Shall we anticpate the AMC series "Breaking Bad"? I think I may.

Also a pizza guy on How I Met Your Mother.

I just watch every episode in like a week. It's pretty darn good despite drug dealers saying fuck a lot less than I would have suspected.

i watched the "director's cut" of the first seaason and it's full of swearing iirc

wait, I am confused... does AMC censor this or something?

yeah, no "shit" or "fuck".
they just leave blank air generally.

I will say though that I thought the long foreshadowed climax was a little unnecessary. Minor complaint though.

Season 2 is on On Demand right now. Love this show.

Slightly gutted I won't be able to torrent this week to week as I'm away on my travels till the end of April. Still, big juicy catch-up when I get home.

Big fan of this show, watched it all over the last few months. Didn't really like the airplane anticlimax either, though, it was built up way too much.

I'm surprised nobody brought this up, and I'm fully prepared to be jumped on for this statement, but a big downer for me is that the women characters in the show seem to be really badly or aggravatingly written. Skyler in particular, while perfectly acted, is this archetypal wifely shrew and foil who I dread seeing every time she comes on screen. As the show kept going into the second season, I only hated her more. It seems like most of the women (Skyler's sister, Jane, random methheads) all just end up being evil bitches. Even Hank got more nuance written into him! Sure you could argue just about everybody (except Walt's son) is kind of a bastard on this show, but the men seem to get a more balanced look.

Granted BB is hardly alone in this problem - its a symptom of the likely demographics of the middle-aged men writing many TV dramas (Dexter has this problem for many of its women, too).

by the end of S2, I was like "you go, girl!" to Skyler.

Skylar isn't an evil bitch at all! Walt is an evil bastard. She gives him the benefit of the doubt plenty of times before she finally snaps.

She is meddling and interfering tho, and always wants to put a public front on everything. That's not evil but it does make her a bit annoying.

Am I the only one who loves the brother in law? I sort of feel the longer the show goes on the more you feel that he's actually a decent dude, even if he is a meathead and even if he is vulgar etc. Sort of feel walt likes him too.

Season 2 is on On Demand right now.

Uhm, where? Online or do you have better cable than me?

skyler starts out horribly but after a couple of three episodes it became clear to me that she really does love walt, and thereafter i was totally on her side about pretty much everything despite her being walt's main "obstacle" to geting what he wants - it's a weird and unsettling dynamic

"It seems like most of the women (Skyler's sister, Jane, random methheads) all just end up being evil bitches."

Really? That's not how I read Skyler or Skyler's sister or for that matter Gretchen at all. The final episode of Season 2, it's hard to see how your sympathy is supposed to be anywhere but with Skyler (annoying or not).

Jane, random methheads sure they are evil bitches, but it's not like the methhead guys are great shakes either.

this show fucks w/you cause walt is the hero even tho objectively hes doin v bad things

thus the v reasonable ordinary reactions of skylar et al are seen as impinging on walts freedom

Season 2 is on On Demand right now. Love this show.

― Darin, Friday, March 12, 2010 3:48 PM

yup gonna do a marathon seeing as its raining buckets all weekend

thus the v reasonable ordinary reactions of skylar et al are seen as impinging on walts freedom

exactly. it's not even because we agree with what Walt's doing. it's because, as viewers, we want the show to keep going into unpredictable, exciting, and bizarre places - where as all Skyler wants is normalcy & stability. if the show was done from Skyler's perspective, with us only knowing what she knows, it would be depressing Lifetime Network stuff.

Uhm, where? Online or do you have better cable than me?

I just have Comcast cable. It's under On Demand here: TV Entertainment > AMC > Breaking Bad

i like the brother in law too and would like s3 to switch to him as a main character hustling after walt on the run

i dunno rockapads - what i want more than anything is for walt to finally come clean and then skyler join him bonnie and clyde style.. but that ain't never gonna happen

I don't necessarily disagree with you guys, especially about how Skyler is supposed to be somewhat unlikeable due to audience expectation and supporting the antihero main characters, akin to what rockapads is saying. But the way the show has been moving, the main characters, Jesse and Walt, and have always have their core negative traits (stupidity/shortsightedness and pride/abusive/vindictive/vicious) while also getting a lot of sympathetic breaks as well. The second season I think really continued to make them deeper, more fleshed out characters, going back and forth constantly on that balance.

But with Skyler, the writers must've thought she was TOO sympathetically written in the first season, since this time around they made her even more "pregnant TV wife" annoying. I will give them points for doing that angle where she figured out the accounting scam (thus setting up her smarts and the great confrontational scene in the last episode), but between her general harpy nature, that bit where she was smoking (WTF) and the revelation that she was flirting with her ex-boss which led to the "sexual harassment" claim in her past, I felt they were trying to escalate how irritating she was. Of course a lot of the character's anger is justified, no doubt, but the way it's directed or written kept bugging me. I hope they do a better job with her this year.

see, I guess I have a different perspective. as much as I have liked Walt, I think he has pretty much gone from anti-hero to villain at this point. he is more despicable and less sympathetic than Tony Soprano was for me - at least in the first few seasons. I agree that Skyler is kind of annoying, and maybe not as deep as she could be, but I think they did a great job toward the end of that last season of tilting my sympathies away from Walt and toward her.

I just have Comcast cable. It's under On Demand here: TV Entertainment > AMC > Breaking Bad

Yeah, I found it... Comcast's menu system is so ridiculous.

on my on-demand there's an episode missing (number 7), wtf

just watching this again...how would jane's blackmail have been any way effective? if she told the papers or police about walt he'd incriminate jessie too surely?

She could tell Walt's wife.

well she did threaten to call the papers specifically...

is the stuck in the desert w/ dead battery episode the "pine barrens" of breaking bad?

does not involve 'universal remote' or even 'docking station' so

so..........

http://www.tvsquad.com/2010/03/17/vince-gilligan-on-breaking-bad-season-three

Interview w/Vince Gilligan, mostly talking about the second season finale. Interesting in that it basically does confirm that overall, Walt already is/will be tipping really far over into the evil category (though he and Cranston don't necessarily agree, lol) though for Jesse, it's not quite so, he hints that it might not be the case by the end of this season...

jane was full of guff but walt doesn't know how to play hardball

I was trying to put that as a poker analogy but I don't know enough about poker

jane was full of guff but walt doesn't know how to play hardball

Yep, no one really knew what they were doing in that situation. They are all amateurs.

All of the cast expressed surprise at Gilligan's assertion during the panel they did earlier that day that Jesse Pinkman was actually the moral center of the show. Paul was also surprised, but he could see where that assessment of his character came from.

What is wrong with you? Why are you BLUE?

I'm a blowfish.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFyB3UZlVDw

off to a good start imo

agreed

All those crawling-through-the-desert folks = even more mysterioso than last season's floating teddy bear

Some explanation on that:
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/11/10/081110fa_fact_guillermoprieto?currentPage=4

On the first day of every month, at the Tepito metro stop in downtown Mexico City, a new breed of pilgrim can be observed inching his way on his knees out of the stop and down a filthy market street, and cradling in his arms, babylike, a plastic figure of Death—or Holy Death, La Santa Muerte, as the pilgrims refer to the robed skeleton, who carries, variously, a scythe, a sceptre, a set of scales, or a globe in her (sometimes his) hands. There were dozens of these effigies, borne by crawling men in their teens or early twenties. Tattooed and gaunt, they were dressed in black T-shirts with the sleeves ripped off and wore chains around their necks and silver skulls, like brass knuckles, on their fingers.
Their goal was some four blocks distant, in the heart of Tepito, a legendary neighborhood that in the centuries since the Spanish Conquest has remained stubbornly insubordinate. Venders were everywhere along the pilgrims’ path, hawking T-shirts and baseball caps and medals decorated with the Santa Muerte.

walt jr said "bullshit"

Yeah, i noticed that too! apparently getting more lax on their censorship of doity woids.

So anyway, by posting a picture of Heisenberg at that Death Shrine it's not clear if the twins were praying for aid to find walt or to kill him.

guessing they're tuco-related somehow

assembly scene was next-level. I love this show.

yeah the assembly scene isn't something you'd see on many tv shows.