Better Call Saul

[citoyen]

Breathtaking series finale this week. Superb use of music, especially in the scene where

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Chuck loses the plot and rips his house to bits.

And I loved the look Gus gave Nacho at the end of that scene. Genuinely shocking ending too.

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I guess we'll never find out what it was that was making Chuck's electricity meter keep whirring round.

Roll on series 4...

[andyoxon]

Now on Season 5 & still great.   Apparently the penultimate series.

ETA.  Currently getting 99% on Rotten Tomatoes

[Mrs Pingu]

Ooh I'd forgotten about that.

[Hot Flatus]

Now on Season 5 & still great.   Apparently the penultimate series.

ETA.  Currently getting 99% on Rotten Tomatoes

The last series lost it's way a bit, but I'm enjoying this.

[Woofage]

This week's was a cracker .

[sam]

I’m rooting for the crazy couple.

[andyoxon]

New episode on Tuesday. 

Think I need a bit of a recap of the last season...

[citoyen]

New episode on Tuesday. 

Think I need a bit of a recap of the last season...

Woah! I didn't finish watching the last series.

I think I need a recap of the whole thing from the beginning. I've forgotten far too much to be able to just pick it up again now.

[Oscar's dad]

New episode on Tuesday. 

Think I need a bit of a recap of the last season...

Woah! I didn't finish watching the last series.

I think I need a recap of the whole thing from the beginning. I've forgotten far too much to be able to just pick it up again now.

I was talking to The Current Mrs R about this the over day and we concluded we perhaps needed to start again with Breaking Bad and then move onto Better Call Saul.

[farfetched]

New episode on Tuesday. 

Think I need a bit of a recap of the last season...

Woah! I didn't finish watching the last series.

I think I need a recap of the whole thing from the beginning. I've forgotten far too much to be able to just pick it up again now.

I was talking to The Current Mrs R about this the over day and we concluded we perhaps needed to start again with Breaking Bad and then move onto Better Call Saul.

I thought Better call Saul took some time to get going, at least the first two series did. I usually watch the season trailers which are 1 or 2 mins long if i need a refresh.

Good luck with watching BB and BCS, I did that during one of the covid lockdowns otherwise its just too time consuming (over 100 episodes).

Anyway at the end of the month Ozarks is back for the final series 

[citoyen]

New episode on Tuesday. 

Think I need a bit of a recap of the last season...

Woah! I didn't finish watching the last series.

I think I need a recap of the whole thing from the beginning. I've forgotten far too much to be able to just pick it up again now.

I was talking to The Current Mrs R about this the over day and we concluded we perhaps needed to start again with Breaking Bad and then move onto Better Call Saul.

I remember when El Camino came out, we went back and watched the final episode of Breaking Bad for a refresher. I think watching the whole lot again from the start might be too much of a commitment.

[Oscar's dad]

Yes, a big commitment.  Breaking Bad was the first show we'd ever watched on Netflix or any other streaming service and it blew us away, the best thing we'd ever seen on either TV or film so it might be worth it... we'll see.

[Mrs Pingu]

Aw. I don't want to watch the final series,cos then it'll be done.
Never did finish Breaking Bad, got a bit tired of it.

[farfetched]

4 episodes into S6 and its very good, they (Vince Gilligan and his co-writers) really are masterminds in building great
story lines with larger than life characters. The flash-forwards at the start of each episode alone are fantastic.

[Woofage]

Final episode now available!

(sorry, I posted about this in another thread before being reminded of this one).

[Mrs Pingu]

Watched the final episode last week. Was a bit underwhelmed.

[Hot Flatus]

Watched the final episode last week. Was a bit underwhelmed.

Really?

Underwhelmed was the last thing I felt. I was really relieved for it to end. Very difficult viewing.

[T42]

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I didn't like the way that in order to tie it off they had to take him out of character in the penultimate episode. He was a scoundrel but never a strangler of old women.

[Hot Flatus]

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He didn't strangle her, though did he. But, being wanky for a moment, I suppose the parallel was there to be made with Walter White in terms of the descent to immorality. Walter, sort of, redeemed himself at the end by admitting his reasons then dying. Saul redeemed himself by reverting to Jimmy, and condemning himself to the rest of his life in prison in order to regain the respect of Kim and his dead brother. He nearly strangked her, whereas Walter would not have hesitated.

[T42]

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Jimmy would never have thought of strangling her to the point of getting ready to.  That bit still doesn't ring true.  Walter would have, agreed. He was very much one for reckoning out a course of action and executing it.

Did you notice the disappearance of the bags under Bob Odenkirk's eyes between the pre-heart-attack episode and the next? I didn't but MrsT did.

[Mrs Pingu]

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I didn't like the way that in order to tie it off they had to take him out of character in the penultimate episode. He was a scoundrel but never a strangler of old women.

OK so after these comments didn't make any sense we figured out that we hadn't watched the penultimate episode (Amazon said we had). So yes, that episode had a bit more punch to it. Still think the last one was a bit of a whimper though.