The series begins in 2002, six years before the beginning of Breaking Bad (2008) and seven years before Saul's first appearance.
The sixth season picks up where the fifth left off. The first nine episodes mainly take place in Albuquerque, New Mexico in 2004, four years before Jimmy McGill (Odenkirk) begins his association with meth cooks Walter White (Bryan Cranston) and Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul).
Set primarily in the early 2000s in Albuquerque, New Mexico, several years before Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul examines the moral declines of Jimmy McGill (Bob Odenkirk), an earnest lawyer and former con artist who becomes the egocentric criminal-defense attorney Saul Goodman, and Mike Ehrmantraut (Jonathan Banks), a ...
The fifth season picks up where the fourth left off, also taking place in 2004, four years before Jimmy McGill (Odenkirk) meets Walter White (Bryan Cranston) and Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul).
This season, like the previous, mainly takes place in 2002, with Bob Odenkirk reprising his role as Jimmy McGill, a lawyer who has a feud with his brother Chuck (Michael McKean).
Writers. The fourth season of the American television drama series Better Call Saul was announced on June 27, 2017. The series returned on August 6, 2018. It consists of 10 episodes, each running approximately 47 minutes in length.
The other major time period in Better Call Saul season 6 is 2004, four years prior when Jimmy is 44.
El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie drew 6.5 million viewers in the US on its opening weekend, making it one of Netflix's most successful original films of the year.
Jimmy's age in Better Call Saul was revealed in the season 5 episode "JMM." The installment sees Jimmy and Kim getting married, and his driver's license is shown, revealing that his birthday is November 12th, 1960. Since Better Call Saul season 1 takes place in 2002, Jimmy is 41 at the start of the series.
Gus Fring finally enters the picture in Better Call Saul season 3, which is initially set in September 2002. Flashbacks fill in some blanks left in Gus' backstory, while in the present Better Call Saul timeline, he assists Mike in laundering money while vying to take over from the Salamanca family.
Unfortunately, you better not call Saul for a seventh season. Better Call Saul season 7 isn't happening, since AMC announced Better Call Saul season 6 as the final season back in January 2020. The announcement arrived about a month before the fifth season started airing in February 2020.
From a filmmaking and perhaps even characterization perspective, BCS is the stronger series but it isn't as multipurpose as “Breaking Bad,” meaning “Breaking Bad” can appeal to both audiences — the bright viewers who have discerning tastes and the people who like shootouts and car chases.
As intended by Vince Gilligan, the proper Breaking Bad/Better Call Saul watch order is as follows: Breaking Bad. El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie. Better Call Saul.
Time References. A statement made by Vince Gilligan that Better Call Saul takes place "in 2002, 6 years before Saul meets Walter White." This would place the pilot episode of Breaking Bad on September 7, 2008, which is Walter White's 50th birthday.
Jimmy/Saul and Gus never meet in either Breaking Bad or Better Call Saul. Jimmy was roped into the Salamancas' orbit, so he couldn't work for Gus even if he wanted. The two would have communicated using Mike as a go-between if necessary, but there's no evidence that they did so. They knew each other by reputation only.
El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie (or simply El Camino) is a 2019 American crime thriller film. Part of the Breaking Bad franchise, it serves as a sequel and epilogue to the television series Breaking Bad.
The consistently excellent Better Call Saul still has a little too much filler, but the series remains a worthy follow-up to Breaking Bad, and "Magic Man" points to this penultimate season setting the stage for a must-see final two years.
Saul Goodman's (Born James Morgan McGill) birthday is November 12, 1960. He's 41 when we first meet him in 'Better Call Saul' in early 2002.
The final season of Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould's Better Call Saul brought about the highly anticipated return of Breaking Bad's iconic, beloved duo, Walter White (Bryan Cranston) and Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul).
Better Call Saul wrapped up its critically acclaimed six-season run back in August, officially bringing to a close the story of one Jimmy McGill/Saul Goodman/Gene Takavic (Bob Odenkirk).
April 18, 2023. This is the day the sixth and final season of “Better Call Saul” will hit Netflix. The final season will hit the streaming service exactly one year after the sixth season premiered on AMC.
Set in Albuquerque, New Mexico, between 2008 and 2010, Breaking Bad follows Walter White, a modest high school chemistry teacher who transforms into a ruthless kingpin in the local methamphetamine drug trade, driven to financially provide for his family after being diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer.