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08-09-2022, 04:10 AM
https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-features/better-call-saul-vince-gilligan-final-episode-interview-1393644/
Vince Gilligan will be the first to tell you he’s a bad planner. It’s not just that the co-creator (https://ew.com/tv/better-call-saul-vince-gilligan-on-waterworks-episode/) of Better Call Saul missed his own show’s wrap party because he and his partner Holly had already scheduled a birthday getaway in Palm Springs for that night. It’s that throughout his tenure with both Breaking Bad and Saul, he and his collaborators (including Saul co-creator Peter Gould) were almost never able to map out story beats very far ahead of time. Like the characters they wrote, they constantly found themselves trapped in corners and had to figure some explosive way out.
But at least there’s no more planning to worry about for this franchise. Gilligan wrote and directed (https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-features/better-call-saul-waterworks-vince-gilligan-interview-1235195099/) the penultimate Saul episode, which we recapped here (https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-recaps/better-call-saul-recap-waterworks-1393640/), and he says that next week’s series finale will very likely be the conclusion to the entire fictional universe that started with Breaking Bad.
He spoke with Rolling Stone about how long it took to figure out the fate of Kim Wexler, the ongoing challenge of reconciling the Saul plot with what we knew from Breaking Bad, and why a show called Better Call Saul wound up barely featuring Saul Goodman at all.
Vince Gilligan will be the first to tell you he’s a bad planner. It’s not just that the co-creator (https://ew.com/tv/better-call-saul-vince-gilligan-on-waterworks-episode/) of Better Call Saul missed his own show’s wrap party because he and his partner Holly had already scheduled a birthday getaway in Palm Springs for that night. It’s that throughout his tenure with both Breaking Bad and Saul, he and his collaborators (including Saul co-creator Peter Gould) were almost never able to map out story beats very far ahead of time. Like the characters they wrote, they constantly found themselves trapped in corners and had to figure some explosive way out.
But at least there’s no more planning to worry about for this franchise. Gilligan wrote and directed (https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-features/better-call-saul-waterworks-vince-gilligan-interview-1235195099/) the penultimate Saul episode, which we recapped here (https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-recaps/better-call-saul-recap-waterworks-1393640/), and he says that next week’s series finale will very likely be the conclusion to the entire fictional universe that started with Breaking Bad.
He spoke with Rolling Stone about how long it took to figure out the fate of Kim Wexler, the ongoing challenge of reconciling the Saul plot with what we knew from Breaking Bad, and why a show called Better Call Saul wound up barely featuring Saul Goodman at all.