Better Call Saul S6 Casting Creates A Breaking Bad Universe Paradox

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Jimmy McGill and Kim Wexler have plenty of problems in Better Call Saul season 6; now they can add a Breaking Bad universe paradox to that list. The final season of Saul Goodman's Breaking Bad spinoff is currently on a nerve-wracking break before the very last batch of episodes air. Better Call Saul's mid-season finale ended on the most shocking note possible when Jimmy & Kim's confrontation with Howard Hamlin got interrupted by a wild, gun-toting Lalo Salamanca. The cartel gangster ruthlessly put a bullet through Howard's brain, and Better Call Saul just as ruthlessly rolled credits seconds after his lifeless body hit the ground.

Audiences have since been left to contemplate a Howard-free Better Call Saul, but even though Patrick Fabian's character won't appear in season 6, part 2, some new faces are joining the finale fun. The most significant name announced so far is Carol Burnett, iconic comedian and actress best known for The Carol Burnett Show which ran throughout the 1960s and 1970s. Burnett first expressed admiration for Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul in a 2018 Jimmy Kimmel interview, and has now been cast as «Marion» ahead of season 6's second half.

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Burnett's presence in Better Call Saul threatens to rip the time-space continuum of Jimmy McGill's universe apart. Way back in Better Call Saul season 2's «Rebecca,» a flashback scene showed Jimmy visiting his older brother Chuck's house for dinner (in the days before he became an electricity-averse recluse, of course). Before Jimmy arrives, Chuck and his wife discuss a «signal» to get rid of Jimmy should the evening turn sour, and Chuck suggests, "How about the old Carol Burnett