“Better Call Saul”
(Albuquerque and environs)
Unpack your bags:
“It may sound pretentious, but watching this show — there’s almost a cosmic aspect,” says co-creator (with Vince Gilligan) Peter Gould. “The landscape is bigger than life, so the story feels bigger than life. It’s also exotic to a lot of people around the world — and that’s one thing that catches the eye. It doesn’t look like everything else on TV.”
View on the ground:
“Albuquerque is a very large town — it doesn’t quite make a city,” says location manager Christian Diaz de Bedoya. “They like to shoot really wide shots and always want to incorporate big, blue sky — big, wide [shots] instead of just cutting to characters. I average 10 to 17 locations for each episode — and that has to be squeezed into 7½ days. But I like it, because it’s very organic. You’re seeing real stuff.”