NYN wrote:Oh yeah. I'll put a dollar in his pocket. I'm informed my aforementioned fave is in it start to finish. I like Bob's Saul and his antics fine enough in BB (when the inflatable Lady Liberty over his shop announces his entry in eps I start to grin), though really can't say if it's enough to make him the center of things, as opposed to WW. But that lies in the telling, doesn't it?
I experienced a bit of this in BCS's first couple eps, where Jimmy is very much in his Saul mode (just without the notoriety or cash). Same lovable rogue, doing raucous scams - but can they really get six seasons out of this? Without spoiling, the trepidation rapidly fades, as it becomes apparent that Saul is Jimmy's Heisenberg... and while BB is, by its nature, a terminal descent for Walt, Jimmy's tale is like a reverse Odyssey. He's a long, long way to go from the starting point of Proto-Saui, even if by the show's prequel nature, you know he'll arrive back there somehow.
When all of your wishes are granted
Many of your dreams will be destroyed
A tale of what was lost. A YT commenter nailed it, on a random Saul BB clip.
"Pre-BCS, this is just Saul being Saul. Post-BCS, it's heartbreaking."
All this without even touching on
P2 / MIKE EHRMANTRAUT, the Jimmy to Jimmy's Billy. Very, very much a dual-protagonist affair, with lots of clever near-misses and occasional catastrophic head-ons between its parallel legal/cartel worlds.
TLDR: Recommended.
X-TRA recommend (with
SUPER VALUE GUARANTEE ) if you enjoy BB.
It's every bit that show's companion piece. Superior quality black-humoured crime drama with an A+ cast, drop-dead gorgeous cinematography, and bravura soundtracking.