We have our next look at the final season of Better Call Saul and it is also officially confirmed that the show is coming back to AMC in April. In one new teaser, Giancarlo Esposito returns as drug kingpin and Los Pollos Hermanos owner Gus Fring, giving us our first look at the actor’s final run in the role. The video, which you can watch below, does not tell us much in terms of what will happen in season 6, simply showing Gus arriving home with a lot of stress apparently on his mind.
In the teaser, a look at the address number of Fring’s home reveals it to be 418. This is not a meaningless detail as it further points to the show’s premiere date. There had been rumors of the series returning on April 18 based on what was shown in a previous teaser. Having Gus just so happen to walk into a home located at 418 is no coincidence. The previous teaser brought back Leonel and Marco Salamanca with the ruthless gangsters hitting the scene after the bloodbath at their family compound. Crime scene markers on the ground had also teased the April 18 premiere date.
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Getting on the bad side of the Salamancas is something that fans will know is very bad for whomever is responsible, and there are going to be some big things going down in the final episodes. While we know Gus will ultimately survive the final season of Better Call Saul (so he can go on to ultimately be horrifically killed in Breaking Bad), the fates of certain other characters, like Rhea Seehorn’s Kim Wexler and Michael Mando’s Nacho Varga, will be revealed in Saul’s sixth season.
AMC Has Officially Confirmed Better Call Saul Returns in April
If the subtle hints weren’t enough, AMC has made it official. Another brief teaser, which only shows us a peek at a WANTED poster featuring Bob Odenkirk’s James McGill (aka Saul Goodman), clearly spells out that season 6 premieres on April 18. It’s safe to go ahead and mark your calendar now that the date has been made official by the network. The beginning of the end is nigh, which is bittersweet for fans waiting to see how this all ends while unhappy to see that it’s ending.
“It’s not flashy," Odenkirk recently said of the series finale, per Variety. “It’s substantial, and on some level it’s things I hoped for, for years, in this character’s brain. On the other hand, yeah, I have to read it again. But what I like about it is, it’s not cheap. It’s not easy. It doesn’t feel cartoonish. It’s pretty great, I think. It’s pretty great. I would wanna end with this kind of character-development focus. That’s what it’s about, instead of something that just has guns in it. I guess there’s a few guns, but they’re not like in other episodes.”
Better Call Saul will premiere its sixth and final season on April 18, 2022, on AMC.
