Say his name.
Walter “Heinsenberg” White might've been shot to bits in the Breaking Bad finale, bleeding out on the floor of a Nazi drug lab — a king surrounded by the ruins of his fallen empire, you might remark, while twiddling one's beard. But as we all know, he who dies on TV is never, truly, dead.
After years of speculation as to when Bryan Cranston would once again don the fedora, shades, and bag of Blue Sky, Peter Gould, the co-creator of Better Call Saul, has officially confirmed that he and Breaking Bad co-star Aaron Paul are set to guest star in the spin-off series' final season. As reported by Variety, the news broke over the weekend at PaleyFest LA on a series panel. Unsurprisingly, no further details were forthcoming.
You'd think it's always been a case of when, not if, because Gilligan and Gould presumably aren't insane. The former said himself that for Cranston and Paul not to reprise their roles would be “a damn shame,” and yeah, no kidding. Better Call Saul has done the unthinkable of a prequel series by staking its own prestige TV territory, escaping the towering shadow of the Cranston-starrer — owed in no small part to Bob Odenkirk's Saul Goodman being way more than all good, man.
Odenkirk told Variety that the final season of Saul is “entwined even more than ever” with Breaking Bad in its final season, as the coiteree of crossover characters expands. We've already had Jonathan Banks' Mike and Giancarlo Esposito's Gus Fring, the latter similarly Blown To Bits in the parent series. Hopefully White and Pinkman are given similarly substantial guest roles, because anything else would truly, truly suck.
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