Better Call Saul

It took a while.

Season 5, episode 9 to be exact but it finally happened.

I realised I prefer Better Call Saul to the show it spun off from, Breaking Bad.

It's immense stuff. Funny, inventive, nerve wrackingly tense. The kind of show you look forward to all week. Releasing one episode a week was a great move. It gives us time to think about what we've just seen, to digest it, to care about people in it.

That last reason is why I love it so. Breaking Bad was great but it was hard to care about anyone in it bar Jesse. Here, you give a fuck about everyone. Well most of them anyway. Kim Wexler has just entered the pantheon of all time great TV characters. Mike Ehrmantraut is the baddest motherfucker ever to grace a TV screen. Even blokes like Nacho Varga and Lalo Salamanca, two guys who'd be paper thin caricatures in other shows excel here, Nacho especially. Then there's Saul/Jimmy. We know where he's heading but we still don't know how he got there. He's still human here, life hasn't broken him yet. We're all dreading the event that turns him fully to the darkside while craving closure on his story too.

I've a feeling this show will break our hearts with the road our characters are heading down and then break them again when it finishes next year. I'm afraid but I can't wait.