Better Call Saul’s final season likely delayed to 2022

Last Updated on August 5, 2021

The fifth season of Better Call Saul concluded last April, but owing to the COVID-19 pandemic, it was assumed that the sixth and final season of the series would be delayed. Well, it seems that's exactly what's happening as AMC Networks chief Josh Sapan revealed as much during an AMC earnings call this morning.

"We still have some shifting around due to COVID-related production delays for our shows," Sapan said. "For Better Call Saul it does look likely, at this point, that [it] will move into the first quarter of 2022. That’s the way we’re seeing it right now." While it may be disappointing to some that we'll have to wait a little longer to see how the story of Saul Goodman will conclude, I'm more than fine with waiting just to keep that world alive. Production on Better Call Saul's sixth and final season will kick off in New Mexico in March.

As for what surprises the final season of Better Call Saul might have in store for us, it's too early to say, but Bob Odenkirk recently spoke with Collider to offer a few teases based on what he's heard.

I'm finding out script by script [how the season goes]. I'm told that the wheels come off in Season 6 and it explodes in a million directions. That sounds to me like there's a fair amount of violence, but I don't know for a fact. We have a discussion where my point of view is that Walter White became an angry, broken version of himself. I wonder if it would be possible to write — because I like the guy — I wonder if it would be possible to give Jimmy McGill a better ending, a better place to end in than he started in. I don't know if they're going to do that though.

Better Call Saul co-creator Peter Gould has previously teased that when the series comes to an end, we might just see Breaking Bad in a very different light. "I think we're going to learn things about the characters in Breaking Bad that we didn't know," Gould said. "We're going to learn things about the events of Breaking Bad that we didn't know. And we're going to learn things about the fates of a lot of these characters that may surprise people or certainly throw them into a different light. I think we started this 2007, so that's 13 years of work that's distilled, this all has to fit together. Hopefully like a perfect jigsaw puzzle. I don't know if all the joints are going to be absolutely even. I'd sure hope so. We're going to do our best to sand it down."