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Summaries. The trials and tribulations of criminal lawyer Jimmy McGill in the years leading up to his fateful run-in with Walter White and Jesse Pinkman. Before Saul Goodman, he was Jimmy McGill. And if you're calling Jimmy, you're in real trouble. The prequel to "Breaking Bad" follows small-time attorney, Jimmy McGill, as he transforms into ...
Premise. Better Call Saul is a spin-off of Breaking Bad, a popular crime drama television series that ran from 2008 to 2013. It is primarily a prequel that focuses on Jimmy McGill, a former con artist aiming to gain respectability as a public defender, and chronicles his gradual transformation into his eventual Breaking Bad persona of Saul Goodman, the flamboyant criminal lawyer with ties to ...
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Conception
Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould began considering a television spinoff of Breaking Bad as early as 2009. While filming the Breaking Bad episode "Full Measure", Gilligan asked Bob Odenkirk his thoughts on a Saul Goodman spinoff. In July 2012, Gilligan publicly hinted at a Saul Goodman spinoff, stating that he liked "the idea of a lawyer show in which the main lawyer will do anything it takes to stay out of court", including settling on the courthouse steps. During his appearance on Talking Bad,...
Development
In April 2013, Better Call Saul was confirmed to be in development by Gilligan and Gould; the latter wrote the Breaking Bad episode that introduced the character. In July 2013, before the second half of Breaking Bad's final season aired, Gilligan said he and Gould were still working out ideas for the spin-off, but a deal had not yet been made. Netflix was one of many interested distributors, but ultimately a deal was made between AMC and Breaking Bad production company Sony Pictures Televisio...
Casting
Bob Odenkirk confirmed he would reprise Saul Goodman in the starring role when the series was first announced, but his character would be introduced as lawyer Jimmy McGill, the character's birthname In January 2014, it was announced that Jonathan Banks would reprise his Breaking Bad role as Michael "Mike" Ehrmantraut and be a series regular. Banks was previously a starring cast member in Breaking Badfor the same role. New cast members included Michael McKean as Jimmy's elder brother Charles "...
Premise
Better Call Saul follows the transformation of Jimmy McGill, a former con artist who is trying to become a respectable lawyer, into the personality of the flamboyant criminal lawyer Saul Goodman (a play on the phrase "[it]'s all good, man!"), over the six-year period prior to the events of Breaking Bad, spanning from approximately 2002 to 2008. Jimmy is inspired by his older brother Chuck to leave his Chicago-area conman past, when he was known as "Slippin' Jimmy". He initially works in the m...
Season 1
Following the events of Breaking Bad, in a black-and-white sequence, Saul Goodman has fled Albuquerque, New Mexico and hides in Omaha, Nebraskaunder the name Gene Takavic. He now manages a Cinnabon and occasionally reminisces about his time in Albuquerque. In the years before Breaking Bad, Saul, going by his original name of Jimmy McGill, encounters psychotic drug lord Tuco Salamanca and his lieutenant Nacho Varga. Afterward, he schemes to represent Betsy Kettleman and her husband Craig, who...
Season 2
Gene accidentally locks himself in the dumpster room when closing out the Omaha Cinnabon for the night. Rather than alerting the police by using the emergency exit, he opts to wait for hours for a janitor to let him out. Hired by D&M, Jimmy quits after his creative, ostentatious legal style doesn't quite mesh with their calm corporate demeanour. Kim is demoted because of Jimmy's actions. She secures Mesa Verde Bank and Trust as an HHM client, but Howard marginalises her accomplishment. Kim qu...
Better Call Saul airs on cable network AMC. The series premiere drew in 4.4 million and 4 million in the 18–49 and 25–54 demographics, respectively, and received an overall viewership of 6.9 million. This was the record for the highest-rated scripted series premiere in basic cable history, until it was surpassed later the same year by another AMC s...
See the list of all episodesfrom all seasons.Season 1(2015)Season 2(2016)Season 3(2017)Season 4(2018)Season 5(2020)Aug 16, 2022 · SPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not watched the series finale of “Better Call Saul,” titled “Saul Gone.”. More than seven years after “Better Call Saul” began, and 13 years ...
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Better Call Saul: Created by Vince Gilligan, Peter Gould. With Bob Odenkirk, Jonathan Banks, Rhea Seehorn, Patrick Fabian. The trials and tribulations of criminal lawyer Jimmy McGill in the years leading up to his fateful run-in with Walter White and Jesse Pinkman.
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Aug 22, 2022 · Important Pre-Better Call Saul Events. September 7, 1958 – Walter White is born. 1980 – The law firm that would eventually become Hamlin, Hamlin & McGill is founded in Albuquerque. c. 1980s ...
Six years before he begins to represent Albuquerque's most notorious criminal, Goodman is Jimmy McGill, a small-time attorney hustling to make a name for himself. He's a forceful champion for his ...
