Better Call Saul is an American television crime drama series created by Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould. It is a prequel and spin-off of Gilligan's previous series Breaking Bad. Set in the early to mid 2000s in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the series follows the development of Jimmy McGill, a Chicago area con-man into Juarez cartel affiliated, criminal defense attorney Saul Goodman (Bob Odenkirk). Also shown is the evolution of retired Philadelphia police officer Mike Ehrmantraut (Jonathan Banks), who becomes essential to Gus Fring's
ambitions to overtake and secede from the Juarez cartel's activities in
North America. Jimmy and Mike's interactions remain sporadic until they
fully converge in the fifth season. The show premiered on AMC
on February 8, 2015, airing five seasons to date. A sixth and final
season is scheduled to air in 2021, and will consist of 13 episodes.
At the start of the series, Jimmy works as a public defender, out of the back room of a Vietnamese-owned nail salon. His romantic interest, former colleague and legal confidant, Kim Wexler (Rhea Seehorn),
is an attorney at the Albuquerque firm of Hamlin, Hamlin & McGill
(HHM), founded by Jimmy's brilliant, but now semi-reclusive brother Chuck McGill (Michael McKean) and his associate Howard Hamlin (Patrick Fabian). Jimmy's criminal contacts include Mike and drug dealer Nacho Varga (Michael Mando), an intelligent member of the cartel who later becomes a mole for Gus (Giancarlo Esposito). Their operations are disrupted by members of the brutal Salamanca family, including Lalo Salamanca (Tony Dalton). Odenkirk, Banks, and Esposito reprise their regular roles from Breaking Bad, as do many guest actors.
Better Call Saul has received critical acclaim, with
particular praise for its acting, characters, writing, direction, and
cinematography; many critics have called it a worthy successor to Breaking Bad and one of the best prequels ever made, with some deeming it superior to its predecessor.[6][7][8] It has garnered many nominations, including a Peabody Award, 23 Primetime Emmy Awards, eleven Writers Guild of America Awards, five Critics' Choice Television Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and two Golden Globe Awards.
The series premiere held the record for the highest-rated scripted
series premiere in basic cable history at the time of its airing.
Better Call Saul follows the transformation of James "Jimmy" McGill (Bob Odenkirk), a former con artist who is trying to become a respectable lawyer, into the personality of the flamboyant criminal lawyer Saul Goodman (a play on the phrase "[it]'s all good, man!"), over the six-year period prior to the events of Breaking Bad; spanning from approximately 2002 to 2004.[9][10]
Jimmy is inspired to turn his life around from his past con-man
approach, where he was known as "Slippin' Jimmy", by his older brother Chuck McGill (Michael McKean), a senior partner alongside Howard Hamlin (Patrick Fabian) in the Albuquerque law firm Hamlin, Hamlin & McGill, as well as Kim Wexler (Rhea Seehorn), one of the firm's legal associates who becomes Jimmy's romantic interest.
Jimmy's initial pursuits during this period are focused on public
defense and his earnest attempts to fight for justice, although soon
after, his life and career begin to intersect with the illegal drug
trade in the region; featuring characters and story arcs that continue
into Breaking Bad. This includes the uneasy truce between the Salamanca family that serves the Juárez Cartel drug interest, later led by Lalo Salamanca (Tony Dalton) when their patriarch Hector falls ill, and Gus Fring (Giancarlo Esposito),
a fried chicken entrepreneur that uses his chain as a front for the
drug trade. Among those caught up in the ensuing turmoil include Ignacio "Nacho" Varga (Michael Mando), a Salamanca associate, wanting to protect his father from harm, and Mike Ehrmantraut (Jonathan Banks), a former Philly police officer who becomes a fixer for Gus.
The show includes flash-forwards at the start of each season's premiere following the events of Breaking Bad; where Saul is the fugitive Gene Takavic, the manager of a Cinnabon store in Omaha, Nebraska.
Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould began planning a television spinoff of Breaking Bad as early as 2009. While filming the Breaking Bad episode "Full Measure", Gilligan asked Bob Odenkirk, his thoughts on a Saul Goodman spinoff.[11] In July 2012, Gilligan publicly hinted at a Goodman spinoff,[12]
stating that he liked "the idea of a lawyer show in which the main
lawyer will do anything it takes to stay out of court", including
settling on the courthouse steps.[13] During his appearance on Talking Bad,
Odenkirk noted that Saul was one of the most popular characters on the
show, speculating that the audience likes the character because he is
"the program's least hypocritical figure", and "is good at his job".
Gilligan noted that over the course of Breaking Bad, there were a lot of "what ifs” their team considered, such as if the show won a Primetime Emmy Award, or if people would buy "Los Pollos Hermanos"
T-shirts. The staff did not expect these events to come to fruition,
but after they did, they started considering a spin-off featuring Saul
as a thought experiment. Furthermore, Saul's character on Breaking Bad
became much more developed than the staff had planned, as he was
originally slated to appear in only three episodes. With the growth of
Saul's character, Gilligan saw ways to explore the character further.
In April 2013, Better Call Saul was confirmed to be in development by Gilligan and Gould; the latter wrote the Breaking Bad episode that introduced the character.[16][17] As of July 2013, the series had yet to be greenlighted.[18] Netflix was one of many interested distributors, but ultimately a deal was made between AMC and Breaking Bad production company Sony Pictures Television.[19] Gilligan and Gould serve as co-showrunners, and Gilligan directed the pilot.[20] Former Breaking Bad writers Thomas Schnauz and Gennifer Hutchison joined the writing staff, with Schnauz serving as co-executive producer and Hutchison as supervising producer.[21] Also on the writing staff are Bradley Paul, as well as former writer's assistant (for Breaking Bad) Gordon Smith.[20]
As Sony and AMC began to commit to a spinoff, Gilligan and Gould
worked on what it would be about. They initially considered making it a
half-hour show where Saul would see various clients – celebrities in
guest roles – in his strip mall office, a format similar to Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist, but they had no idea how to write for this type of format, and fell back onto planning for hour-long episodes.[22][16][13] Since they had done this format with Breaking Bad, which Gilligan said was "25-percent humor, 75-percent drama", the two considered reversing that for Better Call Saul.[22]
While the intent was to add more humor, the show remained heavy with
dramatic elements, with Odenkirk calling the first season "85 percent
drama, 15 percent comedy."[23]
Additionally, while several of the characters are lawyers in the show,
Gilligan and Gould did not want to write a legal show, but instead a
crime show but one that would necessitate some legal elements. To help
in these areas, the writers did speak to real lawyers and spent time
observing cases at Los Angeles Superior Court, observing that the bulk of the activity in these cases was downtime on waiting for others to complete actions.[24]
Gilligan and Gould found that the character of Saul Goodman was
not sufficient to carry the show by himself, with Gilligan calling the
character of Saul "great flavoring" for a show but not the substance.[22] They came to realize that Saul, in the Breaking Bad
timeframe, was a man that had come to accept himself, and recognized
the potential to tell the story of how Saul got to be that person.[22] Gilligan and Gould had already committed to the Better Call Saul
title, so that going this route, they believed they had to quickly get
from Jimmy McGill to Saul Goodman or otherwise would disappoint their
audience. However, as they wrote the show, they realized "we don't want
to get to Saul Goodman … and that's the tragedy".[22] Gilligan and Gould had learned several lessons related to foreshadowing without writing the foresight for it from Breaking Bad,[25] and so with Better Call Saul,
gave themselves more flexibly in how the show's plot would develop over
its run, and had no firm idea where it will end up outside the
connection to Breaking Bad.[22] For example, Rhea Seehorn's performance as Kim Wexler
during the first season significantly altered how the writers used her
character in later seasons as well as slowed down the pacing of how fast
they transitioned Jimmy into Saul, as they gave more focus to the
Jimmy–Kim relationship. Gilligan compared this to the impact Aaron Paul's outstanding acting had on Breaking Bad's ultimate pacing.
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