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Better Call Saul And The Golden Era of Television

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Ben Domenech
Aug 19, 2022
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At The Spectator, my farewell to the Golden Era of Television:

This week’s finale of AMC’s Better Call Saul represented a quiet end to the Golden Age of Television. It’s a fitting end for Prestige TV — marked by lavish sets, sex, violence and episodes as expensive as feature films — to end with a small black-and-white ode to a spin-off.

Bob Odenkirk’s per…

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