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My Current TV Show Rankings

Constantly updating. Some favorites that are off the air: Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones, Entourage, The Night Of, Vice Principals Better Call Saul The hit rate of successful sequels felt like zero before Better Call Saul graced our small screens in 2015, two years after its parent show, Breaking Bad, bowed out in spectacular fashion. Saul, which was originally theorized as a half-hour comedy by creators Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould, has evolved into a fascinating show about ethics and how far a man can be dragged into the dirt before he becomes the dirt (horrible line, but stay with me). Jimmy McGill, played exquisitely by Bob Odenkirk, is a man constantly struggling to balance his inner moral compass, and usually failing to straddle the line between lawful and corrupt. His constantly evolving relationship with badass lawyer Kim Wexler (Rhea Seehorn) has out-shadowed the gang-infested aspect of the show, which is very compelling in its own right. As Jesse Pinkman once succinctly p

Where The Lakers Went Wrong, And Where They Stand Now

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When Dwyane Wade and Dirk dropped 30 points in their final home games of their storied careers, 39-year-old Jamal Crawford poured in 51 points and Paul George delivered a 3-point dagger in an exhilarating clash against the Rockets, you'd think those would be the most talked about storylines of the second to last night of the regular season. Wrong. Magic Johnson dropped the hammer last night that he was stepping down as Lakers' President of Basketball Operations. He held an impromptu press conference. He claimed he didn't have the cojones to tell Jeanie Buss to her face. He alluded that he couldn't bear himself to fire Luke Walton the next day. He dropped hints that he wasn't a big Rob Pelinka fan. He vaguely spoke of "backstabbing" that he wanted no part of. In other words, he took a Lakers organization that was already teetering on the brink collapse, and decided to light the place on fire. When I see what Magic did last night, essentially quitting