‘Better Call Saul’: Kim Returns, So Does [SPOILER], and Saul Gets Violent

Pop culture queen! Ashley Greene may be a Hollywood star, but it turns out she likes to consume entertainment just as much as she enjoys being a part of it.

Al Roker normally floods his Instagram feed with daily updates but the Today weatherman has been noticeably silent in the last week and fans are concerned. The star has been absent from both social media and the small screen while he vacations with his wife, Deborah Roberts. MORE: Al Roker looks so different in sentimental photo shared by wife Deborah RobertsHowever, while she's been updating her fans with their sweet antics abroad, Al has been quiet. WATCH: Al Roker's rise to fame Fans have been commenting on the last post Al shared of his dog, six days ago, and have remarked: "You haven't posted anything for the last few days. I hope all is well with you?" Another added: "Where are you?" and many others asked if he was ok. Their worried messages come at a challenging time for Al and Deborah whose youngest son, Nick, just left home for college. MORE: Al Roker and wife's disbelief over son Nick revealed MORE: Al Roker's wife wishes for 'healthy moments' in reflective messageAfter months of preparing for the big day and opening up to fans about his feelings, the time came for Al to face the bittersweet goodbye.

"I do know personal friends who struggled with the negativity that surrounded being enclosed and not being able to get out and about," he lamented."I definitely do think accessing outdoor space and the countryside and being able to be immersed in nature does have its benefits."Certainly mentally - I've seen that firsthand over the last two years."Kind-hearted JB was sure to invite his family members over during the pandemic, using safe measures."We invited our parents and of course we were very cautious because they were potentially at high risk so we didn't actually see them," he explained."[However] they had the benefit of being able to come here, park up the car and go for a walk and then go home - and that was invaluable."It was nice to be able to have [the farm] and share it with our extended family and friends."Meanwhile, his two children with dancer wife Chloe also benefited from all the extra open space - even if home-schooling during a pandemic was tough.JB is keen for eight-year-old son Ace to become a footballer, having seen his aptitude for the sport.It follows his own experience in regional rugby leagues as a child - and if it hadn't been for a traumatic injury, he believes he could have made the Premiership."Do I want my children to go into sport? For sure [but] it's a very much an individual thing in the sense that you have to really want it," he said."There'll be lots of kids, especially in football, who'll go on and want to play professional football, but it's not just a case of 'Oh, this is what I want to do'.

Rafael Nadal has shared an update on his wife's health after she was hospitalised.The tennis star, 36, who is currently competing in the US Open, has shared an update after he was has reportedly left fuming after footage of his wife, Mery Perello, entering hospital was leaked.Speaking about his wife being admitted to a hospital in Mallorca, the star reassured fans that she is well.Nadal said: "As much as there have been all kinds of claims in the press in relation to my wife's health, my wife is fine, I'll just leave that there."It comes after the star is said to be furious after his pregnant wife’s medical information was leaked after she was admitted to hospital at home in Mallorca while he was away in New York for the US Open.The family are now considering moving Mery Perello to another facility after footage from the hospital was also leaked,it has been reported.The Spaniard’s family is said to be “very angry” that a video showing the moment Perello arrived at Palma’s Hospital Quironsalud Palmaplanas was leaked to the press and they will now be “looking for the guilty parties”, per Marca.There is some good news as the 22-time Major champion’s wife is said to be out of danger and improving, though will remain hospitalised.And the Nadal family is said to now be considering whether they will move her to another facility.It comes after his wife's medical information was also leaked to the press, with reporters said to be waiting outside of the hospital.The leaked reports indicate that Nadal’s wife - who is currently 31 weeks pregnant - will remain in hospital until she reaches 34 weeks as a precaution for observation.Nadal has remained in New York where he is competing at the US Open for the first time since winning the

EXCLUSIVE: Daniel Kaluuya is “chilling” on acting following the release of Nope, his latest collaboration with Jordan Peele.

The scourge of the opioid crisis has been documented in the press and in government reports; the culpability of the Sacklers, the multi-billionaire pharmaceutical family whose former company Purdue made the painkiller Oxycontin, has been successfully dramatized. The Sacklers are everywhere in Laura Poitras’ gripping documentary All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, but they are supporting players.

Jennifer Lopez has been giving us all the style envy recently with her collection of breathtaking wedding dresses, but her latest look is one that’s going straight on our wishlist.RELATED: Jennifer Lopez's fourth plunging wedding dress is not what you'd expectSHOP: 16 best gingham print dresses for summer - the trend to check off your must-have listThe A-lister, who tied the knot with Ben Affleck in July, has been keeping us on tenterhooks by gradually revealing the four gowns she wore for her wedding celebrations. In her latest Instagram post, the newlywed is seen wearing the prettiest pink midi dress from Reformation as she announces the latest wedding edition of her OnTheJLo newsletter - and we can’t get enough of the gingham print.Thankfully, JLo’s gingham dress is still available to shop, with all sizes currently in stock.

Leo Barraclough International Features Editor Variety has been given exclusive access to a first-look clip for “Amanda,” Carolina Cavalli’s quirky Italian-cool film in Venice Horizons, starring Benedetta Porcaroli (star of Netflix series “Baby”), and featuring Italian heavyweight Giovanna Mezzogiorno, and Italian “X-Factor” winner Michele Bravi. The film, which is reminiscent of early Wes Anderson, premieres at Venice on Monday, then goes to Toronto – it’s the only Italian film to play both fests this year. Charades is handling international sales. I Wonder is distributing in Italy. The film centers on Amanda, 24, who lives mostly isolated and has never had any friends, even if it’s the thing she wants the most. When she discovers that as toddlers her and Rebecca used to spend a lot of time together, Amanda chooses her new mission: to convince her that they are still best friends.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at Large“Better Call Saul” ended Monday night with an ending very different than the way that “Breaking Bad” concluded. No shootout, just Jimmy McGill behind bars. But as Jimmy and ex-wife Kim Wexler reconnect, in many ways it’s also a much more hopeful conclusion.

WARNING: Spoilers ahead for the series finale of “Better Call Saul.”“Better Call Saul” ended its six-season odyssey with Jimmy/Saul/Gene (Bob Odenkirk) sentenced to 86 years in federal prison, where he bid an emotional goodbye to ex-wife Kim Wexler (Rhea Seehorn) — but not before exonerating her, in a final colorful courtroom flourish, of any wrongdoing in covering up Howard Hamlin’s execution-style death several years earlier.“I saw the [finale] for the first time Monday night,” Seehorn told The Post Tuesday. “I watched it with a couple of people from the show and loved ones and significant partners and it was very moving.”Monday night’s finale, “Saul Gone,” included scenes from all three timelines in the “Better Call Saul” universe and featured surprise appearances from Marie Schrader (Betsy Brandt) — the widowed wife of “Breaking Bad” DEA agent Hank Schrader (Dean Norris) — and, in a flashback, Chuck McGill (Michael McKean), Jimmy’s brilliant-yet-troubled older brother who killed himself in the Season 3 finale of “Better Call Saul.” Walter White (Bryan Cranston) also materialized in a “Breaking Bad” flashback.The episode turned its main focus on Saul’s shattered relationship with Kim, now living a drab, boring life in central Florida designing brochures for a sprinkler company and sporting shorter (and dark) hair.

Jordan Moreau SPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not watched the series finale of “Better Call Saul,” titled “Saul Gone.”The morning after “Better Call Saul” fans were left reeling from the series finale on Monday night, stars Bob Odenkirk, Rhea Seehorn and co-creator Peter Gould held a virtual press conference to answer questions about the buzzy final that’s had everybody dissecting closely.In the last moments of the finale, we see Saul Goodman (Odenkirk) end up in prison with an 86-year sentence. However, even though he’s behind bars, he gets a final warm moment with Kim Wexler (Seehorn), sharing a cigarette with her and leaning against a wall. It mirrors the exact same moment from the series premiere, which Gould said was intentional.

 aired its series finale Monday night and fans took to Twitter to share their reactions to the many twists and turns during the final one-hour episode of the  prequel.While Walter White making an appearance in the last minutes of the season 6 finale had people talking, it was what happened between Saul a.k.a Jimmy McGill (Bob Odenkirk) and his ex-wife, Kim Wexler (Rhea Seehorn) that shocked diehard fans most.In the end, Jimmy decided to trade his sentence for Kim's. Instead of the 7 years he was supposed to serve, he admitted he helped build Walt’s drug empire, giving him an 86-year-old sentence, clearing Kim of any wrongdoing, and allowing her to walk away and restart her life as a lawyer.The episode ends with Kim visiting Jimmy in prison, after sharing a cigarette together in his cell, a call to season 1, Kim leaves the prison, and Jimmy watches her through a chain-link fence from the inmates’ basketball court, shooting finger guns at her as she walks out.«How it started/how it ended #bettercallsaul,» one fan tweeted, with another shipping Jimmy and Kim's lasting and albeit complicated relationship, «Kim & Jimmy forever

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticSpoiler alert: This review contains spoilers for “Saul Gone,” the series finale of “Better Call Saul.”It turns out that there was one person the once and future Jimmy McGill would put ahead of his own self-interest.In the striking and elegant finale to one of TV’s most consistently strong dramas of the past decade, Bob Odenkirk’s Saul Goodman, to borrow a phrase, broke good. Having finally been apprehended, Saul structured a plea bargain that would have him in and out of prison in a plausibility-stretching-but-who’s-counting seven years.

Jordan Moreau SPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not watched the series finale of “Better Call Saul” Season 6, titled “Saul Gone.”More than seven years after “Better Call Saul” began, and 13 years after Bob Odenkirk first popped up as the sleazy lawyer in “Breaking Bad,” his story has come to a close — and Saul is behind bars.After a little United States v. Saul Goodman legal action, the now-reformed Jimmy McGill ended up with 86 years in prison as Walter White’s “indispensable” criminal lawyer.

SPOILER ALERT: This article contains details of tonight’s Better Call Saul series finale 

SPOILER ALERT: This post reveals major details about the series finale of Better Call Saul and some key moments of Breaking Bad.

Better Call Saul showrunner Peter Gould has opened up about bringing Breaking Bad’s Walter White (Bryan Cranston) and Jessie Pinkman (Aaron Paul) back to the show in a new interview.After the two actors were confirmed to appear in the Breaking Bad spin-off’s final season earlier this year, Paul and Cranston finally made their debut during a flashback sequence in the latest episode, titled Breaking Bad.Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter, Gould was asked about what it was like bringing back the two characters and the “dangers” on doing that after a long time away.Gould explained: “The danger was that we were going to be eating the seed corn. If people are only watching the show to see callbacks to a previous show, I don’t think we’re doing our job.“We were pretty disciplined in the beginning about not bringing back a lot of Breaking Bad characters until we really established our world.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeSpoiler alert: Do not read if you haven’t watched “Waterworks,” Episode 12 of “Better Call Saul” now streaming on AMC+.It’s the episode of “Better Call Saul” that fans had been waiting to see, well, forever. The fate of Kim Wexler is finally explained in Monday night’s penultimate “Better Call Saul” episode, “Waterworks.” Through a flashback, we see Kim in Albuquerque during the “Breaking Bad” timeline — and she even interacts with Jesse Pinkman, who bums a cigarette and asks whether Saul Goodman is any good.

Better Call Saul is almost at its conclusion, but for the stars of the Breaking Bad prequel, the end actually brings a new beginning of sorts and some low-key truths.

Ethan Shanfeld SPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not watched the 11th episode of “Better Call Saul” Season 6, titled “Breaking Bad.”“Better Call Saul” fans have waited over seven years for the Bob Odenkirk-led series to intersect with the world of Walter White (Bryan Cranston) and Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul). This week’s episode of the spinoff, aptly titled “Breaking Bad,” provided viewers with all that and more.The episode goes back and forth between the black-and-white timeline, which features Saul’s post-“Breaking Bad” persona Gene Takovic in Omaha, and the world of Saul Goodman within “Breaking Bad” Season 2.

SPOILER ALERT: This article contains details of tonight’s Better Call Saul‘s “Breaking Bad” episode. Let’s just say, the title is a bit of a giveaway.