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I get to do Omaha.
Im like: What?
Actually, they will become apparent as you go.
In this case, we thought wed do something a little bit different.
This just really appealed to us as we started the season.
I think its going to have resonances that go beyond whats obvious right now.
MM:This is a sequence about nostalgia in some ways, right?
Like its the end of something.
Theres a version that we put together where I just used the shots with no dissolves in between.
PG:We were definitely thinking ofCitizen Kane.
The script called for all these glorious Saul Goodman-esque ties to be an opening image.
PG:Were not actually doing anything technological to switch the color.
Its actually black-and-white ties and then color ties.
These were all carefully selected, to start with monochromatic ties and then to start introducing color.
But wait a minute, maybe not.
I think that was weirdly in the back of my mind somewhere.
Were all film nuts here.
It just made me laugh every single time.
We had a whole other shot with a camera mounted to the standee.
Hopefully theres a Blu-ray sometime and youll get that shot, because it was amazing.
MM:The underwater shot, randomly, was very difficult.
It took ages to get the water clear of ripples and then get in.
We had to just push it and hope.
PG:The scene was filmed at a house in Albuquerque.
There are portions of the bathroom that are actually a set that was built at Q Studios.
But the rest of the house, it is a real house.
MM:The gold toilet was something we threw in and made.
We couldnt find a sufficiently gold toilet.
Its hard to find, I guess, so we painted a toilet gold.
So they had to undo the toilet and totally repaint it again.
They did a brilliant job.
It was gold enough by the end.
PG:Those fantastic stained-glass windows are all real.
The walk-in closet was a transformation of another bedroom that was off this large room.
It took a long time to figure out that set.
This season is like that it has to do with COVID andBobs healthand a lot of other things.
There are a lot of scenes that are shot six months apart from each other.
We got very deep into the writing process before we started production on the opening.
And that was especially fun for us.
So once you get to the end of the season, go back.
Go back and press pause.
It hopefully bears repeated viewing to see what we crammed into the screen.
I wrote a bunch of it into the script.
I was so excited to have the Beanie Babies, to have those CC Mobile stress balls.
There are shoes that he uses to trick one of his victims back in season three.
Theres a whole lot in there, and its just jam-packed.
And then you get, at the very end, theZafiro stopper.
Is Kim in his life?And the teaser certainly says that shes still on his mind.
MM:This is what I love aboutBetter Call Saul.
It never spoon-feeds its audience.
Even good shows that dont want to reset or use exposition do it a little bit.
And you know what?
If they miss it, theyll see it the second time.
