The Swamp

Nonlinear FC wrote: ↑Thu Aug 16, 2018 9:15 am

BSF21 wrote: ↑Thu Aug 16, 2018 6:15 am

Nonlinear FC wrote: ↑Tue Aug 14, 2018 11:30 am

Jerloma wrote: ↑Tue Apr 11, 2017 9:17 am So...fucking...slow...still.

I'm actually starting to fall into this camp. I'm going to stick it out for now, but I watched the first ep last night and I was on my phone playing a game for 45 minutes. It's a mindless game, so I'm listening to all of it, but geez louise it can get ponderous.

Still feel that way? That was a nice slow burn up to when Gus did Gus things.

That episode was brilliantly acted. Every piece of it was excellent. Mike's no bullshit talk with Lydia, Jimmy's pitch at the copier store, and Kim laying into Howard with no mercy.

I think that was the best episode of the series.

If we're talking Ep2, I haven't seen it yet.

I will also admit that I was in a crap mood when I watched Ep1, almost feel like watching it over again.

Nonlinear FC wrote: ↑Thu Aug 16, 2018 10:11 am I don't hate watch shows... I don't remotely understand that move.

I loved season 1 and I think I just wasn't in the right space the other night.

Like, I get that it's very cool and edgy to have the first 3 minutes just be him getting out of bed and making coffee. But if you're looking forward to the show picking up where things left off and you're confronted with that weirdness... Just saying you need to be patient with the show sometimes, and I wasn't in that mode.

/swim in lake me

ETA - I love the show, all three seasons. :-)

wlu_lax6 wrote: ↑Thu Aug 16, 2018 10:19 am slight aside...
I watched ep1 online and it kicked into Lodge 49. Found the main character interesting but can't decide if the show is worth it. Anyone else in on this before I dive into further episodes?

tennbengal wrote: ↑Thu Aug 16, 2018 10:22 am

Nonlinear FC wrote: ↑Thu Aug 16, 2018 10:11 am I don't hate watch shows... I don't remotely understand that move.

I loved season 1 and I think I just wasn't in the right space the other night.

Like, I get that it's very cool and edgy to have the first 3 minutes just be him getting out of bed and making coffee. But if you're looking forward to the show picking up where things left off and you're confronted with that weirdness... Just saying you need to be patient with the show sometimes, and I wasn't in that mode.

/swim in lake me

ETA - I love the show, all three seasons. :-)

I am guessing BrBa probably had some of that too, but I didn't start watching it until the whole world was finishing it up in the last half season. Which meant I binged it, and watching it that way smoothed that over. The slower parts really ended up being a nice burn to what came after, without the frustration of waiting. I am betting Saul would similarly be good binge style, as last years finale would have bled into the slower re-set to start this season.

Nonlinear FC wrote: ↑Thu Aug 16, 2018 10:30 am

wlu_lax6 wrote: ↑Thu Aug 16, 2018 10:19 am slight aside...
I watched ep1 online and it kicked into Lodge 49. Found the main character interesting but can't decide if the show is worth it. Anyone else in on this before I dive into further episodes?

I was trying to remember where I'd see the main actor, so thanks for bringing this up... He was in a really disturbing ep of Black Mirror (redundant, I know.) Really good acting job.

I'm on the fence on this one.

/unhelpful response

tennbengal wrote: ↑Tue Sep 04, 2018 11:54 am Won’t be able to watch until tonight or tomorrow night. Frantically avoiding spoilers.

wlu_lax6 wrote: ↑Tue Sep 04, 2018 1:05 pm

tennbengal wrote: ↑Tue Sep 04, 2018 11:54 am Won’t be able to watch until tonight or tomorrow night. Frantically avoiding spoilers.

so you opened this thread? TB making good choices

brian wrote: ↑Tue Sep 04, 2018 2:36 pm I'm just gonna go ahead and say it now. Unless they really fuck up the landing somehow and I don't see that happening, Better Call Saul is better than Breaking Bad AND if you include them as one show, surpasses The Sopranos and The Wire as the greatest show in the history of television.

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Both Saul and Mike took major character turns that certainly put them on their BB paths respectively. Seeing Kim’s face when she realizes Jimmy was bullshitting the appeals board was a great piece of acting.

bfj wrote: ↑Sun Oct 14, 2018 10:54 am I do love me some HH. So, what happens to Kim?

Breaks up and moves away?
Dies?
Goes to jail (my guess)?

bfj wrote: ↑Fri Mar 27, 2020 6:37 pm Anybody else watching this season? Really love this show and this season has been amazing.

tennbengal wrote: ↑Fri Mar 27, 2020 6:47 pm

bfj wrote: ↑Fri Mar 27, 2020 6:37 pm Anybody else watching this season? Really love this show and this season has been amazing.

Absolutely. The whole series has been fantastic and this season is the best yet. Rhea Seahorn should win an Emmy for what she is doing with her Kim Wexler character. It’s all so good but she’s been unreal.

[+] spoiler

The last episode was fantastic, and marked the turn of when I started to dislike Jimmy. I always rooted for him up until now, but he was a shit last time.

[+] spoiler

His turn on Kim and then trying to justify it...just so full blown slipping Jimmy...

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i was thinking that with Howard’s hookers.

Shirley wrote: ↑Fri Mar 27, 2020 11:43 pm I agree that the show is awesome and Rhea Seahorn is so good as Kim. Buuuuut, I'm having a hard time understanding/believing that she'd stay with him after all of this. Particularly that last trick.

It's also a little hard to believe that Mesa Verde wouldn't have fired her immediately after Jimmy's meeting. They should have fired her long before that, to be honest.

tennbengal wrote: ↑Sat Mar 28, 2020 6:36 am

Shirley wrote: ↑Fri Mar 27, 2020 11:43 pm I agree that the show is awesome and Rhea Seahorn is so good as Kim. Buuuuut, I'm having a hard time understanding/believing that she'd stay with him after all of this. Particularly that last trick.

It's also a little hard to believe that Mesa Verde wouldn't have fired her immediately after Jimmy's meeting. They should have fired her long before that, to be honest.

The Mesa verde guy will do whatever he wants to do. I’ve worked under and directly reported to billionaires and they literally will do whatever they take a notion to sometimes whether logic is involved or not. So her trying to quit the account last episode and him rejecting it as not wanting to be pushed around isn’t something I saw as unususl for that type of wealth.

tennbengal wrote: ↑Sat Mar 28, 2020 6:38 am As for her staying with Jimmy, I read the last line from her as a what is likely a last ditch effort to “save” him from himself...that is doomed to failure. We know she’s apparently the child of an alcoholic, co-dependent trying to “save” loved ones is likely built into her character’s DNA at some level...

sancarlos wrote: ↑Sun Mar 29, 2020 10:47 pm So, I watched three episodes this weekend to get caught up. Glad I did! Held off reading this thread until I did, and enjoyed catching up, here, too.

I hope this is the last season, for the sake of Jonathan Banks. He looks as though he might not make it through another one.

bfj wrote: ↑Mon Mar 30, 2020 6:50 am So does Kim propose marriage because spouses can’t be made to testify against each other?

Nonlinear FC wrote: ↑Mon Mar 30, 2020 9:19 am I don't do Twitter or Reddit, so my dislike of Skyler wasn't borne out of anything other than she was just an annoying shrew.