‘Better Call Saul’ Creators on the Terror, Process, and Lessons of Concluding a Series

Better Call Saul” has gotten a lot of mileage out of demonstrating how its characters unintentionally reap whirlwinds of their own making.

But with the last leg of its sixth and final season starting, the series enters a time of repercussions.

While on the Filmmaker Toolkit Podcast, co-creators Peter Gould and Vince Gilligan reflected what a different exercise it was for their writers’ room to map out the series’ final act.“Breaking previous seasons, most of the seasons ended with some kind of big change in the show,” said Gould.

“You’d see what happened with Chuck or what happened with Lalo surviving the hail of bullets in Season 5.

We’re always saying, ‘Hey, keep watching what’s gonna happen next here.’ We have to do something a little bit different.While on the podcast, Gould and Gilligan discussed how their process was, in part, grounded in the lessons taken

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