Note: This interview contains big plot points from tonight’s episode (season four, episode two) of Better Call Saul.

One of my favorite things about the way Bob Odenkirk plays Jimmy McGill (and the way the writers write the character, and the way the directors direct Odenkirk, and the way the editors cut his scenes) is that at important moments there is a pause, and we get to see what’s going on inside Jimmy. Generally when this…

Like many fans, I paper over the slow stretches in TV’s scheduling cycle with binges. The adults in my house have kids and jobs, so those binges aren’t stay-up-all-night marathons—just two or three episodes whenever our night isn’t taken up by sports or movies, getting through a season in a few weeks, and then wishing…

Note: This interview discusses plot points of seasons three and four of Better Call Saul.

“With the way Gold brings 15 years of WarioWare together and slathers them in new layers of weird, manic energy, it serves as a much-needed salute to this underrated, often genius series. More than that, it’s a fitting testament to the last 15 years of daring ideas and handheld consoles from Nintendo, an era that’s…

Charles “Chuck” L. McGill, Jr., Esq. is dead. There’s no use in eulogizing him here, not when Better Call Saul devotes most of its fourth-season premiere to that act, while also rattling off a touching newspaper obituary. But some acknowledgment is in order: This is a loss for the characters, and it’s a loss for the…

Telling Tonight Show host and fellow SNL alum Jimmy Fallon about his recent, fan-mobbed appearance alongside the Better Call Saul-Breaking Bad crew at Comic-Con, Bob Odenkirk marveled that he’s now one of the annual geek gathering’s attractions. “It was quadruple-intensity,” said Odenkirk, comparing the…

Given that it remains the most consistently and critically beloved series on the network’s roster, it’s not entirely shocking to learn that Breaking Bad prequel series Better Call Saul has now been granted a fifth-season renewal order, roughly a week before its fourth was set to premiere. Not only does the series…

Although it’s rightly focused on the ever-tarnishing soul of “hero” Jimmy McGill—and his fractious relationships with the people around him in his “present” day—Better Call Saul has never been shy about hinting at his future, too. There’s all the flash-forwards to Gene the Cinnabon manager, obviously, but we’ve also…

Welcome to Development Hell, the fiery pit into which we fling recent developments in casting, distribution, and everything else that’s new and mildly interesting in the Boschian phantasmagoria of the entertainment industry.

There are a lot of questions hanging over Better Call Saul—if we’re being honest, it’s the kind of show where “questions hanging” is a big part of the appeal—but one of the most lingering has been that of when it’ll finally, fully collide with its parent series, Breaking Bad, and its meth-cooking “heroes,” Jesse…

Cable TV said goodbye to one of its premiere drama series last night, when FX sent The Americans off to their bleak and dismal finale. But just as one bracing exploration of human deception (of ourselves, and others) fades, another prepares for its return, with Deadline reporting that AMC has set a fall return date…

We’ve already heard which 2017 movies had the best producing, directing, and acting (at least according to the producers, directors, and actors), which only leaves the most important group in all of content creation: the writers. Without those wizards of the written word, all movies and TV shows would simply be…

Ten years ago this month, the world met Walter White, the chemistry teacher with a terminal cancer diagnosis whose meteoric rise in the drug trade and precipitous fall from grace were traced in one of the defining TV dramas of its era. It’s Breaking Bad’s 10th anniversary, which also means that creator Vince Gilligan…

Television provides so many units in which to appreciate the medium’s annual output. A series can leap to the forefront on the strengths of a single great season; if it’s running as part of the traditional broadcast calendar, those accolades might have two halves of separate seasons. Try as streaming services and…

Halloween draws nigh, and with it the annual parade of ghosts and goblins, trolls and Trumps, pumpkins and David S. Pumpkins, and other, equally obvious guises drawn from the well of contemporary pop culture. But you read The A.V. Club (or, at least, you scroll past it on the way to the comments). Your refined tastes…

The A.V. Club is counting down the days leading up to the 69th Primetime Emmy Awards on Sunday, September 17, with an examination of this year’s major categories. Each day, TV editor Erik Adams is breaking down a category and giving us his picks for who should win, and who will win. On the final day of our Emmy Round…

The 69th Primetime Emmy Awards are coming up this Sunday, September 17th and The A.V. Club is counting down the days leading up to the ceremony with an examination of this year’s major categories. Each day, TV Editor Erik Adams breaks down a category and gives us his picks for who should win, and who will win. First…

The season-three finale of Better Call Saul brought one longstanding relationship to an end, but AMC isn’t cutting its ties with Jimmy McGill (Bob Odenkirk). Variety reports the network’s just renewed the acclaimed drama for a fourth season of backsliding and chicanery.