It’s happening, folks. It’s taken several years, but Better Call Saul is approaching its final season. The fifth and penultimate season of the Breaking Bad spinoff has aired, leaving audiences with plenty to contemplate before the show ends. We’ve known it was coming, but we are fast approaching the final season, which will fully transform Jimmy McGill into the greaseball Saul Goodman. But exactly when can we expect the final season and how long will it be?

Speaking with Rolling Stone, co-creators Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould expressed their desires to wrap things up soon. In fact, assuming all goes well with the pandemic, we could be seeing the end of the series by fall of next year, if possible. As far as whether or not they’ll be able to start filming this fall, Gilligan concedes to a professional.

“You’re going to have to ask Dr. Fauci here,” Gilligan said to Rolling Stone.

Luckily, it sounds like, even if it is late, that we’ll be getting 13 episodes — three more than our standard 10-episode season. 

“We have these 13 episodes, and that’s it,” Gould reassured. “There’s no ‘eventually’ anymore.”

But with these final episodes in sight, it sounds like Gould and Gilligan know where this thing is finally going.

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“The fog started to clear slightly about where we were going with all of this,” Gould said. “So we started to think about how this all relates to where we’re going. Having said that, I don’t want to say we’ve got it all figured out. I’m very happy to have Vince in the writers room this season, even though we’re doing it remotely, because we’re getting to finish this thing that we started together. But we’re deep in the struggle. Even though we have ideas about where we’re going, we’re always ready to jettison them.”

Personally, I always love hearing Gilligan and Gould talk about the creative process. While fans love to push for creatives having a plan laid out before executing a series or trilogy, the pair have made it clear from day one they have no plan. They had no plan with Breaking Bad and they have no plan for Better Call Saul. Instead, they’ve learned to pivot based on what’s come before and roll with the punches. 

At this point, even the usually-self-deprecating Gilligan is confident that the final season of Better Call Saul will work. 

“I think the landing is going to get stuck,” Gilligan said. “[Gould]’s going to stick the landing. It’s going to be awesome, it’s going to be satisfying. It may be more of a wait for it, but it’s going to be worth the wait. That’s the headline.”

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SOURCE: Rolling Stone