Everything We Know About Better Call Saul’s Final Season: Who’s Returning, ‘Breaking Bad’ Cameos and More

Ready for more? The sixth and final season of Better Call Saul will finally reveal how the kind, but conflicted lawyer Jimmy McGill (Bob Odenkirk) became the morally challenged criminal attorney Saul Goodman.

“From day one of Better Call Saul, my dream was to tell the complete story of our complicated and compromised hero, Jimmy McGill — now AMC and Sony are making that dream come true,” showrunner Peter Gould said in a statement in 2021. “We couldn’t be more grateful to the fans and critics who are making this journey possible. Next month, we start work on the sixth and final season — we’re going to do our damnedest to stick the landing.”

For five seasons, fans have watched as Jimmy teetered on the edge of good and evil, while slowly transforming into the Breaking Bad character viewers love to hate. Come Monday, April 18, the beginning of the end of the AMC prequel will unfold.

The final season, however, didn’t come to fruition without a few setbacks. In July 2021, Odenkirk was hospitalized after collapsing on set in New Mexico. It was later revealed that he suffered a heart attack, but by September of that year he was healthy and ready to return to set.

“Back to work on Better Call Saul! So happy to be here and living this specific life surrounded by such good people,” the actor tweeted at the time, sharing a photo of himself in the makeup trailer. “BTW this is makeup pro Cheri Montesanto making me not ugly for shooting!”

In addition to telling Jimmy’s story in season 6, Breaking Bad fans will finally get to see Aaron Paul and Bryan Cranston reunited with Odenkirk — but how and when they’ll make their cameos is still a mystery.

“I would be in it if Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould, who are co-executive producers on it, wanted