BREAKING BAD vs MAD MEN

what really got me was ep 4 actually, the really pete-centric one, that was just great

I think mad men has gotten better each season. the few times I've tried to watch season 1 again, it felt clunky.

characters have gotten more compelling as the show has gone on, too. they painted with a broad brush at first.

anyway, BB for me.

What channels broadcast these in the UK?

Mad Men is shown on the BBC, albeit the 'arts' channel BBC4, and latterly late night on BBC2. As for Breaking Bad, the first season was hidden away last year on little watched digital channel Five USA. I rented the DVDs of BB instead. I'm intrigued by how well further seasons of BB have been received. I've added BB s2 to my rental list.

Season 2 of BB was on Five USA as well.

homosexual II, you need to watch BB

I don't know how well BB was received in the UK, but the fact that that Five USA showed season 2 over consecutive nights at midnight over the xmas & new year holiday makes me think that maybe they were just trying to get rid of it. I'm not holding my breath for season 3, looks like I'll have to rent the DVDs.

To be fair, that's better treatment than The Wire got from British TV on its first run.

funny how i really turned around on MM tho

― al-goreda (s1ocki), Wednesday, July 21, 2010 11:38 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yeah...did things happen that pulled you in later or do you like those early episodes a lot more now too?

― this. right here. is my. new LMBO (some dude), Wednesday, July 21, 2010 11:46 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

the opening of the mad men thread is compelling for demonstrating the limits of critic thinking - what does one do when presented w/an engaging work of art - panic, grasp, spout - its funny tho for all the complaints everyone seemed to have kept watching

i'm not sure the show has in retrospect justified the way it opened.

ive rewatched s1 and imo most of the initial impression of it being too broad or obvious comes from unfamiliarity w/the characters and environment - its pretty much just as good as the rest

yeah, plus there are plenty of shows w/ great 1st seasons where the early ilx posts about them aren't full of panic and grasping and uh spouting
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MM def pushed some ilx tender spots - racism sexism ignorance attractive people - stands to reason engaging w/this harsh situation might inspire resistance

took melissa w to unite the board

Glad to be of service.

whoa

how long have you been standing there?

Long enough.

haaah

i refuse to pick between these two.

I don't know how well BB was received in the UK, but the fact that that Five USA showed season 2 over consecutive nights at midnight over the xmas & new year holiday makes me think that maybe they were just trying to get rid of it. I'm not holding my breath for season 3, looks like I'll have to rent the DVDs.

i didn't even know it had been on! i mean did the ppl @ five even bother watching it? crazy

It has a seriously minimal profile over here - most people haven't even heard of it till I start raving to them.

BB and Justified are getting short shrift from Five.

waht a nasty ho http://www.buzzfeed.com/akdobbins/the-official-january-jones-dating-timeline

They met on the set of American Weddings, as I'm sure you remember.

http://s-ak.buzzfed.com/static/enhanced/terminal01/2010/7/21/12/enhanced-buzz-22761-1279729787-22.jpg

I guess those bangs are indicative of the quality of life choices she was making in '05.

lol but mean

LOL at that pic of Adrien Brody. Another LALXOR has a great story about seeing him rolling up to a gas station in W Hollywood in a Hummer with like 30" spinners and disco lights on it or something.

It has a seriously minimal profile over here - most people haven't even heard of it till I start raving to them.

― rhythm fixated member (chap), Thursday, July 22, 2010 12:53 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

BB and Justified are getting short shrift from Five.

― orakle-krake (Gukbe), Thursday, July 22, 2010 12:55 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

tbf they're not exactly pop culture phenomenons in the U.S. either -- i'd guess if i asked friends about Breaking Bad maybe half of them would know what i'm talking about and even less for Justified

I think I mean as far as advertising goes. Small cable drama awareness isn't that high in the US either, no matter how much Times Square gets decked out:

http://blogs.amctv.com/breaking-bad/breaking-bad-billboard-560.jpg

It's pretty sad that January Jones has had an even worse dating history than I have. Shocked and appalled, etc.

Sons of Anarchy got mostly ignored as well, until FX picked it up and they were putting large posters up for it all over the place. Guess we'll have to wait for the Guardian to really jump on the BB bandwagon.

t's pretty sad that January Jones has had an even worse dating history than I have. Shocked and appalled, etc.

― ô_o (Nicole), Thursday, July 22, 2010 6:11 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark

I get the impression she's quite strange.

that's what happens when you name your kid after a month

Now that you mention it, I have known three girls named April and they have all been crazy.

girls named after seasons - even crazier.

http://images2.fanpop.com/images/photos/4100000/zooey-joseph-500-days-of-summer-4188278-400-305.jpg

adrien brody has LEGIT RAP CRED iirc, he produced a few tracks for c-rayz walz and a soundtrack cut with rawcotiks for a film he was in

Voted, feel a bit dirty.

also i was pretty appalled that MM felt the need to explain the title of the show w/ a little caption at the beginning of the first episode. the whole thing kind of feels spoonfed in that way, more of a wikipedia entry come to life than great storytelling.

― this. right here. is my. new LMBO (some dude), Thursday, July 22, 2010 3:26 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark

That was one of the few moments in season 1 that I liked at all.

I checked out on Mad Men when we got like episode 3 of the plotline with the Jewish department store owner.

Breaking Bad runs laps around Mad Men.

I love Mad Men, but the only enduring novelty is the advertising setting--the thematic territory, characterization and plotting quickly became terribly familiar and fairly predictable; it's still top-tier television, but it adds very little to the canon. I have no doubt the show is going to jump the shark before its final season and the period fetishization will border on intolerable.

Whereas there's a consistent unpredictability and feeling of newness to Breaking Bad; I never feel like it is a television show I have watched before. Also, it's the best show on television and everything about the show is a cut above anything presently airing--especially the cinematography.

admittedly there's no shots of Christina Hendricks' ass on BB though.

there's a consistent unpredictability and feeling of newness to Breaking Bad; I never feel like it is a television show I have watched before.

and

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

so

Breaking Bad by miles. Agree with litel's summation.

I do wonder if some of the voting for Breaking Bad is because it doesn't have many female characters.

Skyler might be only one character but without her S2 doesn't have a reason for existing.

By the way I just want to say that Mel Caramel's reappearance here was A+ material.

Thanks again.

GAH

i think they should - when they are out of ideas - make two new shows called breaking mad and bad men

thoughts?