This is the death on Breaking Bad that affected Vince Gilligan the most

This is the death on Breaking Bad that affected Vince Gilligan the most by April McGee

Better Call Saul writers are still in the preliminary stages with planning season two but fans should remember some of Gilligan’s words as they theorize about what’s next for the spin-off.

Better Call Saul fans may be seeing more things in black and white with the future of the show. Or at least that’s what Vince Gilligan said during an interview earlier this year. Next to Peter Gould, Gilligan let fans know that we would be back in Omaha at some point.

Breaking Bad fans eagerly awaited the spin-off and when it finally arrived they had an easter egg presented to them immediately. It looks like Saul Goodman got his “three pairs of Dockers” and job at a chain bakery.

Here’s the series of events from both shows right next to one another.



The first line of the song playing during Gene’s shift at the Cinnabon goes likes this: “Address unknown, not even a trace of you.” Gene is the only one with a trace of his former-self. We see him wallow in the sorrow of this once he returns home.

Gene misses his former glory as tears well up in his eyes. His Saul Goodman commercials are a sad reminder of what his life looked like in Albuquerque but he needed the change to keep his freedom. Better Call Saul’s first season showed us all the tragedy he had to go through to build his legal empire.

Gilligan leaves a door wide open when he hints to fans that we will be visiting Omaha once again. Writers have established an idea of what Gene’s life is like in Nebraska, so will they move past that? Or perhaps we will see Gene’s transition from Albuquerque to Omaha play out.

Better Call Saul gives fans and writers the opportunity to explore characters in ways we never could on Breaking Bad. We saw this with both Saul Goodman and Mike Ehrmantraut. The big difference between these two Breaking Bad call backs is that we know Ehrmantraut dies on Breaking Bad.

That leaves us with the possibility to see Saul after Breaking Bad, and writers have only given us a small taste. But, as Gilligan said, they have promised more.

There’s no guarantee that this is something that will happen in season two. There’s also an absence of anything saying that it absolutely won’t occur. We know its prescribed for the future of the show, but just how much down the road will it be?

Season two of Better Call Saul will premiere in early 2016.