‘Better Call Saul’ Stars Break Down That Final Cigarette Scene and Flash of Color

Ethan Shanfeld SPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not watched the series finale of “Better Call Saul,” titled “Saul Gone.”Chuck McGill was lovingly brought back to life in the series finale of “Better Call Saul,” but Michael McKean, who reprises his role as the late lawyer in a flashback sequence, isn’t quite sure what it all means — because he’s still a few episodes behind on the AMC series.In two flashbacks during the finale, Jimmy (Bob Odenkirk) asks Mike (Jonathan Banks) and Walter White (Bryan Cranston) where they’d go if they had a time machine. Both Mike and Walt lament major regrets — taking a bribe and leaving Gray Matter Technologies, respectively — but Jimmy refrains from getting too personal.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorIn today’s podcast news roundup, Dana Carvey and David Spade will be back for a second season of “Fly on the Wall,” revisiting iconic moments from “Saturday Night Live”; Apple Podcasts unveils two new charts for subscriptions; George R.R. Martin talks up “House of Dragon”; and more.Audacy’s Cadence13 extended its partnership with comedians Dana Carvey and David Spade, renewing their “Saturday Night Live”-focused podcast series “Fly on the Wall” for a second season, slated to launch in January 2023.

Better Call Saul, the hit spin-off series to its widely popular predecessor Breaking Bad, wrapped up its six-season run on August 15.Witnessing the nuances they brought to their iconic characters over the years, AMC has announced that Bob Odenkirk and Giancarlo Esposito won't be leaving the network's fold just yet.Odenkirk, who played ethically challenged lawyer Saul Goodman to perfection in Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, is set to star in the network's new series Straight Man, while Esposito, the man behind the drug dealing Gustavo Fring character on both AMC shows, will be playing the lead role in The Driver. Staying with AMC: Giancarlo Esposito (left) and Bob Odenkirk (right) have both landed the leads for new series with AMC, which will be their third with the network following their roles in Breaking Bad and Better Call SaulBased on the Richard Russo novel of the same name, Straight Man tells the story of William Henry Devereaux Jr.

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.

Better Call Saul star Bob Odenkirk has bid farewell to the show’s fans in a heartfelt new video.The Breaking Bad spin-off series dropped the final episode of season six this week, first on AMC on Monday (August 15) before it arrived Netflix yesterday (August 16).Following the release of the finale, Odenkirk took to Twitter to share an emotional message with the show’s cast and crew, as well as the fans. You can watch the full video below.“Everybody’s been asking me how I feel about saying goodbye to Saul Goodman and Better Call Saul, and I’m not good at answering the question because it’s frankly hard for me to look at that experience and even at that character too closely,” he began.“It’s too many moving parts and they fit together too beautifully, and it’s a mystery to me how it even happened.”Odenkirk went on to thank the show’s creators Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould, saying: “I did nothing to deserve this part, but I hope I earned it over six seasons.”Finale thank you from Bob Odenkirk pic.twitter.com/IFODl4bcLD— Mr.

Bob Odenkirk got emotional while talking about saying goodbye to his character Saul Goodman after 13 years on Tuesday's episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live on ABC.'Better Call Saul was a family affair and the weird thing is I do include the fans in that,' said the 59-year-old Emmy nominated actor referencing the spin-off series that aired its final episode on Monday on AMC.'Obviously the cast was all close and we even shared a place together down in Albuquerque,' Bob added. Fan favorite: Bob Odenkirk got emotional while talking about saying goodbye to his character Saul Goodman after 13 years on Tuesday's episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live on ABC'But I always felt the fans, your family, and all the many people gave us a chance to create our own little world there with Saul and that was really a lot.

Bob Odenkirk bid his critically acclaimed series Better Call Saul farewell while thanking its many fans in a video he shared on Monday night.The 59-year-old actor appeared with a salt-and-pepper beard and unkempt hair in the relaxed and heartfelt clip, which he posted to his social media accounts.'Everybody's been asking me how I feel about saying goodbye to Saul Goodman and Better Call Saul, and I'm not good at answering the question, because it's frankly hard for me to look at that experience, and even at that character, too closely,' he admitted. Thanks for the memories: Bob Odenkirk, 59, posted a heartfelt video thanking fans for sticking with Better Call Saul through its season finale on Monday night'It's too many moving parts, and they fit together too beautifully, and it's a mystery to me how it even happened.'Thanks for giving us a chance,' he continued.

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.

Better Call Saul has come to an end, and now Bob Odenkirk is saying goodbye.

Netflix.Fans of the hit “Breaking Bad” spinoff were hit with the final episode, titled “Saul Gone,” on Monday.Odenkirk, 59, helmed the spinoff as Saul Goodman for a total of six seasons, which followed his initial four seasons on “Breaking Bad.” And to mark the end of an era for Goodman, initially known to fans as James Morgan “Jimmy” McGill, and later by the alias Gene Takavic, actor Odenkirk shared a two-minute clip on social media.“Everybody’s been asking me how I feel about saying goodbye to Saul Goodman and ‘Better Call Saul,’ and I’m not good at answering the question because it’s frankly hard for me to look at that experience, and even at that character, too closely,” the unabashedly emotional actor told fans in the video.Finale thank you from Bob Odenkirk pic.twitter.com/IFODl4bcLDOdenkirk thanked the show’s co-creators for letting him front the spinoff and for “giving me the chance.”“I did nothing to deserve this part but I hope I earned it after six seasons,” he said.He said the cast, consisting of Rhea Seehorn, Michael McKean, Jonathan Banks, Tony Dalton, Michael Mando, Patrick Fabian and Giancarlo Esposito, “made me a better actor than I am, just working with them.”“Watching them work has been an unbelievable experience,” added Odenkirk, who famously survived an on-set heart attack in July 2021 that nearly killed him.“Thanks for giving us a chance, because we came out of maybe a lot of people’s favorite show ever — and we could have been hated for simply trying to do a show,” Odenkirk went on.“But we weren’t; we were given a chance, and hopefully, we made the most of it.

Bob Odenkirk can hardly put his farewell to Saul Goodman into words.

Breaking Bad spinoff Better Call Saul wrapped its six-season run on AMC Monday night. After the 63rd and final episode aired, star Bob Odenkirk took to Twitter to offer his thanks and an attempt at describing his state of mind in bidding farewell to the eponymous Saul Goodman and the show itself. “It’s a mystery to me how it even happened,” he said, in the emotional and heartfelt video (see it in full below).

Bryan Cranston returned to play meth kingpin Walter White opposite Bob Odenkirk as Saul Goodman on Monday during the series finale of Better Call Saul on AMC.The 66-year-old actor helped establish the Breaking Bad franchise created by Vince Gilligan, 55, with his portrayal of high school chemistry teacher turned methamphetamine drug lord Heisenberg and returned for the spin-off series finale titled Saul Gone.Walter was shown with shady attorney Saul during the endgame of his criminal enterprise as depicted in the 2013 Breaking Bad penultimate series episode titled Granite State. Series finale: Bryan Cranston returned to play meth kingpin Walter White opposite Bob Odenkirk as Saul Goodman on Monday during the series finale of Better Call Saul on AMC.They were holed up together as they waited to get new identities and Walter tried to fix a hot water issue.'Hey, you're a scientist, right? So, uh, I have a question.

 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

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeSPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you haven’t watched the series finale of “Better Call Saul,” Season 6 Episode 13, “Saul Gone.”In the end, Jimmy McGill unbroke bad. Just when it looked like Saul Goodman (Bob Odenkirk) had finessed his way into a sweet plea agreement — just seven years at the most country club-like of correctional facilities (low-security FCI Butner Low, which even has a golfing program!) — he reversed course and confessed all, in Monday night’s series finale of AMC’s “Better Call Saul.”It was a finale rife with references to regret, time machines and how there’s “no shame in going back and changing your path,” as Chuck McGill (played by Michael McKean, who returns in a flashback) tells his younger brother.

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.

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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.

The final episode of “Better Call Saul” airs on Monday, Aug. 15, and star Bob Odenkirk says he and the cast will be among the many fans who’ll be watching the series finale of the acclaimed “Breaking Bad” prequel.