TV: Better Call Saul

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I really don't want them to screw this up.

I enjoyed the show's very deliberate pace throughout seasons 1 and 2 but, on second viewing, this last episode was just too much. It's Hannibal-season-3 level tedious. It felt at times like the script had come out short and so the director decided to linger on long, drawn-out moments to fill the time (which I know isn't what happened because the episode was actually 10 minutes longer than normal).

I love this show. I want it to do well and not get cancelled. But it keeps getting slower and it keeps hemorrhaging viewers.
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Mecca wrote:Supposed to be an exciting episode on Monday
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I love the deliberate pace. Everyone realises that Mike's brief 2 episode story arc is going to have an amazing payoff, right? Don't forget, BB had an entire episode about killing a fly.
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Which is one of my favorite episodes of Breaking Bad, not actually about killing a fly, and way more entertaining than BCS S3E1.
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It was a metaphor.
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I thought the season 3 premier was pretty good.
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I don't know if any of you listen to the BCS Insider Podcast, but here's the latest episode



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theplatypus wrote:Which is one of my favorite episodes of Breaking Bad, not actually about killing a fly, and way more entertaining than BCS S3E1.
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The Fly episode of BB sucked.

Bryan Cranston (an AMAZING actor) notwithstanding, Better Call Saul is a much better show and if it gets cancelled I will kill someone.
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Bammer wrote:The Fly episode of BB sucked.
im not surprised that you feel this way
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Mecca wrote:
Bammer wrote:The Fly episode of BB sucked.
im not surprised that you feel this way
Me no understand
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Bammer wrote:
Mecca wrote:
Bammer wrote:The Fly episode of BB sucked.
im not surprised that you feel this way
Me no understand
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Man, this show.
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Last night's episode was pretty good. I was worried that they were going to drag a couple of things out, but it looks like things are getting going quickly this season. :P
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Wow that was an incredible episode, top-to-bottom.
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ending made me sad :(
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Chuck is a monster.
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The photography in episode 2 is unbelievable, especially during Mike's boring stakeout
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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theplatypus wrote:The photography in episode 2 is unbelievable, especially during Mike's boring stakeout
yeah i noticed that too
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