[5] The first season writing staff was nominated for the Writers Guild of America (WGA) Award for best new series at the February 2009 ceremony.

[10] The writing staff was nominated for the WGA award for best drama series at the February 2010 ceremony for their work on the second season.

In 2011, he wrote the HBO television film Too Big to Fail based on Andrew Ross Sorkin's book of the same name chronicling the events of the 2008 financial crisis and the collapse of Lehman Brothers from the point of view of Wall Street CEOs and US government regulators.

[15][16] Gould would become the series sole showrunner after Gilligan left the writing staff early in the third season to focus on other projects.

In 2017 and 2022, Better Call Saul was honored with a Peabody Award for "developing its own unique tone mixing legal drama, crime thriller, and dark comedy.