Rhea Seehorn says Better Call Saul season 6 will blow people’s minds. Season 5 of AMC’s Breaking Bad spinoff left Seehorn’s character Kim Wexler and her husband Jimmy McGill at an apparent crossroads in their ever-complicated relationship.
Wexler of course served the role of “love interest” throughout early episodes of Better Call Saul, as the show’s focus was squarely on the exploits of Bob Odenkirk’s Jimmy aka Saul Goodman. But Kim became more of an accomplice for Jimmy in season 5 as the pair embarked on ever-more-elaborate and dangerous schemes. Memorably, season 5 ended with Kim proposing devious ways of getting revenge on her smug boss Howard Hamlin, leading to the show’s now-infamous finger-guns moment. The implications of Kim’s finger-guns will no doubt be explored when Better Call Saul returns for its sixth and final season.
For now the veil of secrecy continues to shroud what exactly is going to happen in Better Call Saul season 6. Seehorn herself was predictably not forthcoming in her recent interview with Variety but she did offer up a tantalizing tease about how things will ramp up as Better Call Saul heads for the finish line. “And like I said, whether I’m in scripts or not, I get to read them and I can tell you that this season is insane,” Seehorn said, adding “It’s going to blow people’s minds. I can’t wait for it to come out."
Considering what has already transpired on Better Call Saul it was already a given that the final season will be a mind-blowing experience for fans. And if show creators Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould know anything it’s how to stick a landing, as they proved with their previous creation Breaking Bad. Of course promises of “mind-blowing” experiences naturally lead to speculation about the fate of Seehorn’s character Kim Wexler, about whom fans have been worried since the series’ earliest days. In another recent interview, Seehorn said she doesn’t yet know what happens to Kim (despite getting to read all the scripts), and indicated that her continued presence on the show’s New Mexico set shouldn’t be taken as a clue.
After season 5’s finger-guns moment it’s now fair for fans to wonder who they should be more worried about, Kim or Howard. Jimmy’s fate of course is still up in the air too as the show has long teased something bad happening to him in flash-forwards set after Breaking Bad when Jimmy has fled to Omaha and taken up the guise of Gene the Cinnabon manager. There’s even a wild theory suggesting Gene gets his just desserts at the hands of Walter White himself. Indeed, a Walter White payoff would be about as mind-blowing as it gets for fans of Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, and would neatly tie up the shared timeline between the original show and its spinoff. As for Kim Wexler herself, season 5 indicated that she is more the architect of her own fate than everyone previously assumed. But where she ends up leading herself and Jimmy in Better Call Saul season 6 remains to be seen.
Source: Variety