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Before season one of Breaking Bad prequel Better Call Saul aired, AMC renewed the drama for a second season of 13 episodes. Now, before the second season premieres on February 15, 2016, AMC has quietly reduced the episode order from 13 to 10. While that does not mean the show will be cancelled, it does not feel like vote of confidence.
Better Call Saul stars Bob Odenkirk as Jimmy McGill, in the days before he became Walter White’s attorney, Saul Goodman. AMC’s non-announcement of the decreased Better Call Saul episode order was slipped into an AMC website post linking to Better Call Saul season two “First Look” photos (see one at the top of this page):
Today, AMC released two first-look photos from the Albuquerque, New Mexico set of Better Call Saul, where production on Season 2 began earlier this month. The photos feature series star Bob Odenkirk (Jimmy McGill) and Creators and Executive Producers Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould.
Season 1 of Better Call Saul was recently recognized with seven Primetime Emmy Award nominations, including Outstanding Drama Series, Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series (Bob Odenkirk), Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series (Jonathan Banks) and Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series. The series also stars Michael McKean as Chuck McGill, Rhea Seehorn as Kim Wexler, Patrick Fabian as Howard Hamlin, and Michael Mando as Nacho Varga.
Season 2 of Better Call Saul, which will consist of 10 episodes, is set to debut on AMC in early 2016. Get all the news and exclusives first. Sign up for Letters From Saul.
A fan with a sharp eye and keen memory, tweeted about the discrepancy to Creator and Executive Producer, Peter Gould, who confirmed a ten-episode second season:
@drovethrughosts No mistake! 10 big, big episodes!
— Peter Gould (@petergould) November 15, 2015
What do you think? Do you like the Better Call Saul TV show on AMC? Do you think this episode order cut makes it likely the series will be cancelled after its second season? Would you watch a third season?
i like the show hope it continues as for drooping episodes seems annoyning considering breaking bad after first season had at least 13 episodes hope the show continues on
It’s not gonna be cancelled. AMC posted that there would be 10 episodes of BCS for its second season months ago on the company website.
Hope they carry on otherwise I might suspect the character Howard is based on someone in the Decision Making Process.
Vince Gilligan has said that doing fewer episodes allows them to keep up the quality of the show. He and Peter Gould have talked about how much the planned story for the first season changed after they started seeing how Michael McKean portrayed Chuck, so a Nacho-tempts-Jimmy-into-crime storyline became a study of the relationship between the brothers. So writing the first season became more challenging. This change also meant that the show became less of the ensemble piece it was originally conceived as and put even more emphasis on Jimmy, so combine the fact that Jimmy is quite the talker… Read more »
“Breaking Bad” didn’t get really good till half way thru the second season, and now people are sayin “it’s probably one of the best shows ever put on TV”. The same people are making BCS. Great shows take a little time to get the story line stabilized and develop the characters. In this case there taking an established character (actually two with Jonathan Banks character) and trying to get to the point where we first saw them involved with Walter White. I think this is a great premis and can’t wait to see how they become the characters that we… Read more »
AMC is having buyers remorse. i watch it but don’t think it’s all that good.if it goes down the hole it won’t matter to me.
I like this show which makes me nervous. The talking heads always seem to drop shows I like and keep the ones I never watch. Time to go back and watch Hogan’s Heroes again.
Hogan’s Heroes… LMAO