I watched it last weekend and the finale Christmas Eve and absolutely loved it. I started out only mildly liking it, but I would say somewhere around episode four or five it turned into deep deep deep respect. I think it’s definitely a great series.
Consistent with Kevin’s take, I was saying to a friend just the other day, It’s the kind of series I wish had just been executed as a self-contained body of work; if they needed two more hours or four more hours to tell the whole story then take two or four more hours and add episodes to this season, but I I don’t like the idea of stretching this out into another season. Ow who knows, Vince Gilligan is master and maybe when season two comes out I’ll eat my words, but that was my initial take also.