Why Gene Isn't In Better Call Saul Season 6, Episode 1
Why doesn't Better Call Saul's season 6 premiere feature any scenes with Gene? It's said that death and taxes are life's only certainties, but until recently, you could add Better Call Saul season premieres containing Gene timeline scenes to that list. Though predominantly a prequel, Better Call Saul dares dig into Jimmy McGill's post-Breaking Bad life, covering the period after he paid vast sums of money to a vacuum cleaner salesman to make him disappear. Jimmy is now hiding in Omaha under the alias «Gene Takavic,» and across the past 5 seasons, he's been locked inside a garbage area, suspected of suffering a heart attack, and followed by a suspicious taxi driver who knows his real identity. Halcyon days, these are not.
Previously, Better Call Saul's Gene sequences — denoted by their black-and-white coloring — have only taken place during the premiere episodes of each and every season, forming something of a show tradition. Better Call Saul season 6 wantonly breaks that tradition by not featuring any Gene or black-and-white scenes whatsoever in its opening two episodes. Why does Better Call Saul omit Gene from season 6's premiere, and why only break such a long-established pattern in this very final season?
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Because Gene has thus far been restricted to only a scant few scenes per season, Better Call Saul's future timeline hasn't moved very far since the prequel first began airing in 2015. As many have pointed out, Better Call Saul season 6 needs an awful lot more than just a few minutes in the premiere to fully resolve Jimmy's future. The break from tradition may indicate that instead of front-loading its Gene scenes like previous seasons, Better
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