Monday night’s Better Call Saul was quite a wild ride. Some of the situations and plot devices in the series are a bit contrived, as they were in Breaking Bad, but every character is brought to note-perfect life by the actors. Which was not the case with Breaking Bad. At least it wasn’t for me.
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This Happy Post
The collaboration of Noel Coward and David Lean produced some of the finest films in British cinema. One of them is the superb This Happy Breed, starring Robert Newton and Celia Johnson.
Remembered for playing villains, Newton is anything but menacing in this role. Celia is beyond wonderful, as she always was.
This is a YouTube video that’s sure to be pulled, so don’t save it for later. Watch it now.
https://youtu.be/8_6eBYUWk2Y
A perfect double-feature with this film would be the previously featured Here Come the Huggetts.
Calling Saul
For a limited time, part 1 of the 2-part season premiere of the series finale is available online for free. With commercials, of course.
https://www.amc.com/shows/better-call-saul/episodes/season-6-wine-and-roses–1053312
Saul of Albuquerque
A new trailer for Better Call Saul. They sure can pack a lot of teasing into 30 seconds.
Good thing there’s more!
Finding My Religion
A recent 88 Rewound on WMBR featured a playlist from May, 1971. I hadn’t heard this song in many years.
Honestly, I’d forgotten how much of an effect the song had on me. Life was changing fast, and I felt extremely unsettled. Six months later, entirely on my own, I started attending a Lutheran church I passed on the way home from my after-school job.
So began my religious period. It lasted until I was in my senior year of college.
Some years ago I attended my nephew’s wedding in the Midwest. My sister mentioned to her mother-in-law that she never knew how she and her husband were given permission to marry in the Lutheran church near our parents’ house. They lived out of state, and their church was in a different Synod. My sister’s mother-in-law smirked and said, “I know how.” My sister seemed surprised that, after so many years, this was the first she’d heard of it. “You do? How?” Her mother-in-law looked at me and said, “You were dating the minister’s daughter.” My mother must have told her. The minister’s daughter was Lori, and she got her dad to perform the ceremony.
