Better Call Saul
Created by Vince Gilligan, Peter Gould
Six years before Saul Goodman meets Walter White. We meet him when the man who will become Saul Goodman is known as Jimmy McGill, a small-time lawyer searching for his destiny, and, more immediately, hustling to make ends meet. Working alongside, and, often, against Jimmy, is “fixer” Mike Ehrmantraut. The series tracks Jimmy’s transformation into Saul Goodman, the man who puts “criminal” in “criminal lawyer". From TMDB
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Better Call Saul received critical acclaim and is considered to be an outstanding example of how to successfully produce a prequel and spinoff work that defies expectations. Many critics have called Better Call Saul a worthy successor to Breaking Bad and some have even deemed it superior to its predecessor. In September 2019, The Guardian ranked the show at No. 48 on its list of the 100 best TV shows of the 21st century, describing it as "A supremely measured character piece that has steadily improved as its central tragedy has materialised." In 2021, Empire ranked Better Call Saul at No. 27 on their list of The 100 Greatest TV Shows of All Time. Also in 2021, it was voted the 23rd-best TV…
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60 of 261 · most liked firstSince I finished watching all of Pluribus (which I enjoyed!), I got the itch to finally go back to watching Better Call Saul, since I stopped in the early eps of Season 2 & got distracted, and never got around to finishing it....(Thanks ADHD!!) Man, everyone in this show is so damn good.
positive · AI labelView post →They should make a TV show that's just more of Better Call Saul. Only it's not more seasons of Better Call Saul because the story was the correct length, and it's not rewatching Better Call Saul because it's new content, and it's not a spinoff, but it's still somehow more of Better Call Saul. Yknow?
positive · AI labelView post →Hello, Carol. We hope you're happy because the Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series goes to...Rhea Seehorn for PLURIBUS!! BETTER CALL SAUL fans, are we feeling vindicated??? An #Emmys win at last.
neutral · AI labelView post →The haunting new show from Vince Gilligan, who created Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, is set in Gilligan's now-signature location, Albuquerque. n.pr/4oT3Sl9
neutral · AI labelView post →anyway my hot take is that while I adored Breaking Bad and am okay seeing it on top of the list (though The Wire should have been #1), Better Call Saul is a better show also Deadwood should be in the top 10
positive · AI labelView post →Better Call Saul: The Complete Series (HD Digital) is $14.99 on Apple TV buff.ly/S7JYrkH #ad
neutral · AI labelView post →#2 random Nebraska football appearance on a big-time TV show behind the surprisingly detailed descriptions of the 2010 Nebraska Cornhuskers football season right at the climax of Better Call Saul
neutral · AI labelView post →BREAKING BAD and BETTER CALL SAUL are monumental accomplishments, no doubt, but, maaaaaaaaaaaaaaan, I was happy to see X-FILES Vince Gilligan show the fuck up.
positive · AI labelView post →Very excited to announce my next book: SAUL GOODMAN V JIMMY MCGILL: THE COMPLETE CRITICAL COMPANION TO BETTER CALL SAUL. Essays on every episode, features — including a brand-new deep dive with Saul co-creator Peter Gould — and more. Out 2/4/25, but available for preorder right now!
neutral · AI labelView post →Going from LaD to Infinite Wealth is like if halfway through Better Call Saul they reintroduced Walter White to the story and made him the main character for the rest of the show
neutral · AI labelView post →Ten shows to get to know me! Couldn't narrow it down to five. - The Twilight Zone - Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy - Twin Peaks - Over The Garden Wall - Ash VS Evil Dead - Gravity Falls - The Muppet Show - Better Call Saul - Mystery Science Theater 3000 - Tales From The Crypt
neutral · AI labelView post →Andor Sopranos MST3k Seinfeld Curb Your Enthusiasm Better Call Saul Friday Night Lights Breaking Bad Veronica Mars Buffy Chernobyl Band of Brothers Kroll Show Tim and Eric I Think You Should Leave
neutral · AI labelView post →Better Call Saul - The Complete Series (Blu-ray) is $77.33 on Amazon after listed coupon buff.ly/3CHlD4d #ad
neutral · AI labelView post →Kim Wexler from Better Call Saul... I should watch this show, right? Nylons alt in the comments. :D Also join my Patreon and Discord (links in bio).. #feeties #commissionsopen
neutral · AI labelView post →My hotter Breaking Bad take is that the worst parts of Better Call Saul are Breaking Bad. That show was weighed down by its connection not enhanced and there’s whole storylines that only hold weight in connection with BB and are otherwise very weak
negative · AI labelView post →Searching for mutuals! Some of the series/games i like: One Piece Dandadan JJK Fullmetal Alchemist MHA Attack on Titan Breaking Bad Better Call Saul Star Wars Marvel Elden Ring (any soulsborne) Persona God of War The Witcher Fallout Final Fantasy Kingdom Hearts #promosky
neutral · AI labelView post →Andor is truly a miracle. I haven't been this sad about a show ending since Better Call Saul. It had no right being as good as it was, and yet it's easily right up there as one of my favorite series. Phenomenal final three episodes. Phenomnal show. Now I wanna rewatch Rogue One.
positive · AI labelView post →Vince Gilligan, Peter Gould and crew took the best show on TV (Breaking Bad), wrote a prequel (Better Call Saul) that is even tougher than a sequel and knocked it out of the park. The details, writing, music, and cinematography in these shows are truly amazing.
positive · AI labelView post →Finally finished Better Call Saul. What a series! The ending was unexpected, at least to me. But overall, definitely worth your time.
positive · AI labelView post →Just got to Better Call Saul S3E5: Chicanery. Holy fuck that was amazing. Tell me the rest of the show is that good
positive · AI labelView post →I love you. -I love you too. TV show 📺 : Better Call Saul (2015-2022) 💛 🧡 ♥️ 💚 🌿 (Photo by Kirpal Singh) 💌
neutral · AI labelView post →The Canadian tv series Slings & Arrows is WILDLY under-discussed. It’s an all-time great, right up there with shows like The Sopranos, The Wire, I Claudius, Better Call Saul, and The Good Place.
neutral · AI labelView post →The correct contrarian opinion about Breaking Bad is that Better Call Saul is a better show
positive · AI labelView post →Hello bluesky, let's be moots if you're into: Games: Zelda Webfishing Dark Souls Elden Ring Yakuza Series Anime and Shows: Jojo's Bizarre Adventure Fullmetal Alchemist Frieren Oshi no ko Dandadan Better Call Saul Cowboy Bebop Other Stuff: Cats and Dogs Making Friends :3 and much more!
neutral · AI labelView post →Breaking Bad is the best television show, and Better Call Saul is better. This is not a contradiction.
positive · AI labelView post →OH man It's Indie Animation Day! I'm solo animating a Deltarune fan series about a city infested with diffecrent Spamtons, inspired by Spiderverse, Batman The Animated Series n Better Call Saul The first episode comes soon! youtube.com/playlist?lis... #indie #indieanimationday #deltarune #animation
neutral · AI labelView post →Better Call Saul: The Complete Series (HD Digital) is $19.99 on FanFlix DOTD (Fandango at Home) https://buff.ly/3CzbnuN It's a TV series so no, not Movies Anywhere eligible
neutral · AI labelView post →Found out a new age demographic is really into the TV series Better Call Saul. Namely, the 13-19 year old group. This group throws watch parties, complete with crackers and drinks, and ask trivia questions to each other. They are known as the Saul teens.
neutral · AI labelView post →My hottest NYT "Best Shows of the 21st century" takes: - Better Call Saul should be higher Breaking Bad - Somebody Somewhere = top 20 show - Lost should be in top ten consideration, if not top 5 - Succession should be in the 20s, not the top ten - if Bluey isn't in the top 20, everybody's lying
positive · AI labelView post →I don’t know why we took so long to do it but my wife and I are finally going through the final season of Better Call Saul. Just finished the fourth episode and man, it is just such an expertly made show on so many levels.
positive · AI labelView post →like.... go ahead, name a quintessential "acclaimed mature adult television series". Game of Thrones? Boardwalk Empire? Breaking Bad/Better Call Saul? Mindhunter? what's the one thing these all have in common? they're great but the entire crux is patriarchal. I get enough of that in my cereal
negative · AI labelView post →Better Call Saul was a better show, a better opera, than BB. But it couldn’t exist without BB - the tension at its core being that we never, ever see Kim in BB. I think that’s such a brilliant use of the audience’s prior knowledge.
positive · AI labelView post →I have prequel fatigue in general — Better Call Saul being a big exception, but that show and Breaking Bad are exceptions to pretty much every rule — and Star Trek prequel fatigue especially. Boldly go where you've never gone before, guys, maybe?
neutral · AI labelView post →She was amazing in Better Call Saul, so I'm giving this show a chance based purely on that
neutral · AI labelView post →I have a lot of controversial opinions, I’m sure, and one of them is that Better Call Saul was a better show than Breaking Bad. All opinions on art are personal and subjective (something I wish was more widely understood,) and I know why I found Jimmy McCall far more compelling than Walter White.
positive · AI labelView post →Share a television show you love with a satisfying series finale. 📺 My choice: Better Call Saul
positive · AI labelView post →Better Call Saul still moves me to tears whenever I think of that show and Emmy voters need to sit in timeout and think about what they’ve done.
positive · AI labelView post →Bingeing a show affects my behavior. I've been watching Better Call Saul and I stepped outside and looked at a pile of leaves for a cinematic amount of time
neutral · AI labelView post →My partner and I , who have never seen Breaking Bad, are watching Better Call Saul for the first time. And I have never rooted for a TV show character so hard. And now I'm worried about Jimmy between episodes.
positive · AI labelView post →Hailing from Vince Gilligan, the creator of Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, comes Pluribus, a genre-bending series starring Rhea Seehorn in which the most miserable person on Earth must save the world from happiness.
neutral · AI labelView post →Finished Better Call Saul. Goddamn, what a show. Jimmy, you broke my fucking heart. I was rooting for you. But I’m glad he took responsibility in the end. Never seen Breaking Bad. Is it as emotionally intelligent?
positive · AI labelView post →I usually put time aside to watch one episode a week of a series that I like just so I'll have something to do for a while. Saturday morning is Cobra Kai, Saturday night is Better Call Saul, Sunday is Star Trek Discovery, etc
neutral · AI labelView post →Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, and now Pluribus all show the theme Vince Gilligan most wants to explore is "How powerful is a widowed gay?"
neutral · AI labelView post →Better Call Saul is a show about several men who have that disorder that allows them to sleep one hour a night and use that extra time to do crimes
neutral · AI labelView post →Nacho Varga study because I've been rewatching Better Call Saul :) #art #fanart #bettercallsaul #breakingbad
neutral · AI labelView post →I've launched a new series on Patreon! tinyurl.com/fjchwkyz It's called Bad Bad Besties, and it's a series I co-created with @alexsegura.com Also going to be releasing Ma3 in color! Really happy about the new series. Think Better Call Saul meets Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. Hope you join!
neutral · AI labelView post →No Emmys for Andor. It's incredible enough that a Star Wars series has been nominated. Alongside Better Call Saul & Succession! I would never have expected to have a SW show on this level. It may be the last, but Andor is already much better than I expected SW to be for the rest of my life.
neutral · AI labelView post →I work with sales people so you can’t even imagine the vibrance I get to deal with day to day. But holy shit drop some of these colourful characters in the middle of a Netflix series and you’ve got the next Better Call Saul
neutral · AI labelView post →"From A Certain Point of View" was a genius idea for an anthology. Cool authors got to go nuts writing canon short stories from the POV of random Star Wars bg characters. What series do you think needs one of these? I vote for a Breaking Bad/Better Call Saul book called "You Are Not The Guy."
neutral · AI labelView post →Watching Better Call Saul. I'm going to rewrite my old thread on the colour, imagery, and symbolism, which holds great purpose in the series, as I go. Starting with "Uno": fundamental to the series is an image of two lawyers, with a shaft or spill of light of a particular source.
neutral · AI labelView post →Rewatching Breaking Bad after finishing Better Call Saul. I feel pretty confident saying Better Call Saul is the better show, but my god, season 4 of Breaking Bad remains some of the best television I’ve seen. Cold take I’m sure, but it’s been a (stressful) joy to revisit.
positive · AI labelView post →I'm finally starting Breaking Bad. Never seen the show, only seen clips & then 2 seasons of Better Call Saul, so I'm relatively unspoiled. I already really like Jessie
neutral · AI labelView post →Oh hell, this is only shows since 2000. Well that explains the recency bias 🙄 Beginning with #1 - Breaking Bad Lulz the #1 show is a hijacked antihero ala Tyler Durden and Patrick Bateman. I do not think this show was about what most people think it was about. Also Better Call Saul was better 🤷🏻♀️
positive · AI labelView post →My only strong opinion about that Times list is that The Thick of It and Veep should have been the top two, but I do think it’s weird Breaking Bad is apparently viewed as a better show than Better Call Saul rather than the antecedent you have to watch to get Better Call Saul.
positive · AI labelView post →Paradise should get an award for episode 7 alone. That's the most intense episode of anything I've seen since Better Call Saul.
neutral · AI labelView post →So, since wrapping Pluribus, I've been in a Better Call Saul binge. I had never seen it. I tried to start Breaking Bad a couple of times and never got into it. I love Better Call Saul. Im already half way thru S4 and my goodness what a show y'all were all onto 10 years ago.
positive · AI labelView post →Another show with titles I like, apart from Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, was Barry
neutral · AI labelView post →With “Pluribus,” Vince Gilligan is aiming for a lighter—and stranger—outing than his two previous series, “Breaking Bad” and “Better Call Saul.” https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/q9ox4R
neutral · AI labelView post →“You’re not a real lawyer!” BETTER CALL SAUL (2015) Loved this show. #BobOdenkirk #MichaelMcKean
positive · AI labelView post →BETTER CALL SAUL will go down as one of the top 10 series of my entire life. Glad to see Dani point out this show's award history (or lack thereof) to remind folks how little awards matter as indicators of art's lasting impact and cultural appreciation.
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