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Transmogrified Tiger wrote:

MrSaigon wrote:Kimmy is back and great as ever, you Hitlers.

Echoing this, it's so so good. Dare I say approaching Arrested Development territory in terms of callbacks and persistent references. Plus it's a Tina Fey comedy so it's jokes on jokes on jokes too. I audibly cackled at the seeming throwaway line about the reverend claiming to have invented the 'buy the world a Coke' commercial.

I've only watched two episodes of the second season, but I've been quoting Kimmy for the last few days:

Kimmy Schmidt wrote:Well fudge that sugar! Fudge it to heck! Where a demon with a thousand wee-wees fudges it forever!

I love the iPhone auto-correct f*#! to duck running joke.

The best part of the season for me was the generic Russian versions of 90s pop hits like 'I'm convinced I can swim' by Art Smelly from Earth Jelly.

Love is pretty good so far and Gillian Jacobs is a much better actress than i thought she was.

Jocephus:

I used to think that sometimes I eat cheese but now I'm not sure. I'm hiking through sunlight. And it's sort of OK!

Jocephus is the walking in sunshine guy, right?

So no discussion on the Better Call Saul finale?

I dont really know what to say about it. The cliffhanger was kind of weak.

i dont mean that as a knock against the show, because i think its one of the best going, but i can't imagine much comes of...

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go birds wrote:I dont really know what to say about it. The cliffhanger was kind of weak.

i dont mean that as a knock against the show, because i think its one of the best going, but i can't imagine much comes of...

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Yeah, that wasn't much of a bombshell. Which would be fine, but the show seemed made to suggest that it was. Second to last episode was better.

The whole setup with Mike's assassination attempt was a little weird. Not sure if I was supposed to think Nacho knew what was up, and if so how? Whoever interfered, presumably Gus, had to have a lot of things go right for Mike to fail before the horn went off.

I still feel like season 2 was kind of pointless. I think the original plan was after season 1 to have Jimmy turn into Saul but they changed their mind to drag out the Jimmy story longer and the plot has not really advanced at all.

At the end of season 1 we find out his brother has been backstabbing him which is what we thought would drive Jimmy into becoming Saul. We were led to believe Jimmy was done with his brother after this revelation. But in Season 2 not only has Saul forgiven his brother and is taking care of him, he, for some reasons, admits the felony he committed against him to make him feel better. And so here we are at the end of season 2 and his brother backstabs him again and now we again think this may be what causes him to turn into Saul.

Jimmy/Saul is most interesting when he is either interacting with criminals, in the court room, or working with Mike. Yet we saw basically none of this in season 2. Season 2 basically became the Kim show, and she is a much more boring character than either Jimmy or Mike.

I had such high hopes for this show, and there are still some great moments (the second to last episode was great), but I really hope we get to some plot development soon.

Also, why make the anagram Frings Back with the episode titles and not bring Fring back? Maybe the note is from Fring, but that's kind of a cop out.

The flaw of season 2, as Secret Weapon points out is:

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If Jimmy is willing to go to the lengths of doctoring the documents in the Mesa Verde file (committing a felony and a disbarrable offense) just to see Chuck fail and question himself, then why would Jimmy crumble and admit the plan when Chuck fails and questions himself? That was exactly the outcome Jimmy risked his well being to achieve!

Also, the Jimmy and Mike plotlines have really diverged, to the point where it's like watching two different shows (both plotwise and stylistically). I know they'll converge again at some point, but this has been a long digression and it makes the show feel disjointed.