The Official Good Television Thread

[Jimmy... Dead.]

That show is so much better than I thought it would be. Truly impressive

 

[SWAT]

The Life and Times of Tim, made by HBO, it's a simple animation type show, pretty funny, it gains more momentum with humor as you watch it more.

 

[The Ozzman]

That show is so much better than I thought it would be. Truly impressive

A more impressive start than Breaking Bad, that's for sure.

 

[tagradh]

I'm enjoying BCS more than I did Breaking Bad towards the end.

 

[Jimmy... Dead.]

BB was magnificent from beginning to end. You two need to shut your whore mouths

 

[The Ozzman]

BB was magnificent from beginning to end. You two need to shut your whore mouths

Where did we say BB wasn't magnificent?

BB was slow at the beginning and had an anti climactic ending but yeah it was awesome overall

BCS has a great beginning so far and may turn out to be better but still early.

 

[unknown]

what I like about BCS over BB is BB had this continuous sense of dread and foreboding. There isn't really a whole lot of that in BCS except certain scenes (maybe because almost every line out of Saul's mouth is a crack)

 

[Zephyrus]

BB is a tragedy with comic elements. BCS is a comedy with tragic elements.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

BB was cool, but far from being one of the best ... as most of their dumb-ass fanboys love to claim.

 

[The Ozzman]

what I like about BCS over BB is BB had this continuous sense of dread and foreboding. There isn't really a whole lot of that in BCS except certain scenes (maybe because almost every line out of Saul's mouth is a crack)

I wonder if Bob Odenkirk adlibs his lines. Either way (him or a writer), they are brilliant.

 

[viewerfromnihil]

BB is a tragedy with comic elements. BCS is a comedy with tragic elements.

Well summed up. I'm inclined towards tragedies myself, but I've enjoyed BCS. I've thought BCS's start has been slow, whereas I was immediately drawn into BB. I'm surprised that the reception of the two shows here seems to disagree with me here.

 

[tagradh]

Loads of people seemed to think BB started slowly.

 

[no country for old wainds]

it started how it needed to start, it had to GRADUALLY evolve into what it eventually became, else it wouldn't have worked so well. i did think it sagged a little in the middle of season 3 though iirc, but then it reached a stage when it started relentlessly blowing me away and i couldn't stop watching.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

it started how it needed to start, it had to GRADUALLY evolve into what it eventually became, else it wouldn't have worked so well. i did think it sagged a little in the middle of season 3 though iirc

Pretty much this.

 

[Zephyrus]

Yeah, the point of the show was to show how a perfectly normal human being could transform into an anti-heroic monster, so it needed time to develop the "normal human being" side of Walter.

 

[rms]

BCS seriously has some soap opera esque dialogue though. The scene in the latest episode between Mike and his daughter in law was really, really weak, I think. Also the scene in the desert with the mexican gangster with Saul and the twins was also really sub par dialogue.

Part of the show's benefit as well is that we all know Saul is going to be OK. We never knew the direction of Breaking Bad until the fifth season and that was ambiguous

 

[Zephyrus]

What kept me going through that scene was knowing the daughter-in-law was the actress who played Octavia in Rome.

 

[rms]

Wondered why she looked so familiar

 

[unknown]

Really? I thought that was by far the strongest scene of the whole series so far. For three seasons of Breaking Bad and now Better Call Saul, Mike has always been the grumpy old man who never really had any other emotion besides general annoyance. Finally in this episode we see rage, anger, and regret. We see him taking no half measures. The whole "I broke my boy" thing? Classic. Some of the best acting I've seen on either show

 

[Zephyrus]

Revealing that back story was certainly gratifying.