What Else Sucks‪?‬ Jason Fraize, Braxton Clapp, Brandon Creech, Scott Donnell

Heads up, there are some Better Call Saul spoilers in this post and in the episode.


This week we're talking about the second and third episodes of Better Call Saul.  As we've come to expect, things start ramping up early and hard so we take a dive into two different episodes to see what's going on.

In today's What Else Sucks podcast, we talk about Kim's "Give me a dollar" line and what that means in the overall narrative, we decide we'll have a montage of the week and this week's is Kim's getting-ready-montage, we talk about bringing Gus into the show and how that went over, Chuck and Jimmy's devolving relationship, Mike's narrative complications, as well as some predictions for how episode 3's events will affect things moving forward.

Scott mentions a couple particular shots and they're in the shownotes at http://whatelsesucks.wixsite.com/whatelsesucks/blog.

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As always, you can hit us on Twitter any time, @whatelsesucks.
We are also looking for local music to have on the show!  If you make music or know someone who does, shoot us a message on Twitter, Facebook, or email us at whatelsesucks@gmail.com.


Today's music is "Where You've Been" by The Famous Slip Slams.  Check us out on Twitter @slipslams on at soundcloud.com/thefamousslipslams.

Heads up, there are some Better Call Saul spoilers in this post and in the episode.

This week we're talking about the season premiere of AMC's superb Breaking Bad prequel: Better Call Saul.  Starring Bob Odenkirk and Jonathan Banks, this show is every bit as good as - if not better than - it's chronologically later counterpart.  

In today's What Else Sucks podcast, we talk about the increasing narrative depth of the cold opens, just how damn good this show's montages are, the understanding and disconnect between Jimmy and Kim, predictions for next week, as well as some other fun stuff.

As always, you can hit us on Twitter any time, @whatelsesucks.
We are also looking for local music to have on the show!  If you make music or know someone who does, shoot us a message on Twitter, Facebook, or email us at whatelsesucks@gmail.com.


Today's music is "Where You've Been" by The Famous Slip Slams.  Check us out on Twitter @slipslams on at soundcloud.com/thefamousslipslams.

Heads up, there are some spoilers for Taboo in this post and in the episode.

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This week we're talking about the season 1 finale of the FX series, Taboo.  As expected, we got some great explosions, some gunfighting, and a few surprises.  With no official word on whether or not there will be a season 2, here's hoping we get some kind of resolution.

In today's What Else Sucks podcast, we talk general opinions on the finale (0:45), Taboo's characteristic big open reveal (1:31), changes to the title sequence in this finale and also its relevance to the show (4:15), Strange and Delaney's last meeting and where Dumbarton fit in (5:35), the big show down and the rescue operation (7:10), a dramatic ending and a new heading for Portugal (10:33), predicting any boat episodes (11:34), Jason loves rag-tag groups (13:17), fact check: very well could have been oak (19:00), season 2 predictions (19:06), Black Sails and a hypothetical crossover (20:53), MVP and LVP for season 1 (21:51), fact check: the guy Scott was talking about was actually Martinez, French Bill survives; pour some out for Martinez (23:10), and we cap it off with one thing we each want to see out of a season 2 (26:22).


As always, you can hit us on Twitter any time, @whatelsesucks.
We are also looking for local music to have on the show!  If you make music or know someone who does, shoot us a message on Twitter, Facebook, or email us at whatelsesucks@gmail.com.


Today's music is "Where You've Been" by The Famous Slip Slams.  Check us out on Twitter @slipslams on at soundcloud.com/thefamousslipslams.

Heads up, there are some spoilers for Taboo in this post and in the episode.

This week on the second to last episode of season 1 of FX's new show, Taboo, the final conflict begins to take shape.  Everyone's pieces align for an explosive send off into season two and, frankly, we're all pretty stoked.  

In today's What Else Sucks podcast, we kick off with a fact check on the definition of inaugural - "marking the beginning" (0:35), Jason makes a super timely Limp Bizkit reference (1:51), another big surprise regarding the Delaney family history that Brace offed Horace with the arsenic (2:00), we talk about James Delaney's chess game (3:59), the continuation of drama between James and Zilpha (5:10), the mechanics behind the plot driven aspects of the show as opposed to character drive (5:29), Chichester's investigation progress (8:22), commercial break edits and any reason to bring up "Mad Men" (11:24), whatever the hell Delaney got dosed with in the torture sequence (12:00), Braxton turns up (13:19), the repercussions Helga faces (14:57), Dumbarton's alignment and angle on all of this (16:00), the guys' general feelings on the show (21:24), the economics of prostitution in the early 19th century (23:40), the upcoming battle (26:05), what's going on with the chemist (26:42), and the guys make some predictions for the season finale (27:34).

As always, you can hit us on Twitter any time, @whatelsesucks.
We are also looking for local music to have on the show!  If you make music or know someone who does, shoot us a message on Twitter, Facebook, or email us at whatelsesucks@gmail.com.

Today's music is "Where You've Been" by The Famous Slip Slams.  Check us out on Twitter @slipslams on at soundcloud.com/thefamousslipslams.

Heads up, there are some spoilers for Taboo in this post and in the episode.

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This week on FX's new show, Taboo, the wheels that get moving in the last episode pick up speed and we see some threads getting tied off while others are just getting started.  Knowing all this is building to a big old season finale makes it even better.

In today's What Else Sucks podcast, we kick off with a pretty intense revelation about James' past with his mother (1:54) and then discuss Thorne's funeral and surrounding events (4:15), the possibility of blurring the line between delusion and magic among characters (6:15), just how nuts James Delaney might be - even compared to someone like Atticus (7:35), why James can't just buy another boat (9:17), the next moves for the gunpowder (11:49), Chichester's moves on the chess board and the implications (15:36), Winter's fate and trying to find alternative explanations (18:19), imagining James Delaney in other TV shows (22:15), 19th century fermentation science (26:38), HBO's and The Young Pope - spoilers? kind of? (28:09).

As always, you can hit us on Twitter any time, @whatelsesucks.
We are also looking for local music to have on the show!  If you make music or know someone who does, shoot us a message on Twitter, Facebook, or email us at whatelsesucks@gmail.com.


Today's music is "Where You've Been" by The Famous Slip Slams.  Check us out on Twitter @slipslams on at soundcloud.com/thefamousslipslams.

Heads up, there are some spoilers for Taboo in this post and in the episode.

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This week's episode of Taboo on FX started big with some dueling action and then slowed down to get some serious expositional elements going and it's looking like a pretty wild ramp up for the last 3 episodes of season 1.

In today's What Else Sucks podcast, we get some coverage on the duel (0:34), discuss some predictions that seem to have been confirmed (7:45), the possibilities for James' purported son and their relationship (8:50), touching base on the over/under on botched murder attempts on James Delaney (10:10),  what Lorna's angle might be in all of this (12:04), Scott's prediction for Brace's pistol usage (13:06), the Crown opening a case against Jonathan Pryce's Sir Stuart Strange - sure to bring some great standoffs (13:38), how much Horace Delaney knew about Nootka's importance (18:33), another tangent regarding AMC's "Better Call Saul" - only season 1 available to stream on Netflix for now (21:42), Brandon has rightful reservations regarding the shit/piss gunpowder being made (23:25), and we solicit any of our listeners to make us a Wikipedia page (28:06).

As always, you can hit us on Twitter any time, @whatelsesucks.
We are also looking for local music to have on the show!  If you make music or know someone who does, shoot us a message on Twitter, Facebook, or email us at whatelsesucks@gmail.com.

​​Today's music is "Badfoot" by The Famous Slip Slams. Check us out on Twitter @slipslams on at soundcloud.com/thefamousslipslams.