That’s a surprise but I agree about a rewatch. I did one during its run and they was enough. I understand your feeling about the Sopranos and the mob genre is exhausted for me. But I do hope you check out Mad Men, would love to hear your thoughts.
"It's toasted" is up there with "you ain't eatin' ham if you ain't eatin' Wham". Is advertising really that easy?
Rewatching the season 6 with my wife, so didn't see them when they became avaliable, and I couldn't wait. When Fring goes to the laundromat and has the final confrontation with Lalo, he notices the damaged fan where Lalo entered. Lalo suddenly appears and shoots out his four bodyguards. So what happened to their bodies? A big deal was made about two bodies (Lalo's and Howard's) being buried under the lab, so these clearly weren't buried there as well.
I think when all is said and done the last season of BCS was pretty freakin' brilliant. Storylines were resolved, with a few surprises along the way, but with a rational underpinning, just as we saw with BB. Some folks have argued with this or that detail, but there's always a reasonable counterargument.
Sometimes scenes will come up on youtube. Season One with Mike killing the bad Philly cops. Had to go back and watch Season 1, Episode 6 "Five-0". Extraordinary acting and writing.
"It's toasted" was the first example in Mad Men of changing the story in advertising. The story of regulators cracking down on tobacco companies, prohibiting them from making any sort of health or safety claims, and requiring disclosure about the risks of smoking. The client and the ad execs were obsessed with how to address this to give themselves a competitive advantage. Don's epiphany in the meeting was to tell a new story--one that had nothing to do with health risks or dance around the regulations, but to tap into people's love of smoking. If you remember, the very first conversation in S1E1 was about that. It was inspired writing, very cerebral, and historically of interest too, as it ties into a Lucky Strike ad campaign over a century ago. It’s Toasted
Well, today is a big day in Saul World: the release of “Better Call Saul- The Complete Series” DVD set. I ordered mine through Deep Discount, currently at $119.99. That’s the lowest price I could find, with Amazon charging $32 more. I’m sure it’ll drop there and other places from the $215.99 list price.
I’m surprised that there was no elaborate Collector’s Edition like the Breaking Bad complete series set that came in the barrel. Or are sets like that a thing of the past?
As long as there are 19 discs full of premium productions, and bonus features, I’d be happy if they came in a greasy Los Pollos Hermanos bag. Or bucket.
I was thinking of the wooden box that a bottle of Zafiro Añejo Tequila comes in, but the chicken bucket works, too!
Dang, I was hoping for a complete 4K box set combining BCS and BB like @Jim Pattison said above. Barring that, a BCS 4K set would be preferable to regular old blu-ray. It streamed in 4K, so how can they not be offering that on disc?
I didn't go for the Complete set because I have bought all the Blu-ray sets as they came out. My final season Blu-ray set arrived today.
I was interested to buy the set, but after reading people's feedback on packaging I changed my mind. Looks quite poor. Probably will collect single seasons one by one. They are not cheap though.
Aside from a few obvious moments, I thought there was quite a drop-off in drama in the final two seasons. Really, the series peaked with the Chuck storyline, though it's not like the quality fell off a cliff; until the very end it was the best show on television.
Totally agree. I think the Chuck subplot was the high point, but Odenkirk's performance consistently maintained some magic even if the direction the show took was ultimately disappointing.
I was never disappointed with this show. Loved the Chuck line as well. What really fell of the cliff is 'Ozark'. Total let down at the end. And I enjoyed the first two seasons, was okayish with the third.
