We all know Better Call Saul has to end at some point, and according to Giancarlo Esposito, that ending might be coming sooner rather than later. The actor, who reprises his role as Breaking Bad drug kingpin Gustavo Fring on the AMC prequel series, recently shared his theory in an interview with Collider, in which he proclaimed “There will be six seasons”—like some sort of benevolent TV fortune teller. “It seems like that’s the way, the comfortable way, to end this show,” Esposito added. The Hollywood Reporter was unable to confirm the Better Call Saul end date with producers, but sources said that “a plan for the show’s endgame is by no means set in stone.”
Esposito backed up his belief by reflecting on the structure of Breaking Bad, which ended after five seasons—technically six, given that the final season was split in half. Better Call Saul, which follows Bob Odenkirk’s lawyer Jimmy McGill several years before the events of Breaking Bad, is currently in production on its fifth season. As previously confirmed by AMC, that season won’t air until 2020, giving fans ample time to stock up on Cinnabons in anticipation of Jimmy’s ultimate transformation into Saul Goodman—and, if all this foreshadowing is to be believed, the possible death of Kim Wexler.
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Wait, what? Foreshadowing the death of Kim Wexler?
If this was Breaking Bad, that’s what I would believe. But since it’s Better Call Saul, I’m much more convinced she just gets sick of Jimmy’s shit and leaves him. Just because you don’t see someone anymore doesn’t mean they’re dead.
Kim is smart enough to know that Jimmy will drag her down, but she’s also loyal enough to let it happen. The Fate Of Kim Wexler is one of the driving questions of this whole series. Will she leave? Will she die? If she dies, is it Jimmy’s fault? Does Jimmy think it’s his fault? What does that mean to Saul, and later Gene? What happens to Kim will change how we look at Saul in Breaking Bad. I hope they don’t waste that opportunity.
I’m holding out the idea that she might pop up and see him at the Cinnabon.
What’s more likely is going to happen is he sees Kim, happily married to someone else with kids and we now understand why he went to Omaha. He’ll spot her from afar and watch, heartbroken. Or they’ll lock eyes and she’ll nervously bolt with her kids and husband asking what’s the rush?
Last shot of the series finale is her sitting across the mall corridor watching him work. Smash to black as ‘Don’t Stop Believin’’ plays over the mall PA.
Kim will move to Alaska and marry Jesse.
I don’t know what foreshadowing was referred to, other than her having been invented for Better Call Saul and never mentioned on Breaking Bad.
Saul’s named the fake company Skyler pays ‘Ice Station Zebra,’ for one. That’s the name of the movie he was watching with Kim in season one when she found out about his… shady tendencies. Her questionable driving skills don’t bode well for her either.
Yeah, they can’t just say something like that without explaining it more.It’s been years, and my memory is hazy, and I always watched Breaking Bad with beer(s) in hand, but I remember Saul referencing his “several” ex-wives on BB. Hard to believe the timeline has enough slack for Saul to marry and divorce at least two women between now and BB without one of them being Wexler. He’s the consummate bullshitter, of course, but if he was also a widower he would no doubt drop that factoid in client meetings early and often.
The line in Breaking Bad you’re thinking of is “I caught my second wife screwing my step-dad”… Which, given that Saul doesn’t have a step-dad, can be easily retconned as Saul’s colorful language and making stuff up for the sake of conversation.
Doesn’t have a step dad… yet.I know I’m taking things to literally and trying to make sense out of nonsense. I just think the Wexler will die theory is a little too melodramatic even for this show.
The only thing I can think of was an offhand comment while they were eating takeout in a hotel in the second season, where he reveals some legally underhanded thing he did to her and she responds with “I’m so ashamed I’ll just jump off the roof.” (Or words to that effect.)Not exactly “all this foreshadowing” there, though.
There is nothing foreshadowing this at all. Kim is originally from near the Kansas/Nebraska border and Jimmy/Saul/Gene winds up in Omaha after his Breaking Bad antics. If I had to guess, Kim winds up going back to her hometown in disgrace and Jimmy/Saul/Gene going to Omaha was his choice as a way to get closer to her and reconcile OR just the “universe” putting them closer, but either way I can absolutely see the series ending with him reconnecting with her.
Kim deserves to get as far away from Jimmy as possible and make her own life.
Much like Jesse in relation to Walter. Hopefully we get to see Kim post-Saul in the end of BCS and Jesse post-Walter in the movie. And hopefully both find new lives or something.
I wonder if his casting in Do the Right Thing as the guy mad that the pizzeria only had pictures of Italian-Americans on the wall was a joke on his name.
Didn’t they say last year that this would be the final season?
Nope.
Spoiler: the series ends with Saul vowing, “I’m going to go clean. I’m gonna move out of this town, and move to some inner city where I’ll work as a public defender for the most at risk and marginalized. I’m gonna do good!” Then, his secretary buzzes and says “There’s a taciturn older man in glasses, and a sketchy kid with him needing to see you,” and then Saul says, “Oh well one more client won’t hurt…Send them in!”Fade to black.
And they come in, and it’s not Walt and Jesse.
“Hey..urrg..[burps]…I someone to sort out a legal problem my grandson urrgh caused.. ““aww jeez Rick”
… and a movie?
As long as we see Danny Pudi being trained by Bob Odenkirk to be assistant manager of the Cinnabon, I’m all for it.
Slippin’ Jimmy the Animated Series
Just in time for the Bakersfield PD reboot.
I look forward to its sequel: Gene Cinnabon- Attorney at Mall.
The fact that this show will end up having a longer run than Breaking Bad is absolutely incredible.