Better Call Saul & Breaking Bad: Realistic, or Hollywood Fakery?

Better Call Saul & Breaking Bad: Realistic, or Hollywood Fakery?

Both Better Call Saul and Breaking Bad are classic television.

Gritty, intelligent… Realistic?

Maybe not the last one.

At least, not in one very specific instance, where Nacho steals Pryce’s baseball cards, and Pryce calls the police.

The super cops of the tv world are suspicious, and snoop around, because they think something is amiss.

In the real world, cops are bored.

They’ve seen it all, and have something more important to get to than a break in.

I know this from first-hand experience.

When I was in college, my apartment was broken into.

Took all our electronics, my Hamer bass guitar, which was priceless, as it had been autographed by Tori Wells, Barbara Dare, and the Blue Jean Brat herself, Jamie Summers.

(OK, fine… Jamie was the least famous of the three, but whatever. One of the joys of getting to experience the dying days of Boston’s famed Combat Zone was getting autographs from adult film stars. God… I wish I still had that bass. Oh, and Jeanie Garth of Beverly Hills 90201 fame signed it, too. She was thrilled when I handed it to her; less so after learning who had already signed it. What was I talking about? Oh, right: Better Call Saul.)

Anyway…

The most egregious steal was the fact the thief took my Keebler Rainbow Cookies.

Seriously.

Who does that?

(You ever soak them in milk for 30 seconds and then eat them? Delicious.)

When the cop got there (two hours or more after we called them), he walked in, shrugged, and handed me a police report.

That was it.

No thoughtful looks, just a general apathy.

So, yeah.

Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul are both great series’…

But that one moment in Saul was complete Hollywood fakery.

Reality doesn’t work like that.

At all.