First episode suggests Saul will have a similar texture (multi-layered & rich) that made BB so special. I agree, snowdog, it was exciting to see Tuco… looking forward to tonight’s episode.
I’m in. Haven’t watched episode 1 due to Dowton Abby and the Grammys. I DVR’d it.
This brings me back, fondly, to the end of Breaking Bad, when I first started watching it. I started watching the last season, then binge watched the entire series in the weeks leading up the finale. I had it set to tape automatically on the DVR, and it got to the point where I HAD to watch because the DVR was running out of space.
I was frantically watching and deleting and shushing people. My kids thought I had lost my mind. I could barely drag myself back to reality long enough to do anything else during that last week.
Ugh. I am moving tomorrow so I have been multitasking while watching TV. I missed the end of last night’s episode. Can someone please tell me what the Tuco connection was? He creeped me out so much in BB.
Brian Cranston made an appearance for an AMC commercial touting Mad Men.
Thoroughly enjoying the final episode of BB, Felina, on AMC right now. Hadn’t watched it since seeing it the night it aired. Brilliant finale.
OMG!!! Columbian necktie… I can never unsee that image.
Buzz60 has a video that shows how Saul predicted his future at Cinnabon as a manager in one of the final episodes of Breaking Bad.
Woo hoo teriwtt! Great find!
Better Call Saul fans, we’re in good company: BCS had the highest ratings of any cable series premiere, ever.
Wow! I happened to mention BCS to my trainer on Sunday when I saw him. He did not watch BB, but I told him I suspect this will be a good series to get in on the ground floor with. When I saw him again today, he practically blew a gasket telling me how grateful he was for my telling him about this. Then he told me how he called up his two sons who live on opposite coasts to tell them about the show… but they were BB fans, so they told him, “Yea, dad, we know about it.”
And of course, I had to give him some of the background on Tuco and Mike so he would be up to speed.
I’m in but have to catch up as I’ve been on vacation until today.
I loved the plot developments in last night’s show. Was also glad to see more of Kim, Saul’s ex-something or other - their relationship should be an interesting one. And more Jonathan Banks, which is always good.
I also like Michael Mando as Nacho. He’s a cool one and I hope he’s in for the full season.
“I loved the plot developments in last night’s show.”
frazzled, I did, too.
I’m loving how skillfully the script is showing Jimmy/Saul’s first realization that he really is smart and good at being a lawyer. Before his encounter with Tuco & Co. in the desert he seemed to do the limited amount of work he had with very little conviction; afterward he was on Fire. Seeing more of Mike this week also makes me happy.
I do wonder how it’s possible for him to practice law in Albuquerque as Jimmy McGill and then become Saul Goodman without having to go somewhere else where no one knows him. It will be interesting to see how that will come about but unlike with Downton Abbey, I have full confidence in the writers that there will be a satisfying explanation.
Loved the third episode. We’re really warming up.
“I do wonder how it’s possible for him to practice law in Albuquerque as Jimmy McGill and then become Saul Goodman without having to go somewhere else where no one knows him.”
That won’t require any special machinations. Lawyers are allowed to legally change their names just like everyone else. The only people whose opinion matters to Saul’s business are his clients, and they didn’t know him as Jimmy McGill.
I was really dubious about this show, but I agree. It’s fabulous. The unfolding of Saul’s story-- slowly, as we see him realizing both how smart he is and how stupidly he often stumbles-- is masterful.
He’s a curious combination of insightfulness and bad judgment.
Noticing the missing doll is Sherlock. Looking for the Kettlemans by himself is Inspector Clousesu.
Originally, this show was supposed to be a half-hour episodic sitcom. Glad they realized that would have been a mistake.
Interesting to see Saul’s brother “all there” including cell phone in this episode. I expect we will learn what happened there eventually. Son and I are finding the episode previews spoiler-ish and are trying to avoid them.
I thought the same thing about the brother and now am even more curious about what the story behind his breakdown will be.
Big BB fans at my house and we are all loving Saul. I am convinced that Vince Gilligan is a genius.