Better Call Saul

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)

if someone was casing my home to rob it, no I would not leave - I would call the cops

If you had hidden 1,5 million you had stolen?

presumably if I had stolen 1.5 million I would not be stupid enough to hide it in my house, but fair point

Yeah, right, that is another thing, that family were dumb as hell, but the script did point that out. Oh well, it's a comedy, and it was pretty funny.

Took me out of it.

JUST KIDDING! Enjoying this show so far...

yeah i think it's important to remember that this is a slightly goofier proposition to BB at this stage, so hanging out in a tent with £1.5m cash is semi-plausible in this universe.

also - loved 'young' saul in the flashback.

i'm not really feeling this, i may circle back later. i just dont really like the constant stuntcasting of bb who's who, like there should be canned applause whenever someone shows up

i fucking love odenkirk though, no matter what

? only 2 BB characters have shown up so far, and it looks like Tuco's unlikely to reappear

and Banks was always known to be a series regular

i like it so far, although i'm with shakey on the less-than-tight plot of the third episode.

i'm sure i'm totally wrong, but i'm kind of viewing these first few handful of episodes as a prelude to the central plot progression. they have at least two seasons to work with, so they can stretch out a little bit. for now it's enough for me to get to know the other characters. i think the connection between saul and chuck has the potential to be amazing.

This last one was kind of a dud. But his rapport with Ermintrout is excellent and I can't figure why the latter doesn't have more of a role yet. Maybe even a dual-lead show with The two of them would work.

I really like McKean

Saul is basically Lionel Hutz tbf tbh

I loved the last episode. So many great images.

this was a slow burn episode but the reveals of each scam were nicely done

Seems like Saul has a much better W/L % than Lionel Hutz.

Some tension between "is this a scam" or "is this just something happening because something has to happen on tv shows"

McKean going outside was lol

yeah i loved when it snapped to the neighbor's view

really well set up with the glimpse of her through the window before the cut

slippin' jimmy's partner who said "butthole" a lot was great

"s'all good, man"

such fan service

(cracked me up)

yeah i loved when it snapped to the neighbor's view

― gr8080

This had me and the GF in stitches.

yeah e4 was so good for all the above reasons. i'm really enjoying this show.

Eldest Child thought the scenes with McKean outside were a rip-off from Sir Digby Chicken Caesar.

haha!

Oh man. I hope someone dubs the Sir Digby music over that and puts it on youtube.

Once you've seen Sir Digby Chicken Caesar, it's hard to ever view that particular camera technique as anything but Sir Digby-esque.

Finally, Ermintrout. Last 5 mins were the most interesting in the ep,which was the slowest moving and most directionless so far.

Myyk Ermintrout

This was the best episode

I love the pacing on this show. I recently rewatched Twin Peaks, and I'd forgotten how ridiculously and often uncomfotably long Lynch would allow some takes to go on. Didn't figure anyone would have the chutzpah to let things breathe like that in our modern tv era, so I'm pleasantly surprised. And I'm glad that its concerns are relatively low-key. It owes a clear stylistic debt to BB but it's its own show. Just remains to be seen if people will have the patience to let it be its own show.

I'm loving this show

I was gonna remark that a lot of the direction this episode reminded me of lynch's episodes of twin peaks! The composition of a lot of the shots, but also the old lady coming down on the stairlift was very much like the room service waiter

It also felt very Cohen Bros to me.

Sex toilet

the woman mike was stalking = his daughter...? My wife thought it was the woman w/the barrels of meth from BB but it looked like a different actress to me

it was def not lydia, daughter seems possible

did Mike have a cover story day job in the Breaking Bad days, or was he just a cuddly retired grandad doing magic crime guy stuff on the side?

he was on the books of los pollos hermanos as a loss prevention manager and did licensed P.I. gigs for saul

I thought it was his daughter. Didn't he leave all his money to his granddaughter and spend time with her at the playground? I'm guessing there's some storyline where he did some corrupt thing in philly and/or moved to the southwest to be around his estranged family?

yeah that's my guess

iirc Gomez and Hank detail what got him kicked off the force in BB at some point, when they're interrogating him

Sex toilet

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Came in here to say this

Caught up on this week's episode and can agree with some of the comments above - although it prob can't go on this way forever, at the moment I'm actually enjoying the slow pacing and (comparatively) low stakes of the show. The 'shaggy dog story' elements of BB were a big part of what I liked about it (and I'd guess I wouldn't be alone in that) but obv. in BB that was just one strand amongst many, whereas BCS is allowing that sort of vibe to come more to the forefront of things.

I don't mean to be a nerd about this but I miss Michael Slovis.

In other news I haven't watched EP 4 yet but I think it's moving along just fine. Jimmy's past and future have been revealed (I was just dying at how scared he was when he thought that guy in Cinnabon recognised him. We also we know how proud he is of his like as Saul from the videotapes. It's also been nice to be reminded how intelligent he is, tracking down the Kettlemans, and then the darker side of taking the bribe but using it to hustle one magnificent stunt making him a hero.
This is Saul on his own and I think the writers, actors, directors are doing a great job of keeping true to his character: the incredibly intelligent lawyer who will take a shot at doing the right thing but if that road is blocked, the he knows how to use the bad path to his advantage.