Five Predictions For the Final Episode of “Better Call Saul”

The series ends Monday night.

“Better Call Saul,” a show I’ve argued augurs the end of an era in television, is finishing its six-season run Monday night on AMC at 9 p.m. ET. The show, I’d argue, outpaces “Breaking Bad,” the show it famously was a spinoff from, because of the psychological complexity of its characters. There are parts of the story that, like “Breaking Bad,” are about the Albuquerque drug trade, and those are expertly put together, but what truly makes the show soar is its patience in showing human motivation at its most complicated and nuanced, how people are neither good nor bad but just reacting and responding to their world around them and what drives them through it. As we’ve watched Jimmy McGill become Saul Goodman and then become Gene Takovic, and, in this last season, toggle between all three as he begins to spin dangerously out of control in his life in Omaha, Nebraska, the show has often felt a little like Charlie Kaufman’s incredible Synecdoche, New York, an exploration of identity, the things we hide from ourselves and others, and what, in the end, makes us who we are. It features subtle, fantastic performances from Bob Odenkirk, Jonathan Banks, Tony Dalton, Michael Mando and especially Rhea Seehorn, performances inhabited so fully that it’s going to be impossible to imagine any of the actors’…