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 (5 years ago) Permalink
Man, and I finally got cleaned up after the last season.
― Oilyrags, Wednesday, 11 June 2008 21:23 (5 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
don't know what those are?
i don't buy it as a masculine transgressive fantasy, at least not through s1e03. all the aggressive types are either idiots or villains or both. so far it seems a lot about families actually.
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 16 April 2009 01:00 (4 years ago) Permalink
^^ MTF is applicable to last season, I believe, but yeah, Dr. Phil OTM, we're on to the next level here.
― SORCEROUSES..roll on stage! (Pillbox), Thursday, 16 April 2009 01:22 (4 years 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 (1 month ago) Permalink
"Tippecanoe and Tyler, too, BITCH!"
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 19 May 2013 23:39 (1 month ago) Permalink
"who still talks nowadays of the extermination of the armenians?" - jj abrams
― balls, Sunday, 19 May 2013 23:42 (1 month ago) Permalink
"Tina you fat lard, come get some dinner." - Ike Turner
― Not Simone Choule (Eric H.), Monday, 20 May 2013 01:37 (4 weeks 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 (4 weeks 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 (4 weeks ago) Permalink
"His mother should have thrown him out and kept the stork." - Bob Marley
― pplains, Monday, 20 May 2013 14:57 (4 weeks ago) Permalink
http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=OuoZqLyMMI4
― i didn't even give much of a fuck that you were mod (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 6 June 2013 17:44 (1 week ago) Permalink
huh.... cool?
― Nhex, Friday, 7 June 2013 00:46 (1 week ago) Permalink
5 4 3 2 ... Cranston with the Ezekiel speech
― pplains, Friday, 7 June 2013 02:12 (1 week ago) Permalink
Haha that's awesome
― educate yourself to this reality (sunny successor), Saturday, 15 June 2013 00:11 (4 days ago) Permalink
OKAY I just started this show three days ago and already finished season two. Observations so far:
this show seems annoyingly plot-driven; it's a highly improbable parade of coincidences and realizations and phone calls and occurences and etc at *just the right moment* to create and subsequently diffuse conflict, but it seems to be at the expense of developing the characters (all of whom seem pretty flat and/or do things that sorta contradict how they're developed but in a way that doesn't acknowledge or comment on it). Jesse is a infuriatingly irresponsible dipshit devoid of any redeeming qualities and I wish he would just die; Hank is such a dumb knucklehead in a completely boring way. Skyler is sad and embarrassingly bland, etc. All of this might be deliberate but if it is I'm not really understanding why, because it doesn't seem to be done in a very engaging way. Nevertheless I can't stop watching, but from the get-go it just reminded me of a less snarky Weeds where ridic and wacky and unnecessary stuff happens just for the sake of happening. Season 2 just ended in a fucking plane crash; are you fucking kidding me?
anyway no spoilers plz but I just wanted to get it out. I will keep watching; at this rate I'll be caught up in like a week. Hopefully it evolves and becomes a little more clever and a little less cheap.
― shohreh aja/danteloo (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 16 June 2013 18:55 (3 days ago) Permalink
That's not all wrong imo but Hank is revealed to be very sharp I think. He's sorta the flawed "white hat" to equal Walt's antihero "black hat."
― ryan, Sunday, 16 June 2013 18:57 (3 days ago) Permalink
Season 2 just ended in a fucking plane crash; are you fucking kidding me?
anyway no spoilers plz
Never gets old.
― pplains, Sunday, 16 June 2013 19:04 (3 days ago) Permalink
Hank is starting to reveal himself to be clever in scenes in the police dept but again it seems like very out-of-character stuff that's just throw in to move the plot along w/o any regard for like how this character wd plausibly be acting
― shohreh aja/danteloo (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 16 June 2013 19:06 (3 days ago) Permalink
Hank is a lot of socially anxious blustering but he's a good detective and he seems genuinely horrified by the violence he inflicts and witnesses. he doesn't get desensitized or dehumanized like Walt.
― ryan, Sunday, 16 June 2013 19:13 (3 days ago) Permalink
i like his character because, in that universe, he's a believable version of a fundamentally decent person, even if superficially obnoxious.
― ryan, Sunday, 16 June 2013 19:15 (3 days ago) Permalink
Hank's character seems to change quite a bit as we go on though, the meathead obnoxiousness is toned down a lot (maybe because of certain plot points, maybe creative reasons). Hard to imagine season 5 Hank wisecracking and taking photos of Tuco's heavy trapped under the car.
― Fanois och Alexander (Merdeyeux), Sunday, 16 June 2013 19:18 (3 days ago) Permalink
hank's one of my favorite characters, it would've been so easy for the show to let him remain the loudmouth asshole that he was in the pilot but they found space for his vulnerabilities and intelligence, hes just a really compelling guy to watch
― i wanna be a gabbneb baby (Hungry4Ass), Sunday, 16 June 2013 19:20 (3 days ago) Permalink
SPOILERS......SPOILERS
yeah i fall on the side that it's a deliberate thing--he essentially goes through PTSD after the turtle thing and THEN he gets shot. he's definitely humbled. he goes through the darkness just parallel to Walt i suppose.
― ryan, Sunday, 16 June 2013 19:21 (3 days ago) Permalink
i also think he's a pretty believably rendered version of That Guy. he can be really funny but he's not cartoon comic relief like saul (who i love)
― i wanna be a gabbneb baby (Hungry4Ass), Sunday, 16 June 2013 19:24 (3 days ago) Permalink
Don't tell me there's a season 5 hank!! I was honestly expecting him to drop dead long before that.
― shohreh aja/danteloo (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 16 June 2013 20:23 (3 days ago) Permalink
smh merdeyeux
― i wanna be a gabbneb baby (Hungry4Ass), Sunday, 16 June 2013 20:25 (3 days ago) Permalink
:-[
― Fanois och Alexander (Merdeyeux), Sunday, 16 June 2013 20:26 (3 days ago) Permalink
I used to love Showgirls. But that was before I started watching Breaking Bad.
― Not Simone Choule (Eric H.), Sunday, 16 June 2013 21:46 (3 days ago) Permalink
Oh come on, American Horror Story is much more Showgirlsy than BB
― shohreh aja/danteloo (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 16 June 2013 22:10 (3 days ago) Permalink
AHS only wishes.
― Not Simone Choule (Eric H.), Sunday, 16 June 2013 23:42 (3 days ago) Permalink
Stevie I can assure you that season two was a super tightly wound season writing wise. I believe this is the last season that was planned out start to finish. A more organic approach was taken season 3 on.
― educate yourself to this reality (sunny successor), Monday, 17 June 2013 00:11 (2 days ago) Permalink
BTW I've been researching season 2 and 3 this weekend. S3 is so great.
― educate yourself to this reality (sunny successor), Monday, 17 June 2013 00:12 (2 days ago) Permalink
Lol iPad autocorrect turned whatever my fucked up misspelling of 'rewatched' was into 'researched'. It's probably a more accurate word anyway.
― educate yourself to this reality (sunny successor), Monday, 17 June 2013 00:15 (2 days ago) Permalink
I just keep thinking how this is so *not* like Mad Men, which has more complex characters, more filmlike shooting/editing, a more naturalistic and organic approach to narrative, etc. I remember one shot where Walt opens the fridge and the camera is in the back of the fridge and its like 3 red peppers and a banana IN THE BACK OF THE FRIDGE and like an empty Tupperware in front of it and 6 bottles in the door that were perfectly evenly spaced apart from each other and I was just like "wtf NO ONE'S fridge would ever look like this; the set designers on Mad Men wd never be this sloppy"
― shohreh aja/danteloo (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 17 June 2013 00:32 (2 days ago) Permalink
"Mad Men" now is exactly what you think BB was.
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 17 June 2013 00:36 (2 days ago) Permalink
more filmlike shooting/editing
breaking bad is like the epitome of filmlike photography/editing on tv tho. but the show really does hit a new plateau in season 3 and beyond.
― Clay, Monday, 17 June 2013 00:44 (2 days ago) Permalink
yeah i think of BrBa as one of the most cinematic shows ever. cant compare it to Mad men, never watched it
― i wanna be a gabbneb baby (Hungry4Ass), Monday, 17 June 2013 00:51 (2 days ago) Permalink
I really like the plot-driven approach, makes a nice change from Sopranos, Mad Men et al. I take a lot of pleasure from a really tight narrative, no matter how contrived really.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Monday, 17 June 2013 01:20 (2 days ago) Permalink
There's a quote from some writer or other "You can use coincidences to get your characters into trouble, but never to get them out of it" or something to that effect, and BB really adheres to that.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Monday, 17 June 2013 01:21 (2 days ago) Permalink
cankles u should watch some madmen sometime. The high points are impressive and i think you would enjoy the schadenfreude of the considerable low points once you start to recognize the characters.
― i didn't even give much of a fuck that you were mod (forksclovetofu), Monday, 17 June 2013 02:40 (2 days ago) Permalink
yeah im sure i'd dig it, just havent gotten to it
― i wanna be a gabbneb baby (Hungry4Ass), Monday, 17 June 2013 02:43 (2 days ago) Permalink
Ya second that emotion
― we're up all night to get (s1ocki), Monday, 17 June 2013 05:25 (2 days ago) Permalink
don't be so sure :P
― Nhex, Monday, 17 June 2013 05:37 (2 days ago) Permalink
Same. Xp
― educate yourself to this reality (sunny successor), Monday, 17 June 2013 05:38 (2 days ago) Permalink
chap otm. I like the sightly exaggerated BrBa universe.
― kinder, Monday, 17 June 2013 07:02 (2 days ago) Permalink