Better Call Saul is an abomination.
It's literally as if AMC realized that Mad Men and Breaking Bad were completed, and all they had left as a network identity was the "channel that has that zombie show on it".
So they decided to pay VINCE a ton of money and begged him to make Better Call Saul and told him that they wanted the Mad Men crowd as well as retain the Breaking Bad crowd. Vince at the time only envisioned a Saul spinoff as a simple comedy sitcom show, but with all that money suddenly on his front lawn he had to rush a product annually that tries to satisfy two different audiences at once and manages to not fully satisfy either.
You can even see the literal split with the Mike "JUST CAMEO OUR SHOW UP" Storyline/Jimmy "OFFICE DIALOGUE" Storyline trying to cater to these two crowd segments.
All in all, Better Call Saul is a failure because it tries to do two different shows at the same time.
Its a style over substance show just like Breaking Bad. The part that they fucked up is even teasing us with Mike action.
A style over substance drama can work, you just have to be careful and let your show temper viewer expectations. The problem is you can clearly see the writers badly wanna write a big gunfight with Mike, so they keep teasing it only to never give it to us.
>>68779676
>Its a style over substance show just like Breaking Bad.
Breaking Bad's appeal was all about substance and no style though. the writing and acting were pretty good but everything else was meh. I couldn't tell you a single shot that ever stuck out to me.
>>68779897
>Implying the cinematography on both shows isn't the best thing about it and GOAT
>>68779897
A floating eyeball in a pool doesnt stick out to you.
>>68779955
i mean, it was okay. nothing like what you seen from Malick, Hitchcock, Fellini, etc. - though film has always paid more attention to cinematography than television.
the writing was GOAT. the acting was good. again, never saw a single shot or edit that really stuck out to me.
>>68780277
not nearly as much as a shot as striking as this. though, to be fair its one of the best ever
I have about as much respect for better call saul as I do for the dogshit on my shoe. It is reddit. It is video game hotpocket. It is capeshit. It is cheeto dust. I'm literally screaming right now and slamming my arms down on my desk just thinking about it.
It is the most depraved video game infantilized manchild degeneracy. It is saturday morning cartoon. It is non-neurotypicality. It is memes. It is video game. It is tarantino. It is imdb.
>>68778800
>pay VINCE a ton of money
He gets 50k per episode, you fucking idiot.
>I'm 14 and just realizing television is a business
I love that show! It's fun and funny, and it's interesting to see how jimmy mcgill turned into saul goodman.
I swear, you asperger patients are the worst
Who cares about this meme show?
Stannis LIVES!
>>68778800
>>68779676
>>68779897
>mfw I realize it's not trolling, and /tv/ is actually full of fucking idiots that don't know anything about the subject
>>68778800
>pleb filter
i agree, OP. no wonder you hated it
It absolutely is a pleb filter. Only plebs would enjoy this faux-patrician show pretending to stand above others thinking what they're watching is anything more than an pathetically transparent cash-grab.
>>68778800
Season 2 would've been better if Saul's scenes weren't so slow.
Also, does anyone else think that Ernesto is Gus's brother?
>>68782350
and a tip for you fine gentleman, see you in /film/
>>68778800
>it ain't me starts playing
>>68778800
I hate like 90% of the shots in this show. It's like Vince wants me to think he's deep but I always end up thinking "why the fuck did he waste the actors time doing that"
Do you think better call Saul is appropriate for kids? I'm thinking about letting my wife's son and his step brother watch it. My ex wife used to get upset with me when I let her son watch inappropriate stuff on tv.
>>68778800
>>68782596
>my wife's son and his step brother
Nice
>>68782699
>when you nut but she keep suckin
>>68782740
My ex ex wife had three kids. Each from a different guy. They were good kids
>>68779897
Dont you remember all those try hard cooking meth montages?
>>68778800
>show has too many cameos
Is this a fucking meme?
Literally who is this retarded? It's a prequel. A fucking prequel! Of course there are people from the original show. It's showing you how they got where they are in BB.
A cameo would be if Jimmy ran into Walter in the supermarket or something.
Damn my jimmies are rustled, stay filtered plebs
>>68778800
>Vince at the time only envisioned a Saul spinoff as a simple comedy sitcom show
How come people keep insisting this? Whenever someone's complaining about Saul they always say shit like "it's not a comedy case of the week show."
The fucks with that?
Did Vince ever say that was the case? Why did people think that's what they were getting when nothing points to that being the case?
>>68778800
No, it's not. I'm assuming you haven't watched it, because you definitely didn't listen to how Vince feels about the series.
Better Call Saul is a spin-off prequel of Breaking Bad. It's one of the better series on television and the best on basic cable. It doesn't have Breaking Bad's constant action, instead it takes a more drawn out and slightly nuanced approach.
It explores the life of Jimmy McGill, a morally questionable albeit well intended lawyer attempting to make an "honest" living as a small time defense lawyer, slowly marking his descent into Saul Goodman. It introduces new characters and takes the opportunity to develop the past of established characters from the Breaking Bad universe. Go into it with an open mind and you might enjoy it.
>>68779955
>L-L-L-LOOK MOM, I CAN USE WORDS I DONT UNDERSTAND TOO LMAO
>>68778800
Seriously, fuck this channel. When I saw that this show was given an after show with Chris Memewick, I decided not to watch it.
Someone post that webm of the guy banging his head
>>68783728
What guy?
>>68783751
Guy in op image
>ever seen Mad Men nor BB
>started watching BCS
>really like it
I dont know, am I meant to not like it or some reason?
>>68783784
That's Saul. Hector is the one that bangs his head, that's how he ends up on the wheel chair
>>68783848
Okay, I haven't seen show. Should I watch it? Or even Breaking Bad first?
>>68783896
Nah, watch hey Arnold
>>68783728
>>68778800
I enjoy it
>>68783728
>>68783920
Seriously?
>>68783945
>>68783983
As a heart attack
>>68778800
There aren't cameos for the sake of cameos, if they just threw in a scene where they showed Walt teaching a class then yes that would be unnecessary but this is a prequel to the show, it's not like people complained about the Star Wars prequels with young Anakin saying "Oh my god Cameos much?"
>>68778800
LEAVE MY SHOW ALONE WALKING DEAD PLEBS
>>68781718
OMFG FUCKING SOURCE JESUS CHRIST ON THE CROSS
>>68784274
>admitting you watch this trash
wew lad
>>68780790
all those memes and yet not a single opinion among those.
>>68783991
So satisfying.
>sharing a board with people that watch TWD and GoT and can't handle slower shows
truly horrifying
>>68784520
>getting mad at pasta
>>68784647
BEGONE ANOREXIC WITCH
Makes sense. This and Mad men are the only shows I dropped for being too boring
>skip to Mike's parts: the show
>>68780851
Those shows will be syndicated by someone for the rest of his life. He'll do just fine.
