TV: Better Call Saul

[Mecca]

Spoiler: show

maybe Rich Schweikart. He has his suspicions about Saul’s influence on Kim including her irrational behavior. His firm represents Sandpiper, so there’s some reasoning behind tailing them

[Stickman]

anyone else notice when Jimmy was looking at Kim in the restaurant in the first ep, she was behind bars in the window?

[VinylGuy]

anyone else notice when Jimmy was looking at Kim in the restaurant in the first ep, she was behind bars in the window?

her being in jail during all BB makes sense

[Mecca]

There’s a few shots of Kim in previous seasons that have her “behind bars.” Mostly blinds on a conference room giving the visual, I believe

[The Argonaut]

Here's something from Wikipedia about the character Juan Bolsa that you probably already knew:



"Bolsa's name, translated literally from Spanish, is John Bag or John Sack; this is a nod to the character John "Johnny Sack" Sacrimoni from the HBO drama The Sopranos. Both characters are high-ranking members of powerful crime families who are very level-headed, well-spoken, and act as intermediaries between their families and others."

[Bammer]

This is the first time I’ve watched a show one week at a time since … probably the previous season of BCS (2+ years ago??).

I like it.

[Bammer]

Here's something from Wikipedia about the character Juan Bolsa that you probably already knew:



"Bolsa's name, translated literally from Spanish, is John Bag or John Sack; this is a nod to the character John "Johnny Sack" Sacrimoni from the HBO drama The Sopranos. Both characters are high-ranking members of powerful crime families who are very level-headed, well-spoken, and act as intermediaries between their families and others."

Reminds me of Bammer

[given2trade]

More annoying was he could’ve run and hid into the woods another 50 feet away from that decrepit tank truck.

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[Mecca]

[Stickman]

[Mecca]

Was that NoHo Hank???

[Jorge]

Okay, that was a really good episode. Definitely lower stakes than the last one but still a delight. Way to go, Rhea! My girl directed the shit out of that

[daft twat]

Okay, that was a really good episode. Definitely lower stakes than the last one but still a delight. Way to go, Rhea! My girl directed the shit out of that

Did she, tho? I was very cognizant that this was her directing, and so much of it seemed exactly like the vision of those (Gilliam?) before her. I mean, is she choosing to shoot bike spokes and dripping bottles? My favorite scene was Saul eating his lunch. The long shot and all of the foreground people was visually very interesting.

[Ms Harmless]

the show seemingly has a definite house style, including those scene-setting closeups; I'm sure Rea has to adhere to it to some extent, it can't be all about her style; I'm definitely not seeing all Benson & Moorhead on Moon Knight, they're guest directors on another show runner's show; I'd love to see her actually take the reins on something completely her own though

[The Argonaut]

I hadn't realized she was directing. Well done. Best episode so far this season, in, yes, an understated way. I've actually felt that this season has been trying too hard to be artsy fartsy and this was the first episode this season that I felt was appropriately artsy and not so fartsy.

I'm not sure I understand the value of having an interracial senior couple living in Gus's (fake?) house. Is the cover story that he lives with them? But they really live in the basement? Or they live in the other house? I'm confused about the mechanics of it as well

[Jorge]

Okay, that was a really good episode. Definitely lower stakes than the last one but still a delight. Way to go, Rhea! My girl directed the shit out of that

Did she, tho? I was very cognizant that this was her directing, and so much of it seemed exactly like the vision of those (Gilliam?) before her. I mean, is she choosing to shoot bike spokes and dripping bottles? My favorite scene was Saul eating his lunch. The long shot and all of the foreground people was visually very interesting.

There's been a lot of talk about how the overall "helmer" of a season of television is usually the showrunner; it's their vision that all the different departments sync up with and take cues from. The "director" on episodic television makes a lot of decisions but the role is very much beholden to the showrunner's vision and the show's overall aesthetic identity. That's how a show is able to have a cohesive look and feel while (usually) having different directors for every episode. Much more than film, TV directing is a super collaborative role, so it's hard to know which decisions she can have full credit for, but the episode looked good and had good rhythm and featured great performances (also part of directing!) so I give her kudos

[Mecca]

I hadn't realized she was directing. Well done. Best episode so far this season, in, yes, an understated way. I've actually felt that this season has been trying too hard to be artsy fartsy and this was the first episode this season that I felt was appropriately artsy and not so fartsy.

I'm not sure I understand the value of having an interracial senior couple living in Gus's (fake?) house. Is the cover story that he lives with them? But they really live in the basement? Or they live in the other house? I'm confused about the mechanics of it as well

They live across the street.

[Mecca]

Okay, that was a really good episode. Definitely lower stakes than the last one but still a delight. Way to go, Rhea! My girl directed the shit out of that

Did she, tho? I was very cognizant that this was her directing, and so much of it seemed exactly like the vision of those (Gilliam?) before her. I mean, is she choosing to shoot bike spokes and dripping bottles? My favorite scene was Saul eating his lunch. The long shot and all of the foreground people was visually very interesting.

There's been a lot of talk about how the overall "helmer" of a season of television is usually the showrunner; it's their vision that all the different departments sync up with and take cues from. The "director" on episodic television makes a lot of decisions but the role is very much beholden to the showrunner's vision and the show's overall aesthetic identity. That's how a show is able to have a cohesive look and feel while (usually) having different directors for every episode. Much more than film, TV directing is a super collaborative role, so it's hard to know which decisions she can have full credit for, but the episode looked good and had good rhythm and featured great performances (also part of directing!) so I give her kudos

I always assumed that with a show like BCS, the director’s main creativity was getting certain performances out of the actors. Michael Mando on the insider podcast seemed to imply that structure when he said they were essentially given the keys to Vince and Gould’s Ferrari to take it for a drive for the nacho scenes all while having 2 DPs to keep the house style

[daft twat]

Thanks Jorge and Mecca. That makes sense. I’m not a movie or tv buff, and I think I hadn’t differentiated the job across the mediums. I just think of guys like Nolan and Tarantino when I hear director, and those guys clearly put their unique styles into every aspect of filming. It makes sense that a show runner concerned with cohesion would be pushing all the stylistic buttons. In any case. I love this person’s vision.

[Jorge]

Yeah, that would be Peter Gould. He's the co-creator of the series along with Vince Gilligan but he's really been in charge for most of the show's run. I get the sense (from interviews and hearing them speak on the Insider podcast) that Gould is largely responsible for most of the things I love the most about the show, which is why I bristle a bit when people give Vince Gilligan credit for everything