Everything We Know About Better Call Saul’s Final Season: Who’s Returning, ‘Breaking Bad’ Cameos and More

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Everything We Know About Better Call Saul’s Final Season: Who’s Returning, ‘Breaking Bad’ Cameos and More

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. “From day one of Better Call Saul, my dream was to tell the complete story of our complicated and compromised hero, Jimmy McGill — now AMC and Sony are making that dream come true,” showrunner Peter Gould said in a statement in 2021. "We couldn’t be more grateful to the fans and critics who are making this journey possible. Next month, we start work on the sixth and final season — we’re going to do our damnedest to stick the landing.” For five seasons, fans have watched as Jimmy teetered on the edge of good and evil, while slowly transforming into the Breaking Bad character viewers love to hate. Come Monday, April 18, the beginning of the end of the AMC prequel will unfold. The final season, however, didn’t come to fruition without a few setbacks. In July 2021, Odenkirk was hospitalized after collapsing on set in New Mexico. It was later revealed that he suffered a heart attack, but by September of that year he was healthy and ready to return to set. “Back to work on Better Call Saul! So happy to be here and living this specific life surrounded by such good people,” the actor tweeted at the time, sharing a photo of himself in the makeup trailer. “BTW this is makeup pro Cheri Montesanto making me not ugly for shooting!” In addition to telling Jimmy’s story in season 6, Breaking Bad fans will finally get to see Aaron Paul and Bryan Cranston reunited with Odenkirk — but how and when they’ll make their cameos is still a mystery. [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meb8ksPgJ5M[/embed] “I would be in it if Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould, who are co-executive producers on it, wanted me to be in it,” Cranston told Collider in April 2020 of his willingness to do a guest spot. “I would do it in a second. But it hasn’t happened yet, I can tell you, and we’ll see. I don’t know. There’s one more season to go, and we’ll see what happens.” One year later, Better Call Saul creator Gilligan teased the return of Paul as Jesse Pinkman and Cranston as Walter White, ahead of the season 6 premiere. “These two worlds cross over in a way that you haven’t seen before, that’s for sure,” Gilligan told Variety in April. “It would be a damn shame if the show ended without [Cranston and Paul] appearing, would it not?” Gould, for his part, confirmed the cameos during PaleyFest on Tuesday, April 11, but wouldn’t say how Cranston and Paul’s characters would be introduced into the prequel series. Odenkirk hinted that his character’s connection to both fandoms will be a big part of the farewell season. “I personally feel that the two shows — Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul — are entwined even more than ever in the final season,” he told Variety in April. “And I think that’s surprising and cool, and it’s gonna make you want to watch Breaking Bad again.” Scroll down for everything to know about Better Call Saul season 6: [podcast_block]

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When Does It Premiere?

The final season will be broken into two parts. It kicks off with back-to-back episodes on Monday, April 18, and will run through late May. The show will start back up on July 11 with the remaining six episodes to follow.

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Where Can You Watch It?

Better Call Saul airs on AMC Mondays at 9 p.m. ET. Fans can catch up on seasons 1 through 5 on Netflix now.

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Who Is Returning?

Jonathan Banks (as Mike Ehrmantraut), Rhea Seehorn (Kim Wexler), Patrick Fabian (Howard Hamlin), Michael Mando (Nacho Varga), Tony Dalton (Lalo Salamanca) and Giancarlo Esposito (Gus Fring) will all be back to act alongside Odenkirk. Mark Margolis as Hector Salamanca is also set to appear in the final season.

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Where Did Season 5 Leave Off?

Drama was at an all-time high at the end of last season after Gus (Esposito) tried and failed to kill his boss, cartel heavy hitter Lalo (Dalton). The botched murder plot set the stage for a path of death and destruction come season 6 at the hands of Lalo.

Meanwhile, the relationship between Jimmy (Odenkirk) and his love Kim (Seehorn) became more complicated when Kim revealed her plan to destroy Howard (Fabian) much to the dismay of Jimmy. Their disagreement over how Howard should be handled could lead to their marriage blowing up.

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When Did It Film?

Production began in March 2021 but was briefly put on hold later that summer after Odenkirk suffered a heart attack and collapsed on set. They resumed filming in fall 2021 and finished in February 2022.

“Yesterday an amazing crew of people finished shooting Better Call Saul in Albuquerque, NM,” the show’s lead tweeted after wrapping the long-running series. “It began in 2014, with great writing always leading the charge, and despite challenges of all kinds, our energy and care never flagged. I am honored to have been part of it.”

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Season 6 Trailer Tease

“You know what they say, the wicked flee when no man pursue it,” Jimmy says in the official trailer, which dropped in March 2022. “You think we’re wicked?” Kim replies. Throughout the clip, images of death, scheming, drugs, dirty money and mayhem fly across the screen. “No one knows what we’re doing, except for us,” Jimmy adds as haunting music plays in the background.

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'Breaking Bad' Cameos

The show’s cocreator Gould confirmed in April 2022 at PaleyFest that both Paul and Cranston would be reprising their Breaking Bad roles on the upcoming season. “I don’t want to spoil things for the audience, but I will say the first question we had when we started the show was, ‘Are we gonna see Walt and Jesse on the show?’ Instead of evading, I’ll just say yeah,” Gould told the panel of reporters. “How or the circumstances or anything, you’ll just have to discover that for yourself, but I have to say that’s one of many things that I think you’ll discover this season.”

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Double Duty

Stars Seehorn and Esposito directed episodes four and six, respectively, of the farewell season, the network announced at PaleyFest in April 2022.

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Bob Teases What’s to Come

"It's the beginning of the end, but it's gonna take a while,” Odenkirk told Entertainment Tonight in April 2022. "There's a lot of story to tell and there's a lot of cliffhanger moments coming. A lot of excitement, so it's gonna be epic."

The show’s leading man praised the Better Call Saul team, adding, "They're great writers, the best writers in the business. And they deliver a great ending, so I can't wait for everyone to see it."

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Fans Will Be Happy

"I truly think it's everything that the fans would want," Seehorn told ET in April 2022. "It is so well thought out. Tons of action, stunning, definitely shocking, definitely devastating, often hilarious, but more than anything, I feel like [it’s] thought-provoking ... I think the fans are gonna like it."

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Carol Burnett Joins the Cast

The comedy legend is a Breaking Bad superfan, and she'll guest star as a character named Marion in the final episodes. "I'm thrilled to be a part of my favorite show," Burnett said in a statement after the news was released in June.