Vince Gilligan knew it was time for a palate cleanser.

It turns out that plotting the criminal ambitions of Walter White (Bryan Cranston), Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul) and Saul Goodman (Bob Odenkirk) for 17 years can take its toll. That’s not to say that Gilligan isn’t proud of his life’s work that includes the 16-time-Emmy-winning Breaking Bad , its prequel-sequel series Better Call Saul and sequel movie, El Camino , but it became increasingly evident to him that he needed to shift his focus to a lead character who isn’t preoccupied with ill-gotten gains. The Virginia native also wanted to prove to himself that he could tackle a completely blank page again after relying on Breaking Bad as a creative springboard for nearly two decades.

Vince Gilligan knew it was time for a pa

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