***BETTER CALL SAUL SEASON 3 FINALE SPOILER ALERT***
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DEADLINE: So, Peter, we saw fire through the window in the house but we never saw a boy. Is Chuck McGill really dead?
GOULD: We haven’t opened the writer’s script for Season 4 yet, so it’s very hard to be definitive. It sure looks that way and I think there would be something a little ingenuous if we have this big build-up and it being a season ender and then we found out that he got out at the last second. Having said that…
McKEAN: Yeah. And he’s now being played by Patrick Duffy (both laugh).
DEADLINE: Working on the premise that you wouldn’t play the audience like that, and the fact he never showed up in Breaking Bad, if Chuck is dead, how did you find out it was over, Michael?
McKEAN: Not until Peter and Vince called me a few months ago and I was out tooling around in Albuquerque, and the phone rings. “Hi, guys, shall I pull over?” Because I had a feeling, I knew this was coming and…
Source and more: Deadline
Speaking of Kim, it’s easy to lose sight of her role in the whole Jimmy McGill mess amid a season obsessed with brotherly betrayal. In an interview with Aaron Pruner, Seehorn sums up her character’s trajectory over the past three seasons: “When this series starts, it’s apparent that she is a workaholic and sort of, morally, has attached herself to this idea: If you just keep your head down and work hard enough and stay on the right side of the law, then you’re a good person. That got kind of smashed to smithereens in Season 2 and now Season 3 is the consequences of that — of realizing good and bad are not the same as legal and illegal.”
Source and more: NY Observer
What was behind opting to save Jimmy’s reaction for [Season 4]?
Peter Gould [showrunner]: Jimmy has made a turn. He’s made a couple of very extreme turns over the last few episodes. You know, in episode nine [“Fall”] — the wonderful episode that Gordon Smith wrote and Minkie Spiro directed — Jimmy got as dark as we’ve ever seen him. Actually, in my book, the things he does in episode nine are even worse than the things that Saul Goodman does on “Breaking Bad,” because he is purposefully trying to ruin the life of an innocent. [Kim’s accident] is a wake up call for him, and he tries to make another turn. But the question is — once he’s thrown the restraint of his conscience, can he really go back? It’s always the question once you’ve done something terrible. We all want to think that we can change our ways at any moment, but is that really true?
And of course Chuck — in that scene between Chuck and Jimmy — Chuck seems to make a prediction about Jimmy. It’s almost like he’s laying some kind of curse on Jimmy when he says, “You’re going to hurt people, that’s what you do.” But on the other hand, we know he’s not wrong. So I think there’s a lot of complexity there.
One of the things I really enjoyed about episode 10 is just how raw Jimmy is, and how sincerely hurt Bob is. It’s interesting: He’s been kind of emotionally distant from things, he’s been able to detach himself from the consequences of things. In this episode he seems as hurt as he could possibly be. And of course we know from the end of the episode, things are going to get worse before they get better.
Source and more: Variety
Better Call Saul Season 4 renewal is expected to be confirmed in the coming days, but with AMC yet to announce the show’s fate, there’s room for worry. Could the renew/cancel scales tip against the Breaking Bad prequel or will the series move closer to ‘ending on its own terms’ in Season 4 or 5? Stay tuned…
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