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I loved Better Call Saul, and, hot take:  it was a better show than Breaking Bad. 

I don't necessarily share utee's aversion to the anti-hero shows (The Shield was one of the greatest shows of my generation) but I do understand it.  Stuff like Breaking Bad and Ozark--while brilliant--often made me feel like I needed to give my brain a bath, and I can't binge-watch them.  There's only so much of that I can take at a time. 

But Better Call Saul was lighter and had a completely different focus, but it kept everything that was so well-done about Breaking Bad.  And, I just found the story of a good-hearted guy with a weakness for taking shortcuts who would eventually make enough wrong choices to eventually be the lawyer for criminals we met in Breaking Bad much more compelling than Walter White's descent into the criminal world. 

Walter White, while compelling, was never likable.  He was a jerk who couldn't ever be honest with himself.  Jimmy McGill was a very likeable character who ultimately had just enough flaws to go down a path where he fit into the fringes of the BB world.  

Actively loathed Breaking Bad, hated The Shield, never bothered to watch Better Call Saul.

I'm okay with flawed humans doing bad things.  For me, Mad Men is the best television show of all time.  Many of the characters did bad things, but they weren't bad people and, for the most part, they weren't criminals.

Ozark.

Is about money laundering for the mob, right?  I tried to watch the first episode and dumped it.

Drug cartel...yes.

We've got an early dumper on our hands!

Actively loathed Breaking Bad, hated The Shield, never bothered to watch Better Call Saul.

I'm okay with flawed humans doing bad things.  For me, Mad Men is the best television show of all time.  Many of the characters did bad things, but they weren't bad people and, for the most part, they weren't criminals.

You might like Better Call Saul.  It's nothing like Breaking Bad, The Shield, or Ozark.  It just happens to be set in the same world as Breaking Bad and features one of the minor characters, showing how he got from a petty con-man trying to reform himself, to the scuzzy lawyer willing to look the other way for bad guys in Breaking Bad.  

Mad Men.....I watched it during a stint of unemployment one time.  The characters were interesting.  The plot, not so much.  I put it in the same category as The Walking Dead.....okay shows which were supposed to be great.  

Better Call Saul was more focused than Breaking Bad, and, yeah, Jimmy McGill is a much more likeable/relatable character than Walter White--even if deeply flawed. It's also more of a dark comedy--at least for the first few seasons--than Breaking Bad, which is a drama from start to finish. I liked Breaking Bad, although I thought there was a season or two that it dragged a bit. 

I wish somebody here liked Severance and was caught up on it.  I got nobody to talk to about it 

I wish somebody here liked Severance and was caught up on it.  I got nobody to talk to about it

Just not caught up--will work on that...