Better Call Saul trailer:

Premiere date: Sunday February 8, 2015 at 10pm
Network: AMC
Created by: Vince Gilligan, Peter Gould
Starring: Bob Odenkirk, Jonathan Banks, Rhea Seehorn, Patrick Fabian, Michael Mando, Michael McKean

Breaking Bad fans rejoice! The seedy, morally ambiguous world of Walter White is back! (minus Walter White) AMC's new spinoff series centers around New Mexico's favorite fast talking, smarmy lawyer, Saul Goodman, before he met his famous meth dealing clients from Hell. Better Call Saul serves as a kind of twisted origin story of the man that would one day become the de facto lawyer of Albuquerque's criminal underworld.


For viewers (like me) that are hesitant to watch a show about a supporting character that wasn't even introduced on Breaking Bad until episode 8 of season 2, we should keep in mind that Better Call Saul is in good hands; two of Breaking Bad's alumni are co-showrunning it (creator Vince Gilligan and writer Peter Gould). Not to mention, Bob Odenkirk (Saul) and Jonathan Banks (Mike Ehrmantraut!) are both phenomenal actors and are guaranteed to impress.





Better Call Saul will air on Mondays at 10pm on AMC

The Walking Dead s05e01 "No Sanctuary" Grade: A+

60 Second Recap:
We start season five right where we left off: with everyone stuck in a train car in Terminus. Rick, Daryl, Glenn and Bob are taken by Gareth and his crew to the slaughterhouse. Tyreese and Carol come across a Terminus member, Martin, outside the fence and hold him hostage. After he threatens to kill baby Judith, Tyreese goes on a rampage and kills him. Carol goes undercover to investigate Terminus and covers herself in walker blood. She blows up a propane tank, making Terminus more vulnerable to the oncoming herd of walkers. Rick and the others use the explosion as a distraction to escape and free the rest of their group. They escape into the woods after killing as many walkers and Terminus members as they can. Carol kills Mary in the weird candle room. She later finds Rick and the group and is welcomed back with open arms. Afterwards they are all reunited with Tyreese and Judith.



 
Character Development:

Rick: 
     So it looks like Rick has finally reached a kind of peace with his humanity and his brutality. He's comfortable being the guy who will rip your throat out if you threaten Carl but will also risk his life to save you if you're trapped in a train car. He has become the man Shane said he never could be.
     Before you judge Rick too harshly for wanting to go back and kill everyone in Terminus, you have to consider what just happened to him less than a month ago. That psycho he didn't kill the first time (the Governor) found him again, blew up his home and killed Herschel. Can you really blame Rick for not wanting something like that to happen again? And lets be honest here, the people in Terminus are a special breed of evil. The Governor was cruel but at least he didn't eat children.

Looking forward to: Halt and Catch Fire trailer

Premiere date: Sunday June 1, 2014, 10pm
Network: AMC
Starring: Lee Pace, Scoot McNairy, Mackenzie Davis, Kerry Bishe, Toby Huss

I've been looking forward to Halt and Catch Fire since Lee Pace's involvement in it was first announced in early 2013. Even without that, the show's premise does sound fascinating. It follows a team of visionaries as they navigate their way through the cut throat computer boom of the 1980's in Texas. In an age of near total reliance on smartphones and computers, we take for granted all the hard work it took to get us here. The trailer promise lots of risk, reward and mayhem (and some cool looking cinematography). Let's hope that AMC has a new heir to its Mad Men/Breaking Bad empire!




Bonus: We will get to see this beautiful face again every week:
(Shout out to all my fellow Pushing Daisies fans, at least he's back on our tvs)

I'm even ok with the awful hair.

Looking forward to: Turn, series premiere trailer.

Premiere date: April 6, 2014, 9pm.


Set in the summer of 1778, this new AMC drama follows the story of the first American spy ring. The show looks like its going to take everything you learned about the Revolutionary War in high school (and probably elementary and middle school as well) and turn it on its head. Giving depth and humanity to the people of this incredibly important time in history has never been a top priority of this nation's public school curriculum, so it will be nice to see it finally done. With a relatively unknown cast (aside from maybe Jamie Bell or Kevin McNally), AMC will have to rely on the show's incredibly intriguing premise to reel viewers in. America does have a certain anglophilic obsession with period dramas and costumes, so I doubt Turn will have trouble finding a dedicated fan base.

Bonus: J.J. Feild is in the cast!!!