Written by James M. Tate / 2/09/2015 / No comments / 2015 , bob odenkirk , pilot , TV
SUNDAY PILOT OF BETTER CALL SAUL TITLED UNO
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year: 2015 Grade: C |
We begin much like the last stretch of BAD when Walter White was hiding out, incognito, dead to himself and the world… Yet Saul has a menial job leading to a bland apartment with a mixed drink to save his own pathetic life... And while little happens to the character within the first five minutes, the direction is sparsely artistic with the right touch of purgatory Noir – then we zoom out of the present and into the pulse of the matter at hand…

While on paper the ingredients are all intact, there’s very little edgy dynamic… Saul spent so much time and energy selling himself to Walter White that now, as the man of the hour, it’s his task to successfully present others for the audience to embrace like we already did him – including Michael McKean as Saul’s… or rather… Jimmy’s lawyer brother, stricken with some kind of fatal disease (sound familiar?) and two skateboard riding accident-fakers resembling hipster versions of Napoleon Dynamite, filling in the same punchy pocket as any of Jesse Pinkman's banal tweaker pals, only athletic.
And so, in phase one, the stuff just isn’t there, yet… Perhaps because “Jimmy” hasn’t come into the deliciously shifty style that would make him a good/bad lawyer, which explains the lethargic courtroom scene that had potential but, like everything else, fell flat, lacking our hero's pizazz and charm while the cliffhanger is more like balancing off the side of a gutter with very little to lose until, hopefully, the next episode, the true start of the series, will make things right as wrong again… Fingers crossed, and toes too. OVERALL RANK: Jedi, Rebel, Droid, Sith...
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