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Better Call Saul (2015)

2015 · Crime,Drama · mob-organized-crime, workplace-prestige, crime-procedural

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Better Call Saul is a slow-burn prestige crime drama tracing the moral disintegration of small-time lawyer Jimmy McGill into criminal fixer Saul Goodman, set in the Albuquerque criminal underworld that connects to Breaking Bad. Its signature quality is exceptional character writing — reviewers place Jimmy, Kim Wexler, and Chuck McGill among the finest written characters in television history — matched by cinematic direction, psychological menace rather than graphic violence, and a tragic prequel structure that suffuses every scene with melancholy foreknowledge. The show demands patience in its early seasons but rewards viewers with compounding emotional and intellectual payoff. It consistently generates GOAT discourse and is treated by its audience as one of the definitive achievements of the prestige television era.

From the reviewers

The depth and writing of these characters are honestly perfect. So much so that I'd consider the shows leads Jimmy and Kim to be two of the best written characters in television history.
Every event in the show is written so well and is paced in a brilliant way to the point where no character arc seems to be rushed, yet the show still remains interesting. You think you've reached the pinnacle of a characters journey, then a curveball is thrown that changes everything.
Visually, 'Better Call Saul' is one of those shows that is both stylish and beautiful, with photography and editing that are cinematic quality and put a lot of films today to shame
The dialogue throughout is thought-provoking and tense, although quite talky, while also have a darkly wicked sense of humour and heart-tugging pathos.
Starting off as a slightly one-dimensional character and comic relief in BB, the character we've come to love as the sleazy, slick Saul Goodman has already shown more layers in the first half of the first season of 'Better Call Saul' than over his entire run on BB.

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