I found Breaking Bad to be way more interesting than Better Call Saul (I haven’t even bothered watching the last season), but I agree that Breaking Bad really starts ratcheting up the tension starting in Season 2 or 3.
Breaking bad is waaaay better when you can binge it because there are some bad episodes that would have been very frustrating if I had waited a whole week for me advancement of a riveting plot and then you get… The fly.
Each to their own of course. I found BB was a bit better at the action and suspense but BCS had more believable character arcs and interactions, particularly between Jimmy and his brother Chuck, and Jimmy and Kim.
In case anybody missed it, HULU is raising their subscription rate in October. The ad-free version will jump by $3 a month to 17.99. I see a more vigorous service suspension plan in my future, especially with the writers’ strike going on. I’m already looking at getting rid of Netflix, as they’ve had very little new programming in some time now.
I watched Dopesick on HULU and am trying to start Painkiller on Netflix.
Dopesick, so far, is far superior.
I’m enjoying London Kills on Acorn. Just finished series one, there were some plot twists I didn’t see coming. Sharon Small, as she did in the Inspector Lynley Mysteries, plays a great detective sergeant.
I had been piggybacking on someone else’s Netflix account and got caught in their crackdown on account sharing. I put off getting my own account for a few months, but realized that there were a lot of older series and movies that I wanted to watch.
I put my Hulu subscription on pause for now.
This. I typically pay for 4 months a year.
Especially with the recent rise in the price of Hulu. Eighteen bucks a month is a lot. They do have a deal for Hulu and Disney+ for twenty bucks, which would be great if I actually wanted to watch anything on Disney. (I perceive Hulu as having more grown-up shows and Disney+ as having more kiddie stuff.)
Let’s hope they learned from Heroes mistakes.
The last time I bundled Disney with Hulu, I was unable to get rid of Disney. I ended up having to close my account and then open a new account under my wife’s name. Won’t make that mistake again.
I thought the first episode of BB was great. Then episode two was so bad to me, the show lost me. I haven’t tried it again. As I never met Saul in BB, I never watched BCS.
I got this, along with ESPN+ which I won’t use. We do watch several show via Hulu so that is worth it for us. I have enjoyed enough of the Marvel and Star Wars shows to keep it.
My wife and I just finished watching this, and enjoyed it a lot. It’s an interesting mix of Broadchurch (murder in a small distinctive town where everyone knows everyone, and the scenery itself is a character; local detective who knows everyone teams up with outsider, personality conflicts ensue; dark secrets are revealed) with a comedy. The tone definitely changes over the course of the season. If you’d asked me after episode 1, I would have said it was almost going to be Bridesmaids… screwy, wacky, female-led comedy, with almost no relation to reality. It mellows off quite a bit, and is much more real-world-with-just-heightened-characters, although it continues to be hilariously raunchy.
I think the plot falls apart a bit at the end as all the mystery pieces don’t necessarily quite fit together, but just a darn heck of a lot of fun.
I also just started watching SWAT and am enjoying it. I like it better than SEAL Team.
Finished:
Space Battleship Yamato (2012) - I generally enjoyed this far more than the original series, although the second season spent WAY too much time yammering on about LOVE LOVE LOVE. Bunch of space hippies.
Continuing my survey of “reincarnated in a fantasy world as an overpowered being” anime, I’ve swept through the entire first season of Didn’t I Say To Make My Abilities Average In The Next Life?!. Still way too much obsession with underaged girls’ boobies, but otherwise there’s a lot of fun lampshading of the subgenre and of anime in general (including a shot at Pokemon). Also, the last episode takes a deeply unexpected dark turn - the series is basically “going to school, la la la, making friends, la la la, trying unsuccessfully to hide superpowers, la la la, backstories, la la la, fighting monsters and levelling up, la la la, the evil dragons are searching for buried nuclear missiles, la la wait what?”
Finally: Disenchantment, which has tied up all the ridiculous number of convoluted storylines in its fifth and final season. Still not entirely sure about this show - I think I described this earlier as not funny enough for a comedy and too silly for a drama. But it was nice to get some closure after the vast amount of chaos that came before.
Perfect description for Disenchantment
I started watching it when it was first released, and tried 2 or 3 times with it but kept giving up and finally gave up for good half way through s4. I like the world building and the animation is gorgeous, but a lot of it just fell flat for me. A great idea, poorly executed.
My husband and I are just about through S1 of Joe Pickett on Prime. It’s about a game warden in Wyoming - murder, mayhem and beautiful scenery. We’re really enjoying it. It’s hard to find something we both like!
I enjoyed Disenchantment, but it definitely suffered from the long gaps between seasons. Each season picks up right where the last one left off, up to a year and a half later, without so much as a “previously on” recap. For me at least, there were far too many “Wait, who’s that guy again?” and “What MacGuffin are they looking for now and why?” moments.
If I feel so inclined, I may binge the whole series at some point. Watching in a shorter time span (plus having seen it before) will likely help keep all the myriad side plots and characters straight.
Or I may not.
They lampshade this in the first episode of S5 with a character complaining that he can’t follow what’s going on because it’s been too long etc etc.
Then he takes an arrow to the knee chest.