Oh yeah. This is the kind of thing I want to see in prequels. Some side to the characters we haven't seen before, information previously not known, something along those lines, and this episode delivers that in spades. Mike already, by episode 6 of this show, has a depth to him that was never seen in Breaking Bad, and I absolutely loved how the episode was structured to slowly peel back the layers of what happened in Philadelphia.
That said, I'm not sure what the point of the scene in the vet was, plus some of the dialogue towards the beginning stuck out to me as pretty cliche-sounding, and how the hell did they miss the fact that Mike's granddaughter should be a baby? She looks about the same age as she did in Breaking Bad, but this is set six years before it.
Still though...dear god is Jonathan Banks incredible in this episode, and dear god is the way it gives some backstory to Mike while (as far as I remember anyway) not contradicting anything that was established in Breaking Bad amazing.
I'm happy that I was right to be excited for where they were going with Mike.
That said, I'm not sure what the point of the scene in the vet was, plus some of the dialogue towards the beginning stuck out to me as pretty cliche-sounding, and how the hell did they miss the fact that Mike's granddaughter should be a baby? She looks about the same age as she did in Breaking Bad, but this is set six years before it.
Still though...dear god is Jonathan Banks incredible in this episode, and dear god is the way it gives some backstory to Mike while (as far as I remember anyway) not contradicting anything that was established in Breaking Bad amazing.
I'm happy that I was right to be excited for where they were going with Mike.