Better Call Saul is currently filming its fifth season and as time moves on, we get close and close to the Saul Goodman who appeared in Breaking Bad. Jimmy McGill is surely well on the way to becoming Saul Goodman, and I guess that’s what this show has always been about. However, as with Breaking Bad, the journey is never quite what you expect it to be.
BCS showrunner Peter Gould recently did an interview with fellow showrunner Chris Mundy (Ozark) conducted by Variety and both parties talked lots about their respective Emmy nominated shows. Gould talked about how Better Call Saul has evolved as it has gone on, but he also says that the upcoming Season 5, has an episode that feels like what he imagined Better Call Saul would be from the start, but wasn’t. Check it out,
“And the greatest thing is when the characters surprise you — when you go, ‘Wait a minute!’ This season, Jimmy’s lost his brother, he’s pulled into himself and is almost affect-less, but then what gets him going is a job interview, is conflict, and you start to dig in, but we didn’t know that. We have ideas about where things are going but 99% of the time we’re wrong. Right now we’re towards the end of shooting Season 5, and we have an episode which is pretty much what I pictured the show to be before we started, and it took us more than 40 some-odd episodes to get there. I think the great thing is you have to have faith in the characters. I personally save the fear for after the thing is done, so that’s why the screening is scary to me, but actually, when we’re writing and we’re on the set, that feels right and that feels good.”
Most fans probably doubted it would take this long in Better Call Saul and we still wouldn’t have really got Saul Goodman yet, but if they are fans, then they probably love that it took this long as I do. Better Call Saul is about character, it’s about the decisions people make affecting their lives. Everything each character has done since Season 1 has had consequences of some kind, sometimes not felt until later down the road. And like Ozark, there is a level of quality in the writing which is just a cut above most of what we see on TV.
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I have absolute faith that both Better Call Saul and Ozark (two of the best shows on TV for me) will satisfy their fans, because the writers understand the characters they have created, and allow them to grow slowly. What do you think of Gould’s comments, are you a fan of Better Call Saul, what do you think will happen in that Season 5 episode? Leave your thoughts in the usual spot below as always.
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