Bit of a gut-punch there at the end (I'm sorry to hear about your pop), but that's a fun little story otherwise, of course. I had a not-entirely-dissimilar situation with a friend (who is in great health now, I should note) who hadn't seen the series, and once he was going through chemo, I just couldn't bring myself…

I… have to admit to enjoying the irony of a social worker wanting to stay away from meth(-themed shows) eventually falling victim to a 'gateway drug' and deciding to give said show a go regardless. Well worded.

"It's good, but will it get them off their tractors?"

As someone who has been participating in said discussions, sympathetic to those complaining about the grade, I feel like I should clarify something:

Great; now I'm hard.

Well, he apparently had some consternation over his own partner being corrupt, but even that can't be reduced to a simple, 'This man doesn't know some cops are corrupt!' He just didn't think that the man he worked with and trusted with his life was like those other slimebags. And while Mike does say that it was just a…

I kind of dig that Mike's rolling his eyes—twice!—at police attempts to play the 'Hey, we're all cops, here!' card in previous episodes takes on new meaning now.

I always loved that a dude from a planet that was nothing but sand went on a rant about how much he hates it. It would be like going on a date with someone kvetching about how much they hate dirt - or air.

I feel like his "goof" was internally consistent in that episode, now more than ever. He's always been a bit brazen (his plan to kill those cops, no matter how carefully constructed, was still a hell of a gamble) in his own way; don't let his stoic demeanor fool you. The man often had a lip curling and trembling with…

I recently re-watched the episode where Mike is, on behalf of Gus Fring, looking for Jesse. "Saul, don't make me beat it out of you," says Mike, genuinely weary instead of going for overt threats.

I was pretty excited when he swaggered into the police station, both because I was jonzing for my Odenkirk fix, and because it reminded me of the good old da— er, the days to come, when he's engaging in sardonic banter with law officials while trying to protect his client as Saul "Why don't you get your kindergarten…

Fairplay and all, but I kind of like that Gilligan and co. are now so confident in their storytelling that they'll take little breathers to do some badass world-building. I love me a good character study, and so the slow path—the meticulous, careful plotting—really works for me. I don't disagree that the episode was…

Yeah. By the end of Mike's scenes with Jesse (those were his first, right?), I remember thinking, 'Man, this guy is great.' I am pretty sure I compared him to the Wolf in Pulp Fiction - for obvious reasons, but also because they're both hilarious in a dryly-sarcastic and generally-unimpressed of way.

I like Donna's reviews, overall, but you raise an interesting point regarding the 'drop-in-ability,' as it were, of this particular episode. I feel like folks can hop into any particular episode of Better Call Saul and enjoy themselves, but certainly, "Five-O" was about as self-contained as a non-episode series can…

I've always wanted to see a thing where someone accidentally bangs the roof or trunk of a car, causing the driver to drive off because they're familiar with the trope and assume that this is the signal. Instead of, you know, a simple, 'Thanks, again! Take care!'

I tend to lurk more than I post (which is weird, since I typically have this almost-pathological need to be seen and thus have proof that I ever existed, but I digress), but I just want to say that I love you people. I know that the quality of the comments often depends on the article/review in question, but there's a…

It might just be a letter, but I'm pretty sure Mr. blowey is more disagreeing with the opinion the letter grade represents - the idea that this episode would have 'fallen flat' without having first watched Breaking Bad. I am not sure if I agree with that take, either.

I should be happy that you're watching Breaking Bad at all, since many commentators flat-out refuse and it drives me a little bit bonkers (especially if they're enjoying Better Call Saul). Still, though, Bad deserves to be savored, not rushed through. The episodes are often very artful, like self-contained little…

"IT'S IN REVELATIONS, PEOPLE!"

Exactly. As much as we all love Mike, it's a bit of a stretch for someone to concoct a plan that brilliant and devious, even sacrificing his relationship with his granddaughter to maintain the facade. It's much more straightforward if he did develop a drinking problem - which he then managed to kick just a little…