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Better Call Saul: Season 1 - Episode 1 & 2 - Patreon Exclusive (Patreon)

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beefjerkywizard

I'm excited to watch for the first time with you two. After this I would consider Fargo the tv show. Each season can be watched individually so it could count as a "shorter" show. Season one even has Bob Odenkirk so win win 😎

djKENTO

lets get this show on the road.

Jeff K
>>145071763

And season two has Todd himself, Jesse Plemons, in one of his best performances.

mojo shivers

I’m so glad you guys are moving onto this. This is one of those shows that just gets better over each season. Honestly, I kind of like the secondary characters here better than Breaking Bad. Kim and Nacho especially have so much depth and heart to them, and obviously being able to get more focus on Mike is nice too. I wish I could be where you guys are at, and starting this show fresh.

Date Mike

*please don't insult me, people - it's just my opinion :) (can't believe I have to write that, but hey that's the way it is now) Doing "Better Call Saul" RIGHT after "Breaking Bad" is not a great idea... - don’t get me wrong, BCS is a good show, it has nothing to do with it :) But it was the opportunity for us (as well as for Simone and Georges) to do something new, something different... it's a choice for many many months (maybe a year I would say)… to, you know, add a new flavor in our lives, right ? - in the last big poll, there were lots of good shows to discover... The Sopranos, Dexter, Deadwood, Stranger things, ... many interesting and different things… it’s a miss opportunity :( I think it It was a mistake to put BCS as an option in the last big poll… because right after having seen 5 seasons of the brilliant Breaking Bad, of course there was a 99.97% chance of BCS winning the poll :) (and whatever the others choices)

DinChild

Comment Uno!

Joe D. MacGuffinstuff

I don't know if you'll recall, but Saul made a joke to Walt about being a manager at a Cinnabon in Omaha. Also, I'm so psyched for this! You're gonna love it.

J. Valentine

It's all good maaan

K Murray
>>145071934

K well there was a poll and most of their audience disagrees. It's not a missed opportunity when all those shows will continue to exist and have the chance to be watched next

Riverton
>>145071934

just ignore this dude K Murray, he likes to pop up from under the bridge every once in a while and tell everyone how he knows best and knows better, and that S&G should apparently ignore the votes of their paying customers and do what he personally wants instead. in his main character world, everyone else is wrong and he knows best.

Nick Kessler
>>145071934

Fair opinion. I just disagree. I also don’t like watching one show a week. I prefer watching at my own pace. Back to back like a movie and not being treated like a product. Also while there are other shows people want them to watch none of the ones I would vote for were on that list. 1. Barry 2. Wayne. 3. Too old to die young.

Date Mike
>>145071934

Black : what's in "it's just my opinion" did you confuse with "tell everyone how he knows best and knows better" ? 🤷🏻 - and I didn't tell anyone to " ignore the votes of their paying customers" 🤨..... that's not the sens of my comment at all

Riverton
>>145071934

mate. adding "just my opinion" doesnt automatically negate everything you say, like adding "not trying to be a racist but..." doesnt just magically make anything you say after not that. your post, and previous ones might i add, is literally telling the entire community how we all missed a chance and should've done something else despite it being a literal poll that tells you what everyone wants most.

Joe D. MacGuffinstuff

Awesome "Network" reference in this, when Jimmy comes into the big fancy conference room, you guys gotta watch that sometime, that movie was prophetic.

J. Valentine
>>145072410

How is a play on words from the moment he appears on breaking bad..a spoiler

firemahlazer
>>145072410

Nick ive never seen this show, and had you not said anything, i wouldnt even considered that to be a spoiler. i mean without any context it still means nothing to me. but the fact that you went out of your way to say spoiler is what makes something a spoiler.

J. Valentine
>>145072410

I do apologize, but come on, it's right there in the name too. It's not like I'm writing the end of a movie

Actuarial Lurker

Simone and George- the Black & White scenes are the FUTURE after Breaking Bad and the vacuum repair guy gave Saul a new identity and the color scenes are the PAST ie.e the current time frame of this series from BEFORE Breaking Bad

Josh B
>>145072410

It's not a spoiler. Hank friggin says it in BB.

Joe D. MacGuffinstuff

Also, hate to comment so much, but I had to say, the old lady, Tuco's abuelita, is the same actor who plays Tony Montana's mother in Scarface.

Deco

Chuck was one of the main guys in spinal tap

Phillyman!!

The fact that you know that Jimmy/saul is going to live in all of the pre breaking bad storyline shouldn’t matter because breaking bad you knew that Walter wasn’t going to die not until at least the final season. So it’s the same concept. Imo. Great reaction 💯👍

Actuarial Lurker

They broke into a morgue and performed "acts" on the corpses...

Actuarial Lurker

The nail salon he kept wanting Skyler and Jesse to buy to "launder" their drug money in Breaking Bad

Actuarial Lurker

Jimmy/Saul and now alias Gene is a BIG Classic and esoteric movie fan so you will see him cite MANY references to film noir, classic films. and cult films

Actuarial Lurker

Chuck is Michael McKeon from Best in Show, This Is Spinal Tap, he played the evil "fear clown" on an episode of Star Trek Voyager etc

Tenwyn

What George was saying that we know Saul survives so anything that he goes through doesnt' really have any agency, but that goes for any main protagonist pretty much doesn't it? Especially if the show is named after him. For example, let's say a show like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, there's no show without Buffy so we always know she's going to live through whatever happens to her because the show would end otherwise. So yeah I don't think knowing he survives really changes anything. Think about it this way: It's about the journey not the destination.

Mike Minerals

The funniest thing about the montage in Ep 2 is that the whole purpose of a montage is to watch a character slowly get better and better, right? This is the first montage I've ever seen where things just get worse.

Actuarial Lurker

Tuco's grandma and the Ketlleman's have the same car and they just scammed Tuco's family....oooops

Tenwyn
>>145071934

I don't agree with you but hey, your opinion is your opinion.

Actuarial Lurker

Other than new guy Nacho- the "henchman" of Tuco in the desert are the same guys from the end of Season 1 of Breaking Bad where Tuco beats the guy who talks too much to death and then the big buy gets caught under the collapsed car scrap rubble

Actuarial Lurker

George and Simone- its about 4-6 years BEFORE Breaking Bad based on spoiler content in later seasons which I won't reveal

imperial
>>145071934

Respect your opinion, but it's such a pointless post when they've already decided to watch the series. You're not going to change their minds when they've already started to record their reactions, so I just don't understand the point of your post?

Sikandar niaz

wait till the "BAD" guy show up lol u guys gona love him

Actuarial Lurker
>>145079915

it actually might be closer to 6 years based on the running time here and the comments made in a later season

Grand Moff Slackin'

Y'all, don't spoil shit by saying "wait until X happens" or "wait until X shows up." Let them watch the show. If you resemble this remark, then this means you.

Tay Schumaker
>>145081768

Same shit happened with Breaking Bad. So many people trying to be clever about shit. We're all impressed you've seen the show before, stop trying to be clever and let people watch the show

beecroft adams

Despite being a prequel you will be completely invested in what happens. It is a worthy addition to breaking bad.

Jeff K
>>145081768

For real. It's wild how many people are already dropping names of characters we haven't seen yet, etc.

Paul T Hewes

usually by 3 episodes in, you irrevocably go from thinking of, or calling him Saul, and just think of him as Jimmy. Even rewatching Breaking Bad I dont see him as Saul anymore.

Tenwyn
>>145079915

When they were playing the video in the courtroom at the beginning of the first episode the date on the video says October 2001

8bitAndy
>>145071934

It's unfortunate that it's so common for unpopular opinions to draw ire and vitriol from the community that a disclaimer is needed before any such post. I really wish it weren't so. It does make it easier to identify individuals worth using the block feature on, however. As for going straight into BCS after BB, I can relate to that disappointment. It is a very long wait when you were hoping for something else to win the poll, with no guarantees the next poll result will suit you any better. To G&S's credit though, they're putting in the hours to bring as much variety as they can with two other shows also in the mix, so hopefully the next poll for the Black Mirror replacement will be something you're more excited about. Hang in there, Date Mike.

ShoNuff3000

Oh, ok sorry about that. Won't happen again.

Jeff I.
>>145075826

Yeah, I don't mind it that much in this show, since they still don't know what might happen to Saul that isn't physically dangerous but could still really affect/hurt people around him (and Saul himself mentally).

Jeff I.
>>145081768

Seriously, every show any reactor watches, there's a few people that have to comment little "hints" that are basically spoilers to anyone watching the show with common sense.

PIG

I almost abandoned this show with the first episode. It was a little too goofy and it felt like fan-service when BOTH Mike and Tuco, both incredibly important characters in Breaking Bad, show up randomly in the pilot. I hate it when a show winks at me, it ruins my emersion into the plot. I kept with it and I'm all so glad I did, it's a great show and those little winks never really returned. This is a show about Jimmy and, sometimes, it was even more interesting than BB. Looking at the characters on this re-watch, it's great picking up on so many things that you won't get until you finish the series.

Mr. Treat

I am SO HAPPY That i dont have to keep re-syncing the videos anymore 🥲

Jeff K

By the way, if the actor who plays Nacho looks familiar, you probably know him from either Spider-Man Homecoming, where he had a small part as Mac Gargan... who in the comics, becomes Scorpion. If you've ever played Far Cry 3, he did the motion capture and voice for the villain in that game. (He was also in a show called Orphan Black, which if you haven't seen, I highly recommend... plus, it's a Canadian show! The actor, Michael Mando, is actually from Quebec City and got his start on the Montreal theater scene.)

Jeff K
>>145085607

And really, as you continue watching this series, you start to realize they're NOT just little winks/fan service - they play very important parts in this story. Like how Tuco is Jimmy's introduction to that world, for example. Honestly, I ended up liking this show more than BB. Prior to BCS, I had The Wire as my #1 show of all-time, with BB in the #2 spot. BCS bumped BB out of that second spot, for me. It helps that some of my favorite characters in the entire BB/BCS universe are from this show, of course, including my absolute favorite, who delivers one of the best performances I've ever seen on TV over the course of the series. (Not going to say who, because obviously, I don't want to hint at who lasts and who doesn't as G&S are just starting this journey.)

8bitAndy
>>145071934

@imperial Definitely not pointless. They just want their opinion heard and this is the place to do that.

Hugh Jass
>>145085607

I felt same, I felt really unsure about the show when I watched it, and when Tuco appeared I thought it so goofy that I wanted to not bother with the show. Watching a second time, I'm really enjoying much more.

Eric Brown

The montage is an homage to the 70's musical All That Jazz - that's what he's referencing when he says its from a movie

PIG
>>145085607

Tuco plays an important role later, I agree. But of all the cars that they mistaken, it’s the grandmother of the first main villain of Breaking Bad. That’s shoe-horned, I can’t paint it any other way. It’s cheap but I can live with it.

Hunterrim

God I love this show. So happy to rewatch again

PIG

Fun Fact: "Abuelita", Tuco's grandma, is played by the same actor as Tony Montana's mother in Scarface. I loved her in Scarface.

Vwlss Nvwls

I really enjoyed this show, and the way it was presented, although there are some areas that can feel like a slog. However, it is an amazing series, and the actress that plays Kim is by far the best thing about the whole series. Her character and her portrayal of the character are great, and I personally find her sexy af. ;D I look forward to watching the whole series again with you two, and I hope you both enjoy it as much as I do. FYI... the actor that plays Chuck played Lenny in the t.v. series Laverne & Shirley. He is a well established actor in Hollywood, and you have seen him several times I am sure.

TGrimace

I can't get it out of my mind that you've never seen a coffee vending machine. I don't know if it's because they don't have them where you live, of if they aren't around anymore. Maybe I'm just old?

Daniel Bjork

Better Call Saul is so, so good and it gets better as it goes into the later seasons. I don’t know that the show is “better” than Breaking Bad, but I do think its “better made” than Breaking Bad. Its like Breaking Bad was made by a bunch of PHD students doing their dissertation and Better Call Saul is them years later when they’re tenured professors.

Carl Evans

Grew up five blocks from Cicero, Al Capone's base of operations during his heyday. It was a sundown town when I lived near there.

Ian Tellam
>>145085607

I disagree, it's just a matter of a storytelling bias because you've seen the events that come after. If you watch a show about two people being married and then a prequel show about those two people just bumping into each other, it's not a 'coincidence', it's just that the prequel explains how they met.

Maiki
>>145092871

An absolute joke that Rhea Seehorn didn't get an Emmy in all those years. And wasn't even nominated once for a Globe.

Jay Willis

For my money, while I find Breaking Bad to be a more exciting premise and more entertaining for the most part (slightly), I think Better Call Saul is the better show overall. I think it's better written, produced, directed, etc. I think that's largely because the show runners were able to find what worked in BB and then use it to make BCS so great.

Philipp Roensch

Very cool we get right into this show, I think you will love it. I think it ranks at least up there with BB, maybe better? You decide^^. Talking about stakes, I guess you will see there are many more things that can happen without a character dying, some maybe even worse. I must already congratulate this show for building so much tension with the somewhat set future, and adding to everything we know about the BB world.

clh35

1:25:20 My initial reaction to George confidently declaring that the sky is CGI in this scene was to laugh at the idea. Having just driven across New Mexico, I can confirm that it often looks fake in real life. I do think it's highly unlikely and unnecessary, but, having analyzed the whole scene, I'm now wondering if anyone can prove me wrong. The clouds do appear to shift, especially when cutting to another shot, but of course that could be CGI'd, too.

Josh B

Do not worry at all about "knowing things from the future" from BB. This show knows you know, and plays with it to create different sorts of tension.

Jeff K
>>145103183

That's a good way to frame it. Gilligan and Gould are incredibly clever storytellers, and went into this FULLY aware of the skepticism of not only making a show starring a side character, but set before the events of Breaking Bad, and how tricky that endeavor was.

Ryan Skinner

Excited this is here! After watching your El Camino reaction, I actually already went and rewatched the entire BCS series in my own time over the past several weeks, and am still eager to do it again. :D George confronting the nature of the flashback storytelling structure and declaring that how they present eventual conflicts is as (more?) important as the conflict its self, in order to maintain stakes and tension: this topic is one of the major reasons why I think BCS is such a masterstoke of writing. I don't think you'll be disappointed with how it's all handled.

PIG
>>145085607

I can see your point but I can argue otherwise :) But to avoid spoilers we can go over later in the show… it will be years in the future at this point lol We agree: great show.

Tenn Seven

So in one of the Breaking Bad episodes Saul is talking about if the whole drug business falls apart and says something like, "best case scenario, I'm managing a Cinnabon in Omaha," which makes it hilarious that this show started off that way.

james repka

Someone above mentions Jimmy/Saul's (probably call him Jimmy for now) love of movies -- this comes from co-creator Vince Gilligan. In Better Call Saul (BrBa S2E09) he tells clients to make checks out to Ice Station Zebra Associates -- ISZ is a 1968 cold war spy thriller set in the northern arctic starring Rock Hudson and Ernest Borgnine. Most of the movies he references throughout the show deserve to be on your list by the way: #Beginning with Jimmy's reference in the boardroom to Network, best picture winner from 1976, which somewhat predicts the change in network news from an informative loss leader run for the purpose of informing the populace out of civic responsibility to a profit driven 3-ring circus scrambling for ratings; #All That Jazz, a 1979 fictional bio-pic directed by Bob Fosse, with Roy Scheider (Jaws) playing Joe Gideon, a legendary choreographer/director/dancer based on Fosse himself. The "It's Showtime" montage in Saul, music and all, is an homage to a montage of Gideon's morning routine, run multiple times through the movie. Many of these homages are sprinkled throughout the series, Jimmy's flair for the dramatic is a theme of the show.

Parabolica
>>145099520

Totally agree, and whilst I love Bryan and Aaron’s performances, I’d rate Bob’s above both of them. He is truly astounding in this show and his negotiation with Tuco in ep2 is a perfect example.

Parabolica
>>145086378

I never made the link between him and Vos! That’s crazy but makes so much sense.

Jeff K
>>145109437

Regarding your second paragraph: totally agree, and it's just a testament to how good these guys are at creating compelling characters. Yeah, we know Jimmy and Mike make it to BB, but that's it at this point, and we've already met SEVERAL really strong characters that are easy to get invested in, which helps maintain the tension, for sure.

Dan Holmes

Yeah no hyperbole, this is the best prequel I've ever seen. They know what they're doing and the stakes and tension are eventually perfected and just shy of Breaking Bad's level of greatness and excitement. no need to worry about knowing jimmy will be safe :) Though to be fair this show is more consistent and polished than at least the first couple seasons of BB.

BangDroid

So pumped! You guys are gonna love this

Zinphad
>>145112393

I didn't notice how many movie references Saul made in BB until rewatching after BCS. It's always been a part of his character.

Dan Holmes
>>145085607

Ian yeah i never get when people say prequels are coincidental lol great example 👍

Chris B

You think you know...but beleive me...you don't know ;) Simillar as BB....it will be a slow burn getting better and better with each season. Enjoy!

Dan Holmes

Also this takes place 6 years before BB and the Black and White stuff (at the beginning of each season) is post BB. This show is roughly 1 year per season whereas BB was roughly 1 week per episode until the final 8 episodes which were another year :)

idrinkthere4iam
>>145109437

One of my favorite parts of BCS is meeting all these new amazing characters who aren’t in BB and then wondering why…

Deadly Ramon
>>145092871

The actor who played Chuck, Michael McKean, also played David St. Hubbins in This Is Spinal Tap.

cheech

It’s a testament to the writing and how brilliant it is because it truly doesn’t matter that you know where these characters end up in bb. You’re still invested and you still care. It all becomes one big story. It’s the journey etc etc. im so glad you guys enjoyed those first two.

Adverb

I'm so happy you two are watching this! There are a ton of great characters in this show.

Travis H

If BB is a show about how a chemistry teacher becomes a drug kingpin, BCS is about how a lawyer becomes a criminal lawyer. The real mystery of the show is what happens to the fantastic supporting cast. And I am glad I can now call Saul “Jimmy”, whenever I talked about Saul on BB comments I always had to double check to make sure I didn’t write Jimmy.

Moon Logic

I prefer Jimmy to Walter as a main character. He is more relatable to me and at least somewhat sympathetic.

Paul Walker

I will never compare BB to BCS in terms of which one is better but I feel the reason BCS resonates with me more is because it's a deeper character study for the main character and a MUCH slower burn.

Bennett Holleman

Tuco's revolver can fire .410 shotgun shells which is why it's so big. It's called the raging judge.

Clint Murphy

we know he lives = main character of every show ever till the final episode

Jesse Coombs

You guys should absolutely watch "Network". It's a fantastic movie.

ProIndy

Daaaamn, I'd like to just binge watch all of the series with your reactions right now. I'm so hyped about this. Now I know how people back in the 90s and early 00s felt when they always had to wait a week for the next ep.

Grand Moff Slackin'

We do know Jimmy/Saul will make it to the events of Breaking Bad… but at what cost? 🤔

JBK405

Electromagnetic hypersensitivity is a real-world psychosomatic condition. People claim that they are susceptible to electromagnetic fields, and that they feel pain/nausea/general discomfort being around electricity. It has no scientific basis as a physical condition and all medical organizations dismiss it as pseudoscience (double-blind trials and all experiments have shown that the people cannot actually tell when they are being exposed to electromagnetic fields or not). But like all mental health issues that doesn't mean it's not "real", just that it's not real in the way they think it is. Chuck thinks he feels pain whenever he is exposed to electricity, and he wears the space blanket to "protect" himself. In this instance because Jimmy brought his cell phone into the house. Jimmy demands he take it off because Jimmy thinks Chuck is protecting himself FROM JIMMY, and he doesn't want Chuck to think he's backsliding into his con artist ways. My love for this show stems specifically from the actions that we see from Jimmy in this episode after he escapes from Tuco: He is HAUNTED by what happened. Walt was ENERGIZED by his entrance into the drug world, and after killing two people in the first episode he goes home to his wife and has PASSIONATE sex in the second episode only a few hours later. He always loved the rush, even if he spent all of the season one and two (and three...and four...) saying that all he wanted to do was run a business. Jimmy however tries DESPERATELY not to wind up there again. He takes public defender cases, he works the grind, and even when somebody walks into his office with a promise of a free $100,000 he still says "no". We know that, inevitably, he is going to succumb. It's already happened. But from the second episode we know that it's not something he WANTS. Not now. Not yet.

ProIndy
>>145071934

Such an unnecessary post. Not that I know if they ever read it (I mean, I hope they have someone going through all their comments and censor spoilers 'n stuff before they read everything themselves), but if they do, this won't affect anything other than making them feel bad. Probably not much, but maybe, possibly a tiny bit worse. The show will stay the same because the majority picked it. Also, no missing of opportunities here. All the other series will be there when they are done with this. No need to rush them towards other series.

Kevin

The great thing about this being a prequel and "we know he lives" is that you WILL come to love characters in this show that we dont see in BB and the dread of WHY is always present (not to say its for a bad reason!)

KM

I love the cinematography in these episodes!

QuigonJim25

So, when you're done with this season.. you should 100% move on to 'Barry'.

Tom M

Excited. I forgot so much of what happened in episodes 1 and 2.

Shane Darcy
>>145148103

Yeah cinematography and writing definitely stepped up from BB to BCS. The experience of the crew shows

Boog

Who is Matt Murdock??? Watch daredevil next or I riot

Aaron Crawford

We know where Jimmy ends up by the how is a ride. The supporting characters and storyline’s are sublime in this, so many moments and scenes I am already anticipating you guys reacting to. One of those shows that when it’s over you seriously consider that it might be your favourite ever.

windyWin

I was reluctant to go into another show in the BB universe, but then after rewatching some of it with S&G, I realize it is a different watch than BB and I enjoy it immensely. I never finished the series off, I ended at around season 3. I'm hoping to finish it this time.

J. Valentine
>>145102375

I actually never thought that part was CGI, since in breaking bad they never did that either. But when George mentioned it, it was kinda weird. its like a mix between outdoors and CGI. probably they did it to hide a city in the background or something like that?

Aiden

YOU HAVE MEDDLED WITH THE PRIMAL FORCES OF NATURE MR HAMLIN, AND I WON’T HAVE IT

John Richards

To understand the "primal forces of nature" involved, you need to watch the movie "Network" - add it to a poll.

Josh

Bcs starts kinda slow. I rewatched it a few months back and didn’t even realize how late into the series something happen. Like for example my favorite character doesn’t show up til much later then I remembered( if that’s considered a spoiler please delete my comment). This is definitely a slow burn of a show but it’s very different from BB. I had a hard time watching it at first but I’ve seen it all the way through twice and in my opinion it’s not as good as BB but very close. Hope you guys like it

Sergio Meira

James 'Jimmy' McGill was always funny. Even when describing his con artist phase in Cicero, he paid delicate attention to the girls smiling at him and described it to great comedic effect--I wonder why it never occurred to him to try being a comedian. He's a very human character (just like Walter is), but he is one with a good side that he tried to make work. Unlike Walt, who did have the chance of getting money for his treatment from his former business partners but refused because of 'anger' and 'pride', Jimmy did his damndest best. He tried. He took all those public defense cases, he tried to help his brother get better... he even tried to help those two roller-skating schemers get off alive and free (well, they had their legs broken, but still). And you can tell he feels bad for it, and would go to great lengths to avoid that. He is... strange to say... a better human being than Walt. Which is why his eventual fall hits hard. In every attempt he makes at doing the right thing, we can feel the shadow of his future self looming large. We know his is a story of good being frustrated. We know we won't like it when it happens. We hope he will keep his good sense of humor (and he did in most of Breaking Bad, didn't he?), because we're afraid this is the only good thing he'll have in the end. And we already know this! Just as we knew Walt was going to die of cancer in the very first episode, we know Jimmy is not going to turn into Erin Broncovitch. And we feel sorry for him, because we can tell there's something in him that wants to be more like Erin Broncovitch, just as we can tell there was a darkness in Walt from day one. Jimmy started a story in Ep. 1 that obviously is going to break our hearts (I mean, we start by seeing what a drab, depressing life he ended up having...). It sure broke mine. Get ready. You'll laugh a lot, but keep some tissues around just in case. And by the end, don't forget good ol' Jimmy McGill, still there somewhere inside of Saul Goodman.

Sergio Meira
>>145148712

I agree! 'Barry' is such a great series because it tries to go beyond... what series do to stories. And it has the great Henry Winkler in it. It's a comedy that makes you cry here and there, and more than anything makes you think. Please, please react to it!

Thoko

Honestly, in almost any TV show (except Game of Thrones) you always know that the main character is not going to die. So this isn't all that much different

Justin James

Michael McKean who plays Chuck McGill was Mr. Green in Clue.

Moon Logic
>>145134396

Not only does he fight his demons, Jimmy seems to be naturally kind, even if he can also be greedy and selfish. Walt seems to despise his fellow man.

Thomas Yanez
>>145144836

Heh, I know it isn't, but the phrase "real-world psychosomatic condition" feels oxymornic.

Stephen Stone

I think that the timeline is that BB starts in 2008 and Walt dies in 2010. The main part of BCS starts in 2002

Thomas Yanez
>>145093866

I used to work midnight shift at a company that had a couple of the machines for the warehouse guys, and I remember there being a big brouhaha over somebody deliberately sabotaging the machines by placing little wooden wedges in the dispenser so that the cups would fall out and coffee would pour out onto the floor. They never caught the culprit, but ended up just moving the vending machines inside the office area lobby.

Thomas Yanez

A lot of people have already mentioned that Michael McKean ("Chuck") has some famous other roles, such as in "Laverne & Shirley" or "This is Spinal Tap", but one of my favorite appearances of his is as the cop that pulls over Steven Martin and John Candy in "Planes, Trains and Automobiles" when they are driving the burned-out rental car.

SlaverStudios
>>145191110

He was also a main character in Zork: The Grand Inquistor, a really good game where he talks over most of the story as a sidekick that hangs out in your inventory (a wizard turned into a lantern). Great old PC adventure game. Yes, I'm aware that I'm old.

Liesmith
>>145081768

God that shit drives me crazy. Why is it so hard to just let people go into the show blind?

PureGonzo
>>145165004

Oh man, are you in for a treat if that’s where you stopped last time…

Noel Valdez
>>145189714

I unironically love the timeline for these two shows. It happened by accident for Better Call Saul but it's honestly one of the reasons I like the show so much.

Noel Valdez

I love this show so much. With this and BB, it's one of the best universes thats ever been put together. I love the crazy, over the top but still grounded world Vince and the rest of his crew has put together. I also love how these two shows highlight a lot of hispanic actors which is something I love being Mexican. Brown dudes being drug dealers usually leads down a road that I despise in media but it's done well because they're shown as full people and not just cholos. Lol

Justin Leone

Even though you know that Saul will survive, this show will make you care a lot about other characters who aren't in Breaking Bad.

Matt Churchill

Is there going to be a version where we can see the show at the same time as you guys? All I see and hear is George and Simone.

Cinebinge
>>145235310

Hi Matt, the reason these full length versions are just the two of us and not the whole show is because if we were to show the entire show or movie without edit, it would be fully illegal. We have no intention in breaking the law of illegal distribution, which is why in the tier description which is available before joining, states that patrons have to provide their own copy of the tv or movie to sync. We are legally not allowed to just provide the entire show.

Thoko

I think its sad that George was starting to dislike Chuck. If you had a brother as unethical as we all know Jimmy is, it would be unfair for him to drag your good name down with his. As a person with a black sheep in the family, I took abuse from "friends" for distancing myself from such family members. And its only after the person was convicted of making disgusting threats of a non-consensual adult type (while under a restraining order) that the world finally stopped viewing me as the bad guy. Its sad that our society is like this.

Riverton
>>145243944

take it easy man. you have the context of having seen the show and your personal experience. george has the context of 2 episodes. no need to get all dramatic and "we live in a society" about it.

Thoko
>>145243944

Its you who needs to take it easy. My comments are reasonable in the given context. These episodes make it clear that Jimmy was a con artist and that his brother knows about it, and that his brother does not approve. Also, we have seen like 5 seasons of Breaking Bad and know exactly what Saul ends up doing to his own name. He is literally in hiding in the black and white scenes. The outcome is obvious to everyone before this show even begins

Riverton
>>145243944

ugh. its people like you who ruined expanse for them with the whole "i only want to hear you react the way i expect you to, anything else is sad and wrong"

REDR58

My grandmother was pretty much like the grandmother in the show here, Spanish language stories and all.

Thoko
>>145243944

I didn't tell anybody how to react. I pointed out the fact that everybody knows Jimmy is the bad guy and yet when people try to protect themselves and others from him, the viewers develop a kind of amnesia about how psychopathic he is. Nobody asked you to be a white knight. If George and Simone can't handle comments, then they can choose not to read them. Problem solved. The comment section is for people who PAID their money to be here. end of story. Don't tell me what I can and can't say. I'm not violating the rules

REDR58
>>145112393

“All That Jazz” should definitely be on their list!

clh35
>>145102375

Yeah or they didn't get the weather they wanted. That is, IF there's any CGI at all. I'm still leaning towards no.

Gary Fixler

This is so fun. I watched this back when it came out—I think just one season—and I just found it boring. I'm having a lot of fun watching it with you, though. Maybe I grew up a little over the last decade. Random aside: my buddy wrote a play back in college in Florida, and I helped build the set, and worked the lighting cues in the booth in back, while he worked the sound cues, on his ancient Amiga computer. Flash forward ~5 years, and we're both living and working in LA, and he and his wife (also from our school) take improv lessons in Hollywood. He gets them interested in putting on his old play, and once again I help build the set (smaller, because the venue was smaller than our campus cafeteria). Anyway, one of the people cast in the play was Eileen Fogarty, who in BCS runs the nail spa that Jimmy/Saul works/lives in the back of. I can't recall all these years later if she ever performed in my friend's play, because she got a big opportunity she couldn't pass up, and had to leave. It may have been that she left before rehearsals finished, and we got a replacement, but I can't recall. I just know that the joke was that she dumped us for a hotter role. I've been spotting her in national ads on TV for years (including this year as a grocery store cashier), and in a few shows (Castle, S.W.A.T., BCS). It became a joke where I'd write my pal and say "guess who I just spotted," and he'd replay "Eileen Fogarty?" 😆

GuillermoPerez

In the very 1st episode ‘Uno’, the very beginning scene with the court hearing of Jimmy defending the 19 year olds having s*x with a head, you can see that the video was recorded in October 13, 2001. So near end of 2001 can safely be assumed is when this journey begins. I first started watching this series when it premiered and sadly, I did get bored. However, that was only because I was wishing & hoping EVERY scheme Jimmy started was going to be the immediate catapult into him becoming Saul Goodman. Boy was I wrong! This series shows the legitimate circumstances and reasons of what pushed Jimmy into becoming Saul. The journey is overwhelmingly worth watching and I am really happy that the both of you are already intrigued just by the first two episodes. Looking forward for the remainder of this worthy spinoff that at the very least matches it’s predecessor Breaking Bad!

Tee Pee

Little known fact: Chuck Mcgill payed for law school via money he earned as the lead singer of Spinal Tap....

PureGonzo
>>145163815

Better Call Saul is the one and only show that I ever finished and immediately thought, “[H]oly shit, that may have been even better than Breaking Bad.”

Angzarr
>>145093866

I remember them as a kid (because you used to be able to get disappointing hot chocolate from most of them too!), but yeah, I think they were quite dated even by the time the show is set. Then again, courthouses often feel like a time capsule. If any of those coffee machines was still in use, it would make sense it would be in a courthouse. I remember being in one around 2010 that still had wall-mounted ashtrays everywhere, long long after smoking was illegal in public buildings.

JoeE

Regarding what Saul says to tuco about looking him in the eyes: in some cultures it is or was a sign of disrespect to look an authority figure in the eyes when being addressed while in others they expect you to look them in the eyes

Gary Poussard

I think the movie Jimmy is referencing is Beetlejuice.

Jesse Coombs

Speaking of Rogue One, I would love if you would react to "Andor". Probably the best Star Wars thing since Empire Strikes Back.

Stanislav Marinov

They not only look like the Paul brothers but are also similarly self employed "creative" entrepreneurs :)

Adam Wetstein

the line " it's showtime" is from all that jazz including with music

Da Termometer

in Germany where i live these kinds of coffee machines are very common. sometimes the cups are empty and you just loose all of the coffe because there is no way to know that :(

Bob The SkuII

I have one of those coffee machines at my work and its disgusting. its not company owned its like a rental and has NEVER been cleaned. one person had mold come out

Logan Kerlee

Enjoyed watching these two episodes with ya! I don't like this show nearly as much as I do with Breaking Bad but I'll keep on watching with you both for now. :)

Adam Vialpando
>>149331299

BB and BCS is the rare case where I can't objectively say one show is better than the other. I personally prefer BCS over BB but that's mainly due to subjective preference. Which I think is the best view for these shows. You can live both but usually gravitate to one due to personal preference.