by Lalo in “Bad Choice Road,” Lalo decides lớn stay in Albuquerque, even though he had planned khổng lồ return khổng lồ Mexico with The Cousins. He eludes the assassins sent khổng lồ kill him, but leaves one survivor, and informs him khổng lồ tell Gus that they were successful.
Season 6 sets the stage for a full-on war between Lalo and Gus, with Nacho caught in the middle. Mike has only somewhat helped Nacho with his relationship with Gus; he’s trying lớn protect và rattled Jimmy and Kim at the same time. Meanwhile, Kim has prepared to lớn launch a full-on assault on Howard. Now that she’s left Hamlin Hamlin Mc
Gill, Kim has đôi mươi felony cases khổng lồ work on pro bono. She’s grown obsessed with getting revenge on Howard, và even Jimmy is surprised by her intensity. Will she fall down the same dark path that he did?
Gill as he transforms into morally challenged lawyer Saul Goodman.
