Took me 2 years but it’s well worth believe the hype unlike Game of Thrones which is good but massively overrated

I’ve watched it all the way through and can’t remember what happened in the end.

To me it was kinda like a Coen brothers movie that lasted for years. Lots of quirky characters, quite implausible plots, but entertaining. The Coen brothers only really made one movie: There’s a bag of money and anyone who tries to get it is doomed. That’s pretty much BB’s plot too.

Try a few episodes. If you don’t like it, don’t watch it. If you do like it, try to limit yourself to two episodes per day or you’ll burn through it in a few weeks.

The Americans is better IMO, but has a similar thing of horrible characters that you sympathize with and hope don’t get caught even though you know they will eventually.

it’s not slow enough, was my problem!

I was all up for a slow burning series in which a mild mannered teacher slowly develops into a psycho drug dealer.

But he sets up a drug lab and kills a rival dealer about halfway through episode 1, and by episode 3 <edit for spoilers concerning more violent death>. It’s all a good yarn i suppose but i lost interest and gave up early in Season 2.

My wife complains that if I keep on giving up on shows on the grounds that they’re not as good as The Wire, then I’ll just end up never watching anything.  Which is pretty much what happens.  Going to give Our Friends In The North a go soon though.

It’s worth watching but I never really loved it. I only went to the end because I’d invested so much time in the first few seasons.

Done it all the way through 4 times. Might be time for a 5th as I’ve almost forgotten a lot of it. Wasn’t quite as much of a binge as watching every star trek series from TNG to Enterprise in order but probably more entertaining 🙂

+1 for The Wire. Did that twice. Don’t bother with Game of Thrones unless you want a real TV endurance challenge.

Magnets, bitch!

I found it flagged a little in series 2 until Saul appeared, then it just got better and better.

My roomba is called Jesse.

I’m amazed some people stopped watching it, I loved it!  I actually watched it weekly on AMC so took over a year to watch it all.  For me it was the best thing on telly in memory.

I did sit through the Fly episode thinking WTF though!

It spoils BB massively if you know who the characters are.  It’d be like watching Star Wars in episode order.

Why? Because you know Jimmy isn’t just a total douche? (I can’t actually remember how his character develops in BB tbh). Other characters like Tuco – I reckon having watched BCS first makes you appreciate even more how much of a psycho he is than he’s portrayed in BB. I can’t really remember BB past season 2 though so if you’re talking about other characters later on then fair enough.

I wouldn’t say BCS is a massive spoiler for BB

…unlike the rest of your post.

What spoilers, apart from Jesse coming over for dinner?

None, except the arc for the main character. And his wife.

Maybe, but The Wire is better than anything that has ever been on TV, so that’s a pretty high bar to set!!

True dat.

In other spoiler news….Darth Vader is actually a pretty decent bloke.

except the arc for the main character. And his wife.

Spoiler alert. Man who sells drugs to kids turns out to be an asshole. His wife, who happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, wasn’t an asshole, although she was comically annoying at times.

Now you don’t need to watch it cause I told you what’s going to happen.

Spoiler alert. Man who sells drugs to kids turns out to be an asshole. His wife, who happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, wasn’t an asshole, although she was comically annoying at times.

You haven’t watched it, have you?

You haven’t watched it, have you?

I watched the first and last episode and just guessed at what happened in between.

edit

So yeah, getting back to the original question, yes, I would recommend watching it all, start to finish, then Better Call Saul…

I think the bigger issue is that watching them the wrong way would ruin BCS. It’s an absolute treat after BB ending as you sort of know what is coming but the details are slowly revealed.

Agreed, but a bit less politely, Better Call Saul would be a frustratingly glacial drama about characters you don’t know or care about, dragged out for about 35 hours before it starts to get interesting, or indeed the titular character turns up.

Imagine going into to it without any knowledge of BB, wondering what or who ‘Saul’ was and why anyone should call them, only to see a strange drama about a low-level Lawyer called Jimmy/James bookended by an even stranger drama in black and white.

No, I don’t think anyone should watch BCS first.

Watched the first BB again last night. It was still as good as I remember. Funny how young they all looked though, and I was surprised how much I’d forgotten. I guess I’m committed to watching it again 🙂

I’m really liking Netflix’s thumbnail fast forward thing (so I can easily skip the filler scenes), much better than Amazon Prime’s fast forward (or at least how they work through the app on my TV)