I'm 6 episodes in and last episode (Five-O) brought me here

Lets start with this: Breaking Bad is one of my, if not my favorite TV show of all time (up there with Hannibal, Game of Thrones, True Detectives first season and Fargo S1&2) and it wasn't until last week that I started with its spin off Better Call Saul. Now, of course I'm not expecting Breaking Bad level (who in gods name would?), but I generally wanted to actually relive the BrBa world, the atmosphere and most of its characters (well, except the 2/3 central ones).

But I have to say this, BrBa and BCS are completely different shows. Hear me out: Yes I can buy that both of them take place in the same universe & that BrBa's characters are the same from BCS, but the shift of the main character also means the tonal shift.

BrBa had a hammering fast pace, ticking like a clock (well a time bomb), it was intense from the first moment, at some points completely joyless and relentlessly brutal. BCS takes a much slower pace, with way more focus on comedy. Well, because Walter White is a much more hectic and unpredictable man, than Jimmy/Saul, and he respectively is more humorous.

The first few episodes had some clever writing in them, Odenkirk gives a great performance and many of the new / supporting characters like Kim or Nacho are interesting.

But wow, that last episode (S1E6) was something stunning. It was something I always wanted to see but never thought would get; basically an origin of Mike Ehrmantraut. How he lost his son, what made him kill 2 cops. Personally, at this point I feel like everyone who has seen this episode has to see BrBa. To see how ruthless and cold Mike became, but also how caring he was for the ones he loves, at least whats rest of them (granddaughter) and especially his relationship with Jesse (who he may recognize as his "boy"). The last few minutes were chilling and the highpoint of the show so far (for me), and they weren't even with the main character.

I'm hooked on what's the deal for S1 going to be, and how it is going to end. But what I'm sure of, Better Call Saul is in my current TV schedule, and its there to stay

Submitted October 31, 2018 at 05:48PM by IngobernableACE https://ift.tt/2qnoreq