Better Call Saul

paranoid delusion over a tiki drink date set to Esquivel was like "hi gr80 we wrote a tv scene just for you"

maybe the cold opens will be a linked flashforward story like they often were in BB?

prefer that he stay in stasis in the present tbh

probably they will - but Gilligan is so into playing with narrative and multiple timelines, plus fucking with/rewarding viewer expectations... I hope that playful fluid storytelling comes into play again (not necessarily overlapping with BB timeline, just in general)

I usually hate guessing, but in this case I'll take a stab. This season will be the story of how Jimmy became Saul, and if the show goes over well enough and gets picked up for another season, they'll jump to the present day.

only one season of backstory? seems kind of abrupt

will be interesting if they get around to writing/introducing any decent female characters (the main weakness of BB imo)

Without the guarantee of a 2nd season, I think they at least have to get the name change done. I mean, planting the seed for it in S1E2 is indicator enough of that for me.

Plus, the show's not called "Better Call Jimmy." But yeah, they could do future seasons of post-Saul/pre-BB story, no problem.

is this available for streaming with an amazon prime subscription? or is is the same $3/ep ; $25/season as iTunes?

I expect he's gonna debut the name-change within the next couple eps. As soon as he starts representing drug dealers, his bro's *really* not gonna want him to use the family name

Without the guarantee of a 2nd season, I think they at least have to get the name change done. I mean, planting the seed for it in S1E2 is indicator enough of that for me.

― you make me feel like danzig (WilliamC),

Second season has already been ordered, hasn't it?

it has, they committed to it as a two-season project to start

oddly, while it always seemed clear what the ending of BB was gonna be (ie Walt dies), here - even though it's all basically a flashback - how they might end it seems way more up in the air

xp -- ok, I didn't know that, carry on then

i could see one of the skate bros bein all "s'all good, man" after an apology from Saul.

yeah that pun's gonna have to figure into his name somehow

lol I had totally forgotten that Michael McKean had previously shown up on Mr. Show as a law school professor

i could see one of the skate bros bein all "s'all good, man" after an apology from Saul.

oh my god

Saul Goodman is the name of a protagonist (a private detective) from the Illuminatus! trilogy of books that came out in the 70's. Would be great if that's where he pulls the name from.

Being a fan of Robert Anton Wilson, Mr. Show and Breaking Bad, if they do this my head will explode.

lol I had totally forgotten that Michael McKean had previously shown up on Mr. Show as a law school professor

Professor Peens!

the direction is so very good
i kinda thought they were going to have to build a show around odenkirk but whaddayaknow, he actually brings the show up to his level
ryan, i gotta think they'll nod that direction if that's accurate

A guy at work yesterday told me that he'd heard about this new show on Netflix, Just Called Saul

Lol that post BB Saul Goodman disguised himself as pre BB Walter White

is this available for streaming with an amazon prime subscription? or is is the same $3/ep ; $25/season as iTunes?

it's like $2/$16 on amazon

Is this on tonight or tomorrow in the States?

tonight

It's on UK Netflix tomorrow morning

well i enjoyed that last episode

although i don't know how necessary it was to show saul arguing with mike over parking tickets again, since they had a five minute montage of this last episode.

Maybe they just have to give Jonathan Banks something to do to keep him under contract until Mike is properly needed in the story. I'm glad he's not a main character yet. I feel the same way about those scenes, btw.

The longer Mike has to endure them the more brutal the smackdown is going to be when it inevitably comes.

Nice twist in the episode but the clueless detectives didn't ring true

you don't think? i don't reckon they had much of a reason to believe Saul. Occam's Razor and all that.

<i>it took me ages to stop thinking of him as Gob in Arrested Development</i>

Er, you do know that is a different actor?

He was actually in one episode of Arrested Development mind

http://41.media.tumblr.com/eb120477683c6198733676cfd8e06ddc/tumblr_mrdvci5q6P1qcm16uo3_1280.png

Er, you do know that is a different actor?

― Chewshabadoo, Wednesday, February 18, 2015 1:09 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Oh yeah, obviously, and in retrospect they're not that similar at all, but my initial impression of Saul was that he was kind of a lawyer version of Gob; a slightly arrogant buffoonish character who narrowly gets out of self-inflicted scrapes. But it's clear that Saul has quite a few more braincells knocking about than Gob.

really enjoying a show with a similar aesthetic/general feel to breaking bad that doesn't depress the shit out of me/give me a heart attack every ep (yet). odenkirk is killing it, and i continue to think the show has a lot of potential

the episodes have been getting progressively better thus far, which is great, and while it probably qualifies as another brand of fan service it was so dope to see jonathan banks go full ehrmantrout

Now that I think about it, the thing with the police doesn't really make sense. They knew they were under investigation for stealing 1,5 million dollars, I don't get why it would be such a big stretch that they'd just wander off. Especially when that sign on their car showed them camping. It does seem rather clueless.

Other than that, the show continues to be very good.

i mean i think any cop that is confronted w a ransacked house and a suspicious vehicle (complete with blood stains) isn't going to jump to "secret faked kidnapping" just off the bat. cops aren't always as interested in the right answer so much as the expedient one

plus i would think the responsible course of action would be to rule out forceful kidnapping before entertaining other scenarios to ensure the safety of the missing

the only detective bit that bugged me was how they were all of a sudden in the middle of Mike and Saul after their parking lot altercation, that seemed kinda random/rushed to shoehorn Mike in there

They just seemed way too dismissive of the very possible thought, that the criminals hiding 1,5 mil might be interested in getting away. It doesn't seem as unlikely and against Occam's razor as the show presented it. IMO. The police was trying to force Jimmy into betraying his own client, right? That just seems... I don't know, perhaps it instead seemed too dumb that Jimmy could just walk out the door and find the family in the wilderness. Now I notice it, something seemed off.

But who cares, plot isn't important anyway. Mood was good, pictures were beautiful, it was funny. It's good.

yeah I am loving this series my quibbles are minor.

detectives going for the kidnapping explanation makes sense to me given they had a suspect who was casing the joint to kidnap the family. I mean, no cop is going to overlook that for some more complicated theory - occam's razor and all that.

and not a lot of comedy this episode but I didn't mind. only real lol was right at the end with Saul's "HEEERE'S JOHNNY!" entrance

the robot sex voice had me lolling hard.

and yeah the way he just gives up on using this elaborate homemade voice changer was pretty brilliant.

Yeah, but if someone is noticably casing a place, wouldn't it also make it more likely that the family would take off? I mean, it's not as if it was coincidental, the two things actually were connected (through Jimmy)