I did see that and liked it a lot!

I especially agree with your last sentence, made-up word and all. ("topicality" is a real word that's there for you when you need it, though)

I've never watched South Park as it aired. Recently, curious, I checked out the most acclaimed episodes. These ones were great, no matter when they were made: You Got F'd in the A, Make Love Not Warcraft, With Apologies to Jesse Jackson, the Imaginationland trilogy, Eat Pray Queef, and You're Getting Old. And Scott…

Also, wasn't that Christine almost running them down?

No she wouldn't have been; she left him before she and Jake met at the school.

I know what they were doing. They just went about it in a counter-intuitive way that only served to artificially (and not very dynamically) prolong the episode.

Who? What did they do?

If this is as saccharine as the original looked, UGH.

I always found Bill useless and annoying, but the show managed to make me feel bad about his fate, which is due entirely to Jake.

Loved Alda, CK, Buscemi, and Steven Wright. Thought Aidy Bryant was kind of terrible, like a high school drama student. Didn't help that she had that terrible story about the frog and the tortoise.
I hope they fix the volume problems. I kept having to turn it up and down. Otherwise, very promising.

I agree, normally that's what happens. My point is that that never happened with the cousins.

It's a thin line to walk. The other characters, like Gus Fring, had just enough reality to work. The cousins were a bit over the line, especially in the shot mentioned by Mandaliet.

That is exactly the shot I was thinking of. Aside from that out-of-place shot, I wouldn't have minded them much.

I disliked the cousins in Breaking Bad; they were cartoon characters. I hope they don't get much screen time on Saul. But the shot where we first see them, combined with the score, was very effective.

I know they had to cut some stuff from the book, and I might not complain, except that they add in a bunch of other crap that's not nearly as good. It's a good mini-series, but a botched adaptation.

I almost cheered when he got committed. Such an annoying, useless character.

Well, they expanded an existing character. I can see why they thought they needed to, but they didn't do a very good job of it.

Glad I'm not alone! I don't hate him, but I really didn't like him at first, or that guy's acting. I've warmed up a bit to him, but I still think the writers could've done a better job.

Agree so much with both points in your first paragraph.

My feelings exactly about the relationship - they have good chemistry, but the show hasn't spent enough care and time to develop them as a couple. I don't mind that they changed things from the book, but they're short-changing this relationship.