"Better Call Saul" Filming Locations - Wish List of Undetermined Locations

This post is the eighth of eight posts regarding "Better Call Saul" filming locations (last updated November 26, 2024).

This post focuses on undetermined locations.

The Blog Sidebar contains links to Filming Location posts.  These include:

• Eight "Breaking Bad" filming location posts;
• Four additional posts regarding "Breaking Bad" related subjects;
• Eight "Better Call Saul" filming location posts;
• Two additional posts regarding "Better Call Saul" related subjects;
• One additional post regarding Surrealist artistic influences in "Breaking Bad" and "Better Call Saul";
• One post regarding "El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie";
• Three links to OldeSaultie's Google maps of "Breaking Bad" and "Better Call Saul" filming location sites. These are the best filming location maps on the Web! The KML files available at these addresses are particularly useful for importing locations into GPS-equipped devices.

Let me know if you have any problems or questions (E-Mail address: valdezmarc56@gmail.com).

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To avoid unnecessary friction, I have redacted the addresses of all single-family homes in these books. (These addresses are still available at Marc Valdez Weblog, however.)  The pictures in the print editions are black-and-white, in order to keep costs down. 

"A Guidebook To 'Breaking Bad' Filming Locations: Including 'Better Call Saul' - Albuquerque as Physical Setting and Indispensable Character" (Sixth Edition)

Purchase book at the link.                                                                                                                   This book outlines thirty-three circuits that the avid fan can travel in order to visit up to 679 different filming locations for "Breaking Bad" and "Better Call Saul" in the Albuquerque area.  Some background is provided for each site, including other movies that might have also used the site for filming.

"‘Breaking Bad’ Signs and Symbols: Reading Meaning into Sets, Props, and Filming Locations” (Second Edition)

Purchase book at the link.                                                                                                        “‘Breaking Bad’ Signs and Symbols,” aims to understand some of the symbolism embedded in the backgrounds of “Breaking Bad” and “Better Call Saul,” in order to decode messages and stories Vince Gilligan and crew have hidden there.                                                                                                    A series of tables are used to isolate how certain (particularly architectural) features are used: Gentle Arches, Tin Ceilings, Five-Pointed Stars, Octagons, etc. Daylighting innovations that were either pioneered or promoted in Chicago are examined: Glass Block Windows, Luxfer Prismatic Tile Windows, and Plate Glass Windows.

Certain symbols advance the plot: foreshadowing symbols like Pueblo Deco Arches, or danger symbols like bell shapes and stagger symbols. Other features, like Glass Block Windows or Parallel Beams in the Ceiling, tell stories about the legacies and corruptions of modernity, particularly those best-displayed at Chicago’s “Century of Progress” (1933-34). 

In addition, a number of scenes in the show are modeled after Early Surrealist artworks. The traces of various artists can be tracked in both shows, including: Comte de Lautréamont, Giorgio De Chirico, Man Ray, Max Ernst, Leonora Carrington, René Magritte, Toyen, Yves Tanguy, Remedios Varo, Paul Klee, and in particular, Salvador Dalí.

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Wish List Of Undetermined Locations


Season 1

Gene's Omaha Apartment interior (Season 1, episode 1, 'Uno'). DVD commentary for 'Uno' notes that the interior is located elsewhere than the exterior (which is at Diamond Apartments).

Jimmy McGill TV ad (Season 1, episode 10, 'Marco'; Season 2, episode 10, 'Klick'). Studio?



Season 2

HHM bathroom (Season 2, episode 5, 'Rebecca'; episode 7, 'Inflatable'). Now believed to be at Rinchem Company, Inc., 5131 Masthead St NE. I'd like photos, but access is difficult, in part because it's the ladies' restroom.

Stacy's new home interior (first seen in Season 2, episode 7, 'Inflatable'). Undetermined, but Season 2 DVD commentary says it's not located at the same place as the exterior. I'm thinking 8623 La Sala del Norte NE might work.

Stink Bug (Season 2, episode 8, 'Fifi'). Studio?

Season 3


North Valley Fit, Interior (Season 3, episode 3, 'Sunk Costs').


Conference room. Jimmy signs an agreement (Season 3, episode 4, 'Sabrosito'). Ostensibly the Old Courthouse.


Gus' Chicken Farm Warehouse interior (Season 3, episode 6, 'Off Brand'). Gus' all-important distribution center.


Rebecca's taxi ride (Season 3, episode 6, 'Off Brand'). Heading to Chuck's place.


Mike's closet (Season 3, episode 8, 'Slip').


Hospital Scene (Season 3, episode 10, 'Lantern').


Jimmy's Dad's intact store. Michael Novotny set, per PC308, or a real store, per Season 3 DVD 'Slip' commentary? (Season 2, episode 7, 'Inflatable'). 1973 Chicago.



Season 4

Incidental driving scenes ("Better Call Saul," Season 4, episode 1, 'Smoke').


Madrigal Warehouse (1) scenes ("Better Call Saul," Season 4, episode 1, 'Smoke').


Madrigal office scenes ("Better Call Saul," Season 4, episode 1, 'Smoke').


Cartel Warehouse scenes ("Better Call Saul," Season 4, episode 1, 'Smoke'; episode 2, 'Breathe').


Corral where Juan Bolsa talks to Gus ("Better Call Saul," Season 4, episode 3, 'Something Beautiful').


Madrigal Warehouse (2) scenes ("Better Call Saul," Season 4, episode 4, 'Talk').


Courtroom ("Better Call Saul," Season 4, episode 4, 'Talk'; episode 5, 'Quite a Ride'; episode 7, 'Something Stupid'). Bernalillo County Annex or old Valencia County Courthouse?


Judge's Chambers ("Better Call Saul," Season 4, episode 4, 'Talk'; episode 8, 'Coushatta'). Bernalillo County Annex?


Van Interior, Q Studios? ("Better Call Saul," Season 4, episode 5, 'Quite a Ride').


PPD Check-in Cubicles ("Better Call Saul," Season 4, episode 5, 'Quite a Ride').


Kim & Jimmy drive to and fro from party ("Better Call Saul," Season 4, episode 7, 'Something Stupid'). Unclear which streets they travel.


Jimmy's Apartment ("Better Call Saul," Season 4, episode 10, 'Winner'). Symbols and a shared bed.


Lalo's Drive ("Better Call Saul," Season 4, episode 10, 'Winner'). Likely near Los Lunas, in vicinity of Jubilee Retirement Community.


View of the Chicken Farm ("Better Call Saul," Season 4, episode 10, 'Winner'). Lalo observes. Podcast says composite view of Chicken Farm from the north.


Mike shoots Werner ("Better Call Saul," Season 4, episode 10, 'Winner'). Final scene.  Preliminary scene near "Q" Studios, not far from Kim's Accident Scene.  Final scene might be same place as preliminary scene, but with digital effects to swap out the background with a better view of the Sandia Mountains.



Season 5

Warehouse ("Better Call Saul," Season 5, episode 1, 'Magic Man'). Unclear if it's the same as before



Interview rooms ("Better Call Saul," Season 5, episode 3, 'The Man For This'; episode 4, 'Namaste'; episode 7, 'JMM'). Probably MDC, but a little uncertain



Los Pollos Hermanos, Schweikart & Cokely, Mesa Verde ("Better Call Saul," Season 5, episode 4, 'Namaste'). Wondering if these locations were sets?



Madrigal Conference room ("Better Call Saul," Season 5, episode 7, 'JMM'). Triumphant fast food presentations



Mesa Verde conference room ("Better Call Saul," Season 5, episode 6, 'Wexler v. McGill'; episode 7, 'JMM').



Marriage license ("Better Call Saul," Season 5, episode 7, 'JMM'). Huell is befuddled



Lalo's jail cell ("Better Call Saul," Season 5, episode 7, 'JMM').



Lalo's Interview Room ("Better Call Saul," Season 5, episode 8, 'Bagman'). Lalo talks to Kim



Bonds cashier ("Better Call Saul," Season 5, episode 9, 'Bad Choice Road').



Gus' Office ("Better Call Saul," Season 5, episode 9, 'Bad Choice Road').


Season 6

Lalo visits a house ("Better Call Saul," Season 6, episode 1, 'Wine and Roses'). Mountaineer looks like Lalo.

      

Jimmy plops on seat in Courtroom ("Better Call Saul," Season 6, episode 1, 'Wine and Roses'). Which courtroom?

      

Gus' Chicken Farm Office ("Better Call Saul," Season 6, episode 1, 'Wine and Roses'; episode 2, 'Carrot and Stick'; episode 3, 'Rock and Hard Place'). Looks less and less like old office.

      

Juan Bolsa's house ("Better Call Saul," Season 6, episode 1, 'Wine and Roses'). Hacienda Antigua again, or, more likely, somewhere else?

      

Nacho hides in a culvert ("Better Call Saul," Season 6, episode 1, 'Wine and Roses').

      

Mike plays with Kaylee ("Better Call Saul," Season 6, episode 1, 'Wine and Roses'). Mike's house?

      

Warehouse ("Better Call Saul," Season 6, episode 3, 'Rock and Hard Place'). Nacho's Last Supper.

      

Running Up and Down Steps in Parking Garage ("Better Call Saul," Season 6, episode 3, 'Rock and Hard Place'). Probably Bank of the West Center Parking Garage, but not 100% certain.

      

Complete bicycle trek ("Better Call Saul," Season 6, episode 4, 'Hit and Run').

      

Jimmy drives in celebration (1) ("Better Call Saul," Season 6, episode 4, 'Hit and Run'). Possibly on Bellamah just west of Sawmill Apts., but unsure.

      

Kim drives - car follows ("Better Call Saul," Season 6, episode 4, 'Hit and Run').

      

Creating a German keepsake ("Better Call Saul," Season 6, episode 5, 'Black and Blue'). Embedding a slide rule in Lucite - According to Insider Podcast, shot at same time and in nearby/adjacent space to boxing scene.

      

Boxing Scene ("Better Call Saul," Season 6, episode 5, 'Black and Blue'). Maybe a loft?

      

German residence in woods ("Better Call Saul," Season 6, episode 6, 'Axe and Grind').

      

Industrial Laundry Security ("Better Call Saul," Season 6, episode 6, 'Axe and Grind').

      

UNM film classroom ("Better Call Saul," Season 6, episode 7, 'Plan and Execution').

      

Dark room at media lab ("Better Call Saul," Season 6, episode 7, 'Plan and Execution').

Motel ("Better Call Saul," Season 6, episode 9, 'Fun and Games').  Looks like Hiway House in Nob Hill, but I don't think that's it.

Mall Security Office ("Better Call Saul," Season 6, episode 10, 'Nippy').  Beautiful architectural space.

Snowy Field ("Better Call Saul," Season 6, episode 10, 'Nippy').  It's so big, but I don't know where they are!

Second Bar in montage ("Better Call Saul," Season 6, episode 11, 'Breaking Bad').

Various houses in montage ("Better Call Saul," Season 6, episode 11, 'Breaking Bad').

Mobile homes across the canal from Kim's House ("Better Call Saul," Season 6, episode 12, 'Waterworks').

All Seasons

Scale Opening (Episode 3 openings)

Cell Phone Opening (Episode 4 openings)

Saul's office - carpet opening (Episode 7 openings)

Tarantula (Episode 8 openings)

Falling Coffee Cup open (Episode 10 openings)