Better Call Saul Season 6 Will Feature Return Of Walter White & Jesse
Better Call Saul season 6 teases the return of original Breaking Bad characters Walter White (Bryan Cranston) and Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul).
Better Call Saul just teased the return of Walter White and Jesse Pinkman in season 6.
Better Call Saul, which premiered on AMC in 2015, is a spinoff of
Breaking Bad, following the titular character played by Bob Odenkirk. Saul is the alter ego of lawyer Jimmy McGill, who slowly becomes more and more involved in the criminal underworld over the course of the series. Season 6, which is arriving on April 18, 2022, is the long-awaited final season, which comes almost exactly two years after the season 5 finale. There are multiple reasons for this delay, starting with the COVID-19 pandemic, which was then followed by
Bob Odenkirk being hospitalized after having a heart attack on set.
Breaking Bad, which ran from 2008 through 2013, is one of the most popular and critically lauded television series of all time. It follows the journey of a high school chemistry teacher named Walter White (Bryan Cranston) who is diagnosed with lung cancer and turns to making and selling meth in his hometown of Alburquerque, New Mexico to earn money in the time he has left. To do so, he teams up with a young drug dealer named Jesse Pinkman, played by Aaron Paul. Although Jesse was originally supposed to be a minor character, Paul was such a dynamic personality that they
kept him on Breaking Bad for the rest of the run.
Now, on the official
Better Call Saul Twitter account, they shared a very exciting message. The post simply reads "
they're coming back" along with a picture of Cranston and Paul reprising their roles. The photo shows Walter White and Jesse Pinkman in a car together traveling to destinations unknown.
The extent to which Walter White and Jesse Pinkman will be involved in
Better Call Saul is currently unknown. Season 6 will consist of 13 episodes and, considering how well they were able to keep the involvement of these legacy characters a secret, it's likely that they will only be appearing in one episode, perhaps at the very end. This revelation also implies that the timeline will be taking a big jump at some point, as
Better Call Saul season 5 took place in 2004, which is still 4 years before Saul ever encountered the drug dealers.
Although both Cranston and Paul appeared in the follow-up project
El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie in 2019, this will mark the first time that they have returned to the characters on television. Even though
Better Call Saul season 6 takes place before the events of the
Breaking Bad finale, which was nearly ten years ago, they likely won't do much to de-age either character.
Better Call Saul has already set a precedent for trusting the audience to follow the timeline without resorting to much age manipulation, relying on Odenkirk's performance to sell the character rather than makeup or CGI.
