Yeah, that's the one. Apparently it aired Saturday, but I saw it on On-Demand.
― Oilyrags, Monday, 21 January 2008 22:14 (5 years ago) Permalink
sounds like a darker, twisted version of "weeds". curious to see Cranston as a dramatic lead.
― Simon H., Monday, 21 January 2008 22:34 (5 years ago) Permalink
more twisted, I should say
― Simon H., Monday, 21 January 2008 22:35 (5 years ago) Permalink
this show is great !!!
― jhøshea, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 00:17 (5 years ago) Permalink
I like it a lot, too. Shame about the premature ending, though.
― Oilyrags, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 15:22 (5 years ago) Permalink
When does the DVD come out? I got addicted to this show right off the bat, but then my stupid tivo managed to miss episode 3, and they haven't aired it since, and I'm not jumping ahead...
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Monday, 31 March 2008 06:54 (5 years ago) Permalink
renewed!
http://blogs.amctv.com/breaking-bad/2008/05/breaking-bad-season-2-renews.php
― jhøshea, Wednesday, 11 June 2008 15:54 (4 years ago) Permalink
Man, and I finally got cleaned up after the last season.
― Oilyrags, Wednesday, 11 June 2008 21:23 (4 years ago) Permalink
i started watching this on on-demand, really liked the first two eps so far (the language seems to be censored though, wtf amc)
― eman, Tuesday, 3 March 2009 20:54 (4 years ago) Permalink
new season starts tonight
― eman, Monday, 9 March 2009 02:24 (4 years ago) Permalink
I'm finding it harder than ever to not see the brother in law as some kind of tv-jazz riff on Vic Mackey. Esp. when he's sending crime scene photos on his personal cellphone while he cracks jokes.
― Thrills as Cheap as Gas (Oilyrags), Monday, 9 March 2009 04:09 (4 years ago) Permalink
Nice to have something to view on Sunday nights in between "Mad Men" seasons
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Monday, 9 March 2009 21:32 (4 years ago) Permalink
Excellent show. Caught up on Season 1 last night and will be loving my Tivo.
― throwbookatface (skygreenleopard), Tuesday, 10 March 2009 06:32 (4 years ago) Permalink
eps 2&3 hav leakd - luv this show
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 10 March 2009 23:33 (4 years ago) Permalink
hey dudes i read somethin abt this in the nyer and it sounded really really bleak. shld i listen to that? or shld i hear that and then move past it
― just sayin, Tuesday, 10 March 2009 23:35 (4 years ago) Permalink
naw its totally fun and hilarious and bleak - a morbid masculine transgressive fantasy more or less
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 11 March 2009 00:30 (4 years ago) Permalink
i mean its an absurd show w/occasional real life details just to fuk w/u
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 11 March 2009 00:34 (4 years ago) Permalink
like his moustache?
― Thrills as Cheap as Gas (Oilyrags), Wednesday, 11 March 2009 00:39 (4 years ago) Permalink
like his moustache
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 11 March 2009 00:41 (4 years ago) Permalink
Does anyone have the leaked files for episodes 2 & 3? I'm trying to download a torrent right now, but it is creeping along veeeeery slowly.
Anyway, I just got turned on to this show & I love it. ..a morbid masculine transgressive fantasy more or less is OTM.
― 2 ears + 1 ❤ (Pillbox), Wednesday, 11 March 2009 01:47 (4 years ago) Permalink
Update: If anyone is interested, I found m3g@upload links here.
― 2 ears + 1 ❤ (Pillbox), Wednesday, 11 March 2009 02:02 (4 years ago) Permalink
o damn i didn't think to look for leaks
― eman, Wednesday, 11 March 2009 03:34 (4 years ago) Permalink
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, March 10, 2009 8:30 PM
^ otm
― eman, Wednesday, 11 March 2009 03:35 (4 years ago) Permalink
really well-cast too. the palsy son is great
― eman, Wednesday, 11 March 2009 03:39 (4 years ago) Permalink
otm all around guys
― -:¦:-•(¯'•omg•'¯)•-:¦:- (dan m), Wednesday, 11 March 2009 16:17 (4 years ago) Permalink
EP 2 & 3 SPOILERRRRZ >>>>>>>**************
^^^^
luv the emerging plot of the brother in law unknowingly investigating walter
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 11 March 2009 16:24 (4 years ago) Permalink
kind of surprised they didn't try to move on getting him to bust Tuco to save their own asses
― -:¦:-•(¯'•omg•'¯)•-:¦:- (dan m), Wednesday, 11 March 2009 16:26 (4 years ago) Permalink
― 2 ears + 1 ❤ (Pillbox), Tuesday, March 10, 2009 10:02 PM
thanks!
― eman, Thursday, 12 March 2009 00:41 (4 years ago) Permalink
oh man tio with the little bell!
― eman, Thursday, 12 March 2009 03:59 (4 years ago) Permalink
wow, a lot happens in the space of one episode.
― Simon H., Thursday, 12 March 2009 04:01 (4 years ago) Permalink
tuco cracks me up when does that "tight-tight-TIGHT"
― eman, Thursday, 12 March 2009 17:26 (4 years ago) Permalink
n e more leaks yet?
― eman, Sunday, 22 March 2009 23:20 (4 years ago) Permalink
naw its prob the typical case where they sent the 1st 3 out to reviewers and well have to just wait for the rest to air - tho there is a torrent on demoniod of the 1st season ripped from dvd that claims to be [UNRATED.UNCUT.NEW.MATERIAL] - might check it out
― ice cr?m, Sunday, 22 March 2009 23:32 (4 years ago) Permalink
Tuco's grandfather is now officially my new favorite television character. That bell = pure genius. And in general, I think that the subtle details and quirks of the characters is the best thing about this show, at once kind of Lynchian and realistic-seeming (which would seem impossible, but they pull it off somehow).
― 2 ears + 1 ❤ (Pillbox), Monday, 23 March 2009 00:47 (4 years ago) Permalink
Tio means uncle.
― Thrills as Cheap as Gas (Oilyrags), Monday, 23 March 2009 00:49 (4 years ago) Permalink
Thank you for the clarification.
― 2 ears + 1 ❤ (Pillbox), Monday, 23 March 2009 02:23 (4 years ago) Permalink
Haha, I know right? What a game-changing revelation that must have been for you!
― Thrills as Cheap as Gas (Oilyrags), Monday, 23 March 2009 12:01 (4 years ago) Permalink
you can see the pitch:
"it's american beauty meets grand theft auto!"
but somehow despite this it is pretty good! and certainly unusual for a tv show
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 14 April 2009 22:34 (4 years ago) Permalink
from ep 1 -
"why are you doing this?"
"well - why do you do it?"
"money.. mainly"
"there you go"
"wait wait hold up. this isn't normal. it's weird! if you're crazy, or depressed or something.. i need to know! that affects me!!"
--
this last sentence from "the cap'n" has got me hooked - he's a real character suddenly instead of a stereotype - this show is going to rule
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 15 April 2009 22:43 (4 years ago) Permalink
im at the last ep of the first series and am very impressed by this show.
― FREE DOM AND ETHAN (special guest stars mark bronson), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 22:45 (4 years ago) Permalink
2nd season just gets better and better IMO. This is def my current favorite show.
― SORCEROUSES..roll on stage! (Pillbox), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 22:58 (4 years ago) Permalink
"i thought we were going to coldstone creamery"
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 16 April 2009 00:14 (4 years ago) Permalink
COIN FLIP IS SACRED
the guy who plays the brother in law has his whole thing down cold
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 16 April 2009 00:15 (4 years ago) Permalink
season 2 is next level
― Dr. Phil, Thursday, 16 April 2009 00:43 (4 years ago) Permalink
tuco's burritos looked gross. it was just chopped steak in a tortilla. no pico, no nothin'.
― Duderonomy 1:69-420 (iiiijjjj), Thursday, 16 April 2009 00:44 (4 years ago) Permalink
jesus christ this show!
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 16 April 2009 00:51 (4 years ago) Permalink
s1e03 is an amazing, amazing episode
i have even started feeling for the overbearing mom!
this show has nothing to do with "falling down" at all btw
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 16 April 2009 00:53 (4 years ago) Permalink
even the dickhead brothher-in-law is kind of Good People underneath it all - am i just a huge softie??
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 16 April 2009 00:56 (4 years ago) Permalink
Anybody watch the 'minisodes'? Also, what's a minisode as opposed to a webisode?
― Vincent and Julio Gallo (Oilyrags), Thursday, 16 April 2009 00:57 (4 years ago) Permalink
(sorry for the macro)
― pplains, Thursday, 19 July 2012 15:15 (10 months ago) Permalink
Somehow I hadn't seen that season 5 trailer before. What a great use of "Oh Well".
― cue "White Rabbit" (kenan), Thursday, 19 July 2012 15:24 (10 months ago) Permalink
Huh, they even nominated Tio Salamanca from S4!
― the new dire homonomoreboobsativity (Eric H.), Thursday, July 19, 2012 9:16 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark
mark margolis is an awesome actor, good for him
gunn had some great moments in s4 too, i thought she was killer in that phone scene at the very end of the finale
― Black_vegeta (Hungry4Ass), Thursday, 19 July 2012 19:09 (10 months ago) Permalink
just realized that all of this show's favorite directorial flourishes are taken from the 'thunderstruck' video
― turds (Hungry4Ass), Saturday, 29 September 2012 21:19 (7 months ago) Permalink
― balls, Saturday, 29 September 2012 22:23 (7 months ago) Permalink
It took me as long to read this thread as it did to watch everything. Now that I got cable, what a difference between waiting seven days for an episode versus watching three or four in two hour: no time to let events sink in. But this thread helped. You guys were great.
Spectacular ending to Season Four -- maybe the best finale I've seen.
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 18 May 2013 17:54 (4 days ago) Permalink
glad u liked alf. u caught up on s5?
― turds (Hungry4Ass), Saturday, 18 May 2013 20:18 (4 days ago) Permalink
Nope. Out on DVD in two weeks!
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 18 May 2013 21:27 (4 days ago) Permalink
i had the ending of s4 partially spoiled for me by sepinwall, but it was still a super satisfying conclusion to the Gus Saga
― turds (Hungry4Ass), Saturday, 18 May 2013 21:38 (4 days ago) Permalink
New york mag interview with gilligan is good
― utilizing my famously feline agility to seek managerial succor (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 19 May 2013 02:07 (3 days ago) Permalink
Ditto. Except for S3's, the last two episodes of which in tandem are the high point of all current TV.
― Not Simone Choule (Eric H.), Sunday, 19 May 2013 06:33 (3 days ago) Permalink
Well, the high point of BB, anyway.
― Simon H., Sunday, 19 May 2013 06:34 (3 days ago) Permalink
S5 is pretty much a season too far for me. can walt hurry up and die already?
― Old Boy In Network (Michael B), Sunday, 19 May 2013 11:00 (3 days ago) Permalink
― utilizing my famously feline agility to seek managerial succor (forksclovetofu), Saturday, May 18, 2013 10:07 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark
http://www.vulture.com/2013/05/vince-gilligan-on-breaking-bad.html
We’re talking now just a few days after the Boston Marathon bombings, and I’m sure you’ve been watching the news. Did you see that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev had tweeted that he was a Breaking Bad fan?No. Jesus.
He also tweeted, “Breaking Bad taught me how to dispose of a corpse.”Oh, for fuck’s sake. Oh, Jesus Christ. No, I did not know that.
― turds (Hungry4Ass), Sunday, 19 May 2013 12:36 (3 days ago) Permalink
One of the criticisms of Breaking Bad that keeps coming up is over the female characters. Skyler White is seen by some as this henpecking woman who stands in the way of all of Walt’s fun.Man, I don’t see it that way at all. We’ve been at events and had all our actors up onstage, and people ask Anna Gunn, “Why is your character such a bitch?” And with the risk of painting with too broad a brush, I think the people who have these issues with the wives being too bitchy on Breaking Bad are misogynists, plain and simple. I like Skyler a little less now that she’s succumbed to Walt’s machinations, but in the early days she was the voice of morality on the show. She was the one telling him, “You can’t cook crystal meth.” She’s got a tough job being married to this asshole. And this, by the way, is why I should avoid the Internet at all costs. People are griping about Skyler White being too much of a killjoy to her meth-cooking, murdering husband? She’s telling him not to be a murderer and a guy who cooks drugs for kids. How could you have a problem with that?
― turds (Hungry4Ass), Sunday, 19 May 2013 12:37 (3 days ago) Permalink
gilligan otm
― Oral Sex in Sharp’s Ridge Park (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Sunday, 19 May 2013 14:57 (3 days ago) Permalink
yep
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 19 May 2013 14:57 (3 days ago) Permalink
Being called a misogynist for not liking Skyler is like being called a racist for not liking Gus.
(But who didn't like Gus? I digress...)
I agree that Walt was the feeble little man with no spine who kowtowed to his wife, his brother-in-law, his carwash boss, his students even... But. Skyler had a hand in creating this powder keg. Imagine having a wife that you tried to hide having cancer from, knowing that any decision offered to you on your illness would automatically become hers instead. She's just as conniving as her husband. She's manipulative. The humiliating birthday parties, eBay handjobs and an overbearing do-it-my-way attitude...
Keep in mind Walt has tried to kill himself not once but twice – once with the gun in the pilot episode and once when he decided to just fucking die from the cancer. But noooooooo, Skyler sets up the pillow intervention, gets on the phone, badgers the insurance company, badgers the doctors, even goes so far as to badger Walt's old Gray Matters associates into offering him a position. All of those things Walt didn't want. You could almost say she unintentionally badgered him into cooking meth.
And when Walt didn't give her what she wanted (leaving her in the dark about his awful new life), she gets him back by fucking her old boss. More getting it her way. More humiliation. And hell, as soon as she does get clued in on his operation, it's all "you're going to pay for this" and "buy this carwash" and I'll handle this awful drug money, thankyouverymuch.
You think the Aztek was his idea? What I'd love to see a flashback scene of those two in the car salesman's office.
I don't hate Skyler. She and Jesse are the only two characters with a hand in the operation who seem to have any ability to recant or feel the least bit sorry for what's happening to them. She cooks a mean breakfast. She carried a child for 24 months. And Walt's the monster. He's the one that's tried to rape his wife once or twice already.
Now if anyone tries calling Marie a bitch, I'm coming after them.
― pplains, Sunday, 19 May 2013 16:57 (3 days ago) Permalink
And when Walt didn't give her what she wanted (leaving her in the dark about his awful new life), she gets him back by fucking her old boss.
no, she fucks her old boss because she has a need for intimate contact with a human being who she doesn't loathe outright
― Oral Sex in Sharp’s Ridge Park (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Sunday, 19 May 2013 17:02 (3 days ago) Permalink
So that's why she sauntered into the kitchen with a cat-ate-the-canary face to say to her husband "I Fucked Ted".
― pplains, Sunday, 19 May 2013 17:02 (3 days ago) Permalink
no, that was a bonus.
― Oral Sex in Sharp’s Ridge Park (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Sunday, 19 May 2013 17:05 (3 days ago) Permalink
wait wasn't she kinda cruel to him in s1 before there was an excuse
― iatee, Sunday, 19 May 2013 17:05 (3 days ago) Permalink
xps Wow, seriously disagree with that. Need to re-watch it as I may remember wrongly but before all that Ted stuff it struck me as a kind of normal, boring relationship with Walt being full of simmering resentment to innocuous things. Living with no money and a bunch of stresses that that comes with can strain a relationship but I remember it as essentially 'we're in this together'.But then I'm the kind of person who doesn't understand why anyone gives a shit about the model of car they drive so perhaps I'm doing all this inadvertently as well. And if my husband decided to "just die from cancer" I'd sure as hell make sure I did as much re insurance etc to make sure he at least had the option of not doing that.
"badgered him into cooking meth", honestly. 'You MADE me hit you because your attempts to help me were misguided'
― kinder, Sunday, 19 May 2013 17:07 (3 days ago) Permalink
when Walt didn't give her what she wanted (leaving her in the dark about his awful new life), she gets him back by fucking her old boss.
ok I haven't been writing BB slashfic like some of you but this didn't play this way at all
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 19 May 2013 17:08 (3 days ago) Permalink
i definitely liked the character a lot more when they started to give her character some more shades than "shrewish harpy" around season 2/3 - yeah it included some more negative traits as well (like that weird deliberately smoking while pregnant out of spite) but she seemed a lot more human
― Nhex, Sunday, 19 May 2013 17:09 (3 days ago) Permalink
I never saw her as a shrew -- a derogatory term used by guys anyway. imo she's been the same since Season One: an alert woman who deceives herself into thinking she loathes the ethical compromises to which Walt's job has exposed her.
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 19 May 2013 17:12 (3 days ago) Permalink
― kinder, Sunday, 19 May 2013 17:13 (3 days ago) Permalink
And if my husband decided to "just die from cancer" I'd sure as hell make sure I did as much re insurance etc to make sure he at least had the option of not doing that.
You might also want to ask yourself why he'd want to do such a thing in the first place.
― pplains, Sunday, 19 May 2013 17:21 (3 days ago) Permalink
because being told you're going to die might affect your long-term decision-making?I don't actually remember him saying this to her or the context (presumably 'my life is not worth living and we don't have the money so...') so dunno reallybut seriously, a friend tells you they want to die and you don't suggest otherwise?
― kinder, Sunday, 19 May 2013 17:24 (3 days ago) Permalink
sometimes they're right. especially in the ridiculous case of Breaking Bad!
― Nhex, Sunday, 19 May 2013 17:30 (3 days ago) Permalink
(not accounting for the other, more sane decisions Walt could've made lol)
― Nhex, Sunday, 19 May 2013 17:31 (3 days ago) Permalink
i almost gave up on watching in s2 b/c of skyler early characterization as a harpy etc. some of the moments with her have stood out to me ever since as some of the worst in the series - singing happy birthday to ted, for instance. really? she's going to humiliate herself like that in front of the entire office? she's not stupid!
idk, if skyler's been such an awful shrew that he just couldn't wait to die and/or cook meth to get away from her, why didn't he just get a divorce prior to this
― seriously, THIS GUY (daria-g), Sunday, 19 May 2013 18:44 (3 days ago) Permalink
Are there any honest-to-God nice characters on TV that you still find interesting?SpongeBob SquarePants is a great show, and it centers on a character that is courageously nice. Why is SpongeBob interesting? It’s because he has passion. He has a passion for chasing jellyfish. I’m very glad people love Breaking Bad, but the harder character to write is the good character that’s as interesting and as engaging as the bad guy. My hat is off to the SpongeBob showrunners. It’s like how Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, except backward and in high heels. That’s kind of the struggle you face when you’re writing the good guy now instead of a bad guy.
― utilizing my famously feline agility to seek managerial succor (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 19 May 2013 19:26 (3 days ago) Permalink
Yeah, that quote's been around ever since there was a Ginger Rogers.
― What makes a man shart fire? (WilliamC), Sunday, 19 May 2013 19:56 (3 days ago) Permalink
new to me!
― klaus dingeldore's rhinelander monkey keeper father (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 19 May 2013 20:12 (3 days ago) Permalink
"the only thing we have to fear is fear itself"
- matthew weiner
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Sunday, 19 May 2013 20:49 (3 days ago) Permalink
"the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants" - chuck lorre
― balls, Sunday, 19 May 2013 23:36 (3 days ago) Permalink
"i'm sure the ginger rogers quote isn't original with him" - forksclovetofu
― klaus dingeldore's rhinelander monkey keeper father (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 19 May 2013 23:39 (3 days ago) Permalink
"Tippecanoe and Tyler, too, BITCH!"
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 19 May 2013 23:39 (3 days ago) Permalink
"who still talks nowadays of the extermination of the armenians?" - jj abrams
― balls, Sunday, 19 May 2013 23:42 (3 days ago) Permalink
"Tina you fat lard, come get some dinner." - Ike Turner
― Not Simone Choule (Eric H.), Monday, 20 May 2013 01:37 (2 days ago) Permalink
I immediately disliked Skyler until I thought about her situation - a husband that has let life beat him down and seems to beg to be disrespected, a son with cp, little or no money, a surprise baby on the way. It seems natural to me that she would attempt to control everything because who else is going to?And I'm talking pre- meth and pre-cancer here. That said, I have no doubt sleeping with Ted was revenge. She clearly doesn't like him very much. I can't remember... did skylar know about the meth when she started working at beneke or was she still assuming he was having an affair?
― educate yourself to this reality (sunny successor), Monday, 20 May 2013 02:13 (2 days ago) Permalink
IIRC sleeping with Ted happened very soon after Skyler made Walt spill the beans on his meth cooking. Like in the next episode or something. So it was clearly implied to be revenge on Walt for what he had done.
― Tuomas, Monday, 20 May 2013 09:07 (2 days ago) Permalink
"His mother should have thrown him out and kept the stork." - Bob Marley
― pplains, Monday, 20 May 2013 14:57 (2 days ago) Permalink