Yea for sure, he was tormented by the two of them but really he was a decent guy and just caught in the wrong situation.Watched it and then went to bed but couldn’t stop thinking about it
I feel so bad for Howard. He didn’t really ever do anything majorly wrong and to have those two worlds suddenly collide at that moment but him not really having a clue what’s going on. Fantastic scene.
To me, there were some filler episodes in the first half of the last season. I would bet they would seem far less mundane if I had binged the last season like you did.
The purpose often wasn't apparant during the same episode.
I'd say it does, by quite a lot actually.
I've got good news for you. The show just gets better and better. And I bet you will feel very differently about them as a couple.
I’ve watched both Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul through twice now and I actually prefer Better Call Saul.
The montages in BCS are wonderful. I could watch Jimmy buy vending machine coffees all day.
kinda just get used to it. Even the twins looked like they’d aged around 20 years! odenkirk still looked immaculate throughout though.I sort of agree. When people say it's on par with or even better than Breaking Bad, I mostly put it down to recency bias, trying to be different, or, for lack of a better word, elitism (oh, I don't care about entertainment!). I think it's a great show but it's ridiculously slow at times. Would have loved to see the four season cut.
Mike is probably my favourite character from any show ever.The montages in BCS are wonderful. I could watch Jimmy buy vending machine coffees all day.
admittedly I haven’t seen BB in yeeeears so I need to rewatch it and see if it still holds up, but twenty something me loved it obviously. Parts of BCS were also a little lost on me cause I can remember shit all from BB and there were so many little nods and references.
still, I said it at the time but a 10 years older Jonathan banks playing a 10 years younger Mike was really hard to not laugh at a lot of the time
I don’t think many other tv scenes have shocked or stayed with me as when the Nazis shot his girlfriend at point blank with him watching. fecking brutal man.
I can see why people love it. It’s incredibly self indulgent and very character driven, it’s a very different show to BB. For me it was just a little TOO slow and meandering at times.
I thought the montage sequences became a self-parody at some point. It became a kind of trademark for the show and in the latter seasons it was overindulgent. There were also some plot points I could have lived without entirely. For instance the elaborate con on Howard in the final season was tedious and overly long and seemed so low-stakes for a final season (although it did have a great payoff and turned out to be surprisingly high-stakes). So again, I honestly think a four or five season cut could have been really great. Maybe five 10 episode seasons.
I thought Odenkirk looked a lot better in BCS than in BB - he was a bit chubbier back thenstill, I said it at the time but a 10 years older Jonathan banks playing a 10 years younger Mike was really hard to not laugh at a lot of the time
I think they got unlucky with the timing. By the time the series had become a certifiably good, Succession had already started racking up awards. That being said, Game of Thrones should probably not have won anything after season 6 and I haven't seen The Handmaid's Tale so I can't claim for certain that BCS is better.
Any word on Vince Gilligan's next project?
