Better Call Saul

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i did not think about the TCM connection, ty VG!

Dow I have heard for severakl years that there is a habit in casting female actors that makes it difficult to get a lead role over a certain age. Which I think has tended to be late 30s when one is deemed too old to be seen as a romantic lead and therefore roles dry up until one can be cast as mother or older friend or friend of mother. Would appear that Rhea went against that by being cast back in 2014/5 since she was already in that age range. Looking back at her career as shown on IMDB it looks like she has mainly played supporting roles. Now that she has shown her ability so clearly I am hoping that that casting habit which I have heard several complaints about is something that is diminishing, but is just another aspect of gender imbalance in popular culture which is finding a way to perpetuate.
I hoped that seeing Rhea Seehorn had got a lead role in a comedy I hadn't heard of before meant she did already have good things ahead. I then looked up the show and it's a series of shorts on AMC that are all up on youtube too. It may be interesting but seems to be a bit mediocre from the couple of episodes I watched. Wondered if anybody else had even heard of it Cooper's Bar.
Am hoping that we are going to see Seehorn since she does seem to be a good actor (I was wondering if the word actress was still in widespread use since it is so firmly engendered and thereby valorised, like)

she'd be good in any number of roles, based on her range in this show. I hope she gets a career like Toni Collette's

who was born the same year, incidentally

I would be staggered if she's not getting lots of juicy job offers at the moment

Fuck the Emmys :(

Saw a tweet that said the show is now 0 for 46 in Emmy noms.

I mean, I like Succession too, but good lord. Nothing for this show? It is especially a crime that Rhea Seehorn still doesn't have one for this show.

I saw a tweet about this and assumed it was an ironic joke, since I assumed BCS would have won a bunch of Emmys.

What would explain that? Breaking Bad won 16/58--there's no inherent bias.

I'd be upset about this but I didn't see anything that actually won an Emmy so

Rhea Seehorn not winning anything is criminal though

bcs gets one more go ‘round for the last batch of episodes this summer fwiw

Julie Garner was probably the best thing in Ozark but this is the third time she's won for playing Ruth ffs xp

Although some people are saying apparently the second half of the final season is eligible next year so there may be one last chance

Good to know, I was wondering about the eligibility since the last episodes just aired. Garner was great and deserved an Emmy, but I don't know about three for the same role and def not at the expense of zero for Seehorn.

Other than constantly upping her "fucks"-per-minute, I don't know that Garner ever deepened that character as she went along.

i can pai, i can pai

Vince Gilligan’s Next Series Starring Rhea Seehorn Lands At Apple TV+ With Two-Season Order:

The untitled project, described as a blended, grounded genre drama, has received a two-season straight-to-series order from the streamer...Gilligan will serve as showrunner and executive produce through his High Bridge Productions.

"blended, grounded": cuhwawfee tawwwk!

srsly, whut's 'at mean??

Sounds like good coffee to me.

From back in August:

The series is described as a blended, grounded and thought-provoking genre drama and has been compared to ‘The Twilight Zone’.

Seehorn has come back from LA to run the desert roadside diner owned by her suddenly-blinded father. Travelers and locals stop by to tell tales, do other things. Is my hoped-for premise.

And yours?

So down for whatever

something like Maniac but also not too much like Maniac

Puppets

she teams up with the Swedish chef to sell meth and it's called Breaking Bork

hell yeah, give her a damn show

the black & white cinematography was such an amazing device for Jimmy & Kim’s scenes, giving them that doomed romance of something like A Place In The Sun

Their final interactions together were like mini homages to all the old movies they watched together, knowing they’re stuck with the life they’ve made but wishing it could be more.

oh and jimmy giving chuck the hg wells time machine book i nearly cried <3

What is it with airports? I had the same in the airport lounge leaving to Iran.

Miss this tv show, wish it would go on forever

yeah I've tried a few other shows since but nothing is on the same level

plus it was really nice to have Bob Odenkirk on TV every week. regardless of what you thought of anything else

There was a link to the Critics Choice Awards (whatever they are) on another thread: https://variety.com/2023/awards/news/critics-choice-awards-2023-winners-list-1235488828/. Weird: Better Call Saul won Best Drama Series, Odenkirk won Best Actor, Giancarlo Esposito won Supporting Actor, and Carol Burnett was nominated (but lost) for Best Supporting Actress.

Rhea Seehorn was not nominated.

While I'm not quite as high on her work in the last couple of seasons as everyone else (as opposed to early on, when I thought she was great), that's egregious.

Maybe this time

This guy looks pretty beat up...BUT, HOORAY! and THANK YOU to everyone who enjoyed Better Call Saul, and for this Nom. We all cared SO MUCH everyday we made this show. It starts with the WRITING and I'm so thankful Peter Gould and Gordon Smith are nominated. RHEA being… https://t.co/aiTsW9qU4T

— Mr. Bob Odenkirk (@mrbobodenkirk) July 12, 2023

No idea how they determine such things, but isn't Rhea Seehorn a lead actress? I've seen the first three seasons of Succession, not the new one, but to me, Seehorn was at least as much of a lead as Sarah Snook.

iirc the actor (or sometimes production) themselves decides in which category to submit

I want an entire series about season 6 Kim.

otm