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Michael Schneider Variety Editor at Large“Better Call Saul” ended Monday night with an ending very different than the way that “Breaking Bad” concluded. No shootout, just Jimmy McGill behind bars. But as Jimmy and ex-wife Kim Wexler reconnect, in many ways it’s also a much more hopeful conclusion.

Monday night’s 75th Emmy Awards.That’s a new all-time record for futility, people, and was one of the biggest snubs on television’s biggest night, part-and-parcel of the dominance of “Succession,” “Beef” and “The Bear.”“Better Call Saul” star Odenkirk was nominated six times for Best Lead Actor in a Drama for playing slimy lawyer Jimmy McGill — a k a Saul Goodman — but failed to ever take home a statuette.

After six seasons and 53 Emmy nominations, including seven for Outstanding Drama Series, Better Call Saul has left us without a single win.

Emmy Awards for the 2022-2023 TV season had to overcome the challenge of seeming like a complete afterthought — and for the most part it succeeded. The ceremony for the 75th Emmys was designed as a tribute to the medium, and featured reunions from shows such as “All in the Family,” “The Sopranos,” “Martin” and “Grey’s Anatomy,” the last of which featured the beloved, departed cast members Katherine Heigl and Justin Chambers, alongside OG stars Ellen Pompeo, Chandra Wilson and James Pickens Jr.

‘s Bob Odenkirk found himself “giddy” and “very proud” on Wednesday morning, as his lauded Breaking Bad prequellanded its final set of seven Emmy nominations, including one for his lead turn, speaking with Deadline about what his character Slippin’ Jimmy McGill might be up to post-finale, his memorable recent guest appearance on FX’s The Bear, his new AMC show Lucky Hank and more.

Editor’s note: Deadline’s It Starts on the Page features 10 standout drama series scripts in 2023 Emmy contention. It showcases the critical role writers’ work plays in a show’s success. All materials (the script and writers intro) were submitted before the WGA strike began on May 2.

EXCLUSIVE: Two-time Primetime Emmy nominee Rhea Seehorn has boarded the fourth installment of the $841M grossing Bad Boys franchise.

In a virtual appearance today at Deadline’s Contenders TV, Better Call Saul‘s Bob Odenkirk reflected on the opportunity he had to work with screen legend Carol Burnett over the course of the Breaking Bad prequel’s final season.

Carol Burnett revealed what’s left on her bucket list.“George Clooney,” she joked during an interview with People for this week’s cover story.This is not the first time Burnett has spoken publicly about her love for the Oscar-winning heartthrob.During a 2013 appearance on “Larry King Now,” the former “Carol Burnett Show” star hinted at her Clooney affection.“Are there parts of your life you wished you’d been asked about more?” wondered King, who died in 2021.“Well, you know, is it true what’s going on between you and George Clooney would be interesting,” she joked in response.The Post reached out to Burnett’s rep for comment.While Burnett has accomplished so much in her decades-long career, she’s still sharpening her resume, like by appearing on “Better Call Saul” last year.The series follows a struggling con artist named Jimmy McGill, played by Bob Odenkirk, as he transforms into a criminal lawyer named Saul Goodman.

If there is one thing we’ve come to know about Bob Odenkirk, it is that there is no one out there who can play a sad man quite like he can. In AMC’s “Better Call Saul,” he brought us into the troubled psyche of Jimmy McGill and showed in painful detail how, despite the goodness deep inside him, he became the charismatic yet slimy lawyer Saul Goodman.

moments after musing on a much sunnier recent ending for his spinoff series “Better Call Saul.” “[Walt] got thrown a lifeline early on,” Gilligan said. “And, if he had been a better human being, he would’ve swallowed his pride and taken the opportunity to treat his cancer with the money his former friends offered him.”While Bob Odenkirk’s Jimmy McGill “finds a little bit of his soul” (and also survives) in a redemptive final episode of “Saul,” Bryan Cranston’s Walter White went down in a hail of gunfire by his own design, a moment that “Breaking Bad” fans saw as heroic at best, self-actualizing at worst.“He goes out on his own terms, but he leaves a trail of destruction behind him,” Gilligan said.

Warning: The following contains spoilers for the series finale of “Better Call Saul”The soft spoken yet pitch perfect finale of “Better Call Saul” manages to serve as both a prequel and a sequel to “Breaking Bad” as it once again revisits familiar faces from the past and provides a coda of sorts for its predecessor. Chief among the finale’s well-known elements is Walter White (Bryan Cranston), who first reappeared in “Better Call Saul” just two episodes ago. This time around, however, he plays a far more pivotal role in illuminating the driving factors behind Saul’s (Bob Odenkirk) journey.

 aired its series finale Monday night and fans took to Twitter to share their reactions to the many twists and turns during the final one-hour episode of the  prequel.While Walter White making an appearance in the last minutes of the season 6 finale had people talking, it was what happened between Saul a.k.a Jimmy McGill (Bob Odenkirk) and his ex-wife, Kim Wexler (Rhea Seehorn) that shocked diehard fans most.In the end, Jimmy decided to trade his sentence for Kim's. Instead of the 7 years he was supposed to serve, he admitted he helped build Walt’s drug empire, giving him an 86-year-old sentence, clearing Kim of any wrongdoing, and allowing her to walk away and restart her life as a lawyer.The episode ends with Kim visiting Jimmy in prison, after sharing a cigarette together in his cell, a call to season 1, Kim leaves the prison, and Jimmy watches her through a chain-link fence from the inmates’ basketball court, shooting finger guns at her as she walks out.«How it started/how it ended #bettercallsaul,» one fan tweeted, with another shipping Jimmy and Kim's lasting and albeit complicated relationship, «Kim & Jimmy forever

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticSpoiler alert: This review contains spoilers for “Saul Gone,” the series finale of “Better Call Saul.”It turns out that there was one person the once and future Jimmy McGill would put ahead of his own self-interest.In the striking and elegant finale to one of TV’s most consistently strong dramas of the past decade, Bob Odenkirk’s Saul Goodman, to borrow a phrase, broke good. Having finally been apprehended, Saul structured a plea bargain that would have him in and out of prison in a plausibility-stretching-but-who’s-counting seven years.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeSPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you haven’t watched the series finale of “Better Call Saul,” Season 6 Episode 13, “Saul Gone.”In the end, Jimmy McGill unbroke bad. Just when it looked like Saul Goodman (Bob Odenkirk) had finessed his way into a sweet plea agreement — just seven years at the most country club-like of correctional facilities (low-security FCI Butner Low, which even has a golfing program!) — he reversed course and confessed all, in Monday night’s series finale of AMC’s “Better Call Saul.”It was a finale rife with references to regret, time machines and how there’s “no shame in going back and changing your path,” as Chuck McGill (played by Michael McKean, who returns in a flashback) tells his younger brother.

SPOILER ALERT: This post reveals major details about the series finale of Better Call Saul and some key moments of Breaking Bad.

SPOILER ALERT: This article contains details of tonight’s Better Call Saul series finale 

Better Call Saul showrunner Peter Gould has opened up about bringing Breaking Bad’s Walter White (Bryan Cranston) and Jessie Pinkman (Aaron Paul) back to the show in a new interview.After the two actors were confirmed to appear in the Breaking Bad spin-off’s final season earlier this year, Paul and Cranston finally made their debut during a flashback sequence in the latest episode, titled Breaking Bad.Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter, Gould was asked about what it was like bringing back the two characters and the “dangers” on doing that after a long time away.Gould explained: “The danger was that we were going to be eating the seed corn. If people are only watching the show to see callbacks to a previous show, I don’t think we’re doing our job.“We were pretty disciplined in the beginning about not bringing back a lot of Breaking Bad characters until we really established our world.

EXCLUSIVE: Deadline has an exclusive track from composer Dave Porter’s third volume of music for AMC’s hit series, Better Call Saul, which tonight reaches its finale, after six seasons on the air. Porter’s Better Call Saul, Vol. 3, featuring music penned for the final season of the Breaking Bad prequel-spinoff, will be available everywhere via Milan Records tomorrow.

Viewers are days away from the watching the final episode of “Better Call Saul,” and executive producers Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould told TV critics they have high hopes for how the last episode will be received.“If we don’t win the Nobel Prize for this I’m gonna be very disappointed,” Gilligan told reporters with a smile Wednesday afternoon during a virtual panel for the show at the Television Critics Association Summer Tour.Gould, who wrote and directed the episode, said there was “a lot of pressure” with that episode of the AMC series.“It’s very scary. Lot of sweaty palms, a lot of sleepless nights. And yeah, I mean, I think when you say who are we going to please, I think we know.

Better Call Saul star Bob Odenkirk has recalled the heart attack that he suffered on the show’s set last year.The actor, who plays Jimmy McGill/Saul Goodman in the Breaking Bad spin-off, collapsed on set last year while filming the show’s sixth and final season.“I went down on one knee, and then I went all the way down. I guess I said, ‘I don’t feel very good,'” Odenkirk remembered in a new interview with Radio Times.The actor added that he has since learned that his co-stars Rhea Seehorn and Patrick Fabian took his head and hand and “started yelling at me to stay on Earth”.“I wasn’t breathing,” Odenkirk continued.

Better Call Saul is almost at its conclusion, but for the stars of the Breaking Bad prequel, the end actually brings a new beginning of sorts and some low-key truths.

Ethan Shanfeld SPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not watched the 11th episode of “Better Call Saul” Season 6, titled “Breaking Bad.”“Better Call Saul” fans have waited over seven years for the Bob Odenkirk-led series to intersect with the world of Walter White (Bryan Cranston) and Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul). This week’s episode of the spinoff, aptly titled “Breaking Bad,” provided viewers with all that and more.The episode goes back and forth between the black-and-white timeline, which features Saul’s post-“Breaking Bad” persona Gene Takovic in Omaha, and the world of Saul Goodman within “Breaking Bad” Season 2.

SPOILER ALERT: This article contains details of tonight’s Better Call Saul‘s “Breaking Bad” episode. Let’s just say, the title is a bit of a giveaway.

The final season of Better Call Saul is now reaching its crescendo after six series and more than seven years since it was first broadcast in the US. The show is an example of a successful spin-off that rivals and attempts to surpass the characters it was first based on, having originally featured its main character Saul Goodman in Breaking Bad.

Wilson Chapman editorAMC has released the final trailer for the second part of the sixth season of “Better Call Saul,” the critically acclaimed “Breaking Bad” prequel series starring Bob Odenkirk.The trailer continues AMC’s trend of advertising the final episodes with cryptic black-and-white footage, leaving fans few images to grasp onto in their predictions of how the story will conclude. Fred Neil’s “Little Bit of Rain” sets the mood of a farewell.“Let justice be done till the heavens fall,” Odenkirk’s Saul Goodman aka Jimmy McGill utters at the conclusion of the trailer.The first part of Season 6, which aired this spring, saw Jimmy and his wife and fellow lawyer Kim Wexler (Rhea Seehorn) successfully execute an elaborate scheme to sabotage the career of their former boss Howard Hamlin (Patrick Fabian).

William Earl With “Better Call Saul” set to begin airing its final six episodes in just nine days, AMC has begun a round of promotions for the send-off to the series. As the show’s chronology begins to approach the events of “Breaking Bad,” viewers are preparing to see some familiar faces, including the return of Bryan Cranston’s Walter White and Aaron Paul’s Jesse Pinkman.Beyond that iconic pair though, “Better Call Saul” is almost certainly returning to the unglamorous existence of Bob Odenkirk’s Gene Takavic, formerly known as Saul Goodman, formerly known as Jimmy McGill, who now resides in Omaha, Neb.

Jordan Moreau Ever since news broke that Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul will reprise their roles as Walter White and Jesse Pinkman on the final season of “Better Call Saul,” fans have been cooking up theories as to how they’ll return. Will Walt and Jesse show up as their pre-“Breaking Bad” selves in the “Better Call Saul” timeline? Or will it be a flashback to their “Breaking Bad” days working with Bob Odenkirk’s Saul Goodman?In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, “Better Call Saul” showrunner Peter Gould says that he hasn’t heard a fan theory that actually predicts how it will happen.“I’ve heard [fan] theories about what’s going to happen,” Gould said, “and I’m happy to report I haven’t heard a theory that comes quite close to the actual fact.” The sixth and final season of “Better Call Saul” was split in two halves, with the first batch of episodes premiering in April and May.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorCarol Burnett is breaking bad.The comedy legend will appear as a guest star in the sixth and final season of “Better Call Saul,” portraying a character named Marion, AMC announced. It’s unclear at this point how Marion fits into the denouement of the complicated journey and transformation of series antihero Jimmy McGill (Bob Odenkirk) into Albuquerque’s notorious criminal lawyer Saul Goodman.“I’m thrilled to be a part of my favorite show,” Burnett, a six-time Emmy Awards winner, said in a statement.In addition to Burnett, as previously announced, Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul will appear in “Better Call Saul” Season 6 reprising their “Breaking Bad” roles of Walter White and Jesse Pinkman, respectively, as the show draws to its conclusion.

Since its 2015 premiere, the Breaking Bad prequel series Better Call Saul has matched the original crime drama’s level of acclaim. The AMC and Sony Pictures Television series’ focus on the eponymous shady attorney played by Bob Odenkirk has earned the series 39 Emmy nominations. The sixth and final season had its midseason finale May 23, and the series returns for its final episodes beginning July 11.

Breaking Bad spin-off following Better Call Saul.Dan McDermott, president of entertainment and AMC Studios at AMC Networks, shared his hopes that another show from creators Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould will come to fruition to expand the Breaking Bad universe.Speaking to Variety, McDermott said: “I can tell you that if I could do anything to encourage Vince and Peter to continue on in this universe, I would do it.“I think you’d have to ask them, but the door is always open and I long for the day my phone rings and Vince, Peter or our friends at Sony call to say, ‘Hey, I think we have another show set in this universe.’”Better Call Saul’s sixth and final season is set to conclude in August. The show is a prequel to Breaking Bad which follows lawyer Jimmy McGill (Bob Odenkirk).The spin-off has also featured other Breaking Bad characters, including Mike Ehrmantraut (Jonathan Banks) and Gus Fring (Giancarlo Esposito).

Rhea Seehorn’s fiancé doesn’t know if Kim Wexler lives. Neither do her stepchildren, who recently became “Better Call Saul” fans — and now demand similar answers about her fate.

Warning: Spoilers ahead!Better Call Saul fans are still not over the mid-season 6 finale, Plan and Execution, which saw the biggest cliffhanger of the show so far. The episode marked the end of Jimmy McGill (Bob Odenkirk) and Kim Wexler’s (Rhea Seehorn) mission to put a stop to enemy Howard Hamlin (Patrick Fabian), with a brutal cold-blooded murder as Howard was shot in the head by Lalo Salamanca (Tony Dalton) when confronting the Goodmans in their home about their plot to smear his name. But, as it turns out, some might have been expecting the moment to come, after Bob released a little spoiler in December last year.

Warning: Spoilers for Better Call Saul season 6 episode 7!The Better Call Saul mid-season 6 finale has literally blown people’s minds with the episode, titled Plan and Execution, serving an almighty cliffhanger nobody saw coming. The instalment finally marked the end of Jimmy McGill (Bob Odenkirk) and Kim Wexler’s (Rhea Seehorn) mission to put a stop to enemy Howard Hamlin (Patrick Fabian), with a brutal cold-blooded murder blind-siding fans in the closing scenes. In quite possibly the most brutal moment of the show to date, Howard was shot in the head by Lalo Salamanca (Tony Dalton) as he confronted the Goodmans in their home about their plot to smear his name.

Better Call Saul has delivered a surprising character death in the mid-season finale for season six.In the episode titled Plan and Execution, Howard Hamlin (Patrick Fabian) was executed in cold blood by Lalo Salamanca (Tony Dalton) inside Kim Wexler (Rhea Seehorn) and Jimmy McGill’s (Bob Odenkirk) apartment.The unfortunate confrontation takes place while Kim and Jimmy celebrate their win over Howard at the Sandpiper Crossing mediation. Howard, who is humiliated by the defeat, turns up at their flat to interrupt the celebrations and air his grievances about being played.After security is diverted from Kim and Jimmy’s apartment to a supposed threat at Gus Fring’s launderette, Lalo makes a surprise visit to their home.

SPOILER ALERT:  This article contains details of tonight’s Better Call Saul 6A finale.