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The world ofBreaking Badgave fans refuge for a long time from the acres of bad television that occupied the contemporary atmosphere. When it ended, the desert druglords left behind a legacy to be carried on by Saul Goodman throughBetter Call Saul. Together, the two series forever revolutionized television drama.
It wasn’t simply Vince Gilligan’s originality that made the series so radically brilliant. BothBreaking BadandBetter Call Saulseized our attention and held our imaginations captive despite being heavily grounded, gritty, and closely bound to reality.
It doesn’t come as a surprise that Gilligan wanted to take his artistic creativity a step further and make the two worlds of Heisenberg and Saul Goodman clash in a wild crossover episode.
Vince Gilligan Fulfills His Long-Term Fantasy
Despite being the creator of one of the most treasured and celebrated television projects in recent pop culture history,Vince Gilliganhad yet to be satisfied by the worlds that he created. WhenBetter Call Saultook over fromBreaking Bad, Gilligan finally knew what had been missing all along.
Director Thomas Schnauz who has been the guiding force behind many a brilliant episode across both eras ofBreaking BadandBetter Call Saulwas tasked with directing an episode of Season 6 that would go on to make history for a completely understandable reason. This was the episode where the world ofBreaking Badfinally merged withBetter Call Saul, giving the fans an unforgettable treat before ending in tragedy.
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In aninterview withAwardsRadar, the writer-director Thomas Schnauz of Season 6 Episode 11 titledBreaking Badrecalled how it came into being:
That was our long-term fantasy that we were going to tie these worlds together. InBreaking Bad, Saul was on his knees screaming, ‘It wasn’t me, it was Ignacio.’ We never had a specific way but it all kind of came together in this episode [of Better Call Saul] – that this was the time and the place to do it – to bring back Walt and Jesse and show that moment again where he’s kneeling over that empty grave thinking he’s gonna die…
The responsibility of making Gilligan’s fantasy come true fell on the shoulders of Thomas Schnauz, who went above and beyond in crafting one of the best episodes of visual and emotional storytelling seen across 15 years of television ofBreaking BadandBetter Call Saulcombined.
Better Call SaulProves To Be a Worthy Successor
In the occupational line of work that often lands one behind bars or in the grave,Breaking Badpresented a world that was littered with fascinating danger and the allure of criminality. The series became so influential in fact that Albuquerque, New Mexico rose to the occasion and erected two bronze statues of Walter White and Jesse Pinkman in honor of the drug lords born out of fiction.
In an era of cross-border drug wars and an urgent crisis on the rise,Better Call Saulproved to be a worthy successor to such a show that made idols out of druglords – an irony that is laughable and almost too absurd to endure.Bob Odenkirkand Rhea Seehorn’sBetter Call Saulwas an experience that completedBreaking Bad, and the audience wouldn’t have had it any other way.
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However, enough time has now passed after the saga of Saul Goodman ended on a positively devastating note. It is time for Vince Gilligan to wake up his creative instincts and spin a good old-fashioned tale of a spin-off character from the worlds ofBreaking BadandBetter Call Saul. Giancarlo Esposito’s Gus Fring, for one, comes to mind.
Breaking BadandBetter Call Saulare available to stream on Netflix.
Diya Majumdar
Senior Writer
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Diya Majumdar is a Senior Content Writer at FandomWire with over 2000 published articles on the website. Since 2022, she has been working as an entertainment journalist with a special focus on films and pop culture.Among the countless genres and themes of Hollywood, the ones that particularly favor Diya’s tastes include Game of Thrones, DC, and well-aged thrillers and classics.
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