Better Call Saul [television]

 Better Call Saul [television]

THIS IS A SHOW I KNEW WAS GOOD BUT PUT OFF WATCHING *BECAUSE* I KNEW IT WAS GOOD. LIKE I COULDN'T JUST TURN IT ON AND THEN PLAY GAMEBOY WITH IT ON THE BACKGROUND.  I FEEL LIKE THE STRUCTURE OF THIS SHOW IS BASED ON THE LIKE FIVE MINUTES IN BREAKING BAD WHERE WALT'S OLD COMPANY MEETS WITH HIM AND IS VERY GENEROUS BUT SUPER PATRONIZING. THE WHOLE HHM SETUP FELT LIKE THAT ONE BREAKING BAD SCENE, IT'S ALSO FUNNY HOW THE FIRST SEASON AND A HALF WAS THE HHM STORY, THEN DID A COUPLE SEASONS OF "THEN SOME OTHER STUFF HAPPENED" THEN SNAPPED BACK TO HHM AND WAS LIKE "YEH, THE DOCTOR VET AND THE GOOFY COUPLE AND NACHO ARE BACK NOW, FORGET ABOUT THAT MIDDLE STUFF" ALTHOUGH HONESTLY, I REALLY LIKED THIS SHOW WHEN IT WAS THE MOST LOW STAKES. (AND IN A WAY KINDA DIDN'T CARE ABOUT THE BREAKING BAD EPILOG STUFF). IT'S ALSO VERY FUNNY HOW AT THE START OF THE SHOW THEY REALLY SHOW HOW JIMMY WAS CONVINCING PEOPLE, THEN AT SOME POINT JUST WENT "YOU GET IT" AND JUST HAVE A LOT OF SCENES THAT ARE JUST "JIMMY ROLLED PERSUASION" AND EVERYONE GOES WITH IT. ERMANTROUT AND THE BATMAN STUFF TOO, AT SOME POINT THEY GAVE UP JUSTIFYING ANY OF IT, BUT THE ESTABLISHED HE'S GOOD AT EVERYTHING ENOUGH TIMES IT WAS FINE. 

PS. THE INTERNET WAS ABHORENT AND INCREDIBLY SEXIST TOWARDS SKYLER. BUT IT'S TRUE THAT BREAKING BAD DID KINDA STUMBLE WITH MAKING HER AN ANTAGONIST THEN TRYING TO LEAN ON "BUT SHE'S OBJECTIVELY RIGHT SO YOU SHOULD LIKE HER" IN A WAY THAT DOESN'T REALLY WORK WELL IN STORY TELLING. I LOVE HOW THEY SOLVED THAT IN THIS SHOW BY MAKING KIM 10000% ALL IN ON CRIME. SHE LOVES CRIME. AND I REALLY LIKE HOW THEY WROTE IT. LIKE, SHE WAS HER OWN CHARACTER AND HAD HER OWN STUFF GOING ON, THEY DIDN'T JUST REDUCE HER TO LIKE, JUST GO ALONG WITH JIMMY, THEY DID SUCH A GOOD JOB MAKING HER EXASPERATED BY EVERY SINGLE THING BUT THEN ULTIMATELY BE WAY INTO IT TOO. IT WAS GENIUS WRITING.  (ALTHOUGH I ALSO THINK SKYLER WAS AN EXTENDED MALCOM IN THE MIDDLE JOKE) 

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