Oh yes, I’m a big fan of this show. Such cutting wit.
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Has anyone watched Suits on Netflix? My wife and I watched the first episode last night and both felt like it was okay but not particularly gripping. Is it worth giving it a few more episodes?
I remember watching a few episodes of Suits, and not staying with it. Don’t remember exactly why.
After dismissing Ted Lasso as a somewhat hokey premise early on, a while back we started watching and ended up binging all 3 seasons in around 2 weeks. It’s got everything. If you haven’t seen it, I highly recommend.
Now we’re watching Barry, and finding it very entertaining.
https://www.max.com/shows/179bdb1c-83f8-4ab7-87ef-47ce3b566a13
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Never watched it. I saw a few clips and it just seemed like another typical lawyer show with characters who are acting like people think lawyers act. I was surprised to see it had 9 seasons! Anyhoo. If you do continue to watch, be aware that all seasons are on Netflix except … season 9. That’s only available on Prime or Peacock (at this time). Apparently that didn’t go over well with fans who only had Netflix.
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My wife and I finished Better Call Saul last night. **Spoilers ahead. Anyone else watch it? What did you think? I’m not sure what I was expecting, but, at the end of the final episode, I had the feeling of “well, okay, it’s over” — and I loved every other episode. I’m glad that Saul did right by Kim, but I have a hard time buying his 7.5 year sentence. Overall, it felt a bit unceremonious for an otherwise spectacular series.
I watched Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul. I vividly remember the final episode of Breaking Bad, but don’t remember the final episode of Better Call Saul. I suppose that speaks to how much I liked the endings of each.
Then again, there’s not a lot of flexibility in ending a prequel since it has to merge into what everyone already knows comes next,
However, I do remember the crying scene (in the final episode?) when Kim broke down into full-fledged public sobbing on the bus, train, or whatever they were on. That was some pretty good acting.
Better Call Saul hopped around the timeline a bit. Scenes in color were pre-Breaking Bad, and scenes in black and white were post-Breaking Bad. Quite a bit of the last few episodes were post-Breaking Bad. **Definite spoilers ahead. At the end of the last season of BCS, Saul had returned to his old ways of scamming. He was found out, arrested, and (despite all of his crimes, including being an accessory to Hank’s and Gomez’s murders, worked a deal for 7.5 years in the prison of his own choosing. Even though I just watched it last night, I’m a little fuzzy on the details, but it did seem like he exonerated Kim who had confessed to Howard Hamlin’s widow about the true circumstances of his death which opened her up to a civil lawsuit. Man, it sounds like I am recapping a soap opera or something.
You brought up all the things I had completely forgotten from a few months back when I watched it. Now that you’ve recapped it, I remember that it seemed a bit jumbled, sort of like they just needed to wrap it up in a way that made it fit somehow into the Breaking Bad storyline.
Now that we’re discussing it, I remember expecting a big ending like Breaking Bad and feeling a bit disappointed when it didn’t really happen. I remember saying to Mrs. Just-B that it was at least better than the finale of Lost, which had to be the most disappointing ending I’ve ever seen to an otherwise great series.
So what was the ending of Lost? At one point, I streamed a few episodes, but the show didn’t make it into my regular rotation. Was it all a dream or something?
It was something like that. I can’t remember exactly, but they all decided it was a dream, that they were dead and hadn’t known it, or something along those lines.
The entire series dragged on for a couple of seasons too long, and the plot got pretty thin. The first seasons were about uncovering a big mystery about what happened and where they were after the plane crashed.
Clues were gradually uncovered during each episode. The whole series seemed on the path to a huge climax where everything was unveiled in a spectacular ending, but it didn’t happen. It sort of drizzled out as though the writers never did have a solution to the mystery or an ending in mind.
I had the same reaction to another of my favorite series — Mad Men. It just sort of ended with Don Draper — the advertising genius — skipping out and pretty much doing nothing.
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It did elude that he came up with the famous Coca-Cola ad while zenning out in meditation one morning 
Lost … I just took it as they all met up in Heaven or what they want everyone to think Heaven is. So, that meant all their time on the island was their purgatory. I personally thought it was a cop out and I loved the whole series … except the ending.
Mad Men was also a fizzle as far as I’m concerned. Again, loved the rest of the series.
The biggest fail finale … The Sopranos
Don’t get me started 
A lot of people interpret the Lost ending incorrectly. The island and everything that happened was real, it all actually happened, it wasn’t purgatory. The ending indeed was that after they all had died (at various times in their own lives) they eventually reconnected in the afterlife. I don’t think it was a cop out, but I do know that it caused a lot of confusion. I still think Lost was a good show. A lot of people get mad that all the weirdness didn’t get explained or answered. I instead saw the whole show as how everyone has opportunities in their lives to change themselves for better or worse and the whole show was more about the character development rather than all the mysteries. I mean, they did answer several of the mysterious things going on, but not everything. But to me that is how real life is. That’s my 2 cents at least.
On a side note, when it comes to popular culture, especially TV shows, I just don’t watch a lot of TV and as a result there are a lot of “huge shows” that I’ve never seen. Such as Breaking Bad, The Sopranos, Game of Thrones, and probably a couple dozen other huge shows.
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I’m not much of a television watcher either, but I’ll sometimes try out series that get good reviews. Sometimes I like them. Other times, they make me pessimistic about our species’ chances for long-term survival.
With that in mind, I finished the first season of West World a couple of weeks ago. I don’t think I’ll be watching the others.
Every other scene was an excuse to squeeze a few naked people into the background and often the foreground. If all the pointless f-words were removed from the script, each episode would have been seven or eight minutes shorter. For-fun slaughter on a massive scale was the norm. The producers must have bought a swimming pool’s worth of fake blood. But it was all OK and innocent enough since most of the bloody mayhem was at the expense of artificial humans who were indistinguishable from real people but weren’t real people, so it didn’t really matter.
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Don’t get me wrong … I didn’t overthink the ending too much. I still cried when the dog laid beside Jack I think it was just hard for a lot of people not to think purgatory the way it was presented. It’s been a hot debate ever since 
But, I loved the whole series and have watched it over and over.
That being said I am much like you. I’ve never seen Breaking Bad or Game of Thrones … or many, many other big series. I did watch the Soprano’s when it was on Netflix. (Well after it had been aired) I knew what was coming in the ending. I had only ever caught bits and pieces when it was actually airing. HBO was an expense I just couldn’t afford at the time. I could catch a few episodes when they would have a free HBO/Cinemax weekend (whoa … that’s dating myself) 
I don’t watch mainstream TV for the most part. So, I’m a bit lost when it comes to current shows.
I liked Better Call Saul, especially the style of rough cuts and some intros like the yodeling ants in the beginning of s05e03
Do you remember its origin?
Watched Killers of the Flower Moon yesterday. It’s worth it. Some very nice shots in there. Very nuanced characterization of Ernest Burkhart
same here
Spoiler Alert — At one point, Jimmy was walking down the sidewalk eating an ice cream cone. Nacho came to pick him up and made Jimmy dump the ice cream cone before getting in the car. In the last episode, when Jimmy is negotiating his prison deal, one of his demands is a pint of some specific ice cream every Friday. It is probably the same ice cream he had to dump on the sidewalk.
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Twin Peaks was great.
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