We just finished Better Call Saul. To me much of it was like a great film, and we kept talking about how much Vince Gilligan was shooting in Michael Mann style, and using similar music too. My wife and I both feel like Mann stopped having heart and soul in his work at a certain point, but Gilligan really took the torch from him. It was incredible.
A lot of the ways it went shocked me, and I thought it was interesting how I couldn't see where stuff ended up. I was also surprised by the quality of the acting for so many of the actors.
I did like this more than Breaking Bad, because the characters were just better overall, more finely drawn, more character and personality. They felt more real. Breaking Bad was great, but many of the women's characters were less dimensional than the men, and it was like half the characters' potential was wasted. I felt like that was not the case in Better Call Saul. Here you had a greater sense of everyone in the show, and there was just more characterization in a great way. It meant that when something happened, it had greater impact.
Very cool, and I'm glad I saw it.
) made it very easy to not circle back to. I realize there are other ways and venues to watch it in but I have this weird thing where I want to watch it at the source. Might have to take another look down the road
They're both actually pretty darn good. If you're old
