AMC has been doing a marathon every Sunday, and I think they have one day left. I set my DVR to record the episodes and have been watching 4 or 5 per day (not every day, but 3 or 4 days a week). I really liked the show when it first aired, and am actually enjoying it even more the 2nd time around. I’ve forgotten enough of the plot details that it doesn’t feel like a complete rerun experience, but I remember enough that I can really appreciate the subtleties you might have missed the first time around.
What a top-notch show that was! I’m about 1/3 the way thru season 4.
Kind of a shame that they had to bleep out some of the dialog. I assume that’s because much of this is being aired during daytime hours.
And man, do they ever hook you into wanting to watch the next episode. I’ll sit down to watch, maybe, 2 episodes but then… OK, just one more. Then, just one more…
I watched it on VOD about a year delayed when it originally aired. I actually bought the entire series on iTunes last summer but haven’t actually watched it again. Whenever I get around to watching season 3 of Better Call Saul, I may rewatch BB afterwards.
I didn’t first watch it until after the final season aired. Watched the whole thing on Netflix. This was the show that convinced me the only TV worth watching is TV you can binge watch. I couldn’t imagine having to wait a whole stinking week for the next episode. I also liked the fact that all the seasons were at my fingertips, so i didn’t have to sit around a year for the next one.
Best show ever. Ozymandias still holds the crown for best single episode of any series ever for me. I can still watch it as a stand-alone and get choked up.
I didn’t watch until just before the final season was to begin and they were showing the whole series, multiple times. I hadn’t been interested when it was first run (and also it was on as the same time as Mad Men, I think?)but it must have caught me in the right mood because once I started I feel like I was constantly watching it. It really did become addictive. It even started showing up in my dreams. I miss having something to watch that I enjoy that much.
I watched the first 3(?) seasons as the 4th was airing and got into it that way.
I thought about watching it again this go…and it just didn’t have an attraction anymore. I think that the best part of it was trying to anticipate what would happen next and getting totally thrown for a loop at times. Just couldn’t duplicate that experience again.
That show to me did the best job of any TV series ever about building and managing tension. It was so thick in that show. There were so many episodes where I was literally on the edge of my seat.
I started watching years ago but only made it through the middle of S2. After seeing a few episodes on AMC when I was on vacation I got interested again. I’m up to season three’s “Fly” episode on Netflix now and really enjoying catching up with all the stuff I missed. Plus it’s nice to “get” all the callbacks from Better Call Saul now.
It could be just me, or it could be the long delay between watching it the first time and watching it the second time, but I am amazed at how many plot twists I don’t remember, or at least don’t remember until they occur. Really helps keeping the tension high even though it’s a rerun.
My wife and I watched it for the first time last year from beginning to end on Netflix. We intend to go back and re-watch it at some point, but we tried a couple episodes during the AMC run currently playing and it seemed like it was very hard to watch. Not sure how to explain it. Just seeing the first few episodes and knowing where they were going with it and how it would wind up was very difficult.
One thing that bugged me for awhile was that no one seemed to have a smart phone, even in episodes that were released in 2010 or later. But then I realized that time elapsed in the show universe was only about a year or two. It seems like a long, long journey for such a short timeframe.
I’m not so sure that his 52nd birthday was the last day of the show, but it was close. If I recall correctly, he stopped at a diner and made the “52” with bacon (call back to episode 1), and the waitress said “Long way from home?” thinking he was from New Hampshire.
But he had to get to ABQ, find Jesse, make his machine gun robot, etc, after that breakfast, so I don’t think he did all that in one day. Even if the diner was in Albuquerque which I don’t think it was. (I could be wrong, I haven’t watched it in a while. This thread makes me want to watch it again soon though.)
I think Walt met the gun dealer at the diner, didn’t he? The same dude from earlier in the series. So if the diner wasn’t in Albuquerque, it was close. Unless the gun dealer drove halfway across the nation to meet him.
You’re probably right, though - all the stuff he did in preparation for the final showdown was probably too much for a single day.
I binged watched BB one time after purchasing the blu-ray box set.
I just re-watched the series finale (Season 5 episode 16 “Felina,” an anagram of finale). The sequence of events suggests that Walt commits the pivoting machine gun massacre at Jack’s compound during the evening of or early morning after his 52nd birthday. Walt is still in New Hampshire as the episode begins and then embarks on the long road trip to Albuquerque. He drops off money to the Schwartz couple at night time, then eats at the diner (Denny’s) and makes the ‘52’ bacon pattern, visits his former home to retrieve ricin poison, then he visits the coffee shop to poison Lydia by putting ricin in the stevia packet, then he builds the pivot mechanism for the gun, then he visits Skyler to say goodbye and give her the burial site GPS coordinates, then at night arrives at Jack’s compound.
