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Better Watch Saul! 3rd season begins today. nt
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Great character development. It definitely isn't for viewers who thrive on constant action.
And don't mess with this guy!
‘Better Call Saul’ Is an Extremely Slow Burn
There’s no more surefire sign that Better Call Saul is back than a 30-second static shot of Bob Odenkirk simply looking at the world around him. He just … stares, and the camera stays with him. It’s a pretty handy summary of the paradox at the show’s core. The follow-up to the most story-driven show in television’s prestige pantheon has matured into full-bore Slow TV: a measured, tricky, occasionally boring hour that somehow cooks up must-watch drama.
If there’s one defining difference between Better Call Saul and Breaking Bad, it’s suspense: Both series have it, but deploy it in opposite ways. Breaking Bad was often propulsive and plot-heavy, powered by the audience’s desire to know what happens next. With Better Call Saul, however, we know precisely what happens next; the question is simply how it’ll happen. So we sit with our certain uncertainty, made all the more agonizing by creators Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould’s insistence on drawing out the process of Jimmy McGill’s transformation into the Saul Goodman we know and love. The initial plan was to introduce Breaking Bad characters like Saul by the end of Season 1. We’re now on Season 3, and Odenkirk’s iconic slimeball is still nowhere to be found. The plot trickle has afforded us time to get to know Jimmy and his circle as full, funny, flawed human beings, as well as time to preemptively mourn them. It’s an entirely distinct approach to achieving equal emotional impact: Rather than a rapid clip of twists and climaxes, Better Call Saul gives us the space to take it all in. The result is less stressful in some ways, more so in others.
https://theringer.com/better-call-saul-amc-bob-odenkirk-breaking-bad-prequel-b106fe7502ea
There’s no more surefire sign that Better Call Saul is back than a 30-second static shot of Bob Odenkirk simply looking at the world around him. He just … stares, and the camera stays with him. It’s a pretty handy summary of the paradox at the show’s core. The follow-up to the most story-driven show in television’s prestige pantheon has matured into full-bore Slow TV: a measured, tricky, occasionally boring hour that somehow cooks up must-watch drama.
If there’s one defining difference between Better Call Saul and Breaking Bad, it’s suspense: Both series have it, but deploy it in opposite ways. Breaking Bad was often propulsive and plot-heavy, powered by the audience’s desire to know what happens next. With Better Call Saul, however, we know precisely what happens next; the question is simply how it’ll happen. So we sit with our certain uncertainty, made all the more agonizing by creators Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould’s insistence on drawing out the process of Jimmy McGill’s transformation into the Saul Goodman we know and love. The initial plan was to introduce Breaking Bad characters like Saul by the end of Season 1. We’re now on Season 3, and Odenkirk’s iconic slimeball is still nowhere to be found. The plot trickle has afforded us time to get to know Jimmy and his circle as full, funny, flawed human beings, as well as time to preemptively mourn them. It’s an entirely distinct approach to achieving equal emotional impact: Rather than a rapid clip of twists and climaxes, Better Call Saul gives us the space to take it all in. The result is less stressful in some ways, more so in others.
https://theringer.com/better-call-saul-amc-bob-odenkirk-breaking-bad-prequel-b106fe7502ea
(I think The Ringer may be the slowest loading site on the web. Sorry.
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