Howard Hamlin: Celebs Rumors

SPOILER ALERT: This article contains details of tonight’s Better Call Saul series finale 

EXCLUSIVE: Following six seasons as Howard Hamlin on AMC’s megahit Better Call Saul, Patrick Fabian has signed on to lead the indie The Way We Speak from writer-director Ian Ebright (From the Sky).

WARNING: Spoilers ahead for the series finale of “Better Call Saul.”“Better Call Saul” ended its six-season odyssey with Jimmy/Saul/Gene (Bob Odenkirk) sentenced to 86 years in federal prison, where he bid an emotional goodbye to ex-wife Kim Wexler (Rhea Seehorn) — but not before exonerating her, in a final colorful courtroom flourish, of any wrongdoing in covering up Howard Hamlin’s execution-style death several years earlier.“I saw the [finale] for the first time Monday night,” Seehorn told The Post Tuesday. “I watched it with a couple of people from the show and loved ones and significant partners and it was very moving.”Monday night’s finale, “Saul Gone,” included scenes from all three timelines in the “Better Call Saul” universe and featured surprise appearances from Marie Schrader (Betsy Brandt) — the widowed wife of “Breaking Bad” DEA agent Hank Schrader (Dean Norris) — and, in a flashback, Chuck McGill (Michael McKean), Jimmy’s brilliant-yet-troubled older brother who killed himself in the Season 3 finale of “Better Call Saul.” Walter White (Bryan Cranston) also materialized in a “Breaking Bad” flashback.The episode turned its main focus on Saul’s shattered relationship with Kim, now living a drab, boring life in central Florida designing brochures for a sprinkler company and sporting shorter (and dark) hair.

SPOILER ALERT: This post reveals major details about the series finale of Better Call Saul and some key moments of Breaking Bad.

www.propstore.com/bettercallsaul. If you register for the auction, you are also entered to win one of two “Better Call Saul” gift packs.Chuck Costas, VP of Business Development & Marketing for Propstore said, “For six seasons now, we’ve watched the evolution of ‘Slippin’ Jimmy’ McGill into the smooth-talking cartel lawyer that we first met on ‘Breaking Bad,’ Saul Goodman. It’s been an incredible story that’s been intertwined with fan-favorites like Gus Fring, Hector Salamanca, and Mike Ehrmantraut and the series has also introduced us to new amazing characters like Kim Wexler, Chuck McGill, Howard Hamlin, Nacho Varga, and Lalo Salamanca.

Wilson Chapman editorAMC has released the final trailer for the second part of the sixth season of “Better Call Saul,” the critically acclaimed “Breaking Bad” prequel series starring Bob Odenkirk.The trailer continues AMC’s trend of advertising the final episodes with cryptic black-and-white footage, leaving fans few images to grasp onto in their predictions of how the story will conclude. Fred Neil’s “Little Bit of Rain” sets the mood of a farewell.“Let justice be done till the heavens fall,” Odenkirk’s Saul Goodman aka Jimmy McGill utters at the conclusion of the trailer.The first part of Season 6, which aired this spring, saw Jimmy and his wife and fellow lawyer Kim Wexler (Rhea Seehorn) successfully execute an elaborate scheme to sabotage the career of their former boss Howard Hamlin (Patrick Fabian).

Since its 2015 premiere, the Breaking Bad prequel series Better Call Saul has matched the original crime drama’s level of acclaim. The AMC and Sony Pictures Television series’ focus on the eponymous shady attorney played by Bob Odenkirk has earned the series 39 Emmy nominations. The sixth and final season had its midseason finale May 23, and the series returns for its final episodes beginning July 11.

Ethan Shanfeld SPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not watched the seventh episode of “Better Call Saul” Season 6, titled “Plan & Execution.”Howard Hamlin (Patrick Fabian) has just been murdered in Jimmy (Bob Odenkirk) and Kim’s (Rhea Seehorn) apartment, but “Better Call Saul” fans will have to wait six weeks to find out why his killer, Lalo Salamanca (Tony Dalton), was there in the first place.With six episodes left in the series, there are plenty of other unanswered questions, too. What happens to Kim? Will we see more Gene? Is Nacho’s (Michael Mando) death really resolved? Luckily, co-creator and showrunner Peter Gould spoke with Variety to provide insight into our favorite characters and answer our most pressing questions leading into Season 6 Part 2. We see Jimmy and Kim’s plot against Howard pieced out little by little over the course of seven episodes, and even the audience doesn’t know how it’s going to play out until we see it executed. Why did you decide to unspool their plan like this?It was a really tough choice to make because you don’t want to confuse people.

Warning: Spoilers ahead!Better Call Saul fans are still not over the mid-season 6 finale, Plan and Execution, which saw the biggest cliffhanger of the show so far. The episode marked the end of Jimmy McGill (Bob Odenkirk) and Kim Wexler’s (Rhea Seehorn) mission to put a stop to enemy Howard Hamlin (Patrick Fabian), with a brutal cold-blooded murder as Howard was shot in the head by Lalo Salamanca (Tony Dalton) when confronting the Goodmans in their home about their plot to smear his name. But, as it turns out, some might have been expecting the moment to come, after Bob released a little spoiler in December last year.

Warning: Spoilers for Better Call Saul season 6 episode 7!The Better Call Saul mid-season 6 finale has literally blown people’s minds with the episode, titled Plan and Execution, serving an almighty cliffhanger nobody saw coming. The instalment finally marked the end of Jimmy McGill (Bob Odenkirk) and Kim Wexler’s (Rhea Seehorn) mission to put a stop to enemy Howard Hamlin (Patrick Fabian), with a brutal cold-blooded murder blind-siding fans in the closing scenes. In quite possibly the most brutal moment of the show to date, Howard was shot in the head by Lalo Salamanca (Tony Dalton) as he confronted the Goodmans in their home about their plot to smear his name.

Better Call Saul has delivered a surprising character death in the mid-season finale for season six.In the episode titled Plan and Execution, Howard Hamlin (Patrick Fabian) was executed in cold blood by Lalo Salamanca (Tony Dalton) inside Kim Wexler (Rhea Seehorn) and Jimmy McGill’s (Bob Odenkirk) apartment.The unfortunate confrontation takes place while Kim and Jimmy celebrate their win over Howard at the Sandpiper Crossing mediation. Howard, who is humiliated by the defeat, turns up at their flat to interrupt the celebrations and air his grievances about being played.After security is diverted from Kim and Jimmy’s apartment to a supposed threat at Gus Fring’s launderette, Lalo makes a surprise visit to their home.

SPOILER ALERT:  This article contains details of tonight’s Better Call Saul 6A finale. 

Ethan Shanfeld SPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not watched the seventh episode of “Better Call Saul” Season 6, titled “Plan & Execution.”This week’s episode of “Better Call Saul,” like the six before it, has a bifurcated title — “Plan & Execution.” Season 6 has, so far, focused largely on Jimmy (Bob Odenkirk) and Kim’s (Rhea Seehorn) plot against Howard Hamlin (Patrick Fabian), the staunch attorney whose reputational downfall could directly lead to a settlement of the Sandpiper lawsuit and, thus, a healthy sum of money in Jimmy’s pocket. Fans have been patiently waiting to see their plan in action.

Jordan Moreau SPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not watched the sixth episode of “Better Call Saul” Season 6, titled “Axe and Grind.”Giancarlo Esposito didn’t appear in the latest episode of “Better Call Saul,” but that was because he was busy behind the camera directing this crucial episode, the penultimate entry in Season 6’s first half.“Axe and Grind” covered a lot of ground, taking place in Albuquerque, Germany, a long highway to Santa Fe and even a flashback to Kim Wexler’s (Rhea Seehorn) childhood. The episode started and ended with Kim, who hits her heartbreaking “moment of doom,” according to Esposito.

Jordan Moreau SPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not watched the fifth episode of “Better Call Saul” Season 6, titled “Rock and Hard Place.”Move over, Muhammad Ali, Mike Tyson and Floyd Mayweather: The biggest boxing showdown of all time just unfolded on “Better Call Saul.”In one corner stands Howard Hamlin (Patrick Fabian), managing partner of Hamlin, Hamlin McGill and tired of being the biggest punching bag in Albuquerque. In the other is Saul Goodman (Bob Odenkirk), aka Jimmy McGill aka Slippin’ Jimmy aka the biggest pain in Howard’s neck since “Better Call Saul” Season 1.

Better Call Saul,” leaving fans wondering what’s in store for the beloved crooked lawyer.As Jimmy McGill (Bob Odenkirk) opens shop as Saul Goodman, Kim Wexler (Rhea Seehorn) hints at her own breaking bad moment, with Howard Hamlin (Patrick Fabian) in her crosshairs. Meanwhile, Nacho Varga (Michael Mando) is on the run after playing a part in Gus Fring’s (Giancarlo Esposito) assassination attempt on Lalo Salamanca (Tony Dalton). Little do they know, Lalo lives to see another day after picking off Gus’ hitmen one by one in Terminator-like fashion.

Ethan Shanfeld How would “Better Call Saul” co-creators Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould describe the series’ hotly anticipated final season?“Fucking amazing,” Gilligan told Variety on the red carpet at last week’s premiere at the Hollywood Legion Theater, while Gould offered: “Holy fucking shit.”In a more serious tone, Gilligan added that Season 6 is “the best season yet… There’s a real argument to be made that ‘Better Call Saul’ is better than ‘Breaking Bad.'”Bob Odenkirk teased the final season as an “evolution hard-earned,” while Patrick Fabian, who plays Howard Hamlin, described it as “excruciatingly painfully exciting.” He continued, “It’s a satisfying season. All the setups that they put up the mountain start careening down the mountain.” The final season of “Better Call Saul” debuts Monday, April 18 on AMC and AMC+, marking the beginning of the end for some of TV’s most beloved characters.

Bob Odenkirk) morphs into Saul Goodman.The first two Season 6 episodes don’t differ much from the series’ canon: they’re by turns riveting and plodding and are underscored by a cinematography template inherited by “Better Call Saul” from its predecessor, “Breaking Bad.” (It was fresh and new … back then.) Enough already with close-ups of bugs crawling in the parched desert dirt or of dripping water or unorthodox camera angles. We get it.

Better Call Saul is returning for its sixth and final season. The season will include some familiar faces from Breaking Bad and is expected to be released later this month.

There will be no more making meth in the middle of the desert in your underwear, at least for now.

Wilson Chapman editorAfter six years, Jimmy McGill is on the verge of breaking bad.AMC has released the official trailer for the sixth and final season of “Better Call Saul,” the popular “Breaking Bad” prequel series starring Bob Odenkirk.The show features Odenkirk reprising his role as the fan-favorite “Breaking Bad” character Saul Goodman, a crooked criminal defense attorney. “Better Call Saul” traces the characters beginnings as an earnest public defender named Jimmy McGill, and details his tortured relationship with his brother Chuck (Michael McKean) and how he grew involved in the criminal underworld of Albuquerque, N.M.