Posted on 02/10/2015 7:18:33 AM PST by PJ-Comix
AMC’s “Better Call Saul” set a new record for a cable series premiere audience Sunday night, drawing 6.9 million viewers.
That’s down from the 10.3 million who watched the finale of its parent series, “Breaking Bad,” but it’s well above the audience “Breaking Bad” had averaged for every episode before the finale.
As late as the end of its fourth season, “Breaking Bad” averaged fewer than two million viewers.
“Saul” stars Bob Odenkirk as Saul Goodman, the sleazy lawyer who facilitated Bryan Cranston’s Walter White in “Bad.”
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Saw the first episode last nite, looking forward to the 2nd tonite (DVRed it). I know it’s the beginning so I think it will pick up some in future episodes. Not sure what the Michael McKean character is about though. Can you enlighten me? Also found this:
http://www.bettercallsaul.com/
Pretty hilarious.
Every review I’ve read claims that episode two was a masterpiece.
“I can prove that baby’s not yours” LOL
I liked it.
The desert negotiation was great. Killing them is excessive punishment for calling your grandmother a bitch. Break one leg of both guys and put them out of commission for 6 months.
Don’t complain, I talked your case down from the death penalty to 6 months probation.
p.s. In this episode Jimmy McGill begins morphing into his inner Saul.
“A rising tide raises all dinghies”....
That's when Jimmy realized he was a great lawyer. Also notice that his desert experience caused him to lose his fear of the courtroom. After facing the trauma of possibly being skinned alive, performing in court is a piece of (Cinnabon) cake.
The downside is that his desert experience affected him to the point where he suffers PTSD when he sees someone breaking a breadstick.
CALL TODAY! (Not Toll Free)
LOL!
I think everyones trying to get their Breaking Bad monkey off their back.
“I’m No.1 on your Speed Dial, right next to your Weed Dealer.”
He said that in the 1st episode, heard him use that line on BB also. Classic line.
I can’t figure Michael McKean’s character either. As an aside, whenever I see him I still see Lenny Kosnowski.
Lucky for Jimmy and the Twins that Tuco’s psychosis hadn’t yet been fueled by too much meth otherwise they would have all been skinned alive. As it was, Tuco was still open to negotiation. By the time of Breaking Bad he was past that.
“WORST LAWYER EVER!!”
I LOL when the skater dudes in the desert said this...
Pretty awesome show last night...
The high number of viewers of Better Call Saul was due to the new episode of “Walking Dead” coming on just before “Better Call Saul”. After “Better Call Saul” was the “Talking Dead” program which has people talking about the episode of “Walking Dead” shown that night. People likely kept their TV on that station through “Better Call Saul” in order to watch “Talking Dead” coming on after “Better Call Saul”.
That lineup won’t happen next week so that will be a more reliable number watching “Better Call Saul”.
It starts chronicling his early days as a defense atty
“I can’t figure Michael McKean’s character either.”
I’m thinking it’s some kind of mental disorder, seeing as saul had to put his watch, phone etc. in the mailbox and then ground himself before entering. LOL. I was watching that and going WTH is this about?
The new AMC series is a prequel, set six years earlier, and shows how a failing lawyer named James McGill reinvented himself as Saul.
Maybe we aren't meant to...yet. Right now he comes off as an annoying idealist crippled by an imaginary ailment (electro-magnetism phobia).
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