Better Call Saul

[Colon™]

This is shaping up to be real good.

[Sava]

you'll have to be more specific

[Lorizael]

Is it? I don't have high expectations. Saul was a fun character, but gimmicky. Seems like it would be hard to build a show around him. (I haven't seen the first episode.)

[Colon™]

I had my doubts about spin-off about Saul as well, but the creators knew what they were doing. He's gained a lot of depth from the get-go and the first episode was often pretty poignant.

[Sava]

so this is a TV show?

[Colon™]

Better Call Saul is a spinoff of Breaking Bad.

[Sava]

oh

meh

[Uncle Sparky]

oh

meth

corrected.

[regexcellent]

I've been marathoning Scrubs. Fantastic show.

[Sava]

I've been marathoning Scrubs. Fantastic show.

yes

god, i give you and your brother a lot of shit, but you have great taste when it comes to entertainment

[DaShi]

I had my doubts about spin-off about Saul as well, but the creators knew what they were doing. He's gained a lot of depth from the get-go and the first episode was often pretty poignant.

Right from the opening you know you are back in Gilligan's world. Which is great! The first episode was a little slow but had a lot to set up. The second gets into some awesome Saul Goodman lawyering that I hope we'll see lots more of from this series.

[Sprayber]

I was undecided about it until I saw the scenes in the desert where his bargaining skills came into play. The "slipping Jimmy" story he told to the twins was a pretty good scene as well.

[regexcellent]

yes

god, i give you and your brother a lot of shit, but you have great taste when it comes to entertainment

I've pretty much finished the show at this point. I have one complaint: I am very near certain that the rampant insurance fraud that goes on, specifically the "Chicago voting" trick of using a dead patient's insurance to pay for a live patient's procedure is something that never ****ing happens anywhere but it's treated as routine in the show.

[Sava]

I've pretty much finished the show at this point. I have one complaint: I am very near certain that the rampant insurance fraud that goes on, specifically the "Chicago voting" trick of using a dead patient's insurance to pay for a live patient's procedure is something that never ****ing happens anywhere but it's treated as routine in the show.

I wouldn't know, myself. I do know that hospitals are in constant battles with insurance companies. It wouldn't surprise me to learn that it was happening.

Just more inefficiency of having corporations in charge of health care.

(but I doubt you will see it that way )

[Hauldren Collider]

I actually think reg would. The use of insurance as a means of financing most medical treatment is one of the biggest reasons the medical industry completely sucks. Because doctors get all their money from insurance companies and not directly from patients they are basically forced to do stuff that will market them to insurance companies and not patients, which hurts patient care substantially. If we could make it so that insurance companies only pay for emergency care rather than routine care, doctors would be able to give much better service.

This wouldn't actually be more expensive, either--all that routine service is built into your premium anyway. You'd lose the inefficiency of having the insurance company as a middleman, so it'd actually cost less in all likelihood.