Posted on 03/20/2015 8:55:56 PM PDT by nickcarraway
It stands on its own just fine. Why would anyone want the show to be a clone of BB. I enjoyed BB, and I’m currently enjoying Saul.
I liked the episode where we got Mike’s back-story that I watched it twice. I like the character development and the fact that the plot is logical and doesn’t cheat.
I am surprised, it actually is pretty good. My take was they should have done a series like “Grey Matter” to delve into Walt’s earlier life with family and work, but it’s been a pleasant surprise so far.
I know Jonathan Banks is happy.
Still missing The Sopranos. Breaking Bad and this don’t meaure up.
Many TV critics that I read said that episode might be the single best hour on TV for 2015. Could win Banks an Emmy.
We’re watching the slow, evolutionary process by which Jimmy McGill became Saul Goodman, lawyer and money launderer to drug dealers years later. Just let it flow. Don’t rush it.
Has it supplied the same kind of thrills BB seemed to provide every episode? No... it moves a little slower. But let's give Gilligan some rope here...BCS has been much better than expected as far the wife and I are concerned. BTW, the subplot with Mike Ermantraut's problems has been great.
Love this show!
Bob Odenkirk is just superb in his portrayal of Jimmy/Saul
I saw him in the Fargo series on FX last year, which I really enjoyed, but Billy Bob Thornton sucked all the air out of that room so I never really noticed Odenkirk.
Never was much a fan of Thornton before, but he was great in Fargo. One of the all-time great villains in tv history.
I’m really enjoying the show! It’s fun when we run into someone who was in BB.
That's pretty much it.
There's so much absolutely awful TV that insults -- even attacks -- the intelligence of the viewer scene after scene.
"But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being." [Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn]
Jimmy's path across that line is not going to be the same kind of crossing that Walter White took not only because they're different people but because their circumstances are so different... but ... is there already the intimation that a failed love is going to be as big an unspoken part of James Morgan McGill's unraveling as it was for Walter White?
We'll see.
I’m enjoying BCS a lot. The little story arcs that at times intersect then diverge are fascinating. Watching Slippery Jimmy evolve with the flashes of sheer brilliance is a hoot.
I especially like the insane Betsy Kettleman — what a nutjob until she finally collapses and reveals herself to be human.
A great show. Odenkirk makes you feel empathy for Jimmy, even though you know he’s a shady lawyer - and he does have a sense of morality and ethics that he struggles with. You can feel the desperation coming out as Jimmy schemes and tries to break out as a high paid lawyer.
Yeah, she's a hoot. Crazy Eyes! LOL!
I like both shows, but I never thought of comparing them. They are, after all, different shows.
A medical one with the cancer doctors that treated Walter White.
I haven't watched BCS, probably because I don't have cable and it's not on Netflix/Hulu yet. But I was a huge fan of Breaking Bad, which IMO is one of the top 5 dramas of all time.
Thornton was good in a movie where he ended up killing a guy with a newly sharpened lawnmower blade. I can’t remember the name of the movie.
“Sling Blade”
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