TV Series

[Jamiednm]

Yes, and yes.

I'm not sure whether you do have to have watched BB to watch BCS. The black and white future scenes in BCS will probably be even more intriguiging if you haven't seen BB. It's a prequel, it's not as if it will be full of spoilers.

 

[Jamiednm]

Don't understand this bit. Cheers and Frasier have great writers and actors etc but, the humour is slightly different. Not sure how either is superior? I like them both, as separate but, sort of linked comedies.

In the regard that Frasier became a bigger and longer-running show than Cheers. Spin offs are rarely successful, so Frasier is an example of a spin off that could claim to be more successful than the original show.

 

[The Cowboy]

I'm not sure whether you do have to have watched BB to watch BCS. The black and white future scenes in BCS will probably be even more intriguiging if you haven't seen BB. It's a prequel, it's not as if it will be full of spoilers.

I can't see why you'd want to watch BCS in isolation though. It's whole raison d'être is about how Saul Goodman comes to be. If you don't know who Saul Goodman is or why he is worthy of his own story, it kinda becomes meaningless.

 

[bluebrotha77]

In the regard that Frasier became a bigger and longer-running show than Cheers. Spin offs are rarely successful, so Frasier is an example of a spin off that could claim to be more successful than the original show.

ya i always liked fraiser over cheers.brillant acting and writing.

 

[tadao]

In the regard that Frasier became a bigger and longer-running show than Cheers. Spin offs are rarely successful, so Frasier is an example of a spin off that could claim to be more successful than the original show.

I thought you meant quality of show. Yes, an example of a failed spin-off would be 'Joey' from 'Friends', you'd have thought it would've been popular but, got binned after 2 (?) seasons.

 

[flo]

Really liked the 2nd episode of Fargo, some good laughs in it too.

 

[johnnydawg68]

I can't see why you'd want to watch BCS in isolation though. It's whole raison d'être is about how Saul Goodman comes to be. If you don't know who Saul Goodman is or why he is worthy of his own story, it kinda becomes meaningless.

Disagree. I only got through 2 seasons of BB. Right up to where Saul was introduced. You guys are watching it knowing who all these characters are, but I'm watching it in real time. So when I got back to finish BB, I know the back story.

It's not better, it's just different. Plus there are characters in BCS that aren't in BB, so it has it's own identity.

 

[COYBL25]

Really liked the 2nd episode of Fargo, some good laughs in it too.

Better and much more violent then than the first which really takes some doing

 

[Jamiednm]

I can't see why you'd want to watch BCS in isolation though. It's whole raison d'être is about how Saul Goodman comes to be. If you don't know who Saul Goodman is or why he is worthy of his own story, it kinda becomes meaningless.

Disagree. It works as a standalone show. Yes, the context would be very different, but it is still interesting and entertaining enough to exist without prior knowledge of Breaking Bad.

 

[coollino]

Never bothered with BCS. BB was too much mindless action for me, needed a break.

 

[The Cowboy]

Never bothered with BCS. BB was too much mindless action for me, needed a break.

It's not essential viewing, if I'm brutally honest. It's jolly entertaining but your life isn't the lesser for not watching it.

 

[Ducans elbow]

Best line in car share I'm sweating like a blind lesbian in a fish shop

 

[The Cowboy]

Best line in car share I'm sweating like a blind lesbian in a fish shop

Just watched the safari park one, and I'd say it was the best episode yet, from either series. All the 'Pies' signs in Wigan cracked me up!

 

[Ducans elbow]

Just watched the safari park one, and I'd say it was the best episode yet, from either series. All the 'Pies' signs in Wigan cracked me up!

It was funny and the monkey peeing on them

 

[The Cowboy]

It was funny and the monkey peeing on them

The monkey wearing a seatbelt. Silly, but so funny.