Yes, like everyone else; I loved "Breaking Bad". Truly one of the (if not "the") greatest series ever made and Saul was one of my favorite characters. Naturally I was more than excited when I heard news of the "Better Call Saul" spin-off.
Now we all know about horrifying spin-offs like "AfterMASH", "Baywatch Nights" or (everyone's favorite), "Joani Loves Chachi"... so as how most spin-offs go, I wasn't expecting much.
Well sometimes not expecting "much" is still a little too much to expect...
This series is painfully slow. It just is. Any half observant person can tell right away, they are simply stalling for time and dragging out every single scene in order to put together a "series". Every episode so far has just been a painful exercise in bringing in old characters from Breaking Bad and burning up the clock with them in hopes they'll finally do something, ANYTHING entertaining... at all. In other words:
Their milking the Breaking Bad cash cow for everything it's worth.
I really wanted to like this. I stuck with it for multiple episodes hoping it would go somewhere... it never did. Months have passed and I remember asking my wife "Weren't we watching "Better Call Saul" at some point? Is that show still even on?"
To my surprise it is. But then lets face it, most people will watching anything these days -- no matter how slow moving, empty and painfully boring. "Better Call Saul" reminds me of watching a crappy opening band for half an hour before just wandering away to do something more interesting -- like go out to the car and clip your toenails. I just really don't care about anything going on in it anymore -- it's just too slow moving, stale and empty. Without Walter, Jesse or anything interesting happening -- who cares? I'll just skip the pseudo opening act/prequel/spin-off and fast forward to the good part:
Breaking Bad: Season 1, Episode 1.
Now we all know about horrifying spin-offs like "AfterMASH", "Baywatch Nights" or (everyone's favorite), "Joani Loves Chachi"... so as how most spin-offs go, I wasn't expecting much.
Well sometimes not expecting "much" is still a little too much to expect...
This series is painfully slow. It just is. Any half observant person can tell right away, they are simply stalling for time and dragging out every single scene in order to put together a "series". Every episode so far has just been a painful exercise in bringing in old characters from Breaking Bad and burning up the clock with them in hopes they'll finally do something, ANYTHING entertaining... at all. In other words:
Their milking the Breaking Bad cash cow for everything it's worth.
I really wanted to like this. I stuck with it for multiple episodes hoping it would go somewhere... it never did. Months have passed and I remember asking my wife "Weren't we watching "Better Call Saul" at some point? Is that show still even on?"
To my surprise it is. But then lets face it, most people will watching anything these days -- no matter how slow moving, empty and painfully boring. "Better Call Saul" reminds me of watching a crappy opening band for half an hour before just wandering away to do something more interesting -- like go out to the car and clip your toenails. I just really don't care about anything going on in it anymore -- it's just too slow moving, stale and empty. Without Walter, Jesse or anything interesting happening -- who cares? I'll just skip the pseudo opening act/prequel/spin-off and fast forward to the good part:
Breaking Bad: Season 1, Episode 1.
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