BETTER CALL SAUL Season 6 Will Feature "a Lot of Insanity" For Gene
It seems like it’s been forever since the fifth season of Better Call Saul ended. That was back in April of 2020. Since then, the world went to hell and it seems like it took ten years to get through the rest of the year.
There’s one more season of Better Call Saul coming that will bring the show to a close, though. I’ve been looking forward to Season 6 and seeing how the story concludes as Jimmy McGill makes his complete transformation into shady lawyer Saul Goodman.
But, there’s also Jimmy/Saul’s post-Breaking Bad life as Gene, whose story has been playing out in those black-and-white scenes that open each season. In regards to Gene, actor Bob Odenkirk teases that we’ll see more of Gene and things will get insane for him. He told The Wrap:
"I think we will [see more from Gene]. You’re going to see a lot of insanity, as the wheels come off the cart.”
Odenkirk goes on to say that he hopes the Gene version of his character has at least learned a thing or two from his days as Jimmy and Saul:
“I’d like to think he learned something about how to manage yourself and your inspirations, your drives, in the course of all these adventures, including ‘Breaking Bad.’ We’ll see what Gene, how he behaves as a more experienced person having lost everything — at least one time. I wonder what Gene will do to protect himself, or to strike back at the world.”
The actor goes on to talk about his Jimmy character and says that he’s in “a real delicate place,” after jumping into the criminal lawyer game, and what that life is like. Last season he went from defending petty criminals to drug crime lords:
“He’s really got himself in serious, life-threatening danger. And he’s kind of shaken by his incident in the desert. He’s actually a little reticent, and more unsure of himself than he’s ever been. Jimmy just sort of thought he can play with these scary guys. He’s discovering that there are very serious and consequential consequences on what they do.”
As for Jimmy making his full transformation into Saul Goodman, the criminal underworld’s go-to lawyer we were introduced to in Breaking Bad, Odenkirk says that Jimmy is “one very bad move away” from fully falling into that persona.
“He’s pretty much close to there, I’d say. But something big still has to happen to trip him over into, I think, full Saul mode. I imagine it has a lot to do with Kim Wexler.”
There’s going to be a lot to unpack in this final season as we go from Jimmy to Saul, to Gene's fate. Better Call Saul season 6 will be its longest season yet and hopefully, it will air in fall of this year.