(And while on the Paley Center for Media stage, via Variety, Gilligan claimed after his X-Files stint, he knew he wouldn’t be able to survive showrunning a series with over 20 episodes a season, so don’t expect Saul to double its episode count soon.)
Not exactly hitting the anti-hero mold as it would come to be recognized, but still balancing the line between right and wrong in different ways.
Vince Gilligan’s biggest pre-Breaking Bad gig was as a writer and producer on The X-Files, which did center on two characters who almost always did the “right” thing, but also featured supposedly virtuous government workers whose motivations and morals were consistently iffy.