Debate emerges over Breaking Bad vs. Better Call Saul ranking
6 Sep 22 6:14 PM · 1d ago · 71 comments · 1 source · development 6 of 6
Commenters begin debating whether Better Call Saul deserves inclusion over Breaking Bad, with some viewing them as a single entity and others arguing Saul is superior.
“I still say Better Call Saul is superior to Breaking Bad. It's slower, drier, and more nuanced but the same guys who made BB were that much better at making TV during BCS's run.”
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Absolutely. But if we're stanning Lee Pace, I need to voice my undying love for Pushing Daisies.
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Here for the Better Call Saul vs Breaking discussion.
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I’ve settled on looking at them as one big show. BCS makes no sense without watching BB first; watching BB but not Saul is like leaving a great movie halfway through
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Patriot was SO fuckin good and nobody ever knows what I'm talking about!
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Halt and Catch Fire is criminally underrated. It's amazing.
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Finally watched it this year! Never seen anything like it. As a mystery box craver, I was pretty frustrated with it at first and then realized ….thats the point omg
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Homicide, Life in the Streets needs to be on that list. I am exhausted after watching. It’s like going to work.
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Glad to see Party Down get love. Incredible cast, funny as hell
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I still say Better Call Saul is superior to Breaking Bad. It’s slower, drier, and more nuanced but the same guys who made BB were that much better at making TV during BCS’s run. I thoroughly enjoyed it.
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Regarding Danny McBride comedy series, I would argue that the Righteous Gemstones is the best followed closely by Vice Principals. Both star Walton Goggins who is a very funny dude.
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Watchmen is one of the more slept on shows out there. Impeccable. Reznor and Ross absolutely crushed the score. And I’ll never forget such a perfect introduction to Yahya.
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Patriot is so criminally underrated! One of the strangest and best shows of the last 15 years.
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It's an odd quirk of the show's timeline. Probably an artistic choice by the show's creators.
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I’d add True Detective and Westworld in there but just Season 1 of both though.
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The season 3 writing room certainly didn’t talk about it, so why should we?
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The first two seasons are spot on depicting bottom feeder lawyers. Especially when he takes appointed work. Even the sticker for discounted validated court parking is highly accurate. The show looses reality when he gets in bed with the cartel. Lawyers don’t do that. Not ones I know.
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#HaltAndCatchFire: Joe: The visionary. Cameron: The software coder. Gordon: The hardware engineer. Perfect triangle of computer dev. Donna: No, you need investors. Perfect square if computer dev. Kerry fought her way into a 3 person play and turned it into a 4 person play.
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Where are you now, Sister Night? Where was DC Comics in not adding her to the DC universe like they added Harlequin? How was I at 41 learning about Black Wall Street from a tv show? Much less it's massacre? Ala SINNERS revealing Asians in the American South.
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HaCF reminded me of my early 1980s years of home pc fandom, Vic-20, C64 and the Amiga. Going to strange tiny out of the way shops around Chicago and suburbs. Collecting COMPUTE magazines and typing in software. It was like wading in nostalgia. 👍😁
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Haven’t seen The Wire, The Americans or Veep, and Sopranos wasn’t eligible cause it premiere in 2019, but I feel good about this. Arrested development is only based on original 3 season run. GoTs is disqualified cause of Season 8.
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I did this quick and honestly, Fargo could have taken 5 spots since they broke it up into individual seasons, but I stand by it. …and yes, you do need to watch Breaking Bad for Better Call Saul to be better than it lol.
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I would include six of yours in my own list, which makes me think I should try the other four. So I guess I’m taking recommendations for prestige TV from a football commentator now? Oh the times! Oh the manners! 🙂
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Yes, Halt and Catch Fire doesn't get near enough praise! It gets so little that even I sort of forgot about it and I immediately remembered how great it was when seeing it on the list. Time for a rewatch I think.
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Never even heard of Patriot but the rest of your list is so perfectly aligned with what I would toss out (I’m talking up Leftovers every chance I get), so it’s going to the top of my queue now, thanks!
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