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This week, Better Call Saul<\/em> and \u201cFive-O<\/a>\u201d show up on several end of the year best lists. Plus, the show garners SAG and PGA Award nominations and three WGA Award nods. Read on for more:<\/p>\n \u2022 Rolling Stone<\/em><\/a> considers Better Call Saul<\/em> one of the year\u2019s best shows, asking, \u201cWho could have predicted it would turn out this great? It stands on its own as a comic desert noir.\u201d<\/p>\n \u2022 Vulture<\/em><\/a> deems \u201cFive-O\u201d one of the year\u2019s best episodes, quoting Mike\u2019s poignant line, \u201cI broke my boy.\u201d<\/p>\n \u2022 In a list of the best new series of 2015, The Wall Street Journal<\/em><\/a> notes that \u201cthe creators of AMC\u2019s Better Call Saul<\/em> and star Bob Odenkirk produced a show as strange and refreshing as the cucumber water Jimmy quaffs in the nail salon that houses his office\/sleeping quarters.\u201d<\/p>\n \u2022 TV Cheat Sheet<\/em><\/a> names the series one of 2015\u2019s best new shows: \u201cOf all the spinoffs on TV, Better Call Saul<\/em> stands head and shoulders above the rest. Any worries we may have had that it would be overly derivative and unnecessary in the wake of Breaking Bad<\/em> going off the air were dispelled the second the credits rolled on the pilot.\u201d<\/p>\n \u2022 Bob Odenkirk has been honored with a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination in the category of Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series, People<\/em><\/a> reports.<\/p>\n \u2022 According to the Los Angeles Times<\/em><\/a>, Better Call Saul<\/em> has been nominated for a Producers Guild of America Award.<\/p>\n \u2022 The Chicago Tribune<\/em><\/a> reports that Better Call Saul<\/em>\u2018s premiere won a Writers Guild of America Award nomination in the episodic drama category, while the show garnered nods in the drama series and new series categories.<\/p>\n \u2022 411Mania<\/em><\/a> calls Better Call Saul<\/em> one of most anticipated shows this winter, noting that \u201cVince Gilligan found the perfect tone for Saul\u2019s world \u2014 or Jimmy McGill, if you prefer \u2014 that fit within Breaking Bad<\/em>continuity without seeming like a rip-off.\u201d<\/p>\n \u2022 The Independent<\/em><\/a> recommends binge-watching Season 1: \u201cSaul Goodman has broken bad in his own right in this hit spin-off about Walter White\u2019s lawyer. Don\u2019t write it off for seemingly just mooching off Breaking Bad<\/em>\u2019s success.\u201d<\/p>\n \u2022 Moviepilot<\/em><\/a> observes that \u201cSeason 2 has every chance of building on the first to become an even more entertaining series, and one capable of finding rare depth in its portrayal of the law \u2013 which is why it\u2019s likely to be seriously awesome.\u201d<\/p>\n