My main concern with BATTLE CREEK would be that it's a script Gilligan wrote pre-BREAKING BAD. I'm wondering what contributions he made to the project (if any) beyond the original script.

When you think about it, over the course of BREAKING BAD we learn very little about Saul and what makes him tick. You never see what he does when he's not in his office. For all we know, Chuck is alive and well somewhere, but I'm betting he's not very happy with who Jimmy has become.

I loved the simplicity of his voicemail in the later seasons. "Hey, it's me, wait for the thing".

Does that make Saul the Dude and Mike Walter Sobchak? Because that's wonderful.

The second and third episodes of BREAKING BAD literally revolved around Walt and Jesse deciding how they were going to deal with Krazy-8. The episodes had a slow pace, but they were completely and utterly nerve-wracking ("is this gonna be on the murder?").

I feel the trepidations had towards the show were somewhat reasonable. A lot of spinoffs have crashed and burned. Gilligan even acknowledged that during production. I thought it would be good, but didn't dream of it being this great.

All of the songs will be titled "Breakfast".

Mando's quiet, seething stare the entire time Saul was talking at him was so great.

I didn't know I needed to see Bob Odenkirk's Jack Nicholson impression, but I do now.

Now we need a meta spinoff/crossover: MACKLIN & STEELE. From Pawnee to Albuquerque…

It's more likely to me that they'll move into that future at some point. Once the show gets far enough away from BREAKING BAD's orbit.

Walt wasn't a sociopath, he was a man who willingly chose to kill his heart out of a lust to get what he believed was rightfully his. He was capable of empathy, and of caring about others.

I strongly suspect that Chuck is supposed to be mentally ill, so they picked a condition that is undiagnosable (or unconfirmed to even be real).

He really needs to remember who HE'S working for.

The whole show is essentially him sitting at his TV in Nebraska, watching those commercials, thinking "How did I come to this?"

It's not like someone would try to poison him, because he's an insane, degenerate piece of filth, and he deserves to die.

As I recall, Gonzo was the guy who accidentally killed himself in the season two opener. The other guy was the guy Tuco beat to death. And I was thinking the same thing.

That desert scene… Christ. It was like BREAKING BAD resurrected. Despite knowing the ultimate fates of both Saul and Tuco, the scene was dripping with the parent show's classic tension.

It was fascinating watching the differences between how Walt dealt with Tuco and how Saul deals with him. Saul talks so fast that Tuco is forced to sort of just blindly accept his arguments.

I guessed Tuco was coming the minute the driver of the car was revealed, and I was not disappointed. It is indeed good to be back in Albuquerque.