![]() ![]() (Saul got his identity wiped in Breaking Bad‘s final episodes and started a new life as “Gene.”) The flash-forwards have offered us tantalizing glimpses into Jimmy/Saul’s future… while keeping us guessing as to his ultimate fate. New episodes post weekly.Before we find out how Better Call Saul ends, we need to go back… to the future.įans know by now that every season of Saul (except one) has opened with a black-and-white flash-forward to Jimmy McGill/Saul Goodman’s post- Breaking Bad life as Gene Takovic, a mustachioed Cinnabon manager in Omaha, Nebraska. Subscribe via Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify or anywhere you download podcasts. Each week “Awards Circuit” features interviews with top film and TV talent and creatives discussions and debates about awards races and industry headlines and much more. Variety’s “Awards Circuit” podcast, produced by Michael Schneider, is your one-stop listen for lively conversations about the best in film and television. He gets them off because he manipulates everyone!” Stay tuned. Procedural show, Saul Goodman, different client every week, and they never go to jail. And he has a different client every week and he never goes to court,” he says, then facing Gould: “So we go back to the original idea that you originally pitched me at the Chateau Marmont. Then, he continues the gag, he winds up playing Saul Goodman on broadcast TV. And it all goes bust he loses all his money, he comes banging on Peter Gould’s door, ‘there’s gotta be another series!'” “I think what happens is Bob Odenkirk takes all his money and invests it in a chain of cookies and ice cream and little hotdogs. But a lifelong connection that happens.”Īs for Odenkirk, he has a much more commercial idea of what comes next. You play the game as long as you can, until you just can’t play that game anymore.”Īs for where the characters might go yet, Seehorn imagines that Kim starts up a new legal practice and “little by little” she tries to decrease Jimmy’s prison sentence. “And that compass is so evident watching this. “Hearing it talked about in terms of what’s a satisfying ending, I keep coming back to the organic truth of what morally is right for people to do,” he says. You have to think, What do I like? What satisfying to me? What’s satisfying to the group? What works for us? If it works for us, and we care about the show a lot, then hopefully everybody else will like it too.”Įsposito agrees, and says the finale - and the fate of Jimmy/Saul - struck the tone it needed to strike. “You start psyching yourself out, especially if you start thinking, well, what would the audience like? As you start picturing this mythical Hydra headed creature of the audience. And I didn’t know if it was going to work for anybody else. And so how are we going to do this? Personally, I went with my gut all the way. “Also, because I had been part of ‘Breaking Bad,’ and I thought that ended really well. “It sounds crazy, but a show that goes 63 episodes after another show that went 62 episodes, how do you bring that to a satisfying conclusion? It kind of psyched me out,” he adds. How do you end it? In my mind, we’re still figuring out serialized television. Audiences have invested many hours with these characters. But at the time, Gould said “it was very unnerving and worrying because people are really tough on final seasons. Now that “Better Call Saul” pulled off what many have called the best series finale in recent memory, the stars and producers can breathe a sigh of relief. And of course, we chat about the “Barbenheimer” weekend to remember. Seehorn, Odenkirk, Gould and Giancarlo Esposito - who played Gus Fring on both “Breaking Bad” and “Better Call Saul” - gathered one more time in March for an FYC panel related to the final season of “Better Call Saul.” On this week’s episode of the Variety Awards Circuit Podcast, we include the audio from that lively panel, as the stars and Gould discuss the reaction to the ending, and what they thing those characters might be up to now.īut first, on the Awards Circuit Roundtable, Variety’s Matt Donnelly joins us for an update into how the SAG-AFTRA strike has impacted publicists, talent agencies and more. ![]()
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