I was so ecstatic to open my Kindle last night and find it there. I went straight from the Intro to the Peter Gould interview in back and it Does Not Disappoint! Thanks so much.
Can hardly wait for my signed copy to arrive in the mail! (I live in the same town as you, and wish you'd do a signing event at the library so I could bring in my other 3 Sepinwall books...) I'm truly grateful for how much your writing enriches my TV watching. Wish you much success!!
Congratulations, Alan! I like actually buying a copy off the shelf, so I'm picking up mine from Powell's, looking forward to it.
It was slightly jarring to have Jimmy backtrack a bit in the season 2 premiere after the implication of the season 1 finale but hoo boy, I can't imagine how Better Call Saul could have ever been better than the show it became.
Everytime a showrunner comes out with a statement early on in a series' run stating they already know how it will end or even worse, that they already have it all mapped out in advance, I cringe. Like guys, did you watch ER or The Sopranos or Lost or The Leftovers, let alone Breaking Bad? Because that old adage "men plan and God laughs" applies to TV. Actors age and they die, actors decide to quit or are miscast, great ideas quickly fizzle and fail, or like the Leftovers, showrunners realize they need to reorient the entire storyline. Hubris will get ya, just like it did Walt and Saul.
Exactly! And the obvious counterargument, always and forever: How I Met Your Mother, where the creators would not let go of their original ending — nor of a piece of footage they shot in the second season — no matter how much the show had not only clearly evolved beyond it, but now seemed to be completely opposed to it.
I was so ecstatic to open my Kindle last night and find it there. I went straight from the Intro to the Peter Gould interview in back and it Does Not Disappoint! Thanks so much.
So glad you got/liked it!
Can hardly wait for my signed copy to arrive in the mail! (I live in the same town as you, and wish you'd do a signing event at the library so I could bring in my other 3 Sepinwall books...) I'm truly grateful for how much your writing enriches my TV watching. Wish you much success!!
Maplewood's not that far, and I've done things at local libraries, if not that one specifically.
Congratulations, Alan! I like actually buying a copy off the shelf, so I'm picking up mine from Powell's, looking forward to it.
It was slightly jarring to have Jimmy backtrack a bit in the season 2 premiere after the implication of the season 1 finale but hoo boy, I can't imagine how Better Call Saul could have ever been better than the show it became.
Everytime a showrunner comes out with a statement early on in a series' run stating they already know how it will end or even worse, that they already have it all mapped out in advance, I cringe. Like guys, did you watch ER or The Sopranos or Lost or The Leftovers, let alone Breaking Bad? Because that old adage "men plan and God laughs" applies to TV. Actors age and they die, actors decide to quit or are miscast, great ideas quickly fizzle and fail, or like the Leftovers, showrunners realize they need to reorient the entire storyline. Hubris will get ya, just like it did Walt and Saul.
Exactly! And the obvious counterargument, always and forever: How I Met Your Mother, where the creators would not let go of their original ending — nor of a piece of footage they shot in the second season — no matter how much the show had not only clearly evolved beyond it, but now seemed to be completely opposed to it.