A couple of Breaking Bad throwbacks are in the new episode of Better Call Saul.
Iām really conflicted about Kimās character. She tries to do the pro bono stuff to be a goody-goody but sheās merely denying who she is and what she does. Gotta be brutal to hate yourself and succeed less than your scam artist lawyer boyfriend who has no morals of any kind.
I just caught up and find this show incredible. Every g damn week is just beyond compelling. The long stretches with no dialogue are as good as anything ever. The sequence with the ants at the beginning of the episode was riveting. And the episode was like 1:15 long and it flew by. They canāt make them long enough for my taste.
Canāt seem to quote your spoiler. Mostly in agreement with your read on Kim. One question tho,
was the story she told the old man about her mom making her leave house after house with her stuff in a cardboard box true? Or was the old guy right and she was just telling some BS story? My gf asked if it was true and I snapped said yes, but now that I think about it Iām not 100% sure
God help us if Netflix goes down once weāre all under quarantine.
I think the same thing but I worry a bit about recency bias. Ive done a rewatch of both though from the beginning and Saul is better on almost every front.
It amazes me that the two best tv actors on the two best shows of the last two decades are former C-D level comedic actors from the 90s.
100% agree about BCS outclassing BB by a surprising amount on rewatch. And that is not a knock against BB. BCS is really that good.
Never cared for S1 and S2 of Breaking Bad when they tried to make Walter sympathetic. But Iāve still got S3-S5 of BB ahead of Saul. But I have been surprised at how good Saul is.
My god, are you saying you have yet to watch S3-S5 of BB? You are like a unicorn if this is true. Almost as rare as someone who has never seen a single Star War.
no thats not what I said. Iāve got
S3-5 BB>Saul
Saul>S1 S2 BB
imo
Oh well that is a different discussion entirely.
No, I have to disagree.
Imo itās
S2-4 BCS>S3-S4 BB>S1 BCS>S1, 2, 5 BB
I think Breaking Bad stuck the landing in GOAT fashion, but I wasnāt a hyooge fan of S5 otherwise.
and yeah Iāve got s2-4 BCS as much better than I expected, weāre pretty much on the same page
Just watched Season 2 Ep 1 of BCS tonight. You guys are getting me hype for whatās to come.
GOATs are coming.
Circle
50 people wake up in a circle and have to vote who dies one by one.
Definition of a meh movie.
Ozark Season 3 Trailer:
There are a couple quick shots of a poker game. Iām a āhigh stakes poker playerā in that Sit & Go. Canāt see me in the trailer - fingers crossed Iāll get my .25 seconds of fame.
I liked the ending.
Watched Episode 1 of Devs last night. Had some clumsy writing IMO but overall I think itās pretty promising.
Itās from the guy who did Ex Machina and Annihilation and it gives off those same vibes. Stark, threatening, mysterious. And Nick Offerman is awesome as an evil Steve Jobs type guy.
My pen!
I am glad to hear this. I have not yet made time to watch this, but Iāve loved everything Alex Garland has written. The resume on this guy. The two movies you mentioned, as well as
The Beach (book)
The Tesseract (book)
28 Days Later
Sunshine
Never Let Me Go (the movie adaptation of the book)
Dredd
The Beach makes me scratch my head in that it was directed by Danny Boyle but adapted by someone other than Alex. The one weird exception is that the map used in the movie was drawn by Alex Garland, and so the author is listed in the credits as a cartographer LOL.
I guess Danny realized what he was missing when he later went straight to Alex to write 28 Days Later and Sunshine.
Iām def in for devs. Great start and the trailer for the season looks interesting.