#if anyone who hasn't seen bcs yet actually bothered to read this: yes you should watch it but also yes you need to watch breaking bad first

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it also took me way too long to finally watch BCS, i kinda knew stuff from gifs and all but actually seeing how it ends for Kim and Jimmy....wow wow wow. now that is quality tv!

i always saw my twitter bubble complaining about Rhea not getting award attention and never got it. silly me!

(sorry friend this response is going to get so much longer than u probably intended lol)

i can't get over how floored i am by both how incredible this show is, and how it is so so far from the expectations i had when i started watching it. (which was only like...5-6 weeks ago? lol i am nothing if not obsessive)

i enjoyed breaking bad but it probably wouldn't even make my top 10 tv shows so i just never had much interest in BCS. never really paid any attention to what i saw on tumblr etc, i don't think i even realized that like, mike was a main character on the show? i knew there was a blonde woman, that was about it.

and then my SO & i decided to finally watch it and BOOM i went from being like aw they're cute but it's def not gonna end well! around s2 to THEY WOULD DIE FOR EACH OTHER AND SO WOULD I by the end of s5.

and like, it's not just that this is a really great show that happens to have a really great ship. jimmy & kim's relationship is the point of BCS. it's what ruins him, and it's what redeems him. their relationship is the crux of the entire story being told across two tv series and a movie. without kim, there is no saul goodman, and without saul goodman, there is no heisenberg. and kim did not even exist when they made breaking bad!!! (and i am coming back to edit this and say: this kind of makes it sound like kim is just there in service of jimmy's story, which is not AT ALL the case, and it's even more impressive because her character could have so easily functioned that way in the hands of lesser writers.)

and then you read interviews and stuff with the writers/actors/directors, and see bits of the actual script, and instead of being like ok ok that's not what they were trying to do, i'm just a hopeless romantic, whatever death of the author etc etc, it's like - oh my god i'm right! THEY WERE! INTENTIONALLY! DOING THAT!

finally: Rhea Seehorn is UNREAL, i'm retroactively FURIOUS that she's received so little awards attention, and if she loses the Emmy next month (to someone from The White Lotus, no less) i will personally start a riot in the streets

#bronwynn #if anyone who hasn't seen bcs yet actually bothered to read this: yes you should watch it but also yes you need to watch breaking bad first #which is quite a commitment. but worth it!!!!!! #better call saul