A review of this week’s Better Call Saul, “Waterworks,” coming up just as soon as I call this a fish taco, legally… “This guy? Any good?” —Jesse “When I knew him, he was.” —Kim In a different world, Kim Wexler and Jesse Pinkman should have never met. She was a …
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A review of this week’s Better Call Saul, with the provocative title of “Breaking Bad,” coming up just as soon as I watch a cat eating ice cream… “She asked about me.” —Gene And here they finally are. Walter White and Jesse Pinkman. As the latter would say: Yeah, bitch! …
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A review of this week’s Better Call Saul, “Nippy,” coming up just as soon as I pick up 900 pounds of Spanish mackerel… “So after all that? A happy ending.” —Gene The opening title sequence for “Nippy” begins as one with which Better Call Saul viewers are quite familiar: Saul …
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A review of this week’s Better Call Saul, “Fun and Games,” coming up just as soon as I exchange my Côte-Rôtie for a rum and Diet Coke… “End of an era.” —Rich Schweikart “Fun and Games” brings us the moment that, before Better Call Saul debuted, all of us expected …
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After a brief midseason hiatus, Better Call Saul is back for the home stretch of its final season. A review of this week’s episode, “Point and Shoot,” coming up just as soon as you get me a new fridge… “Big talk. You done?” —Lalo “No. Not yet.” —Gus Both Better …
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A review of the Atlanta Season Three finale, “Tarrare,” coming up just as soon as I ask my friend’s cousin to pee on you… And here we come to the end of this long-delayed, ambitious, confounding, frequently incredible season of television. Across the last two and a half months, Atlanta …
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A review of this week’s Better Call Saul, “Axe and Grind,” just as soon as we sidebar in the law library… “Relax. You got away with it.” —Kim’s mom What happens to Kim? This is a question I asked regarding the last Saul episode to feature young Kim (still played …
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A review of this week’s “Rich Wigga, Poor Wigga” coming up just as soon as I tell you why the Five Heartbeats broke up… In the final seasons of Mad Men, the weekly episode descriptions that appeared in TV listings and DVR program guides became hilarious in their spoiler-phobic vagueness: …
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A review of this week’s Atlanta, “New Jazz,” coming up just as soon as I have to watch the movie Cats sober… With “New Jazz,” Atlanta returns to Amsterdam, which was the locale for this season’s first stop on the European tour in “Sinterklaas is Coming to Town.” But the …
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A review of this week’s Better Call Saul, “Hit and Run,” coming up just as soon as I promise that I won’t move the toilet… “You think we’re wicked?” —Kim More than Gus Fring’s arrival, more than the finally-confirmed plan to have Walt and Jesse appear in this final season, …
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