The winner has been announced for Best Drama Series at the 80th Golden Globe Awards, and unfortunately for Better Call Saul fans, it wasn’t the Breaking Bad spinoff. At the ceremony, it was revealed that HBO’s House of the Dragon, the new Game of Thrones prequel series, had gotten the win. The other nominees for that category included Netflix’s The Crown, HBO’s House of the Dragon, Netflix’s Ozark, and Apple TV+’s Severance.
It wasn’t the only nomination for the series, as Bob Odenkirk had also lost earlier in the evening in the category for Best Performance in a Television Series - Drama. His Better Call Saul character’s doppelganger, Kevin Costner, would ironically enough be the one to win. The Yellowstone star got award by overcoming Odenkirk for Better Call Saul as well as Jeff Bridges for The Old Man, Diego Luna for Andor, and Adam Scott for Severance.
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This marks another winless night at a major awards show for Better Call Saul, the latest after years of frustration for fans hoping to see the series get more recognition. Odenkirk had been nominated at the Golden Globes on four previous occasions, and with these two new nominations, the show has been up for six Golden Globes over the years, and even following its final season in 2022, the win wasn’t meant to be. Now, many fans are crying foul, saying the show was “robbed” once again.
Better Call Saul Fans Were Hopeful for the Win After Emmys Loss
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There had been a swelling of Better Call Saul fans hoping to see the series win these awards for its final season. That show has been nominated nearly 50 times at the Emmy Awards, but even with 46 total nominations, the show hasn’t garnered a win at that event. It has still done very well at other awards shows, cleaning up at the Saturn Awards back in October. It will also get another shot at the Emmys as the final season’s back half of episodes will be eligible for this year’s ceremony.
Meanwhile, the accolades have put the stars of Better Call Saul in high demand, even if the show has come up short at the Emmys and Golden Globes. After the show ended, AMC made sure to keep Odenkirk around by signing him on to star in the new series Lucky Hank. The show features Odenkirk playing a character very unlike his Saul Goodman protagonist from Better Call Saul, though time will tell if that will become the show that earns him an acting Emmy and/or Golden Globe Award. You can watch the recently-released teaser for Lucky Hank below.
