When is Better Call Saul season 5 on Netflix?
When is Better Call Saul season 5 on Netflix?
Updated on November 17, 2022 15:01 PM by Andrew Koschiev
Better Call Saul is a crime and legal drama series created by Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould. In the early-mid 2000s in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the series develops Jimmy McGill, an earnest lawyer, and former con artist, into an egocentric criminal defense attorney known as Saul Goodman over the six years before the events of Breaking Bad, ning from 2002 to 2008. The series premiered on February 8, 2015, and concluded on August 15, 2022.
Year of the TV show: 2015 - 2022
Genre: Crime drama, Tragedy, and Legal drama.
No. of Seasons: 6
No. of Episodes: 63
Ratings
- Rotten Tomatoes – 98%
- IMDb -8.9/10
- Metacritic – 86/100
Cast
- Bob Odenkirk as Jimmy McGill/Saul Goodman/Gene Takavic
- Jonathan Banks as Mike Ehrmantraut
- Rhea Seehorn as Kim Wexler
- Patrick Fabian as Howard Hamlin
- Michael Mando as Nacho Varga
- Michael McKean as Chuck McGill
- Giancarlo Esposito as Gus Fring
- Tony Dalton as Lalo Salamanca
Better Call Saul has six seasons with 63 episodes.
Season 1
Release date: February 8, 2015
The season takes place in 2002, six years before the events in Breaking bad, and features Jimmy McGill, known in Breaking Bad as Saul Goodman. Jimmy is a struggling lawyer looking after his successful brother Chuck, a former attorney. Jonathan Banks reprises his role as Mike Ehrmantraut, a parking lot attendant who is also a criminal.
Ratings
- Rotten Tomatoes – 97%
- Metacritic - 78
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Season 2
Release date: February 15, 2016
Jimmy McGill has a feud with his brother Chuck. Kim Wexler, a Hamlin & McGill attorney, Jimmy's lover, and former mailroom co-worker, leave the practice in the office space she shares with Jimmy. Michael Ehrmantraut conflicts with the Mexican rug cartel after an altercation with Raymond Cruz. Mike is targeted by Raymond Cruz's uncle Hector.
Ratings
- Rotten Tomatoes – 97%
- Metacritic - 85
Season 3
Release date: April 10, 2017
Chuck believes Jimmy is unfit to be a lawyer and plots to have him disbarred. Mike Ehrmantraut begins a partnership with Gustavo Fring while Nacho Varga is plotting to murder their rival, Hector.
Ratings
- Rotten Tomatoes – 98%
- Metacritic - 87
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Season 4
Release date: August 6, 2018
Jimmy and Kim struggle to cope with Chuck’s death. Howard believes he is responsible for Chuck's death and suffers from depression and disengagement from work. Gus is suspicious of Nacho after
Hector’s stroke. Gus hires an engineer and construction crew to construct the meth 'superlab' under the industrial laundry. Lalo Salamanca arrives to begin running the family’s drug business.
Ratings
- Rotten Tomatoes – 99%
- Metacritic - 87
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Season 5
Release date: February 23, 2020
Jimmy McGill meets Walter White and Jesse Pinkman. Jimmy into the titular character of criminal defense lawyer Saul Goodman after regaining his law license. Kim Wexler is dismayed by Jimmy’s
secretive and sporadic nature. Nacho Varga fears for his father's safety, and Mike Ehrmantraut is struggling to cope with his killing of Werner Ziegler; they are caught between Gus and Lalo’s conflict
where Jimmy and Kim are.
Ratings
- Rotten Tomatoes – 99%
- Metacritic – 92
Season 6
Release date: April 18, 2022
Jimmy and his wife, Kim Wexler, execute their plan to ruin the career of Howard Hamlin to force a resolution of the Sandpiper case. It depicts the drug cartel’s reactions to the assassination attempt on
Lalo Salamanca.
Ratings
- Rotten Tomatoes – 99%
- Metacritic - 94
Does Better Call Saul Season 5 on Netflix?
Season 5 will debut on Netflix based on the previous season's release dates. The first three seasons debuted on the streaming platform weeks before or after its premiere on its home television network.
Season 4 debuted on August 6, 2018, but only made its way over to Netflix almost two years later, arriving on the streaming service on February 9, 2020. It is confirmed that Better Call Saul season 5
will come to Netflix US on April 4, 2022.
Where can you watch Season 5?
You can head to Amazon Prime Video, Google Play, and iTunes to watch every fifth-season episode. It looks like this season is not available on any major streaming sites, but it will change in the future.