Better Call Saul

Or the time that Flynn accidentally bumped into Tuco at the mall.

Lol Flynn!

Taste the family

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrFLOu71Ip8

yessss

i have been craving the return of BCS

I was just thinking about BCS earlier!

Gus is one creepy dude

oh hell yes

i really want to eat at los pollos hermanos

So, fans, what sort of itch does this show scratch for you? I'm thinking about digging in, but I want a better idea of what it's trying to do.

Its the King of Comedy to Breaking Bad's Taxi Driver

that is incredibly otm

^^^

haha that's perfect

"Only the spiciest spices" also made me lol

latebloomer def otm

it's better than breaking bad imo

Just like King of Comedy is better than Taxi Driver, but it's the shocking & violent psycho drama more people praise rather than the more subtle and dry follow-up.

it's better than breaking bad imo

so far, absolutely

One week!

^yit's been

I think the average no of scenes/sequences per ep is decreasing

lol wins

i'd watch a single-shot BCS ep

this was pretty great; as with Americans, it's most interesting when it moves slowly and stays focused

So psyched to watch this. I've been priming the pump by rewatching X-Files and realizing that Gilligan's episodes were often the best.

at this point, i consider Saul to just be an extension of Breaking Bad in terms of quality. Considering Gilligan's starting his eighth season at this level, i can't think of anyone else in television who's been able to sustain this greatness this long.

i'm rewatching breaking bad right now, and just got to the first few episodes in season 2 where saul is introduced. obviously BCS is a prequel and there are connections to the breaking bad universe, but it'll be interesting to see how much they try to connect the two stories, especially saul's personality. in breaking bad, of course, he's introduced as this kind of dirtbag lawyer who only cares about making money. it's kind of jarring to see the scene in breaking bad where he gets kidnapped by walt and jesse - just before they nab him late at night as he's walking out of his office, saul is hitting on his secretary and asking if he can follow her home. that fits in with his breaking bad character (at least how he's first portrayed), but after the first two BCS seasons, it doesn't really seem like something he would do.

I haven't watched yet but in general BCS seems like its plotting the arc of Jimmy just totally giving up and going full dirtbag/ie becoming Saul and that the showrunners are fully aware of this

There was a brief Odenkirk interview in the NYT where he confirms we'll see the first overt shift into Saul-dom this season and mentions that reading the script in question made him really sad.

at this point, i consider Saul to just be an extension of Breaking Bad in terms of quality. Considering Gilligan's starting his eighth season at this level, i can't think of anyone else in television who's been able to sustain this greatness this long.

― Bobson Dugnutt (ulysses), Tuesday, April 11, 2017 12:31 PM (two hours ago)

it's always sunny and the simpsons come to mind, but those are half-hour comedies rather than hour-long dramas

also imo BB was pretty patchy

Unless you're talking about the inimitable Al Jean (which I suspect you are not), The Simpsons didn't have a single showrunner carrying them through nearly a decade of amazingly-solid TV so I'm not sure the comparison applies.

this "single showrunner" thing is a relatively new phenomenon

ah good point xp

xpost Eh, kinda, but you did at least have big name producers/creators back in the day who presumably maintained some degree of quality control.

always sunny seems like the gold standard for this with comedies, yes... they've actually been consistently good longer than the simpsons imo!
but simpler times

Loved all the Mike scenes this week, although took me a while to work out what he was up to.

So this has aired already in Murica? Must stop clicking bookmark!

Already on UK Netflix too

^ Yeah

It airs in the US on the Monday night and is then available over here on Netflix on the Tuesday

Oh fuck I thought it was next week for some reason. Nice surprise.

So did Chuck intend for Ernesto to hear the tape?

On Mike's espionage, wouldn't they have just replaced the battery in the old bug rather than taken it away? Wasteful.

I was also thinking that, but I suppose when you trying to discreetly plant a tracker on someones car - speed and stealth will be more important. And the tape recorder being on play and the ott reaction deffo seemed contrived and part of some cunning plan.

Not to mention his smug move with the tongs once Ernie left

ulysses otm; the inching forward of the gene timeline (omg this has different timelines, how mindbending lol) is more impactful than any number of EXPLOSIVE season openings

I like the way Mike shows his ex-cop stakeout craft to perfection. Like he has the discipline to sit in a darkened room for hours (with just some pistachios for company!).

I suppose part of the reason Fring ends up employing him is that he realises Mike has skills way beyond any of his happy amateur goons.

Well, the full reason I should have said.

I just want to say how much I appreciate that the mechanics of the tracker switch-off were shown in loving detail but never overtly explained. It's so refreshing to have to actually think about what characters on a TV show are doing and why they're doing it rather than having the writers hammer it all into the brains of their half-engaged viewership. Mike is a smart and skilled dude, so I enjoy feeling like he's at least a step or two ahead of me, a decidedly less smart and skilled dude.

yep, it takes a strong creative team to trust that they're a little in front of you and show not tell

https://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/1dkcej/never_eat_pistachios_in_the_dark/

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