'Better Call Saul' Renewed For Season 3: Maybe He'll Actually Turn Into Saul This Time?

Better Call Saul Season 2 has remained popular for AMC, topping ratings for the first season. So now AMC will be bringing the Breaking Bad spin-off back for a third season.

Deadline has learned that the third season will be 10 episodes long, just like the first two seasons.

Better Call Saul begins six years before the events of Breaking Bad , as Walter White’s “criminal” lawyer evolves from the well-intentioned, but oily Jimmy McGill into Saul Goodman (Bob Odenkirk), who associates with hitmen, drug lords and tacky interior decorators.

“What Vince, Peter, Bob and the entire team have accomplished with Better Call Saul is truly rare and remarkable. They have taken one of the most iconic, immersive and fan-obsessive (in the best possible way) shows in television history and created a prequel that stands on its own,” said AMC president, Charlie Collier.

Already Jimmy has gotten tangled in near-criminal activities with Mike Ehrmantraut, another Breaking Bad character in the early days before his tenure as Gus’ methodical muscle. But despite the title, Jimmy is still very much not Saul and the show seems happy to take its time getting there.

While the end of the first season of Better Call Saul suggested that Jimmy was driving off into the Saulset, the show’s co-creator, Peter Gould, told Variety that they decided to spend more time with Jimmy. “When we got over the finish line of Season 1, we really felt that he was driving off—maybe not to call himself Saul Goodman, but at least to open that strip mall office or to do something where he would be breaking bad more or less in the tradition of the fun he had with his friend Marco,” Gould said. “As we started approaching Season 2, we realized that was leaving out some very important things we learned about Jimmy in Season 1. The most important of which being that he really cares about Kim Wexler.”

Thanks a lot, Kim, looks like Better Call Saul will be Saul-less for a while longer.