BREAKING BAD vs MAD MEN

It is a theme, for certain.

Life is a prison but occasionally you get to take a business trip somewhere nice

And fuck someone more interesting than your wife.

Maybe you should watch Hung, history mayne. I don't think you can go to prison for having a big penis

Oh I guess it's comedy, though. but it isn't that funny.

I love both but breaking bad is so much more fun and mad men started to get too soap opera-y

having a big penis is serious business

Love them both, but definitely love Mad Men more -- and not just because Breaking Bad has had a couple gratutious grossout parts that really got on my nerves (the bloody leaking bathtub -- which almost made me give up on the series, really early --, the people-crushing cash machine.) (Also, since I watch them on Netflix, I've only seen two seasons of Breaking Bad to Mad Men's three; not inconceivable that it could catch up, at some point.)

Maybe you should watch Hung, history mayne. I don't think you can go to prison for having a big penis

Or watch Party Down. You can be hung like a mule and still be the world's biggest moron.

einstein's cock was gigantic

i saw and was into like a season and a half of breaking bad i think but never got the pure compulsion to watch it like i do mad men, even when i expect it might be tedious; when i missed a couple weeks of bb i just didn't get round catching up.

guess there is something to say about successful tv series having their own particular air of intrigue or whatever?- bb kinda felt like a bs late nite movie in episodes to me maybe

i don't know why but breaking bad feels real to me. mad men is so outlandish and implausible. who goes through life named don d. raper?

i really like that BB is not set in NYC or LA

yes^^

don d. raper

Cheap, cheap shot.

And of course there couldn't be a trailer meth lab in NY or LA. They already have suppliers. Based in a trailer somewhere.

more than not being set in NY or LA, it's set in NM which is one of the coolest places in america and gets way less attention than it should

This is really a very weird comparison because of how different they are. Sort of amazing how seeing Don and Betty's relationship disintegrate feels almost apocalyptic somehow and yet Walt refusing to leave the White home or whatever is all LOLs. And yet Breaking Bad can be very dark sometimes too. Don Draper is probably a slightly more interesting character and Mad Men is so incredibly refined, for the most part. But Breaking Bad is just a blast.

s1ocki otm - I was saying this to wifey just last week. Hung, y'all! It's set in suburban Detroit!!

Join us on the New Mexico thread, iatee! We talk about sopapillas there.

I read it sometimes! I don't have much to contribute other than "New Mexico rox and I wish I could go there more"

Don't know about NY, but pretty sure you could find trailer meth labs around parts of the Valley and further up towards the Grapevine, which is still LA county

yeah bakersfield is as methy as it gets

More than Fresno? Or Banning?

Uh, guys, Inland Empire if you're talking about meth in California.

Isn't Banning considered "Inland Empire"

or is it too far East? I'm foreign

I include every horrible city in california in the inland empire

it's a big empire

but yeah I would imagine anything in riverside county counts

Just last month.

Wuuuut?

The following suspects were arrested and booked at the Southwest Detention Center:

Mario Landeros, 51, of Perris; Lorena Villarreal, 34, of Perris; Ned Raggett, 39, of Costa Mesa; Jesus Beltran, 25, of Lake Elsinore, Stanley Adam, 50, of Lake Elsinore; Arturo Flores, 27, of Menifee; Chris Entzminger, 30, of Lake Elsinore; Brenda Partida, 26, of Lake Elsinore, Dora Nieves, 51, of Lake Elsinore; Carlos Aguila, 33, of Lake Elsinore; and Mariela Montoya-Esquer, 23 of Menifee .

Additional arrests are anticipated in relation to this investigation.

breaking ned

more than not being set in NY or LA, it's set in NM which is one of the coolest places in america and gets way less attention than it should

Two shows set in NM isn't enough? (In Plain Sight is the other one, and it definitely uses a lot of Albuquerque locations)

have never even heard of that

well, you know what they say about the best place to hide

Jesus, Beltran!

breaking ned

Well, you do what you have to.

new mexico is a beautiful state but i don't find albuquerque all that exciting. it's mostly ugly and sprawling and cultureless.

the southwest is a great setting for a show though -- tucson would be fun.

Hung is kinda awful, guys. I really wanted to like it (<3 Tom Jane) but I just can't.

yah hung is legit terrible

feel like mad men is too relentlessly cool & highbrow to be as exciting as breaking bad. also breaking bad has more range, it surprises me more

I think Albuquerque reveals its secrets over time. It's def. the Los Angeles of New Mexico haha

I like Hung because I can watch it half-asleep or while doing other things

Also not "cultureless" at all, imho. Quite the opposite.

I have fallen asleep twice to 'Hung'.

i love both of these shows and i'm excited for mad men s4, but the last couple eps of breaking bad s3 are still fresh in my mind and seemed like the best tv ever. with mad men i mostly just remember how much i want to make out with don. i don't have a real good memory.

I've been watching the mad men best of shit that's been running on bravo for the last month or whatever and last wknd I watched the eps on a high def set and it made everything, including the camerawork, look way more shoddy and fake that I ever thought it could

maybe season 3 was lacking in that department or something

breaking bad, I think

no, mad men

no, breaking bad

ugh

― alberto cat6ador (cozen), Wednesday, July 21, 2010 6:56 AM (10 hours ago) Bookmark

MM is never sleep-deprivingly exhilirating as BB. But everything about it has been impeccable from S1, which isn't the case with BB, which even in its current era of greatness has the odd clumsy line or character beat or whatever.

MM gets extra points for my having followed it since its very first UK airing.

lets see breaking bad is fucking awesome and i hate mad men so this is kind of easy