It’s been two years since the Season 5 finale ofBetter Call Saulwas broadcast in April 2020. The production was delayed due to the COVID outbreak andBob Odenkirk’sheart attack scare, from which he had to recuperate. On July 13, 2025, the sixth and final season of theBreaking BadspinoffBetter Call Saulpremiered on AMC. Better Call Saul’s last season will be broken into two sub-seasons like its predecessor. The second half will begin in July, after a two-month hiatus from the end of the first batch of episodes in May.
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Since the first season ofBetter Call Saulaired seven years ago, you might want to refresh your recollection of what transpired in the previous five seasons of the show instead of speed-binging.Better Call Saulis a spin-off ofBreaking Badthat follows the escapades ofSaul Goodman (Bob Odenkirk) both before and after the events of the main series. Here’s a quick rundown of the first five seasons ofBetter Call Saul.
Jimmy McGill was a struggling public defender in Albuquerque, New Mexico, years before assuming the name Saul Goodman andbecoming Walter White’s (Bryan Cranston) criminal lawyer inBreaking Bad. Jimmy gets his first encounter with the Salamanca criminal family while trying to win over new clients, the embezzling couple, the Kettlemans. Later, Jimmy discovers that Sandpiper Crossing nursing facility was drastically overcharging their residents, who are Jimmy’s new clients. The case, however, is too enormous for Jimmy and his brother, Chuck (Michael McKean). He is convinced of having electromagnetic hypersensitivity and has gone into seclusion in a home without electronics or sunlight.
Consequently, they take the case to HHM (Chuck’s firm that he co-founded), where Howard Hamlin (Patrick Fabian) refuses to let Jimmy participate in the proceedings. It turns out that it was Chuck’s idea, as was his decision for HHM not to hire Jimmy after he passed the bar test in the first place. After a dispute with Chuck, Jimmy was offered a job by Davis and Main, a firm recruited by HHM to assist with the Sandpiper case, which caused Jimmy to doubt his intentions for the future.
In a different Season 1 storyline, Jimmy befriends Mike Ehrmantraut (Jonathan Banks), a former dirty cop whose son, Matt, was murdered by his fellow officers to cover up their corruption. Mike assassinates those cops in retaliation and now does odd jobs to support his daughter-in-law and granddaughter. One of them entails doing business with the Salamanca clan’s right hand, Nacho Varga (Michael Mando).
Jimmy takes the employment at Davis and Main since Kim Wexler (Rhea Seehorn), Jimmy’s best friend and love interest, convinces him to. Later, Jimmy was chastised by his employer at Davis and Main after running an unapproved commercial to recruit new Sandpiper clients. At the same time, Kim was demoted because she suggested Jimmy for the position. Hence, Kim secures a huge new client, Mesa Verde Bank, for HHM to regain her boss’s favor, but she still does not receive the respect she deserves despite her achievement. After quitting their jobs at Davis and Main and HHM, Jimmy and Kim decided to start their businesses.
When Kim seeks to secure Mesa Verde as her client, Chuck dismisses her abilities in front of the bank’s CEO, prompting him to stay with HHM. Furious for Kim, Jimmy alters Chuck’s Mesa Verde documents, causing the bank’s application for a new brand to be delayed and Mesa Verde to fire HHM and rehire Kim instead. Chuck suspects Jimmy of being the cause of his failure. Thus he tricks Jimmy into confessing to tampering with the papers and secretly recording the conversation.
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As for Mike, he declines Nacho’s offer to pay him to assassinate Tuco Salamanca (Raymond Cruz) and instead devises a fresh scheme to put Tuco in prison. Mike begins targeting Salamanca’s drug shipment after his family is threatened by Tuco’s uncle, Hector Salamanca (Mark Margolis), and steals $250,000 from one of Hector’s trucks. Despite Mike’s best efforts to make the authorities aware of Hector’s business, he has cleaned up the mess and executed a civilian. As a result, Mike intends to assassinate Hector himself, but an unidentified stranger puts “DON’T” on his windshield.
Season 3 begins with Chuck arranging for Kim to learn the existence of the hidden recording because he knows she will alert Jimmy. Despite Kim’s pleadings for Jimmy to remain calm as the tape cannot be used against him legally, an enraged Jimmy breaks into Chuck’s house and destroys the tape. Accordingly, Jimmy gets arrested, but Chuck’s goal is to only disbar Jimmy, not bring charges against him. The legal battle between the brothers begins with Jimmy and Kim’s strategy to undermine Chuck by exposing his psychosomatic electromagnetic hypersensitivity. Chuck eventually breaks down in court, and the New Mexico Bar Association only suspends Jimmy’s license for a year.
Kim has to take on another client to pay for their shared office while Jimmy is out of work, which results in a car accident and a broken arm due to exhaustion. On the other hand, Chuck has returned to HHM full-time after seemingly overcoming his illness. However, after Jimmy discloses Chuck’s condition, HHM’s insurance company insists that a supervised attorney represent Chuck. Chuck refused and was forced to resign, receiving an $8 million payout. This irritated Chuck to the point where he relapsed and committed suicide in the season finale.
Mike discovers that a rival drug dealer named Gus Fring (Giancarlo Esposito) was responsible for interfering with his attempt to assassinate Hector Salamanca in the last season. While Gus is favored by Don Eladio (Steven Bauer), the drug cartel leader for whom both Gus and Hector work, Hector plans to use Nacho’s innocent father as a drug front. Later, impressed by Mike’s skills and ingenuity, Gus recruits him at Madrigal Electromotive to help him launder the money taken from Hector.
Howard blames himself for Chuck’s death, while Jimmy moves on with his life. Jimmy adopts his persona of Saul Goodman to sell burner phones to criminals during his year-long hiatus from practicing law. Kim accepts a position at Schweikart & Cokley, enabling her to work on the Mesa Verde account, which bores her, while pro-bono defense counsel work stimulates and inspires her. Later, Jimmy makes a passionate plea to the committee after being refused reinstatement by the bar association and even tricks Kim into believing his sincerity. Jimmy decides to practice law under the name Saul Goodman after gaining his reinstatement, stunning Kim yet again.
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Meanwhile, Nacho starts working for Gus in secret because he is threatened by being exposed for his role in Hector’s stroke. In the absence of Hector, who is now in a vegetative state, Lalo Salamanca (Tony Dalton) takes over the business. Gus' underground superlab is built by German engineer Werner Ziegler (Rainer Bock), who accidentally reveals the construction information to Lalo while seeking to flee to be with his wife. Gus is enraged by the occurrence, and Mike, despite his reservations, is forced to execute Werner.
Season 5 begins with Lalo analyzing Fring’s enterprise after learning that he is up to something. Lalo employs Nacho to do his dirty work, making it difficult for Nacho to gain Lalo’s trust. When Lalo is accused of a murder committed in Season 4, Fring gains the upper hand. Lalo gets arrested and hires Saul to assist him post bail after being charged with numerous felonies. Mike and Saul bond following Saul’s run-in with robbers while making a dangerous expedition into the desert to retrieve Lalo’s $7 million: the two barely escape with their lives. After a botched assassination attempt on him on his way back to Mexico, Lalo suspects Nacho.
Meanwhile, Kim is dissatisfied with her Mesa Verde job and decides to assist Everett Acker (Barry Corbin) in avoiding eviction as Mesa Verde plans to build a call center. Acker is able to keep his house thanks to some clandestine assistance from Saul. After Kim and Jimmy marry, their conversations become legally shielded under spousal privilege. Kim resigns from her law firm and devises a scheme to sabotage Howard Hamlin to compel the Sandpiper settlement. Jimmy is wary of the proposal, fearing that his scheming and conman ways haveultimately tainted Kim’s morale.
The audiences also get a glimpse at Jimmy McGill’s future and life after the events ofBreaking Badin theBetter Call Saulseries. After the DEA began investigating Saul Goodman and his ties to drug lord Walter White, Jimmy hired a man named Ed to assist him in his disappearance, giving him a new life as the manager of a Cinnabon in Omaha named Gene Takavic. When a cab driver recognizes him as Saul Goodman, his concerns about being tormented by the past are confirmed. Jimmy, nonetheless, instead of asking Ed to handle the situation, decides to tackle it himself.
