Better Call Saul Season 6 Hints At Perfect Ending For Gene's B&W Story
Will Better Call Saul's Gene timeline show its true colors in season 6? For the most part, Better Call Saul is a prequel to Breaking Bad that covers Jimmy McGill's early life and explains how he came to be Walter White's «criminal lawyer.» We see flashes of Jimmy's youth, his conman years as «Slippin' Jimmy,» his brief stint as a legitimate lawyer, and the subsequent descent into «Saul Goodman.» Uniquely, Better Call Saul has weaved a second timeline into its narrative. Dubbed the «Gene» timeline, these scenes take place after Jimmy's final appearance in Breaking Bad, hiding in Nebraska under the pseudonym Gene Takavic.
Gene's Better Call Saul sequences are denoted by their black-and-white coloring, which is designed to contrast with the prequel timeline's standard color. In another special motif, Better Call Saul's sequel scenes only occur in the premiere of each season, meaning Gene has featured in a mere 5 episodes thus far. Given how much ground Better Call Saul has to cover, that's almost certain to change in season 6. Perhaps Gene's story will be spread across multiple installments, or maybe we'll get one or two entire episodes dedicated solely to Gene.
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Better Call Saul's season 6 poster hints at how Gene's storyline will be handled — but also promises the perfect change to the future timeline's presentation. AMC's official marketing poster shows Gene Takavic — still in his usual black-and-white color grading — pulling on Saul Goodman's suit jacket, which is a bright shade of red. On one hand, the imagery suggests Jimmy will dump being «Gene» altogether in Better Call Saul's final season (which makes sense, given the identity has already
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