‘Better Call Saul’: 6 Things You Need to Remember for Season 6

Paced by the April premiere of Better Call Saul‘s new season on AMC, catch-up viewing of the show’s first five seasons propelled the show to No. 2 on Nielsen’s streaming chart for April 4 to 10.

Selome Hailu Though the sixth and final season of “Better Call Saul” didn’t debut until April 18, the show took the No. 2 position on Nielsen’s streaming rankings for the week of April 4-10 as viewers presumably rewatched the series on Netflix in preparation for its return.Accruing 915 million minutes viewed, this is a notable achievement for the AMC crime drama, as acquired titles typically don’t chart as strongly as series that have their debuts on streaming services.

,‘ which drove record levels of subscriber acquisition for AMC+,” Blank said in the company’s Q1 earnings report.As for the season 6 premiere of “Better Call Saul” on AMC, the episode aired April 18 and garnered 1.4 million total viewers, according to Nielsen data. That represents an 11% drop in viewers from the previous season.According to Parrot Analytics, the currently airing final season of “Better Call Saul” has driven demand increases for the entire franchise, including its predecessor series, creator Vince Gilligan’s “Breaking Bad,” and its movie.The final season of “Better Call Saul” will run new episodes Mondays through May 23.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeTony Dalton says you’re not ready for where “Better Call Saul” goes in its final season. As the first half of the 13-episode sixth season continues, Dalton warns viewers to brace themselves.“No matter what they think is going to happen, people have no idea,” he tells Variety’s Awards Circuit Podcast. “I think that people are going to love it.

EXCLUSIVE: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri and Better Call Saul actress Kerry Condon is joining Liam Neeson and Ciarán Hinds in thriller In The Land Of Saints And Sinners, according to sources.

Aaron Paul is spilling about Better Call Saul!

Ethan Shanfeld How would “Better Call Saul” co-creators Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould describe the series’ hotly anticipated final season?“Fucking amazing,” Gilligan told Variety on the red carpet at last week’s premiere at the Hollywood Legion Theater, while Gould offered: “Holy fucking shit.”In a more serious tone, Gilligan added that Season 6 is “the best season yet… There’s a real argument to be made that ‘Better Call Saul’ is better than ‘Breaking Bad.'”Bob Odenkirk teased the final season as an “evolution hard-earned,” while Patrick Fabian, who plays Howard Hamlin, described it as “excruciatingly painfully exciting.” He continued, “It’s a satisfying season. All the setups that they put up the mountain start careening down the mountain.” The final season of “Better Call Saul” debuts Monday, April 18 on AMC and AMC+, marking the beginning of the end for some of TV’s most beloved characters.

Bob Odenkirk) morphs into Saul Goodman.The first two Season 6 episodes don’t differ much from the series’ canon: they’re by turns riveting and plodding and are underscored by a cinematography template inherited by “Better Call Saul” from its predecessor, “Breaking Bad.” (It was fresh and new … back then.) Enough already with close-ups of bugs crawling in the parched desert dirt or of dripping water or unorthodox camera angles. We get it.

Bob Odenkirk is taking a moment to be grateful for the journey so far.«I'll never have a role this well-written again in my life,» the actor and comedian raved to ET's Will Marfuggi at the season 6 premiere event. «I'll have, you know, three pages that are pure comedy and two pages later, earnest, heartfelt emotion. It's just an amazing dynamic that you just don't see anywhere else, so that's OK -- I got to have it once, that's more than most people get.»The final season of the prequel series kicks off April 18 on AMC, and Odenkirk promised that there's plenty for fans to look forward to in the last 13 episodes.«It's the beginning of the end, but it's gonna tale a while,» he noted. «There's a lot of story to tell and there's a lot of cliffhanger moments coming.

Ready for more? The sixth and final season of Better Call Saul will finally reveal how the kind, but conflicted lawyer Jimmy McGill (Bob Odenkirk) became the morally challenged criminal attorney Saul Goodman.

Better Call Saul is returning for its sixth and final season. The season will include some familiar faces from Breaking Bad and is expected to be released later this month.

“Breaking Bad” and “Better Call Saul” fans alike have been pondering if we’d ever see Bryan Cranston’s Walter White and Aaron Paul’s Jesse Pinkman make an appearance on the prequel/spinoff series. Well, the creative team and network have finally given a concrete answer to that question.

Better Call Saul’s final season, the spinoff series of Breaking Bad, will see the return of iconic characters Walter White (Bryan Cranston) and Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul).

Walt and Jesse are coming back.After years of fielding questions about an appearance by the “Breaking Bad” characters on the prequel series “Better Call Saul,” AMC confirmed on Saturday night that Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul will indeed be back in some capacity in the upcoming final season of the Bob Odenkirk-fronted show. “Better Call Saul” co-creator Peter Gould first made the announcement on a Paley Fest panel on Saturday night.Further details about Cranston and Paul’s appearance were not revealed.The actors first returned to the roles of Walter White and Jesse Pinkman in the 2019 Netflix sequel film “El Camino,” which was written and directed by “Breaking Bad” creator Vince Gilligan and picked up immediately after the “Breaking Bad” finale left off, providing additional closure to Jesse Pinkman’s arc.The sixth and final season of “Better Call Saul” premieres on April 18 on AMC, but the season is being split up into two parts (Part 2 premieres in July), so it’s unknown during which part Cranston and Paul appear.Gould and Gilligan created “Better Call Saul” after the end of “Breaking Bad” as a way to expand the universe and explore the life of Saul Goodman – aka Jimmy McGill – before he crossed paths with criminal mastermind Walter White.

It’s official – Walter White and Jesse Pinkman are coming back!

During today’s Deadline Contenders panel, Better Call Saul star Jonathan Banks jokingly took a swipe at Bryan Cranston about him potentially reprising his role as Walter White.

Ethan Shanfeld We haven’t seen the last of Walter White and Jesse Pinkman.After dancing around the question on Thursday’s red carpet premiere, “Better Call Saul” co-creator Peter Gould has now officially confirmed that Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul will guest star in the final season of the “Breaking Bad” spinoff.Gould announced the news Saturday at PaleyFest LA on a “Better Call Saul” panel moderated by Variety television editor Michael Schneider, though he was tight-lipped on exactly when Cranston and Paul will show up or in what capacity. But as he told Variety on Thursday, “These two worlds cross over in a way that you haven’t seen before, that’s for sure.”At Thursday’s premiere, co-creator Vince Gilligan told Variety, “It would be a damn shame if the show ended without [Cranston and Paul] appearing, would it not?” Bob Odenkirk, who plays the series’ titular crooked lawyer, also hinted at Cranston and Paul’s appearance, telling Variety that Season 6 features “some wonderful new characters… your brain is gonna explode when you see them.”Odenkirk continued, “I personally feel that the two shows — ‘Breaking Bad’ and ‘Better Call Saul’ — are entwined even more than ever in the final season.