Showing posts with label Better Call Saul. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Better Call Saul. Show all posts
Friday, June 27, 2025

The Work Image II: Three Scenes on their way to a Concept

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I recently gave a short presentation at the ACLA on the idea of the work image, a concept that I wrote about on this blog and in my book, Th...
Thursday, August 18, 2022

Unbecoming Saul: Reflections on the Last Season of Better Call Saul (Part Two)

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  How it Started/How it is going The final episode of Better Call Saul is not just a finale to the series but to the entire Breaking Bad mul...
Sunday, July 10, 2022

Becoming Saul: Reflections on the Last Season of Better Call Saul (Part One)

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  The prequel is defined by a particular kind of paradox. As much as it aspires to reach the point from which original story began, connecti...
Tuesday, May 12, 2020

Everybody Loves Kim: Breaking Bad on Better Call Saul

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Breaking Bad  and its spinoff/prequel Better Call Saul  began with a premise that is familiar to nearly everyone. A mild mannered chemistry ...
Thursday, April 07, 2016

The Work Image: Montage in Better Call Saul and Breaking Bad

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Gilles Deleuze stated that montage is an "indirect image of time," in Vince Gilligan's Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul...
Tuesday, May 05, 2015

First Time as Tragedy, Second Time as Tragicomedy: On Better Call Saul

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"Spinoff! Is there any word more thrilling to the human soul?" Troy McClure, The Simpsons Better Call Saul confronts a se...