Also see 1934’s Death Takes a Holiday and various related adaptations including the 1998 Brad Pitt movie Meet Joe Black.
ETA: I liked sometimes-collaborator Terry Pratchett’s take on Death too. I think there was a blurb on one of the Discworld novels that went something like “He’s not a bad guy once you get to know him… and everyone does, sooner or later.”
I would have assumed that they had, but maybe the ratings will get them to green light it for another seaons… I want them to at least make it to Brief Lives…
Chris Estrada’s show based on his stand-up comedy.
ETA: Okay, I’ve watched the entire season and I have to say it’s pretty good. It’s show mainly about fragile masculinity in California latinx, but still has those cringe moments played for laughs. Holy crap, Fred Armisen and…somebody (my internet search comes up with bupkus) are super-cringe in one episode when they play a billionaire philanthropist couple.
Ginormous tidal wave sweeping inland as Atlantis Attacks seems like a pretty common trope. Or it could just be that coastal countries asked them to help.
THR has reported that not only co-star Neil Patrick Harris said some comments that, “have led to speculation that Gatwa will appear in 2023’s celebrations, a move that could see Tennant’s incarnation of the Doctor regenerate into Gatwa’s,” but there could in fact actually be up to three specials in 2023 timed with Doctor Who’s 60th anniversary.
I know there were many predictions about who Marion was, many of which were blown up in this episode. There’s still the possibility she’s Kim, Howard, or Walter’s mother. Or maybe there is no connection and she’s just a mom who did she best she could after being dealt a shitty hand in life.
In “Breaking Bad” I definitely did not like where things were headed (for Jimmy) — he had been getting really sloppy, so I knew that him bumbling through a B&E that he clearly knew was unnecessary would not go well. Then during the robbery, he gets greedy by stealing items, leaves behind a glass with his DNA, considers murdering the occupant, and makes a narrow escape.
By the time he calls Marion he’s in full-on sleazebag mode and she’s no dummy. She was already suspicious about Gene at this point, and him blabbing about ABQ law despite claiming he had never been there sealed it for her. I was worried Gene might try to kill her but her “I trusted you” seemed to really cut him deep giving him a “what the hell am I doing?” realization. As Rupert Holmes foreshadowed earlier in the episode, he made his Escape leading us into the unknowns about what will happen in the finale.
Either way, I’m sure that it’s all over for him. I don’t know how it will play out, but I don’t see a happy ending. I don’t see him being murdered. I don’t see him committing suicide or going out in a hail of gunfire - that’s never been his MO. I don’t see him getting Hoovered into yet another life. He just doesn’t have the money and Galbraith would certainly refuse given how hot the situation is. I definitely don’t see any reunion with Kim — she made sure of this. It seems to me that the best possible outcome at this point is Jimmy gets arrested and uses his skills as a lawyer and mouth to be a jailhouse hero. I guess we’ll see.
What an amazing show. There’s going to be a hole in my life when it’s over.
My interpretation of that episode was that both Kim and Saul reached a breaking point where they couldn’t keep living the lies they constructed for themselves. Kim deals with the guilt of her past by finally coming clean to the D.A. and Howard’s widow, while Jimmy/Saul impulsively seeks out higher and higher risk hustles in the subconscious hope of finally getting caught. After all these years he’d rather go down as Saul Goodman than continue living as Gene Takovic.
I never really thought she was supposed to be anyone significant, apart from another old lady Saul thought he could take advantage of. Much like the Sandpiper residents but this time his over confidence was his undoing. I thought it was masterfully done how they introduced the Saul paraphernalia - Marco’s ring, bluetooth earpiece, the Chi massager… so with this episode being called Breaking Bad you knew what was coming would be this series’ Ozymandias episode. A more understated one perhaps but i still felt his world drop from underneath him when he looked at that laptop screen (great use of colour there as well).