There is nothing boring about chicken slow cooked to perfection seasoned with only the finest herbs and spices.

@brianpaulbrundage

Жыл бұрын

Welp this says what I was thinking better than what I had in mind

@keithmichael112

Жыл бұрын

delicious, but don't forget the signature spice curls.

@TrackingShots

Жыл бұрын

I really debated dedicating another whole section of the video to that montage. What other show covers transportation logistics in that much depth?

@_Rosebud

Жыл бұрын

One taste... and you'll know

@Quentino808

Жыл бұрын

But it is criminal.... criminally delish!

Some of the best parts were the "boring" parts like Mike tightening up security at Madrigal warehouse or Nacho practicing throwing the pills to the jacket or Gus cleaning and cooking or other things.

@TrackingShots

Жыл бұрын

I loved each of those bits! I went with the bus example because it was the longest and I had the best footage for it, but those are all winners.

@flightofthebumblebee9529

Жыл бұрын

@@TrackingShots I also loved Walt building his pipe bomb out of freezer packs and baby monitor, as well as Mike sitting on a stakeout at Los Pollos in season 3 while watching with binoculars through the rear view mirror, and the part of Mike taking apart his car to find the bug as well as Mike putting the tracker on the car of the men tracking him, effectively turning himself from the hunted into the hunter, was just plain awesome.

@flightofthebumblebee9529

Жыл бұрын

@@quicklyform5162 haha that's awesome man. I actually found myself dressing like Mike often. Slacks and a tucked in collared shirt with my black windbreaker jacket.

@Yambag

Жыл бұрын

best? i agree they werent borning scenes, but "best"? calm down buddy lol

@flightofthebumblebee9529

Жыл бұрын

@@Yambag smell my farts

Did you know that Vince Gilligan actually committed all the crimes himself to research for the script? Pure genius.

@ExpiredCornedbeef

Жыл бұрын

Bravo Vince.

@tharindu207

Жыл бұрын

He defecated through a sunroof!

@boonsaplenty3924

Жыл бұрын

god this joke is still aggressively unfunny

@blu-rae864

Жыл бұрын

@@boonsaplenty3924 kid named finger:

@SeaguIISoup

Жыл бұрын

@@boonsaplenty3924 this is the exact moment when this comment became heisenberg

I like how they kind of make crimes boring. It’s a more realistic take on crime. It’s not all crazy exciting shootouts. It also helps show how they get away with a lot of these crimes. In BrBa they don’t just kill someone and leave the body like you see in other media, they extensively clean up the crime scene so there’s no evidence.

@thehoodedvagabum7375

Жыл бұрын

Ah yes, very realistic. I remember that time I robbed a bank, it was like being in the rain running with your loved one.

@ST1TCH916

Жыл бұрын

@@thehoodedvagabum7375 tf you on about? lmao. They just said that it's a realistic depiction of how crime is REALLY handled (with the exception of some scenes being exaggerated)

@ThaJollyRancherz

Жыл бұрын

@@thehoodedvagabum7375 Nobody robs a bank in either series wtf are you talking about

@rigormortiz9114

Жыл бұрын

This 👍

@youngnigga9295

Жыл бұрын

There is no way you abbreviated Breaking Bad to BrBa😂😂😂 it takes just as much effort

it's amazing how at the beginning of BCS, we all wanted to see Saul Goodman, and with the final episode coming soon, the writers have told the story such that we all just want Jimmy back

@TrackingShots

Жыл бұрын

I think the cut to Saul at the end of episode 9 is my favorite moment in the series. What an amazing way to finally give the audience what they think they want.

@Slavic_Snake

Жыл бұрын

Nah ion want jimmy back. Saul ftw baby

@ericthemovieguy

Жыл бұрын

I love jimmy

@RikiJasmin

Жыл бұрын

Jimmy is boring. I prefer Saul

@Hakujoudaiii

Жыл бұрын

@@RikiJasmin bro just didn't watch this video

Essentially the writers realized they couldn’t get tension out of Saul or Mike’s ultimate fates… so they decided to create tension in the smaller moments where the audience isn’t sure what they’re doing or why, but knows that SOMETHING’S up.

@keithmichael112

Жыл бұрын

I just thought they have a problem with exposition, you can have a character just explain what they're doing or feeling like most shows(not always realistic, why are they explaining it?) or you can just show them going thru the process, or show how they are feeling through action(might come across as boring, or the viewer might just not get it)

@TrackingShots

Жыл бұрын

@@keithmichael112 I think both reasons might be true. The show’s dialogue does often have a naturalistic feeling to it, and I agree that more obvious exposition would disrupt this. But I also think they want the audience to feel like that one cat picture sometimes too. “What they doin ova der?”

@CorporateG0th

Жыл бұрын

I feel like the next spinoff will be a Mike prologue tho. EIther him or Gus. They're just gonna keep digging back in history, and both of those two have an incredibly complicated backstory that from the sound of it would make for classic (maybe even *too* classic) television.

@CorporateG0th

Жыл бұрын

@@jonathanbeatrice8317 either way his ride's gonna end. Jimmy now has motive to kill Kim tho, and Kim has not reported him being alive so there's still an out if he keeps her from testifying. Speaking of which, Kim and Howard's wife now have a testimony implicating people across a range of international murderous syndicates. Unless they get everyone up to the fucking UN involved, both of them are basically marked for death by a whole bunch of dangerous people.

@CorporateG0th

Жыл бұрын

I mean sure a lot of the shotcallers in that document are dead, but it's still probable cause for the cops to start raiding those groups left and right. I bet that's how they're gonna search that bunker lab and find Howard's body, too.

it's important to know that Better call Saul was primarily ran by Peter Gould, the showrunner. Vince stepped back his role on the show in season 2 and only returned for the sixth season. So all of the talk of Vince is fine. But seriously, give Peter some credit

@georgiannakis4030

Жыл бұрын

Bravo Vince!

@axeldiaz7960

Жыл бұрын

Bravo Vin- uhhh, Peter!

@jeffersonclippership2588

Жыл бұрын

Everyone wants to give credit to "Bravo" Vince Gilligan but not enough people give credit to Peter "The Other One" Gould

@boot_master3070

Жыл бұрын

vravo bince

@martinbogadomartinesi5135

Жыл бұрын

it is true, he's even credited in creating the character. i've been listening the bcs insider podcast and it's astonishing to hear how much effort went into creating this series, and yeah even though vince is in most episodes, you can clearly hear peter talk way more about the character.

one of my favorite scenes across both shows is in Better Call Saul, where Mike is in Mexico and his cell phone battery is dead. He starts trying to jerry rig a charger out of stray electrical parts and it seems like it's going to be another one of those minutes-long montage scenes. And then someone just ... hands him a phone charger. It was such a small throwaway joke but it's maybe the hardest I've laughed in the whole show

@NeonBeeCat

Ай бұрын

I like the part where Mike deconstructs his car looking for a tracker before he realizes to check the fuel cap.

I remember really feeling the payoff of Gus' death so much, that I was initially shocked upon watching him walk out of Salamanca's room, only to reveal his face having been ripped off. For a moment I was caught thinking "no way he survived that," before the camera pans to his face. It's like Vince knew people would panic about the aspect of Gus surviving after so much work, so he played with us for a moment.

@jasonmolenaar119

Жыл бұрын

Same

@johnchedsey1306

Жыл бұрын

They kinda pushed the "realism" aspect with that scene, but it was so perfectly done that I can accept the spectacle.

@gabago0l

Жыл бұрын

@@johnchedsey1306 I feel like a character like Gus deserved some spectacle, even at the cost of realism. While seeing his mangled body would have been "more realistic" I love the scene we got.

@zelaird8526

Жыл бұрын

@pyropulse nigga why did you censor dumbest this isn't grade school lmao

@MAX-de8fe

Жыл бұрын

@pyropulse the show was never very realistic. Gus was pretty much omnipotent from the very start and Mike was an unkillable super assassin. Plus the Salamanca twins were basically comic book characters with the way they walked in unison and never spoke. The chemistry was the only realistic part of the show.

The slow scenes do such a good job of showing us how much effort the characters are putting into what they're doing. A lot of shows tell you a character did something crazy and cool and hard, but we only see the final result, and it kinda feels like they didn't really do anything at all

@Tribrachidiumheraldicum

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, I'm remembering the ending of Death Note where both characters are pulling out their crazy plan and one includes doctoring an entire book by hand and we're just told the character "did it all in one night." Like wow, wish I would've actually got to see how that was done because it kind of sounds impossible and stupid.

@Jayphil1

Жыл бұрын

Yea tht happened with burn notice for me. Like yea Michael Weston can make a bomb but how does he make the bomb? U knw what I mean

@SpaceJager

Жыл бұрын

@@Jayphil1 lol

@gandalf8216

Жыл бұрын

Bad writing is when you plot out events that must happen and the presence of characters are just coincidental to give cause for the already plotted effects. Good writing takes characters and through them causing the plot to happen.

@mm-gk6xg

Жыл бұрын

you only see the crazy and the cool, never the hard

Loved that when you talked about everyone having normal names, you listed Mike as 'Finger' haha

@Kevtarded

Жыл бұрын

5:00

@dielaughing73

Жыл бұрын

Perfectly normal name in the land of chicanery

Honestly one of my favourite episodes is when Walt is installing a water heater

@TrackingShots

Жыл бұрын

There’s rot, Skyler. Rot!

You did neglect to mention one or the best parts of BCS... they made us care about several new characters who's whereabouts was unknown in BB... Nacho, Kim, Chuck & Lalo, which made up for the lack of mystery about the BB characters.

@beatman2359

Жыл бұрын

wdym? howard and lalo were in breaking bad

@hdmi8586

Жыл бұрын

@@beatman2359 yeah, they appear in all lab scenes

@nicklaslinseman

Жыл бұрын

@@hdmi8586 yall made me think for a minute lmaooo

@skodware

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, I think the fact that most, but not all, of the important characters are people for whom you know what the future holds, makes the ones where you don't stick out like a sore thumb. Like I'm gonna be even more tense during a Nacho scene than even some of the intense parts of Breaking Bad, since I'm extra conscious of the fact that nothing is guaranteed

@SentientIrisu

Жыл бұрын

@@beatman2359 GODDAMMIT

The fact that they make cooking meth and making more than I will ever see in my life seem like a bland 9-5 situation is genius

@chrisd2051

11 ай бұрын

Kinda like the Sopranos where yeah there's some exciting scenes but it's treated like a 9-5 where you hang out with your buddies and go to therapy because of the fucking reguarlness of life

@megaboner690

Ай бұрын

​@@chrisd2051real crime is boring, yo

I like how Fred Whalen's murder was investigated. He wasn't just forgotten.

@jameson32

Жыл бұрын

Same thing with the kid from Breaking Bad.

@comrade_boi9941

Жыл бұрын

@@jameson32 kid named finger

@soloscape3

Жыл бұрын

@@comrade_boi9941 as soon I saw the word kid I knew someone was gonna comment this lmao

@WiseMasterNinja

Жыл бұрын

@@comrade_boi9941 Teacher: Today we're going to murder Drew Sharp in cold blood. Kid named Drew Sharp: '_'

The scene I remember the most was Mike dismantling an entire car to find a tracker. And the show took its time showing the steps.

@yurifairy2969

Жыл бұрын

mostly cuz of the badass song they chose for it

@LucyWest370

Жыл бұрын

Mine was Mike just walking around with a metal detector. The way he clones himself was kinda fun for some reason.

these scenes put us inside the world. they do what Raymond Carver did and take the mundane and make it beautiful. it's such a talent.

@desmondd1984

Жыл бұрын

Yes, exactly. They make the mundane beautiful and visually interesting.

@laissetomber6912

Жыл бұрын

Would you please be quiet, please?

0:58 the way he said los pollos genuinely took every fiber of my being to not click off immediately.

So much of what i love about the Vince Gilligan universe is exemplified in Mike. Just in the way he approaches crime (taking a brown bag to a gang meet because he researched Nacho and knew it wouldn't be violent, buying a replacement for the tracker in his gas cap and reading the manual to make sure it works, ect). He treats crime like its a blue collar job; like he went to crime technical school and got his crime certification lol.

@chrisd2051

11 ай бұрын

I mean he did vis a vie the police academy where I'm assuming criminology is a subject taught and also I think it's either explicitly stated or hinted at that Mike was in the service so he's used to reading manuals over and over to get it right.

these "boring" scenes really do a good job of making the world and characters portrayed feel real.

I was very invested in jimmy defending that vet who was gonne get his house torn down

@TrackingShots

Жыл бұрын

I didn’t expect so much banking and elder law when I started Better Call Saul last month, and I certainly didn’t expect to enjoy it as much as I did.

@RedDeadDepressionist

Жыл бұрын

Bare genitals!!!! *Y U P*

@jdguitar1040

Жыл бұрын

@ Felix: And remember: Kim put him up to it.

@woahblackbetty7691

Жыл бұрын

“Yup”

@QuothTheRavenclaw11

Жыл бұрын

"IIIII'M DOOOOON WAAACCHHTEEELLLL."

minor thing but Peter Gould deserves his flowers too considering he’s been the show runner behind bcs

@TrackingShots

Жыл бұрын

I agree. That’s probably my biggest regret with how the final edit came together. I did mention him in the description and I would refer to “Vince and the team” but that probably wasn’t suffice. He does make a brief cameo in some comic con footage in the back half of the video, but again, probably could have mentioned him more.

@daggy5505

Жыл бұрын

@@TrackingShots all good man, just a small thing that most ppl don’t even draw attention to anyways I wouldn’t hold it against you

@TrackingShots

Жыл бұрын

I appreciate it. I’m glad someone else thinks of the writers behind the creator! I originally was going to do a whole bit on the individual guest directors and what they brought to both series, but that would have doubled the length of the video, and I wanted to release it before the finale.

@sheilacollins5127

Жыл бұрын

@@daggy5505 LOL or 's all good, man.

@boskee

Жыл бұрын

Not only is he the showrunner, he created Saul Goodman's character.

It's a weird middle ground for me, usually in a show you just wanna see the juicy scenes but Vince's work I could watch a whole season on Walter doing groceries. Only watched a bit of BCS and my favorite episode so far is where Mike spends most of an episode take apart a car to find a tracker. He's so in-depth with the search it's almost satisfying

@gabago0l

Жыл бұрын

Better call saul is amazing, on par with breaking bad. Season 6 has blown me away with everything it has to offer. You should definitely continue watching.

@fishbowlheretic

Жыл бұрын

bcs is the greatest piece of television ever. watch it all!

Worth noting that seeing all this legwork also helps to prop up the guys you DON’T see the legwork for. Gus seems like such a big deal in the drug trade because we’ve seen what Walt had to do to get where he is, but Gus has such an advanced operation that you can only imagine the steps he had to take

The "kid named finger"-blip was making me exhale through my nose, well played sir

These scenes are what keeps us in the universe. There's no cutting corners, Vince shows instead of tells. There's no cop out 'oh come on' strokes of luck that break immersion. Events and outcomes come from the characters meticulous work and we're along for 100% of that work which is part of what makes these shows so incredible

@TrackingShots

Жыл бұрын

I would argue they occasionally include cop out options, but the protagonists only take those options when the audience is supposed to feel isolated from them. For instance, I feel like the "Gliding Over All" Breaking Bad episode (5x8) shows a very overconfident Walter who is using others to complete his dirty work. He uses Jack's crew instead of figuring out a more creative, less violent solution just as the audience is supposed to really start disliking Walt for killing Mike needlessly.

@kingol4801

Жыл бұрын

There were tons of lucky moments and close calls, wdym?

I think some of these scenes are some of the most beautifully shot. Like, that one eagle eye view in El Camino where Jesse is tearing apart Todd’s apartment still gives me chills

One thing that I liked about season 1 that never appeared after that was the detective work Jimmy put in several times, like when he found the Kettlemans and when he found out about Chuck's secret betrayals, and of course the Sandpiper case he finds. They also didn't tell us right away what clues he caught, but we saw the next steps. I find it interesting that they dropped that aspect in season 2, I guess it didn't work with the story after that point. Edit: Not that I'm complaining either, the scheme setups are really the show's bread and butter.

Better Call Saul feels like a universe ending with the black and white setting.Like a comic combining to the void, like a story of 80s coming to end

@TrackingShots

Жыл бұрын

It’s certainly a particular v i b e

I just saw this in BCS and it reminded me of all the scenes that are like that in BB…it honestly gives me a ASMR vibe. I feel laid back seeing these characters just…doing stuff lol there’s something relaxing about those scenes and Vince knew what he was doing

@fulgore5431

Жыл бұрын

That Jonathan Banks Breaking Bad compilation is one of the best things to sleep to

@Salvage1009

Жыл бұрын

@@fulgore5431 lol SAME! Feels very much on purpose, like they crafted the scenes around that idea

@TrackingShots

Жыл бұрын

lofi hip hop radio - Banks to relax/murder to?

@mr.fuckyourfeelings5558

Жыл бұрын

Hi. Im from Switzerland. What stands for "ASMR"?

@Salvage1009

Жыл бұрын

@@mr.fuckyourfeelings5558 Here is the google definition lol "Autonomic sensory meridian response (ASMR) is a tingling sensation that some people experience when exposed to particular types of auditory or visual stimuli such as whispering, tapping and slow movements." If you go on KZread, it's a HUGE category, and honestly I use to watch those videos to fall asleep lol

I loved the cleaning scenes. I always watch shows thinking about the mistakes criminals make “o you left the box open, you left your finger prints, someone’s going to see you on camera” and breaking bad does amazing job of letting their crimes be realistic making their getaways be satisfying. You not left thinking this is the stupidest police force why don’t they just blank, you can enjoy the fact that there good at what they do

@mm-gk6xg

Жыл бұрын

the characters are always so smart, even if clumsy. or at least the ones who get away with it are. its so satisfying and makes you root for them so much more

@elijahgarcia4327

Жыл бұрын

Let’s be fr though the dea in brba is mentally disabled. Gus frings operation was unknown completely. He would be hard to catch no doubt but there isn’t a world where this man is meeting and calling known drug traffickers and not being on the radar. Him being unknown is super unrealistic

The thing i love most about it all is how it doesn't spell out what you're seeing, or why people are doing what they're doing. It demands a level of attention, even, or sometimes expecially in it's quieter moments, that most other shows would just fill with mindnumbing exposition, spoon feeding the audience every plot beat like they're toddlers. When a scheme comes together in the end, and you've sat there without a clue for half of it and yet saw every detail of it. Thats why i love it. Like Lalo going "What's he up to man, what's he doing?". That was hilarious, but also almost a fourth wall break given how the Series works overall.

Excellent analysis - this is one of the first videos I've seen that gets close to what I personally consider the engine of these two series: the commitment to a slow, obsessively thorough buildup in order to make the payoff all the more powerful. BB and BCS might be the two strongest, most coherent narrative shows in the last twenty years - almost no plot holes or loose ends, almost every shot in service of a bigger arc... Can't wait for next Monday, but I also wish it would never come!

@TrackingShots

Жыл бұрын

I’m going to bawl my eyes out when it ends.

@TrackingShots

Жыл бұрын

Update: I did.

@xlantboi

Жыл бұрын

@@TrackingShots 😭

My favorite example of this is in bcs when mike is sitting down on his sofa, watching black and white television, and sticking nails through a hose. It’s so incredibly mundane and yet later the hose proves to be part of a totally genius plan. I love it. Vince shows all the little boring bits and pieces of these characters and it makes the feel so fucking real.

Teacher: “Alright class, today we’re going to finger Pollos.” Kid named Polos: 😮‍💨

@infinitnrg1088

Жыл бұрын

Kid named finger

@geoDB.

Жыл бұрын

Teacher: Alright class today we're going to nuke Ukraine. Kid named finger:

@Rameon

Жыл бұрын

You said “Los Pollos” in the most American way possible and it made my ears bleed.

@TrackingShots

Жыл бұрын

@@Rameon Yeah, I somehow missed that in the edit. In my defense, I took Chinese in high school, not Spanish. Hope your ears recover.

@pozkodeth

Жыл бұрын

@person you do NOT want to copy your pronounciation of anything spanish from Gus ...hes chilean, after all

I like how there is real life consequences as well for everything they all done. Nobody got away with the crap they pulled. Kinda the opposite to the series called “Power” when Ghost and Tommy go around killing people like there is no tomorrow and never seems to be any consequences, I know things never ended well for Ghost but it still wasn’t the law that got him

@golem3080

Жыл бұрын

jesse got away as far as we know

@oogs9114

Жыл бұрын

@@golem3080 the one guy out of how many? and he has to look over his shoulder for rest of life so define “got away”

@hillbillypowpow

Жыл бұрын

That's why I like there being a season after his death. Everything it took to get there should and does have massive consequences, making walt's atrocities actually feel real

@foxinabox5103

Жыл бұрын

@@oogs9114 jessie's arc is soo sad dude, and it made me appreciate skinny pete and badger even more. Theyre the epitome of bros.

I get so much more out of a story if the writer actually shows me how the characters live. Mundanity matters.

@digitalcthulhu143

Жыл бұрын

It's something so simple that is easy to overlook when making a character but very umpactful for the audience.

5:01 Thank you for Finger. That caught me off guard

@TrackingShots

Жыл бұрын

The idea for that joke is one of the main reasons I decided to make this video.

@sethmurrin5273

Жыл бұрын

@@TrackingShots honestly it made me sub. Good shit man. Good shit.

@sonarbu4805

Жыл бұрын

@@TrackingShots THAT GOT ME HAHA

@PeterMoore66

Жыл бұрын

@@TrackingShots Why is Mike 'Finger'? I don't get that reference.

I'm with ya man, I'm not ready for the BB/BCS universe to come to an end. Shows like these don't out every year.

@CancerGaming56

Жыл бұрын

I think AMC said that it was interested in creating more BB/BCS spin-offs.

@michaelhowell2326

Жыл бұрын

@@CancerGaming56 I think VERY recently that either Vince Gilligan and/or Bob Odenkirk said that wasn't going to be anymore spin-offs.

@CancerGaming56

Жыл бұрын

@@michaelhowell2326 RIP I guess. Well there’s always the masterpiece called “Slippin’ Jimmy”.

I love the scene with Mike watching with Jesse and Jesse being impatient. Mike: “sorry kid, watchin is most of the job. It’s ok… *biggest smile Mike has ever had* I made sandwiches with pimento cheese!”

This is probably shallow of me, but - when someone says they find BB or BCS “too slow”, I always imagine that they must like to watch the most frenetic, colourful, overly-high-energy shows ever created, haha. Either that or the fairly mindless superhero stuff. For me, the “big payoff” moments in any show don’t really have the same weight if there isn’t some slow moments and character building/development that happens in the meantime. The action starts to be meaningless when it’s ALL action, all the time. I feel like the BB writers understood the value of buildup and payoff so well.

@Dhurl421

Жыл бұрын

Definitely. I'm pretty sure Vince and Gould said they envisioned the Bagman episode when creating the series, but wanted to lay the groundwork first. 4 full seasons and 7 other episodes to get there. Just shows the strength of their vision, and their restraint in service of the full story.

@TrackingShots

Жыл бұрын

Let me tell you, I’ve sat through a lot of Blue Bloods episodes and other procedurals at older relatives’ houses. THOSE are the kind of shows I picture the average Joe watching and not getting bored with. BCS doesn’t wrap up each episode in a gunfight/standoff/chase so I guess that makes it boring to some people.

@UdumbaraMusic

Жыл бұрын

BB/BCS always felt like a spaghetti western to me, as did films like No Country For Old Men... Long drawn out scenes with no dialogue with focus cinematography, closeups and good locations. People find those movies slow for the same reason, but they both do a great job in immersing you into the atmosphere and ambiance of the world within the film. Real life is slow, and I feel you can learn more about and feel more connected to a character when you see them in those slow moments doing relatively mundane things, like you would in real life. In 'Taxi Driver' you watch a guy exercising, eating junkfood, talking to himself in the mirror and ranting away but it's one of the most powerful scenes in the film, even though it involves something we all do. Someone who is a non-stop action hero with never ending one liners just feels completely detached from reality, but I guess it depends what you're looking for.

@JC111414

Жыл бұрын

This explains why I still remember some of the best scenes in both shows and why I don't remember other major scenes in other movies or shows

"Do you remember how Gus Fring managed a restaurant?" Yes. That's one of the great parts of that character. That he's fastidious and professional in everything and that's one of the reasons why he's so successful. Does anyone NOT remember this about him?

You can think of it a lot like music. When I've worked with professional composers, one of the big things that is discussed a lot is about "earning" the big moment of a piece of music. You can't just make an entire track epic and amazing, it has to work to it. It has to be earned to really be epic and have staying power for the listener. You build to it. You establish the theme, you express the theme a few different ways. You build a little, you break it down again, and you build again to a climax. You really bring the listener on your journey to that big moment you had in your head when you started. You, the composer, already know that's the part you wanted them to love. But to get a listener to come with you, you have to take them on that journey in pieces, so they can really appreciate the big moment.

@dhochee

Жыл бұрын

Love that analogy!

5:02 That “finger” thing made me laugh so damn hard

So sad this universe is coming to an end… been such an awesome ride

@Skrenja

Жыл бұрын

Who knows, there could be another spinoff.

@Decentricity

Жыл бұрын

@@Skrenja Gotta Fuel Huell, Sprinkler-Seller Wexler, etc

@Skrenja

Жыл бұрын

@@Decentricity A Heull sitcom would be great.

@Krunkitty

Жыл бұрын

Invisibhuell when?

@chapel3339

Жыл бұрын

We could get "Fixing Finn" a show about an IT guy with Cerebal Palsey, or maybe "Curious Kaylee" about a PI looking for for her missing pop pop. Maybe even "Brock's Bounty" about a young man whose mother was brutally murdered and now he bounty hunts the most evil of people for revenge.

seriously amazing video and analysis! this series/universe has been an amazing journey and has only continued to exceed any expectations I might’ve had. it also has made me appreciate things like the cinematography and writing, even beyond tv shows (i.e. video games, books, movies). Peter Gould and Vince Gilligan are geniuses at what they do and I cannot wait to see the conclusion of Better Call Saul and what else is to come from these two. also the algorithm sent me here

I want to know what will happen to Lyle. Dude was fiercely loyal to Gus at the restaurant even though Gus almost set him up to be killed

Great video you put together and I LOVE the music (RDR2 and Disco).

A story that I can’t readily predict is always fascinating

@TrackingShots

Жыл бұрын

I agree! Can’t wait for Monday’s finale.

I think a big part of why they make these 'cleaning' scenes so detailed (aside from the general accuracy in the show) is part of their intention of not romanticizing organized crime. They want the audience to understand that maintaining that lifestyle is really hard and costly (both financially and emotionally), and you have a be meticulous to a paranoid degree or else things end up badly for you.

Amazingly well thought out analysis. Thanks for taking the time.

Absoluety fantastic video! No new praise to add that others haven't already said better, but I was *not* expecting to hear Whirling in Rags! Fit really well and gave me a happy Shiver and i had to comment xD Thank you for making this video!

That's exactly how i feel about the show! what a wonderful vid, well done :)

What a great video! So glad this popped up in my recommended

@TrackingShots

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

Very well made analysis. Glad to see this video blowing up.

The thing I always say about BB or BCS is that you can’t “watch” the shows while doing other things- like folding laundry, ironing, or house-cleaning. You have to WATCH it and give it your complete attention. Otherwise, you miss very important things.

So excited to watch the final episode. I loved watching this video, really emphasises the people who work on this shows genius.

I saw a comment someone posted on another video saying that their parents started BCS and then went onto BRBA. The fact you can start on either show without any consistencies shows how carefully Vince constructed the BRBA Franchise.

@chrispekel5709

Жыл бұрын

Except the characters age wrong, but that can't be helped

That Disco Elysium soundtrack on the backgroud caught me off guard, love it. amazing video!!

Amazing video!! This was incredibly well put together

Your observation about pacing in both series it’s interesting, and while I can’t be certain I suspect that people who find the show too slow are most likely not readers, either now or in the past. although a visual medium, at times the series seems somewhat literary in pacing and detail, as well as exploring certain occurrences. I resisted watching BB when it was all the rage years ago because I thought I would hate the subject matter, and although it is unseemly I found the series fascinating, as well as BCS, for many of the reasons you explore in your commentary.

@TrackingShots

Жыл бұрын

Both shows definitely demand a lot from viewers. Even though I watched the shows fairly attentively, I still get shocked by details and symbols I missed. The video from OneTake I linked in this video’s description completely blew my mind with a character detail I missed in BCS Season Five’s Bagman episode. Specifically, a callback to Chuck.

@valentinom.4292

Жыл бұрын

I read, but sometimes BCS is waaay too slow. I love it, but some scenes are tedious. Dunno, maybe it's my attention span.

@truethat15

Жыл бұрын

@@valentinom.4292 I mean... yeah. This is an instant gratification society right now. You're loathed to see a 15 second commercial nowadays. That's a deal breaker for most people, sitting through anything makes a lot of you quite bored. Anything not filling yah with that hit. It's not a failing, it's just the way things are going.

@valentinom.4292

Жыл бұрын

@@truethat15 I read, i watch slow things. But i don't know if a scene of Saul walking for 5 minutes grasps my interests. The show is great tho.

@caralho5237

Жыл бұрын

@@valentinom.4292 Its cinematic perfection. You walk the path the character walks. You feel what the character feels. It builds tension. There's rarely a music montage and when there is, its often telling an important part of the story instead of just being a way of brushing off something because "its boring". Makes even the most mundane things look important, and thats because they are

Both shows are a showcase in hyper-competent characters. Generally, we love seeing people do things well (just look at how many videos on this website are about people being really good at some specific field). The process is 100% the point, and even if there isn't a chance for dangerous failure, the how becomes interesting to watch just by virtue of how good the characters are at doing it.

@TrackingShots

Жыл бұрын

I want a Mike Ehrmantraut DIY KZread channel.

Amazing use of soundtracks for this video! I think your monologues are THAT much more powerful with a good track behind it Especially when it's some of my favorites- love disco elysium!

For the alg. I love this video essay you’ve made. Already watched BB years ago and just started the first season of BCS. Thank you.

Quality content like this is what we all need right now as we brace for the inevitable heartbreak after the finale of Better Call Saul effectively ending the 14-year run of the Breaking Bad universe.

To me the true testament to BB and BCS is that I am perfectly happy to sit down and binge a season or two if I have a free day and just wanna enjoy some good writing, *or* if I just need something to watch while having dinner or kill an hour, I can pick an episode of either and be equally enthralled.

Great video!!!! I appreciate that you appreciate VG, BB and BCS as much as I do. I’m so sad it’s ending and we’ve just re-started BB again to sooth our grief. Bb is better after watching BCS and I did not expect that.

Amazing take, really wonderful insight. BB AND BCS ARE THE GREATEST SHOWS EVER

For myself there was never a slow or dull moment. My faith in Vince & Co. was so great that even though there were [many] times throughout the seasons I'd be scratching my head wondering where this was going I ALWAYS had total faith that when I got to the punch-story-line I knew without a doubt that I would be completely surprised and entertained. Vince never let me down.

The first minute into this video, I had to press like on it. Besides the mispronunciation on “pollos”, you highlight the significance of the meticulous presentation of the characters and how it makes it so intriguing for the audience to keep tuning in hour after hour. Keep it up! Thanks :)

mostly unrelated to the video- when i heard the whirling-in-rags theme fade in, that really made my day. thank you for including disco elysium music in this :]

Just watched the last episode of Saul and the fact that your video ends with Jimmy and Kimmy sharing a smoke couldn't have been better. Subbed

One of my favorite details about the commitment to realism is that they had DEA chemists teach Brian Cranston how to cook meth

I think what makes the scenes that would normally be boring is just overall editing choices and the creative cinematography choices that make these scenes appear more interesting

@mm-gk6xg

Жыл бұрын

true, even scenes after shit already went down like AHEM a certain one halfway through season 6 of bcs are made more interesting through the visual parallels and other cool imagery they threw around a lot. in just a 3-4 minute long montage of saul and kim trying to go about their business like nothing happened being contrasted against mike and co cleaning up after their mess, spotting all the overlapping shots as they swap back and forth between their different perspectives was the entertainment while they showed how the situation was handled by either party

loved this video, this is what real passion looks like to me. so glad this popped up in my feed, can’t wait to see the places you’ll reach 💙

Excellent analysis, really enjoyed this video.

@TrackingShots

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!

Glad you talked about the Coushatta episode. Lovely Jimmy/Saul scam and that ending with our new villain showing up :)

@achmatmartin2438

Жыл бұрын

Who again?¿

I love every scene with Gus working in Los Pollos. When he helps Jimmy get his watch out of the trash, when Lalo is complimenting his chicken, when he meets Walt for the first time. Civilian Gus is unironically in my Top 10 characters.

This was a very well made, composed and eloquent analysis and take, thank you

@TrackingShots

Жыл бұрын

Wow, thank you so much for such a nice comment!

@FirstnameLastname77777

Жыл бұрын

@@TrackingShots :)

Excellent video mate! And the RDR2 music was a very nice touch! 😊

and all the credit goes to vince gilligan even though peter gould is showrunner on bcs lol

@TrackingShots

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, I feel bad about how that ended up getting framed in the video. Vince is the more well known name, but I wish I had mentioned Gould directly instead of just referring to “Vince and the team.” For what it’s worth, I did include a clarification in the video’s description.

"Hard work is hard to hate." This one is likely going to stay with me for the rest of my life. Thank you.

i like the sea power song you put in there. i remember disco elysium instantly. and for these stories to spark in my mind simultaneously it feels kind of amazing

Well said, mate. You nailed it.

Really great analysis. I also watched Breaking Bad for the third time this month. Also great choice in music, Red Dead Redemption II does the same thing of details and stuff. Subscribed!

@TrackingShots

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! I was very pleased with how well RD2’s ost worked. It supported my feelings that Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul can act as modern westerns. They certainly reference them a lot!

@deborahsiahaan9261

Жыл бұрын

@@TrackingShots Oh Yeah! That's right, now that i think about it, they really act as modern westerns. The BrBa finale, especially.. and El Camino even had Jesse doing stand off. Wow, amazing stuff!!!

Not even a mention of Nacho. Incredible performance and a compelling emotional story. Made the show for me

Loved the music choices you made. Very Disco. Great video!

@TrackingShots

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Your taste in games and movies/shows is impeccable man. Im sitting here listening to a video on two of my favourite shows that ive watched and THIS GUY IS PLAYING THE RED DEAD 2 SOUNDTRACK. AHHHHHHHH

Having been a drug dealer, I can confirm that most of your time is really fucking boring. Either driving to a spot or waiting at a spot or shutting down people trying to trade you random bullshit in lieu of cash. Sometimes shit got scary, sometimes it was fun, but most of the time you're just weighing up and pacaging shit and eating ice cream sandwiches or something.

@TheRedCap30

Жыл бұрын

Yeah but did you break bad

@versebuchanan512

Жыл бұрын

@@TheRedCap30 I was already pretty shitty, so I think the most I broke was the speed limit a few times.

@comrade_boi9941

Жыл бұрын

Did u call Saul?

@versebuchanan512

Жыл бұрын

@@comrade_boi9941 I sure better have

@user-ed7vr3iq5l

Жыл бұрын

If you sold drugs to children you're a scumbag who deserves torture but if not then you're alright.

I must admit, you are a very underrated KZreadr, I’d love to see more from you and see you expand in the community! This video was excellent

@TrackingShots

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@AverageAlcoholic

Жыл бұрын

@@TrackingShots holy shit only 2k subs, ur gonna blow up with content of this level

sick video bro. deserve more recognition

very good analysis. thanks!

I’ve been a mega Better Call Saul fan for a while now but for whatever reason I never put together that Jimmys association with Huell would violate his PPD agreement. Damn lol

Awesome video. I think you really hit the nail on the head when talking about how both shows are about the process of committing the crime. Really great analysis! Unsubscribed.

I loved your breakdown of what made these shows so great to watch. It's so nice to see these characters develop and put in the work to get where they are In the final episodes. In a way it's the ability to make a human out of a monster (at least in Walt's case)

I WASN’T EXPECTING THE DISCO ELYSIUM MUSIC, BRAVO TRACKING SHOTS

the little scenes where nothing happens mean everything to the film. without them, the repeated dopamine hit of "damn that was action packed" then "damn that fight was incredible" every other scene would make the real scenes where the story advances worse. the calmness that seamlessly flows through every scene helps make the heavier scenes hit much more

Personally what made the tension real for me in BCS wasn't "What is going to happen to Jimmy next?" But instead "What is going to happen to the people around him?" Because after watching Breaking Bad I knew many were gonna live for the time being, but I also knew there were many characters weren't present in Saul's life during Breaking Bad, and that's what made the tension real, asking yourself "What if they do something to Kim? Why doesn't Saul have a brother in Breaking Bad? Etc" Which is honestly a great effect that only a prequel can have.

What a great analysis. Both shows, and IMO BCS even more, are incredible. They don´t use the usual techniques to make the episodes interesting. Instead, they choose the most difficult road and they succeed beyond all expectations and the result is more rewarding than everything I have watched until now in my life.

Good quality video mate. Keep it up

@TrackingShots

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!