10 Reasons You Absolutely Have To Watch Better Call Saul

3. This Show Will Take Risks

Gilligan and co. worked for five years to create the insanely compelling Breaking Bad. The final season reduced its audience to a scratchy, bug-eyed mess - it was was the televisual equivalent of catnip. But past success does not guarantee anything other than a bigger stick to be beaten with when you fail, so making your next project a return to the setting of your former glory is a risky move. Which is exactly what people want. Why waste the fearless talent of a team who stuck a human head on a tortoise and handed over the kill of a master villain to an incontinent pensioner who could only communicate via a bell? Better Call Saul is one big gamble and the writers are too intelligent to play it safe - what would be the point?