Where do we find him when we return, in terms of his lot in life and his headspace?
PETER GOULD:Its an open question.
You have to ask yourself as hes driving off, Whats he smiling about?
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What is the overarching theme of season 2?
Season 2 is all about what people are willing to do for the things that they care about.
What does that show about you?
What gets to your heart?
What new sides to Jimmy will we see this season?
Youre going to see, for one thing, a romantic side to Jimmy.
The relationship that he has with Kim [Rhea Seehorn] gets much deeper.
It is both personal and professional, and its really the beating heart of season 2.
How does Kim react to the new Jimmy?
Thats a big question.
And also, Kim finds it a lot easier to talk the talk than to walk the walk.
Chucks betrayal of Jimmy toward the end of the season had a profound impact on him.
How would you characterize their relationship at the beginning of the season?
At the beginning of the season, Jimmy wants nothing to do with Chuck [Michael McKean].
Hes had it with his brother.
So cutting the ties between the brothers is something thats easy to say and hard to do.
These guys have a relationship that goes very deep.
Mike finally got out of the parking booth and started doing business with Nacho [Michael Mando].
In Five-O, we learned about the guilt over his sons death that haunted him.
What more do we learn about Mike this season?
And whom will he be colluding with?
What types of people?
You definitely see Mike dealing with some underworld types, lets say that.
How many new characters should we expect?
But you wouldnt want to cross him, lets put it that way.
Will there be other significant new characters along those lines?
Howard is definitely not a villain in a conventional sense.
TheBreaking Badwinks have been Easter egg-y surprises for fans.
Will those increase as we get closer to Jimmys transformation into Saul and approach theBadtimeline?
Youll see there are some overlaps with these two worlds.
This is a prequel and it takes place in the same city.
People who paid close attention toBreaking Badwill be very happy right from the first episode of the season.
You may see ideas and even characters that youve seen before.
I would say theres maybe a little bit more than last season.
But you really have to keep your eyes peeled.
All I can say is wed love nothing more.
We love both Aaron and Bryan, and of course we love those characters.
And in fact, Vince and I and some of the other producerssaw Aaron and Bryan at the Smithsonian.
Theres nothing wed like more than to work together.
Did they bring it up to you?
I will say that Aaron and I talk about it every time we see each other.
We got a taste of the post-Breaking Badfuturewith the Cinnabon scene to open season 1.
We also had some deep flashbacks last season.
Do we get more peeks into the future and the past?
Were fascinated by where these characters came from and where theyre going to end up.
And whos to say that the story of Saul Goodman/Jimmy McGill/Gene is over at the end ofBreaking Bad?
We didnt know what we were going to get every week onBetter Call Saul.
The tone changed; some episodes were darker.
Are there episodes this season that feel markedly different?
Do any take place outside of Albquerque?
Is there a bottle episode?
This season is different.
There are parallel tracks in this season.
Structurally this is a very different season from season 1.
Absoltuely, we give ourselves the freedom to do episodes that go to all sorts of different places.
Can you give us one cryptic tease about the season 2?
I would say neckties are incredibly important this season.
Sometimes just the pattern that a character is wearing, if given close attention, may give something away.
We spent a lot of time on neckties.
Also, I can tell you that there is a travel mug which is incredibly important to season 2.
Cant remember whereBetter Call Saulleft off?
Revisit our season 1 finale post-mortems with Gould and Odenkirkhereandhere.
