When the BrBa spin-off was announced, everybody expected a Saul Goodman show, but with BCS, Vince Gilligan & Co gave us something else, something we didn't know we needed or even wanted to see: Jimmy McGill.

I'm so happy it went that way.  And when season 1 ran its course, the viewers and the writers were all saying "Gimme Jimmy".

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I've been super busy for 8 days, teaching, marking, marching against the government, and catching up with old friends from Nice, who were on holidays in Paris and whom I hadn't seen for 13 years. So I couldn't post about my two current favourite tv shows, Better Call Saul and The Americans. Yet last week was terrific on that front. I watched the ( Read more... )

I need to write a proper The Americans post, but I can't do it right now. Maybe tomorrow ( Read more... )

I was a fool to even consider not watching Better Call Saul when it was announced they would be making a BrBa spin-off. The show proved itself in its first season and became wonderful in its second one.

Of course it is less flamboyant and daring than Breaking Bad was. Everything is toned down, in a way, as if the colour of the show, or its ( Read more... )

The second season of Better Call Saul premiered on Monday and it was nearly perfect (I agree with Sepinwall about one little cheating device at the beginning of the episode ( Read more... )

I can't wait! Methinks pastor Tim is in dire straits...

And this extended promo even has Arkady Ivanovich speaking Russian!

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In the mean time, Jimmy is back as Better Call Saul premieres tonight.

That Belize in-joke aside, the finale was oddly touching, I didn't expect that.

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But still, it did sting.

Poor Jimmy. "Not a real lawyer".

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I'm caught up with my tv shows and it's an abundance of riches. So many thoughts in my head!I have to write down reviews.

First off, I'm loving this first season of Better Call Saul.

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This season of Justified continues to be superb (much better than the previous one!), with great new additions, and the leitmotiv of betrayal/double or triple-crossing being well played. So many great lines as usual, in "Alive Day" even one from Raylan that was a discreet tribute to Elmore Leonard.( Read more... )