Its up there with the best crime movies ever made, many TV productions today are far better than movies today, if for example The Godfather were made for the first time today, it would be served better as a high production TV show, same with Goodfellas too!

@NotoriousRio said:

Its up there with the best crime movies ever made, many TV productions today are far better than movies today, if for example The Godfather were made for the first time today, it would be served better as a high production TV show, same with Goodfellas too!

Good point! Yes, anything "epic" would actually be better served on the small screen in a "series" fashion if done correctly..true. I can see those movies being series. And yes, thanks for clarifying; definitely in that genre is more specifically what I meant..

I really can't compare this to "TV shows". It's too meticulous in its telling and having a definitive and purposeful beginning, middle, and end, the way a movie is written. Most TV shows eventually run out of ideas and meander around and go off in tangents just to milk more time for more episodes. This never lost focus..It's just too good to consider as just another TV show..

@Heisenberg12 said:

Most TV shows eventually run out of ideas and meander around and go off in tangents just to milk more time for more episodes

Season 5 and the white supremacist gang hits that mark for me.

Also, whilst I did love the show, I always thought it had a certain issue signing off on the supposed scale of Gus' operation. To often key moments fell on Mike's shoulders, either alone or with one assistant! I think this was main area the show failed in terms of cinematic grandeur...

@The Midi-chlorian Count said:

@Heisenberg12 said:

Most TV shows eventually run out of ideas and meander around and go off in tangents just to milk more time for more episodes

Season 5 and the white supremacist gang hits that mark for me.

Also, whilst I did love the show, I always thought it had a certain issue signing off on the supposed scale of Gus' operation. To often key moments fell on Mike's shoulders, either alone or with one assistant! I think this was main area the show failed in terms of cinematic grandeur...

Not for me. I, along with majority of critics, thought 5 was the best season, and 5 was necessary because he arrived as the kingpin so that's not meandering. As the kingpin he hired Jack. There was no fat in S5 at all; it was streamlined so perfectly, which is why it won 2 Emmys for A and B and also why that season is in Guinness Book of World Records as its 100 perfect score on Metacritic is the highest for any TV show ever. Walt was the main villain in S5.

For Gus' operation, it was clear Madrigal had the largest responsibility in it along with the front LPH restaurants.

No, it didn't fail on a cinema scale. It's actually better than most of the best movies of all time, all genres included. Every movie has flaws if you want to find them. It's each their own.