Anyone else have super low expectations for the show before they watched it?

I was just thinking about the first time I saw “Better Call Saul!” – the episode of Breaking Bad.

When I first saw this episode I thought that the show had jumped the shark. I thought “Here it is. I knew this show couldn’t stay this good. I knew they’d mess it up, and here it is.” I though he was too hammy and cartoony for the show’s tone up to that point. I was familiar with Bob Odenkirk, and I thought it was a bad choice to cast him in a drama like Breaking Bad. Over the course of that season, I changed my mind. I thought his comic relief was placed appropriately and his character made more sense as the show went on; there really are tacky lawyers like that in real life!

Then it was announced that there was going to be a spin-off of Breaking Bad about Saul Goodman called Better Call Saul. Oy. Right of the bat, it sounded like a cheap cash-grab. How could it possibly be anything else? These guys got lucky with a stellar TV show, now they don’t have any new ideas so they’re going to squeeze what they can out of the first one. Blech.

Then I heard people say that it wasn't that bad, that it was actually pretty good. It's not what you think, it's actually well-written and interesting. No way, I thought. Let me just take a look...

This show is my favorite show ever. I have never eaten my words so hard ever before. I went from expecting crap to being pleasantly surprised, to becoming a fan, to becoming obsessed. Anyone else think the same thing? Or were most people cautiously optimistic?

Submitted July 27, 2019 at 09:00PM by umnothing https://ift.tt/2LM8QSc