Better Call Saul Season 6 Death Explains Breaking Bad Detail, Says Star
[The following contains spoilers for Better Call Saul season 6, episode 8]
Better Call Saul’s latest big death explains a certain Breaking Bad detail, says one of the spinoff show’s stars. It was a foregone conclusion that the final season of Better Call Saul would be the show’s most dramatic yet. But the Breaking Bad spinoff may have delivered bigger than anyone ever could have expected.
Death was of course expected to be a big part of the equation when Better Call Saul unleashed season 6 on its fans. Breaking Bad was never shy about killing off characters after all, ultimately lowering the curtain on fan-favorites like Hank Schrader and Steve Gomez, not to mention the main character Walter White himself. Fans of course knew that BB characters like Saul Goodman, Gus Fring and Mike Ehrmantraut would survive BCS season 6. But they didn’t have the same certainty about non-Breaking Bad characters like Nacho, Howard Hamlin and Lalo. And indeed after the latest Better Call Saul episode, all three of those characters have now met their fate, with Tony Dalton’s Lalo joining the roll call of the deceased after being taken out by Giancarlo Esposito’s Gus in the future meth lab hidden beneath his laundry.
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Better Call Saul indeed set up this end for Lalo earlier in the season when Gus was seen hiding a gun in the excavated space soon to be occupied by his meth lab. In this sense it was inevitable that Lalo would meet his end (though clearly Saul still won't know for sure that Lalo is gone when the events of Breaking Bad take place). But while Lalo’s arc is now over, Gus’ is still developing, and indeed his murder of Lalo marks a pivotal point on his
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