El Camino (Breaking Bad)

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Watched this last night. Surprised I couldn't find a thread here on it. Anyone else seen it yet?

Me too! I came on MN this morning looking for a thread on it. I too watched it last night. It was great. DH felt it moved too slowly. But I think it was perfectly paced. It's the comedown after all the fast-paced intensity of BB. And that's what it needed to be. Aaron Paul carried the whole thing incredibly well.

We watched it last night. Too slow and not enough laughs. I really think they should've left the ending of BB as it was.

I loved it but didn't see it all as I skipped through it quickly as I was supposed to wait and watch it with dh and dd who were out but not for long.. I'm looking forward to watching it again. I can't say anything else as I forgot to put spoilers in the title and don't want to ruin it for those that haven't seen it yet 😊

I turned it off after 20 minutes. I’m going to try again tonight when I’m less tired but it was just too slow.

My goodness! What am I missing. Is it on Netflix as Breaking Bad was? I hope so as I haven’t got any of the other paid for streaming services.

@MrsPellegrinoPetrichor not enough laughs? Have you seen Breaking Bad?!!

Yes I have seen BB ,twice! The beauty of the series was that it was broken up with absolutely hilarious scenes along with the gritty stuff.

The film was like the episode with the fly!!

@HappydaysArehere yes it’s on Netflix. It’s a film that continues Jesse’s story after the end of BB.

I really enjoyed it - Aaron Paul was fantastic. It felt like the right ending too.

I loved seeing Skinny and Brendan again,their characters are hilarious.

I agree with pp. Too slow and I agree that BB had laugh out loud bits and this didn't. 6 years is a long time between BB and El Camino - they should have left it.

I'll stick to Better Call Saul

Oh I loved it! Watched the last 2 episodes of the final season before it as a reminder then watched El Camino.

Me and DH LOL'd at quite a few scenes!

I really enjoyed it for what it was. It gave me 2 hours of contentment as it took me back to the best show ever made that changed the way we watched television.

It was total fanservice and I am okay with that!

I loved it too. Lovely to be back in bb land.

We stuck it for half an hour.Very dull imo.

I thought it was great. Aa perfect ending to BB ( although I secretly hoped that Walt was still alive ). Aaron Paul was fantastic.

I was really disappointed in it, found it very dull.

AP was fantastic but I must admit I found it quite disappointing. I think this is because Better Call Saul set my expectations too high, and proved that Breaking Bad wasn’t just a fluke.

It didn’t feel like a film - it felt like two episodes of a new series, which frankly could have been condensed into one. I would love to see what happened to Jesse after BB ended, but found this didn’t answer that really - there was nothing particularly unexpected in there.

AP was excellent and Jesse Plemons was probably the best part of it all - hard to suspend your disbelief when he’s aged so much since BB though!

It felt more like a spin off episode than a movie. When I got close to the end, I went back through to check I'd not missed any big scenes, as I was expecting a bit more to happen.

Should have said, Better Call Saul is up there with my favourite TV shows of all time and I think the last season was actually better than much of BB (which was of course amazing, but I rewatched it all before the last season of BCS and I definitely remember it as being better than it was - some of it is incredible but good chunks of it weren’t).

Thank you WhiteVixen. We are just about to look for it.

Robert Forster (vacuum cleaner fixer guy) died yesterday, hours after El Camino premiered

I've watched it. Thought it was rather boring tbh.

Just watched it. I was a bit disappointed. Felt like I kept waiting for something else to happen. Will there be another one or is that it?

So sad about Forster - he worked on so many brilliant things and had such a huge body of work. I’ll miss seeing him pop up in things.