This show has very little to do with Breaking Bad, but it's still a spin off. The immense success of Breaking Bad has brought a lot of goodwill and patience to this show.
This is the Fly episode, which so many people complained about, except here, every episode is a Fly episode. The whole show is a Fly episode.
It's not that fun to watch. Seeing Saul, Mike, Tuco and co. gives viewers patience for watching this show that they'd never have with another show. Had this very same show been done before Breaking Bad, it would not last a season.
Show this show to non-Breaking Bad fans and they would struggle to enjoy it. It's not good enough as a standalone show.
It's just too slow and there's too little story. It's piggybacking on the success of Breaking Bad, definitely, and I don't blame them for that. But there's just not enough meat to sustain this sandwich.
Standalone (new) shows have to try so much harder to get this kind of success, but no show can survive with so little story and so few events. A season of this show has fewer events than 2 Breaking Bad episodes.
I give it a 7, but I think one of those 7 stars comes directly from it being related to Breaking Bad. I'm not overrating by association. We know these characters and where they're going, so there's more to the show/story/characters than what's on the episodes.
Had we not known the futures of Saul, Mike and co. we'd really be watching a show about a goofy lawyer and a parking attendant wondering where it's going and when are we getting there.
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