'Better Call Saul' Season 2 Order Reduced to 10 Episodes

It wasn’t any surprise when AMC swiftly renewed Breaking Bad spinoff Better Call Saul for a second season ahead of its first premiere, at the time promising 13 episodes to the inaugural run’s ten. Now that Season 2 has set a February 2016 premiere, however, the episode order has apparently been reduced to the same ten as its predecessor.

The other day saw Better Call Saul confirming a February 15 Season 2 premiere, though buried in AMC’s announcement lay a listing of ten episodes, rather than the 13 initially announced. Those noticing the change reached out to executive producer, showrunner (and character co-creator) Peter Gould for confirmation, yielding a surprising, if unexplained answer:

In the meantime, here’s how AMC describes Better Call Saul Season 2:

A prequel to the award-winning series “Breaking Bad,” the series follows down-on-his-luck Jimmy McGill (Bob Odenkirk) as he navigates the moral dilemmas of the legal world while trying to step out of his older brother’s shadow and make a name for himself. Season one found Jimmy stumble upon a large class-action lawsuit, which led to a promising job opportunity at a large firm. Having arrived at a fork in the road, will Jimmy take the straight and narrow path with a safe corporate job or will he fall back into his “Slippin’ Jimmy” con-artist ways?

In addition to Jonathan Banks’ return as Mike Ehrmantraut, Better Call Saul features Michael McKean as Saul/Jimmy McGill’s brother Chuck, The Last Exorcism star Patrick Fabian as white-shoe law firm lawyer Howard Hamlin, Rhea Seehorn as fellow lawyer Kim Wexler, and Orphan Black star Michael Mando as career criminal Nacho Varga.

Check out the latest Better Call Saul Season 2 spots below, and brush up your criminal law before its February 2016 return.

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