After leaving viewers shocked by how it ended the first half of Season 6, “Better Call Saul” returns Monday with the first of what will the final six episodes of the series. During its run, the “Breaking Bad” spinoff has told the story of how two-bit lawyer Jimmy McGill (Bob Odenkirk) came to be the crook-friendly attorney Saul Goodman who worked with Walter White (Bryan Cranston) when the former teacher-turned-meth mogul needed legal help.
(Don’t have cable? You can stream “Better Call Saul” Season 6, Episode 8, “Point and Shoot,” on Philo, which offers a free trial, and on fubo TV, which also offers a free trial.)
As “Better Call Saul” has gone on, it’s reached the crisis point that Season 6 has given us. Kim Wexler (Rhea Seehorn), the formerly upstanding lawyer whose involvement with Jimmy/Saul has apparently influenced her own breaking bad behavior, was last seen with Jimmy/Saul in the chilling climax of Episode 7. If you haven’t yet seen it, I won’t spoil what happened, but it definitely throws Jimmy closer to his Saul identity and seems to close off more options for Kim to redeem herself.
We don’t know how “Better Call Saul” will end, though we know Saul Goodman lived to do more shady deals in “Breaking Bad.” But “Better Call Saul” has also offered black-and-white glimpses of what happened after “Breaking Bad,” when Saul has gone into hiding as Gene, manager of a Cinnabon at a mall in Nebraska.
We’ve also been teased that these final episodes will include appearances by Cranston as Walter White, and Aaron Paul as Jesse Pinkman, White’s right-hand man in meth-making. As if that isn’t intriguing enough, the great Carol Burnett is also slated to turn up in a role.
“Better Call Saul” returns to continue its sixth and final season at 9 p.m. Monday, July 11, on AMC.
— Kristi Turnquist
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