The ultimate episodes of Higher Call Saul Season 6 have taken place after Breaking Unhealthy. The episode known as “Breaking Bad” formally caught up, when Saul first met Walter White (Bryan Cranston) and Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul). The next episode “Waterworks”, introduced Kim Wexler (Rhea Seehorn) again to Higher Call Saul and included a selected reference to “six years,” nevertheless it’s little thriller what 12 months that’s six years from.
[Warning: This text accommodates spoilers for Higher Call Saul Season 6 episode “Waterworks.]
Producer Jenn Carroll was on the Better Call Saul Insider podcast on Aug. 9, the day after “Waterworks” aired. Co-creators Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould requested her to elucidate what 12 months it was when Jimmy (Bob Odenkirk) instructed Kim it’s been six years. The sequence finale of Higher Call Saul airs Aug. 15 at 9 p.m. on AMC.
It’s 2010 in ‘Better Call Saul’ when Kim Wexler takes Jimmy’s cellphone name
Jimmy has been dwelling in Omaha as Gene Takovic after the occasions of Breaking Unhealthy. When he heard Kim requested about him, he determined to name her in Florida. “Waterworks” confirmed Kim dwelling a modest life in Florida, however when Jimmy calls he says it’s been six years.
“It’s late 2010 in Kim’s world,” Carroll mentioned on Better Call Saul Insider. “So six years after the breakup.”
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The final prequel scene was Kim and Jimmy’s breakup. She resigned from the bar as a result of she couldn’t reside with herself after getting Howard Hamlin (Patrick Fabian) killed.
“They broke up in episode 609,” Gilligan clarified. “That was six years prior.”
Time is all the time sophisticated on this present
Higher Call Saul started in 2002, which gave it six years to catch as much as Breaking Unhealthy. They solely went two in story time.
“It’s 2004 so it’s been six years since they’ve spoken,” Carroll mentioned.
Carroll additionally remembered after they needed to determine the date, since Higher Call Saul is a prequel to Breaking Unhealthy. They couldn’t faux it, they usually’ve been preserving monitor ever since.
After we switched from movie to HD cameras, you may see each single date on a newspaper an additional is holding. We really needed to set the date of the present due to a shot in the pilot the place Jimmy places the test that he’s getting paid $700 for the three knuckleheads and it has a date on it. It was like oh no, we will’t not see the date. So we have been simply going to set our flag in the sand then and we stored it going for years. We’re day 5016 on our story calendar because of Ariel [Levine] and Kathleen [Williams-Foshee] and the numerous of us earlier than them who’ve been preserving monitor.
Jenn Carroll, Higher Call Saul Insider, 8/9/22
You’ll be able to hold monitor of the date all through ‘Better Call Saul’ earlier than the Kim Wexler name
Williams-Foshee has stored a narrative calendar of the complete Higher Call Saul timeline. In the event you search for markers of time on Higher Call Saul, you’ll discover that the creators of the present have already discovered what day it’s. They’ve dressed the units accordingly.
“We have a lot of people who are the keepers of this information,” Carroll mentioned. “There’s a lot of institutional memory from Melissa Bernstein all the way through. There’s a lot of people who keep track of these things and worry about them from our props department always knowing exactly what year it is by what license plate stickers to put on down to the month.”