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[proximoception]

As one might have predicted, we were unable to stay away from Better Call Saul. And it's good that we didn't because Odenkirk stepped up. How? I don't know! But the character works now, and as a lead even.

Till the recent one I thought of the show as like an ordinary one but with all the stupid scraped off and everything remaining being done gracefully, beautifully. As though Jiro had abandoned sushi to perfect the Frito.

But after the penultimate episode I'm now wondering if some more's been going on - that is, if the central theme of how one becomes "not a criminal lawyer but a Criminal lawyer" (in Jesse's words) is being pursued more ambitiously than I'd thought. That there's, y'know, a root system here.

Though even if things turn out to be more loosely conducted I will always be a sucker for principle vs. utility complexities.

Comments

[nightspore.livejournal.com]

We're really liking it (haven't seen this week's yet), and I agree, it's getting better and better, or coming together.

[proximoception.livejournal.com]

I increasingly think latter - the show acted like the various new characters were ones it would figure out what to do with a little later. Left them blank. But it now seems that was so we wouldn't see the scheme too soon.