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Post by roverpup on Jul 10, 2017 18:57:54 GMT
My hubby and I just finished watching all three seasons of this series and really, really loved it!
The only actor in the show who I had heard of before watching was Michael McKean and that was from 2 movies - The Light of Day (1987) and A Mighty Wind (2003). But apparently he has been on loads of TV and other movies - just nothing that I have ever watched.
Anyway we both can't wait for the next season to pop up.
Anyone else into this show?
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Post by coolclearwaters on Jul 10, 2017 19:38:33 GMT
I loooove Better Call Saul! The writing and directing are absolutely brilliant. I love all of the actor's, but Michael McKean's performance has been a real tour de force. I'v always liked him and loved him since Spinal Tap.
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Post by queenzod on Jul 10, 2017 19:51:04 GMT
Spinal Tap, lol. David St. Hubbins, wasn't it? I saw that just after college when it first came out and we didn't know if it was real or not! Great British accent and dumb as a post. But not as dumb as Nigel Tufnel, my absolute fav. Michael McKean rocks! 🤘🏼
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Post by igs on Jul 10, 2017 20:01:17 GMT
You need to get into Breaking Bad, stat. It's my favorite TV show of all-time so I've seen it many many times, and noticing all the Easter eggs in Better Call Saul is such a treat. I love BCS, it follows a similar pattern to Breaking Bad in that it keeps upping up the ante constantly, which makes it an exciting watch.
I didn't really like the last episode of season 3 unfortunately, but I'm still psyched for season 4. BB seasons 4 and 5 were super high energy and fast, perfect balance of character development and action, in my opinion the best seasons of any show ever (with the likes of Sherlock series 1-2 and Game of Thrones 3-4.) I hope BCS will repeat the trick (as in, keep getting better and better till the very end.)
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Post by roverpup on Jul 10, 2017 20:22:20 GMT
Sorry I should have said the only actor I was familiar with before I saw BCS - other than the lead... Odenkirk!
Watching BB was what led me to tuning into BCS. And I loved BB - uniformly right from first to last episode.
Loved all the characters from soup to nuts. I actually watched Jessica Jones purely because the actress was on BB (and it turned out not too bad, although the comic book stuff isn't my favourite things about that series).
I loved the final epi of season 3. I also like how the show bumps into flashbacks and flashforwards without any warning. And some of the cinematography on BCS is stunning - just the composition of some of those shots are so artistic. The balance is key.
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Post by mllemass on Jul 10, 2017 21:31:04 GMT
Didn't you ever watch Laverne & Shirley? Michael McKean was Lenny (of Lenny and Squiggy) - his best role ever!
I liked Breaking Bad more than I ever thought I would, but Saul was my least favourite character in it so I have no interest in a series about him. Bob Odenkirk was terrific in Fargo, though!
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Post by roverpup on Jul 10, 2017 23:44:43 GMT
No I never watched L&S. I watch more TV now that I have cut the cord, but back then I only watched one TV show per season and I think back then I only watched The Bob Newhart Show and when that ended I watched Family Ties.
I mostly know MM from films. I think he was in Best of Show as well.
Well, I was a bit reluctant to begin to watch BCS - I just didn't think the character could sustain being the lead in a series. But it didn't take too long to find out that the writing is sooooo good and that they have developed the character into such a complex puppy that he easily can handle being the axis that the show revolves around. When "Saul" was on BB I don't think he stood out to me in either a good way or a bad way. I just felt all the characters were uniformly good across the board and added to the overall story, so it wasn't as if I didn't like what I saw in Odenkirk's portrayal.
But like I said I had my reservations about him being the centre of the drama.
Not now, though! The series is very rich in depth and exploring each character - showing all facets of everyone. Good and bad.
And without giving anything away Saul isn't really on the show. He hasn't been drawn. Odenkirk plays Jimmy who will eventually become Saul but this is his journey to get to that point. And so we really don't see Saul at all. But we see where he came from.
I really love shows that show a personality arc. Like how Sherlock becomes the Sherlock of the books. And how Jimmy transforms into that slimy SOB Saul.
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Post by igs on Jul 11, 2017 18:41:03 GMT
Sorry I should have said the only actor I was familiar with before I saw BCS Ahhhh, gotcha! I don't know anyone who's watching BCS who hasn't seen BB so I was curious. I too love the cinematography, though I miss the time-lapses that they used to do all the time on BB. Glad the PoV shots are still there! What I also really enjoy in both these shows is the use of color schemes to convey emotion, and making Albuquerque a character of its own (similar to what The Wire did with Baltimore in my opinion.) It always gives that extra oompf to a show/movie. I've tried watching the Marvel Netflix shows but I never last beyond a couple of episodes, but I too watched all of Jessica Jones because of Krysten Ritter (and David Tennant.) I actually enjoyed it a lot. I liked Breaking Bad more than I ever thought I would This is interesting, cause it's the same for me. I knew of the somewhat rabid fanboybase before ever watching Breaking Bad, and found them really off-putting. But I finally gave the show a chance somewhere around the final season airing and it blew me away. I don't think any fictional TV character has ever, sorry for the Tumblr speak lol, given me the FEELS like Jesse. I just want to hug him so bad on every re-watch.
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Post by mllemass on Jul 12, 2017 0:04:35 GMT
Our family watched a lot of tv when I was growing up, but not as much as my cousins who had the tv on even during meals - that was not allowed at my house!
We didn't have a colour tv until I was in high school, and we finally got cable at the same time. Until then, we could only see a few local stations, and in black and white. I still remember having "important homework" to do at my friend's house every time Happy Days was on. Once we got the new colour tv, the old one went into the rec room in the basement so my sister and I could watch whatever we wanted! We were no longer stuck watching the shows that my father wanted, like boring old Mannix.
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Post by roverpup on Jul 12, 2017 0:59:03 GMT
When I was growing up we weren't allowed to watch TV at all during the week (it wasn't a religious thing - my mum was just adamant that we should only do schoolwork during the weeknights) but on the weekends we could watch TV after dinner (even though we only could get 3 channels). I was so thankful about that concession that I didn't care what I watched! I developed my love of hockey watching the Leafs on TV on Saturday night and Sunday was always Walt Disney and then The Smothers Brothers. I was sooooo happy when Star Trek finally was moved to Friday nights in 1967!! Before that my sister and I had my mum use an old portable tape recorder and make cassette tapes of the audio while she watched the episodes. I can still hear those soundtrack tapes in my head sometimes (which tells you how many times I listened to those tapes! LOL!).
That lasted right up until I graduated from highschool. So needless to say I didn't have a very big history of watching TV and just never got into the habit (my mum didn't even like us reading non-school books during the school week, so I had to "sneak read" and the only thing available in my room was the Encyclopedia Britannica - which really helped later on in life when I played Trivial Pursuit!).
Strangely enough even when I was married and all grown up (at the tender age of 20) I still didn't watch a lot of TV. And Dan never watched a lot of TV either when he was a kid - just hockey, the occasional history oriented drama and news programmes. That's how I got into the habit of just watching one TV drama or comedy each season (that didn't count hockey games or news). And it stayed that way until we retired 8 years ago. Then we got rid of cable, got Netflix and Kodi and haven't looked back. We also bought DVDs of any series we really loved - Sherlock, Downton Abbey, West Wing, Combat, Frasier, The Sopranos, The Wire etc.
Of course we just binge watch and we see dozens of movies a year on Netflix and Kodi (and we still go to the cinema a lot too).
Kind of makes up for being starved of TV when I was a kid.
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