Genre: TV Series
Grade: A+
Notable People: Bob Odenkirk, Jonathan Banks, Michael Mando, Rhea Seahorn, Patrick Fabian, Giancarlo Esposito, Michael McKean, tony Dalton, Mark Margolis, Created by: Peter Gould, Vince Gilligan
Title: Better Call Saul
Review: Not sure what to say about this, except if you have not watched it, where have you been? For my money, right up with “The Wire” and “The Sopranos” as the best ever series on TV, which IS the new movie theater. Both a prequel and ultimately a sequel to the wonderful Breaking Bad, it is an extraordinary portrait of characters run amok. Odenkirk’ s transition from mild mannered Jimmy McGill to part tortured- part egomaniac scumbag lawyer, Saul Goodman (“It’s all good man”) is a rare thing of beauty. Dalton, Margolis an, especially the foreboding Esposito, are subtle manifestations of evil rarely see, Bands is…. well…. Banks….one of kind. The show is brilliantly written, exotically filmed, heady in way rarely seen outside of Sweden, and riveting. The final season was 13 episodes broke into two segments-the wait for the last 5 episodes was almost unbearable…and did not disappoint. The ghost of Walter white hovers throughout, but Saul owns the planet. I am brokenhearted to reach the end of this line.