Better Call Saul ended last night with a wonderful episode that brought the entire Breaking Bad universe to a satisfying conclusion. We recapped the finale and spoke with Saul co-creator Peter Gould, but we’re not ready to say goodbye to the classic AMC drama just yet. So here are 10 …
Read More »'It's Time to Do Something New': 'Better Call Saul' Co-Creator Vince Gilligan on His Final Episode as Writer-Director
Vince Gilligan will be the first to tell you he’s a bad planner. It’s not just that the co-creator of Better Call Saul missed his own show’s wrap party because he and his partner Holly had already scheduled a birthday getaway in Palm Springs for that night. It’s that throughout …
Read More »'Better Call Saul' Recap: Better Call Kim
A review of this week’s Better Call Saul, “Waterworks,” coming up just as soon as I call this a fish taco, legally… “This guy? Any good?” —Jesse “When I knew him, he was.” —Kim In a different world, Kim Wexler and Jesse Pinkman should have never met. She was a …
Read More »'Better Call Saul' Writer on Finally Entering the World of 'Breaking Bad'
This story contains spoilers for this week’s episode of Better Call Saul, which we recapped here. After Better Call Saul co-creators Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould, Thomas Schnauz is the longest-tenured writer in the entire Heisenberg-verse, having arrived in Season Three of Breaking Bad and staying through the end of …
Read More »'Better Call Saul' Recap: It's 'Breaking Bad' Time
A review of this week’s Better Call Saul, with the provocative title of “Breaking Bad,” coming up just as soon as I watch a cat eating ice cream… “She asked about me.” —Gene And here they finally are. Walter White and Jesse Pinkman. As the latter would say: Yeah, bitch! …
Read More »'Better Call Saul' Recap: Goodbye Jimmy, Hello Saul?
A review of this week’s Better Call Saul, “Fun and Games,” coming up just as soon as I exchange my Côte-Rôtie for a rum and Diet Coke… “End of an era.” —Rich Schweikart “Fun and Games” brings us the moment that, before Better Call Saul debuted, all of us expected …
Read More »'Better Call Saul' Star Rhea Seehorn on Jimmy and Kim's 'Alarming' and 'Heartbreaking' Fight
This story contains spoilers for this week’s episode of Better Call Saul, which we recapped here. Rhea Seehorn was a Breaking Bad fan before she was cast as attorney Kim Wexler on that show’s prequel series, Better Call Saul. She knew that Kim never appeared on Breaking Bad, while Kim’s …
Read More »'Better Call Saul' Writer Breaks Down Pivotal Latest Episode and Where the Show's Headed
This post contains spoilers for the latest episode of Better Call Saul, “Point and Shoot.” This week’s Better Call Saul is the last script of the series written by Gordon Smith. After entering the Heisenberg-verse as an office assistant and then Vince Gilligan’s assistant on Breaking Bad, he graduated to …
Read More »'Better Call Saul' Recap: Lalo Gets the Last Laugh
After a brief midseason hiatus, Better Call Saul is back for the home stretch of its final season. A review of this week’s episode, “Point and Shoot,” coming up just as soon as you get me a new fridge… “Big talk. You done?” —Lalo “No. Not yet.” —Gus Both Better …
Read More »What You Need to Know Before the End of 'Better Call Saul'
Saul Goodman’s first TV appearance was in the Breaking Bad second-season episode titled, appropriately, “Better Call Saul,” which debuted on AMC on April 26, 2009. It has, in other words, been a minute since we met the title character of the great prequel series Better Call Saul, and only slightly …
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