Geez, guess I am in the minority. I'm a huge BBad fan and was possibly over excited for BCSaul as I have no current series in the rotation. I found the first episodes kind of boring.
Very good so far, it's got a lot of similar breaking bad elements. The strange camera angles (Saul at Cinabon, Tuco making Salsa) As well as cool time lapses (Saul going through his court cases) similar to Crystal Blue Persuasion
Why did Phinneas have to die in "A Separate Peace"? Otherwise I loved that story but that was a grim seemingly unnecessary robbing of my youth. Perhaps I'm still bitter and airing my petty hypercritical grievances here is a bit of a bummer.I don't think you like television.
Have you considered reading more?
That "time lapse" was a direct reference to All That Jazz. And well done, at that.
I'm having a bit of trouble with the Chuck storyline. Starting to annoy me. I just can't stand people who give a about what people think of them. I could see maybe a child or a parent, but a brother? One who's as nuts as Chuck? Stupid. Tell him he's nuts, lock him up and move on.Yes, they are really starting to weave a masterpiece now (after 5 episodes) SPOILER ALERT tying in slipping Jimmy and the Chuck electro-allergy and now setting up Mike phase II. Just good TV.
I don't think the Chuck thing in the present tense is motivated by Jimmy worrying about what Chuck thinks about him. And certainly the people at the law firm know the full extent of Chuck's psychosis and are milking it, so I don't see any mental illness stigma concerns at play for Jimmy, he simply doesn't want to hurt his brother and make his brother's life worse.I'm having a bit of trouble with the Chuck storyline. Starting to annoy me. I just can't stand people who give a about what people think of them. I could see maybe a child or a parent, but a brother? One who's as nuts as Chuck? Stupid. Tell him he's nuts, lock him up and move on.
All that may be true. It's just annoying to me. Makes it much harder to watch.I don't think the Chuck thing in the present tense is motivated by Jimmy worrying about what Chuck thinks about him. And certainly the people at the law firm know the full extent of Chuck's psychosis and are milking it, so I don't see any mental illness stigma concerns at play for Jimmy, he simply doesn't want to hurt his brother and make his brother's life worse.
Yes Jimmy hid the newspaper because he knew that Chuck's illness/psychosis is exacerbated or entirely based on guilt/complicity/etc.. with Slipping Jimmy's immoral conduct. But tough to judge how much Jimmy owes Chuck and can/should keep enable him until we know exactly what from and how Chuck saved Jimmy. Plus you can make the case that Chuck is simply irreversibly nuts (Jimmy said in epi 5 that they'd tried every expert and certainly from the firm it appears they'd have the $$ to do so), so why put him in a home forever if Jimmy can provide Chuck a stable much more pleasurable existence?
I think the basic conflict they've setup is Jimmy is clearly of questionable moral character and he's trying to calibrate the best personal, societal, economic and Chuck-based settings for his legal career. Chuck is a useful moral compass for Jimmy in this regard and also a source of legal knowledge. Jimmy's talents on the other hand are obviously more towards figuring out angles and walking the lines of morality (he has some) and legality (he has almost none). When Jimmy tries to walk the straight and narrow it doesn't work as it doesn't best utilize his unique skillset. But when he veers too far into fraud (skateboarders) it backfires. The billboard hero setup was almost a perfectly calibrated stretch of standards (justified by bully Law Firm) and yet it still resulted in a bunch of wack-job clients. So Jimmy steers back into morality with helping the elderly even though sometimes that is collecting chump change for allocating useless inanimate symbols of the utter fruitless of it all. Further calibration needed