Bob Odenkirk as Saul Goodman in Better Call Saul
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Iconic TV show creator Vince Gilligan has revealed where he thinks Saul Goodman is now, following the crooked lawyer's incarceration at the end of Better Call Saul. Bob Odekirk's character was first introduced in the second season of Breaking Bad, widely considered one of the best TV shows of all time, where he becomes legal counsel to Walter White's (Bryan Cranston) growing meth empire.
In Breaking Bad's ending, Saul is forced to flee and adopt an alias when the authorities finally discover Walt's activities. Gilligan and co-creator Peter Gould then kicked off the prequel-sequel series Better Call Saul in 2015, following struggling lawyer Jimmy McGill's constant moral dilemmas in the years before he becomes criminal lawyer Saul Goodman; it also shows what happens to him after Breaking Bad.
The law eventually catches up with Saul, but he earns some kind of redemption by protecting his ex-wife Kim Wexler (Rhea Seehorn) and owning up to his part in Walt's crimes in court. He is sentenced to 86 years in prison, where he begins using the name Jimmy McGill again and becomes popular among the inmates as a former criminal defense lawyer.
Thus, Jimmy becomes the only major player in Walt's enterprise to be imprisoned, as most of the others are killed as Breaking Bad comes to an end, and only Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul) manages to escape. However, Gilligan recently quipped about where he thinks Saul/Jimmy is now; the answer somewhat undermines the character's confession, but also mocks contemporary politics.
In an interview with The Rich Eisen Show, Eisen prompted Gilligan with a list of his old characters, asking where they all are today. When they got to Saul, Gilligan said: "I think Trump pardoned him. [...] I think he's out, that's what I think, [...] kinda tracks doesn't it?" He suggested that Jimmy went back to doing infomercials or something else leaning into his sales skills.
Gilligan also said that he thinks Kim got back into public defending, Skyler (Anna Gunn) found a better romantic partner, Walt Jr. (RJ Mitte) is writing about his father, and Jesse is hopefully still happy in Alaska. Eisen and Gilligan also talk about the themes of both shows being about what people do in these strenuous circumstances — and for Saul, it was often going back to criminality.
Gilligan is currently promoting his new TV show Pluribus, a sci-fi series about the world being infected by mindless happiness starring Better Call Saul's Rhea Seehorn, which has received amazing reviews so far. But his legacy is still inextricably tied to Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, and will always be asked thought-provoking questions like this one about Jimmy.
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