I have to watch all this again, but all of the new BrBa-era scenes are hammering the same point over and over again — offscreen during the events of the original “Better Call Saul” episode, Saul was given a flood of red flags about working with Walt and Jesse, even more so than we understood at the time. In the…

That brings me to another issue I have with this series, which is that I’m not a huge fan of the Smallville/Gotham type prequel where the cool shit can only happen in the series finale… but in this case, it’s not even clear what the series would be building towards. At the beginning of Rogue One, Andor is just kind of…

I wonder how long the series can go on for. ANH’s opening crawl mentions that the battle later depicted in Rogue One was the first victory for the Rebellion. So, is this show just going to be five years of the Rebels getting spanked? It seems like despite all the fireworks, the main characters can’t really accomplish…

Host-William seems like something different — it’s trivial to fabricate a host who looks exactly like Tessa Thompson or Ed Harris, the problem is that an exact host-replica of a human consciousness seems to fail because the mind rejects the body (or maybe vice versa). Host-William is either a copy of Haleores or a…

So someone correct me if I’m wrong, but from what we’ve seen, nobody (either human Delos employees or the hosts) has successfully resurrected a human in a host body after decades of trying with hundreds of attempts, right? They all seem to malfunction and self harm within hours! They can make hosts that look exactly…

Affleck is probably happy to put on the suit for a day or two of shooting once every few years, and DC is happy with casting all the Batmen. They can make solo movies with Pattinson, and alternate between Affleck and Keaton for cameos and supporting roles. The lack of continuity or logic in the DCEU is becoming its pri…

We know that the pain of losing Max was enough for Gus to spend the next 20 years plotting an extremely elaborate revenge against the cartel (and the Salamancas in particular), which ultimately results in the grisly death of nearly the entire cartel and the eradication of the Salamanca bloodline. Gus has a…

I feel like there has to be more to it than that, because without some kind of familial tie to someone incredibly powerful back home, I don’t think the cartel would be afraid to execute Gus. Also, there’s the mocking way in which Hector refers to Gus as “Generalissimo,” implying that he did not earn whatever official…

I imagine in one of the upcoming episodes they’re going to do something fun like recreate the entire story of Breaking Bad from Saul’s point of view, in a Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead kind of way, so it’ll more take place alongside the events of the original series.

I also feel like once you establish that the mysterious stranger *isn’t* a cartel hitmen or Nazi prison gang associate, and is instead just some guy who remembers the Better Call Saul! ads from back home in Albuquerque, the element of physical danger goes away. So while they might have arranged the details of the mall…

We know we’ll see more of the pre-BrBa timeline solely because Cranston and Paul have been confirmed to appear and, well, Walter White kind of can’t pop into any Omaha Cinnabons at this point in the story.

Yup. Even though they recast Jeffy, the Albuquerque Isotopes air freshener dangling from his rear view mirror re-established him as the same character. He recognized Saul from the ads back home and kind of threatened Gene with exposure, without making any specific demands. Jimmy/Saul/Gene intuited that if he just…

The exact reason Gus was spared is not spelled out, but it’s heavily implied that Gus has some powerful connections to the Pinochet regime back in Chile and this makes him untouchable (or, at least, difficult to touch without risking a big problem). Eladio states outright that the only reason Gus was allowed to live…

That movie has been in development hell for so long that Channing Tatum (42) has basically aged out of the role.

People like to discuss this scene as an example of Pacino losing command of his craft, but I say that this scene includes two of the most memorable line readings in the history of film, and it’s a clear career highlight for Pacino. He’s great in the whole movie, and it’s a very controlled performance. Who wouldn’t be…

I agree with this take, it’s not so much that Paul is miscast — it’s that Caleb was originally introduced as an “everyman” character to show how regular people (who aren’t senior Delos executives) live outside of Westworld, but the story also developed him as some kind of Chosen One Jesus figure that all the hosts…

The enforcement of social norms is basically the foundation of human civilization. I’m not advocating for a public stoning of Coulier, nor dictating how he must behave. I find his actions icky and I’m expressing that on a public platform.

It’s not a crime but the relationship was still inappropriate, and we are right to be making fun of Dave Coulier for being a creep all these years later. 33-year-old men should not be dating 18-year-old girls/women. 

Gus is kind of a benevolent despot, though. Compared to the cartel, he is honorable and fair. He treats his employees well and seeks to avoid harming civilians. He is motivated by his lifelong desire for revenge against the cartel due to his partner’s murder, and also because he seems to enjoy wearing the mask of a…

Yes but the actual chicken restaurant doesn’t necessarily have to be a *good* chicken restaurant. He could use the same brilliantly run meth distribution scheme with a chain of disgusting Kennedy Fried Chicken type restaurants. But the actual Los Pollos Hermanos restaurants are always shown to be clean and efficiently…