Guys, don't look now, but amidst all the craziness that went on with the pandemic, no one's made light of the fact that fans haven't seen anything from Better Call Saul in practically two years. Luckily fans won't have to worry about that for much longer, as they now have their first glimpse of the AMC hit's final season.
The Official YouTube channel of Better Call Saul and Breaking Bad released the first trailer of the former's sixth and final season. Much like any show that knows how to hype its fans up, the trailer gave fans a pretty good look of what the final season will be about without directly telling them what exactly to expect. This is very much in character for the makers of Better Call Saul, seeing how the trailers for their previous seasons did the same thing.
Better Call Saul will pick up right where it left off at the end of season Five. Jimmy will continue to build his reputation as his law alter ego Saul Goodman, Kim continues her downward spiral into being on the wrong side of the law, Nacho will be on the lam from both Gus Fring and potentially the Salamanca family, Gus will at some point have to deal with the failed assassination attempt on Lalo, and Mike will have to assist in that. Fans knew all of that because the finale of the fifth season already set that up. The difference now is that they are getting a small glimpse of what the fallout will look like.
Again, even though the trailer definitely gives fans a good look into each character's mindset, it does not reveal a thing about what's going to happen to them. This is the best choice for the trailer, considering how badly the fans want to know some of their fates, specifically Kim, Nacho, Howard, and Lalo. Since those characters don't appear in Breaking Bad, fans already know something happens to them, but they don't know what. Since fans have gotten to know those four over the past several years, they're at the point where they are as excited to know what happens to them as they are terrified.
That just demonstrates how much Better Call Saul has resonated with its fans over the past seven years. When it first started back in 2015, Breaking Bad fans who tuned in honestly did not know what to expect in a prequel starring the show's comic relief. However, by humanizing both Saul Goodman and Mike Ehrmantraut in their backstories, Better Call Saul managed to create just as a gripping of a story as its predecessor without repeating the same formula.
Of course, it will all go for naught if Better Call Saul fails to wrap it all up nicely in a bow like Breaking Bad did in 2013. Fans have seen shows fail to stick the landing before (Lost). Vince Gilligan pulled it off beautifully with Breaking Bad in part because it only had one timeline. Now he has the bigger challenge of handling the fates of both the characters back when the majority of Better Call Saul took place and the fate of our main character after the events of Better Call Saul and Breaking Bad. Easier said than done.
Better Call Saul will premiere its final season on April 18th, 2022.