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The best of the DIRECTV primetime lineup

Monday, 17 April, 2017   Filed in: BC on TV

Today’s Number One Film:

Picture courtesy www.kissradio.caBetter Call Saul, S3E1 8.50pm, S3E2, 10pm & 11.10pm AMC. Watch this if you liked The Sopranos, Breaking Bad or The Wire. The best American TV series since the series to which it’s compared above is as good as all of them (though nothing could ever be quite so good as The Sopranos) but it has this significant difference: it is far slower than any other TV drama being made today. Impatient modern audiences may itch for more to happen but it is Better Call Saul’s deliberately slow pacing that makes it as good as it is. Amazing cinematography allow pictures to tell the story often but it is the relationships between the characters that draws the viewer in. There is, of course, a great deal happening in a storyline that sets up the narrative and events of Breaking Bad, but the real magic is in the performances; and first amongst those is Bob Odenkirk’s role as the decent young lawyer, Jimmy McGill, who slips and falls, literally and figuratively, to become Saul Goodman; and the people he is fortunate or unfortunate to love. Add the best understated gangster, probably ever (Jonathan Banks’ Mike Ehrmantraut) and the unfailing lover (Rhea Seehorn’s Kim Wexler) and, in episodes one & two of season three, you have the best couple o’ new hours on TV tonight. Directed by Vince Gilligan/ 2017/ USA/ Crime-Drama/ 51 mins/ TVMA.

JUST NOSED OUT:

*The Revenant BEST FILM OF THE DAY(Action-Adventure-Western), 9pm FoxAct; Mad Max: Fury Road (Action-Sci-fi-Thriller), 8.55pm MaxP; The Wrestler (Drama), 9pm Sund; Star Wars VII: The Force Awakens (Action-Sci-fi), 9pm HBOF; Swordfish (Crime-Thriller), 7.03pm HBOP; Catch a Fire (Bio-Thriller), 6.15pm FoxCin; The Man Who Never Was (Drama-Thriller-War), 7.15pm FoxClas; Richard Linklater: Dream is Destiny (Documentary), 7pm DTV; Bean (Slapstick Comedy), 8pm FoxFam.

BEST Pay Per View BET: The Girl on the Train Ch 404.

*Starred films have been chosen in the last year. ** Double-starred films have been chosen in the last two months.

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