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

are they on the torchwood set for some reason

teal&orange.xls

Skylar looking a bit Carmella-esque there.

Total Sopranos rip there, not that it matters.

still rockin the wallabees

do i know who the dude 2nd from the left is?

saul?

he's the 3rd in.

i think the 3rd one in is mike? this feels like a weird thing i am not getting???

oh fuck. got my names confused. yes SAUL!
i honestly forgot about him!

How could you forget about Saul?

i don't know. and i love Bob Odenkirk/Mr Show!
i think all the characters i had to remember for Game of Thrones must have taken up the entire partition of my brain that is reserved for tv show characters.

<3 saul.

skyler looking way hot there

O_o

seemed like she gained some weight going into season 3

have they written out the hispanic guy who drove walt to the plant at the end of s3? maybe he's just not big enough to appear on the poster.

Well, he's had about three lines hasn't he? Mostly just stands around looking menacing

yeah true...it just doesn't seem the same without him.

judging by the trailer i assume walt is going to become a meth boss of some kind now.

Victor (the Hispanic guy) is still on the show.

This show is so dope btw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lQkhpSFvxU&feature=player_embedded

Wow. So can't wait for this.

Giancarlo Esposito is funny in this^

god i am so psyched. the great thing is i believe the actors 100% when they say how good it's going to be.

Some interesting stuff in this
http://www.newsweek.com/2011/06/26/breaking-bad-the-finest-hour-on-television.html#

Big ol' NYT Magazine piece on the show. Starts with talk about a scene being filmed for this season but doesn't appear to be too spoilerish after that but even so, approach as you choose.

dunno if this is mentioned upthread since I don't want to read spoilers but if you've got AMC On Demand you can watch season 3 now.

hey hey factoid from the newsweek piece re jesse: Paul in particular has blossomed in recent years, transforming his character from a rather one-dimensional brat (who was originally scheduled to die early on) into what Gilligan calls the “moral center” of the show.

^^^ spoiler in a universe where biff is married to marty's mum

its funny cause i think a few times up thread weve been speculating abt the future of the show and been all no way theyll ever kill jesse

I think it's a real possibility.

"He can imagine a fifth season of “Breaking Bad,” but that’s it."

I thought this was the last one...

newsweek says he can imagine a 6th season

"I don't know, I can imagine quite a bit."

no way theyll ever kill jesse

If Jesse gets bumped off, Walter will be just the man for the job.

He started backtracking on the number of seasons right after last year's finale. I'm conflicted.

As a fan of The Sopranos until the very end, I can't say I have much of a problem with him extending the show a bit if he feels he needs or wants to.

I think I read someone in the cast saying it couldn't really go past 5.

HURRY HANDS OF TIME HURRY

We just finished rewatching previous seasons in preparation and Jesse as moral center is what makes the end of season 3 so devastating, IMO.

Also <3 when Saul calls Jesse "Hip Hop."

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/10/magazine/the-dark-art-of-breaking-bad.html?hpw

some p interesting stuff in that article, not so much about the show but about the reaction to the show & the audience breakdown

it sorta makes sense that new mexico would love this show

I wonder if ny/la really are the top markets for mad men. I have no idea how these things work.

ive said this before but one of the things i love abt this show is where its set and how fully it inhabits it

I have no "problem," per se, with show creators extending their run past the promised or threatened end, but more often or not that means they lose control of the narrative and rarely stick the landing. "Sopranos" is a perfect case in point. Even if you liked the final episode, the preceding seasons were pretty slack, rambling and erratic in terms of narrative. Chase was the king of laying down more track for the money train to roll further.

Last season was made up as they went along. That doesn't mean it can't (and won't) go off the rails at some point, but last season earns the man some credit.

that's about BB, not Sopranos

yeah it still blows my mind that season 3 was completely done as they went along

I seem to remember an interview from around the time of S3 in which V. Gilligan suggested that he thought the narrative could most likely fit mostly into four seasons w/ the possibility of an abbreviated fifth season in case any spillover needed to be accounted for. Given how far along we are at this point in Walt's downward spiral, the idea of three more whole seasons seems pretty excessive imo. I trust Gilligan, though, ultimately - even if some of the S2 stuff was pretty heavy-handed (a minor complaint, as far as I am concerned)

I have no "problem," per se, with show creators extending their run past the promised or threatened end, but more often or not that means they lose control of the narrative and rarely stick the landing. "Sopranos" is a perfect case in point. Even if you liked the final episode, the preceding seasons were pretty slack, rambling and erratic in terms of narrative. Chase was the king of laying down more track for the money train to roll further.

― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, July 12, 2011 2:46 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

there's a big difference though - sopranos was open-ended to begin with. BB has just had this one, extremely narrow focus from the outset: what will be the consequences of walt's decision to sell meth?