(La)lo and behold, we have arrived at the final season ofBetter Call Saul.
“Can I use a bad word?”
co-creator Peter Gould asks EW.
Rhea Seehorn as Kim Wexler/Tony Dalton as Lalo Salamanca.Greg Lewis/AMC/Sony Pictures Television (2)
“Can I say: Holy s—!?”
He’s got even more colorful language to describe the nature of this last ride in the ABQ.
“Whipsaw, rug-pulling, there’s even some gaslighting.
It’s also devastating.
As story lines twist and converge, the cartel game levels up.
And he swung and he missed,” says Gould.
“Lalo is on the war path.
Lalo has been restrained up to now.
He’s been very thoughtful in his approach and there’s a new dimension to Lalo now.
There’s a rage, there’s an emotional involvement in what he’s doing.
It’s no longer a chess game to this guy.
Once Lalo goes to war, there’s a lot of repercussions for a lot of characters.”
(Gould has revealed that Bryan Cranston’s Walt and Aaron Paul’s Jesse will make appearances.)
“This is the climax at least for the moment of all those episodes, 62 episodes ofBreaking Bad.
The same can be said about Kim, if not Jimmy, too.
Season 6 will offer new insights and peeks into Kim’s world, motivations, and history.
“You do find out what she’s made of this season,” he says.
“You find out how determined she is, how far she’s willing to go.
You find out how perceptive she is about the world, but also how perceptive she is about herself….
There’s infinite potential inside Kim Wexler, both for good and for evil.
She’s such a remarkable person.
Care to weigh in, Peter?
“I really don’t think I’m in a position to reassure anybody,” he says coyly.
They’re going to see Kim in circumstances that they probably never pictured her being in.”
This season had one of those off camera, whenOdenkirk suffered a heart attack on set and nearly died.
He was back on set filming about five weeks later.
“But you don’t really know what to expect when he walks in.
When he walked on the set, he was all there.
In fact, his acting was all there.
I’m astounded at the way he bounced back.”
And the one farthest in the future, Gene, will need to make a critical choice.
