Mike Ehrmantraut

lopsotronic a day ago | parent | next [-]

Mike walks a fine line where he's almost a superhero. In terms of just how good he is.

Then again, maybe understandable, since he's a veteran ex cop in the midst of tweakers, junkies, madmen, and generally people not well geared for success in life. And it makes for bigger payoff when we DO get a situation where anantagonist actually does get the better of him - that tells us we're dealing with a sharp customer.

What great frickin' writing.

It should give every greasy shiny suit film executive a bowel-evacuating fit of shame that a support character like Mike gets more audience engagement than a half billion bucks spent in SWeIX: TRoS or Justice League or that godawful Marvel Immortals movie.

Hey, Finance Guys: you find creatives you know are good (y'know, using that newfangled notion of Domain Knowledge), you give 'em a kitchen and you let 'em cook.

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ndsipa_pomu 17 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I'll see your Mike Ehrmantraut and raise you a Ray Shoesmith

	▲	lopsotronic 13 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Oh maaaaannnnnnnnn. "Ray Digs a Grave" lives rent free in my head forever. Mr Inbetween gets more done with thirty minutes than I thought possible. Scott Ryan deserves a big break more than most others I can think of - which he might be on the way towards, word is he's got a lot of agents sniffing at his door. He might have to give up his fixation on writing-directing-starring . . . that combo is a very hard combo to pull off at scale. There's only so much one person can do on set . . which is why all that the creator of Mr. Inbetween has managed basically boils down to just . . Mr. Inbetween. Unless . . . Scott Ryan isn't a great Hidden Filmmaker or Outback Actor at all, and Scott Ryan actually is Ray Shoesmith. It's not Great TV, it's just Tuesday. Which would be super awesome and horrible at the same time.