Season 5 (Better Call Saul)

Season 5

Original Run Start	Original Run End
February 23, 2020	TBA

Previous	Next
Season 4	Season 6

Episodes

#1: "Magic Man"

#2: "50% Off"
#3: "The Guy For This"
#4: "Namaste"
#5: "Dedicado a Max"
#6: "Wexler v. Goodman"
#7: "JMM"
#8: "Bagman"
#9: "Bad Choice Road"
#10: "Something Unforgivable"

Notable Cast

Starring

Bob Odenkirk as Jimmy McGill

Jonathan Banks as Mike Ehrmantraut
Rhea Seehorn as Kim Wexler
Patrick Fabian as Howard Hamlin
Michael Mando as Nacho Varga
Giancarlo Esposito as Gustavo Fring
Tony Dalton as Lalo Salamanca

Guests

Dean Norris as Hank Schrader

Steven Michael Quezada as Steven Gomez
Robert Forster as Ed Galbraith

Notable Crew
Directors	Writers
Bronwen Hughes (1) Jim McKay (1) Norberto Barba (1) Peter Gould (1) Thomas Schnauz (1) Vince Gilligan (1)	Alison Tatlock (1) Gordon Smith (2) Peter Gould (1) Thomas Schnauz (2)

The fifth season of the American television drama series Better Call Saul was announced on July 28, 2018. The series will return on February 23, 2020. It will consist of ten episodes, each running approximately 47 minutes in length.

Story

Better-call-saul-season-5-poster-scaled — Season 5 promotional poster

TBA

Credits

Cast	Portrays	Ep.
Bob Odenkirk	James McGill	?
Jonathan Banks	Mike Ehrmantraut	?
Rhea Seehorn	Kim Wexler	?
Patrick Fabian	Howard Hamlin	?
Michael Mando	Nacho Varga	?
Giancarlo Esposito	Gustavo "Gus" Fring	?
Tony Dalton	Lalo Salamanca	?

Dean Norris as Hank Schrader (?/10)
Steven Michael Quezada as Steven Gomez (?/10)
Robert Forster as Ed Galbraith (?/10)
Ben Bela Böhm as Kai (?/10)
Cara Pifko as Paige Novick (?/10)
Daniel Moncada as Leonel Salamanca (3/10)
Hayley Holmes as Drama Girl (?/10)
Javier Grajeda as Juan Bolsa (?/10)
Jeremiah Bitsui as Victor (?/10)

Julie Pearl as Suzanne Ericsen (?/10)
Josh Fadem as Joey Dixon (?/10)
Lavell Crawford as Huell Babineaux (?/10)
Luis Moncada as Marco Salamanca (3/10)
Mark Margolis as Hector Salamanca (?/10)
Maximino Arciniega as Krazy-8 (?/10)
Rex Linn as Kevin Wachtell (?/10)
Stefan Kapičić as Casper (?/10)

TBA

Episodes

Trivia

Interviewed by Entertainment Weekly^[1], Peter Gould teased what awaits us during Season 5:
- About Saul Goodman: "It seems like Jimmy’s first move is to try to leverage all the contacts he has in the world of selling drop phones. But don’t forget, he also knows the vet, and the vet is sort of Craig’s List for the underworld in Albuquerque. So he can get quite far. The question is: how does he establish a reputation as not just a criminal lawyer but a criminal lawyer?"
- About Gene Takovic: "He’s the opposite of Saul Goodman because he speaks so very little, he’s so afraid. But I’m fascinated by that situation and by the question of: is there still any chance of redemption?"
On April 7, 2019, Rhea Seehorn announced on Twitter^[2] the start of the filming of season 5.
Interviewed by Vulture^[3], AMC President Sarah Barnett has revealed that the fifth season won’t return until 2020.
Tony Dalton (Lalo Salamanca) is promoted to the main cast for the fifth season.^[4]
Bronwen Hughes will direct the first episode of season 5. She previously directed episode 6 of season 1 of Breaking Bad.
Season 5 will begin with a two-night premiere. First episode will air on Sunday (February 23) after The Walking Dead episode, before returning to its usual Monday timeslot with second episode airing the next day (February 24). This is the same as first season, which also premiered with first episode airing on Sunday after The Walking Dead and aired the second episode the next day.
It was revealed at the Television Critics Association winter press tour (January 16, 2020) that Robert Forster, Dean Norris and Steven Michael Quezada will appear in the fifth season of Better Call Saul, reprising their respective roles of Ed Galbraith, Hank Schrader and Steven Gomez.
- Robert Foster passed away on the same day that El Camino was released (October 11, 2019), his presence in the fifth season of Better Call Saul is most likely his final acting role.
- Ed Galbraith is currently the second character who appears in Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul and El Camino, the first being Mike.