Written by James M. Tate / 3/09/2016 / No comments / bob odenkirk , cable , ed begley jr.
SNEAKING PEAKING INTO CALL DEAD CARDS
Bob Odenkirk's Saul who's really Jimmy kicking back pool sideback before being dragged back in |
Inside Ed Begley Jr. |
Michael McKean, from playing Lenny on LAVERNE AND SHIRLEY and especially pussy-whipped (John ala Yoko style) rhythm guitarist/vocalist David St. Hubbins in THIS IS SPINAL TAP, is a true icon, co-starring on SAUL as his brother, and in one sequence of a potentially much richer, fuller, and straight-out BETTER second season, is seen and heard playing piano (yes, it's really him, and no, it's not "Lick My Love Pump," his guitar hero partner's tune). Plus he's kinda able to get out of that house despite going to the ER or wearing aluminum foil sweaters, and not only that but SPINAL TAP's first to die drummer of many drummers (based on both Keith Moon and John Bonham, and also the doomed keyboardists from The Grateful Dead, who continued to die even after TAP), Ed Begley Jr., a veteran of Christopher Guest movies, as a lawyer in a firm where Bob Odenkirk's Jimmy is hired... finally, a serious, legit gig, simply because a troupe of misused old folks, in a case he uncovered, can't relate to anybody else. And also, Begley, the "geek with glasses," plays a mean (or rather, smoothly blues acoustic) guitar.
Odenkirk mellowed |
God, another compass |
So so far, not far into either show, let's give grades accordingly:
BETTER CALL SAUL: A-
HOUSE OF CARDS:C
WALKING DEAD: B
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