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Final Season of ‘Better Call Saul’ Will Put ‘Breaking Bad’ Characters in ‘Very Different Light’

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Giancarlo Esposito and Bob Odenkirk (source Twitter @BetterCallSaul)

*“Better Call Saul” co-creator Peter Gould says the upcoming final season of the series will have a “Breaking Bad” tie-in that may surprise fans of the former AMC series. 

During a Zoom session with Daniel Fienberg for the Hollywood Reporter, Gould was asked how the creative team is approaching the end of Saul while being mindful of how the character also shaped “Breaking Bad.”

“In some ways, the fun of it is trying to make it all fit together and to make Better Call Saul its own coherent story in itself,” Gould said, per Complex. “And yet also, kind of create a frame around Breaking Bad. I think by the time you finish watching Better Call Saul, you’re going to see Breaking Bad in a very different light. I think we’re going to learn things about the characters in Breaking Bad that we didn’t know. We’re going to learn things about the events of Breaking Bad that we didn’t know.”

Gould said the fates of certain characters may “throw them into a different light,” adding “I don’t know if all the joints are going to be absolutely even. I’d sure hope so,” he said. “We’re going to do our best to sand it down.”

READ MORE: ‘Better Call Saul’ Cast Talk Season 3 and Return of Gus Fring [EUR Exclusive]

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The series is a spin-off prequel of “Breaking Bad,” both created by Vince Gilligan. “Better Call Saul” follows the story of small-time lawyer James “Jimmy” McGill (Bob Odenkirk) six years before his appearance on “Breaking Bad” as Saul Goodman.

The series co-stars Jonathan Banks as Mike Ehrmantraut (reprising his “Breaking Bad” role), Rhea Seehorn as Kim Wexler, Patrick Fabian as Howard Hamlin, and Giancarlo Esposito reprising his character Gus Fring from “Breaking Bad”.

“The way I sort of see Gus is that, you know, you’re not who you think you are. We as human beings in general, sometimes we have different agendas, and we go about achieving our goals in different ways,”  Esposito said during the 2017 winter TCA. So Gus is very clear in where we left him. He was a guy who wanted revenge, he was a guy who wanted to create a business, but he was also someone who was very caring about his family of business people. And so, for me, I am looking forward to see where we do go with it,” he explained.

“And sometimes it’s more exciting to have a character that’s a little bit more mysterious that you don’t know so much about, and we’re left with wanting to know more, and we unroll it in a way that will leave you with a thirst. We’re in a show that’s very unexpected. Jimmy McGill, who is a character that you look at and you think he could be one way, and just when you think he’s moving toward that, you know, slopping off all of those old kinds of characteristics that you’ve seen, he comes right back to a place where you go, you’re surprised by it. So I’m hoping that Gustavo Fring will be similar in that way and resemble that kind of trajectory as well.”

The final season of “Better Call Saul” is expected to air in early 2021. 

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