I disagree, I think BCS has pacing issues and they could have moved a little faster. I love how it ended up in the end, but you could tell the writers had nothing in mind for endgame in the first two seasons. Great show, but probably could have been five seasons.

My opinion: BCS’s last season was rushed and the quality suffered for it. I absolutely preferred it to BB, but BB kept a perfect pace and ended well. If BCS had one more season, it would’ve been perfect.

I am thankful that Vince Gilligan and his crew gave us 2 amazing shows and ended them both in extremely satisfying ways.

BCS’ ending was quiet yet so sentimental, it’s one of my favourites of all time for sure.

Better Call Saul

Breaking Bad was my favorite show. When I finished Better Call Saul, I still felt Breaking Bad was my favorite show but then I went to rewatch Breaking Bad and while still very good, I felt Breaking Bad relies a lot on a shock factor/surprises that isn’t as rewarding on a 2nd viewing. All the “holy shit!” moments that were so exciting the first time around were still good but not as strong.

Better Call Saul relied more on the strength of its characters than multiple “Whoa, I can’t believe this just happened!” moments throughout the show.

Both are still fantastic but Better Call Saul takes the edge for me. I think it will age better.

Why does there have to be better? We got two fantastic shows. Be happy. Stop trying to quantify art.

BCS had it much worse, at least in the first three seasons, because it had to create compelling stories and characters without the help of cartel stuff so in my view, it's the better show for that alone. I also think it's superior in terms of writing and direction but that's a tad less evident

My opinion is that BCS is the better show, but, Breaking Bad is the more important show.

I'm still blown away that they were able to craft a prequel, one in which you knew how 90% of it was going to end, and still make it as meaningful and seamless and suspenseful as they did. It's utterly brilliant.

Better Call Saul was great but in my opinion, in first 2 or 3 seasons it was a bit padded. If you eliminated half its run time you wouldnt lose anything in the story. I think they only perfected it the last two seasons. And Breaking Bad has more iconic scenes in general (but to be honest it also had a few less polished first two seasons)

When Reddit’s least-favorite show (The Big Bang Theory) had its finale a few years ago, I compared the numbers. TBBT ended with a number that, despite it being a finale and getting a higher-than-normal rating, even that would only have been enough to give it a 50/50 shot of cancellation in the 90s.

I’m just excited they both exist and I had the chance to enjoy the story. No need for me to compare. 💕

Better Call Saul was the better show. It had the impossible task of creating characters we would care about and real stakes for a story we already know the ending to. The writing was also tighter and the pace was slower. Less big dramatic action moments and more subtle and clever ones.

And as a personal preference I feel like the characters are much more likeable and subject matter more interesting, which makes it a far more pleasing rewatch.

I suggest watching them both all the way through again and getting back to us.

BCS felt more...polished.

This. Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul are best understood as one long-form work. And together they make up the single greatest show in television history.

Better Call Saul is never going to be as popular or culturally relevant as Breaking Bad, but I think overall it’s a better show with a more satisfying ending. You can tell by watching it that the creators have improved their craft, and the performances by the actors are just as good if not better. Rhea Seahorn in particular was fantastic in it and I’m pretty excited to see what her and Vince Gilligan’s next show will be about.

I just treat them both as one show.

I just don't think its fair to compare. Both shows are great in their own right. They add and compliment each other.

Its actually even better to go back and watch Breaking Bad again while its all fresh in your mind.

…and they will survive with a smaller audience. For network TV nowadays it’s just more important to know your audience. A specific demographic will often be worth more to advertisers.

This thread is you bring outed by your selective viewing choices

Those are highlights? SNL is shit.

> Shaw’s behavior in the holodeck towards Picard, not fresh after losing Jennifer Sisko and Wolf 359 mind you, but 30 years later and after Picard has shown he wasn’t in control when violated by the borg and saved the Federation multiple times over

I could see him still blaming Picard. But we already saw this story with Sisko and it was more compelling! It was his wife too, in addition to his coworkers/friends. We even got to "meet" the wife.

Just bad writing IMO. Out of the entire Trek universe they couldn't come up with a new reason for tension between Shaw and the others.

I like Dawn. If we want to talk about "bad late cast additions", my mind first goes to Vincent Kartheiser/Connor on Angel. Good actor, but a rather frustrating character.

I think whether you liked Dawn kind of depended on your own life and experiences. I have an older sister, so I could very much relate to Dawn and the sibling dynamic and she was immediately very likeable to me. I think it was a nice change to have Buffy worry about family rather than a boyfriend. That being said, they didn't quite know what to do with her in season six and since the character was initially intended to be much younger, they struggled to write for her age until season 7, I'd say.

Not an easy thing to map. It very easily can be asserted whether or not Letterman was a better Late Night host, but in todays landscape, TV ratings can't really be used to be compared to the past since across the board they're much much lower. Same with scripted TV, in it's heyday a show like CSI was able to pull over 30 million viewers. By the time it went off the air in 2015, it was pulling 7 million. It's successor series CSI Vegas hasn't even crossed 5 million since premiering in 2021.

Grand Crew is a sitcom about a group of friends. Very much Friends except none of the Friends are white and they hang out in a wine bar instead of a coffee shop. It's really good.

Ghosts is about a group of friends, they're just mostly dead.