According to AMC, as we await Season 5’s February premiere, “Better Call Saul” has now indeed been renewed for a sixth and final season. The 13-episode final season will have ‘Saul’ end its successful and unusual run on AMC, one which came off the heels of five masterful seasons of“Breaking Bad”, but, somehow, found fascinating ways to enhance Vince Gilligan’s New-Mexico world-building from ‘Bad.’
Bob Odenkirk will, of course, return as Jimmy McGill aka Saul Goodman, ditto the consummately talented supporting actors such as Jonathan Banks, Rhea Seehorn and Giancarlo Esposito.
“Better Call Saul” has become an indisputably great show and confirms Gilligan as one of the few visionaries who seems to have decided to concentrate the thick of his career on a central world in his storytelling. The series is a significant achievement because of its focus on character and the subtle dilemmas that Gilligan seems to expand on with every season. If ‘Bad’ was showy and epic, this one is restrained and minimalist. Yet, they all take place in the same world that Gilligan created back in 2008 with Walter and Jesse. Gilligan expanded on it earlier this fall with the Netflix sequel “El Camino,” which concentrated on present-day Jesse Pinkman’s fight for freedom.
The penultimate season of “Better Call Saul” debuts on AMC on February 23. The final season is expected to premiere in 2021.