Shall we anticipate the FIFTH SEASON of the AMC series "Breaking Bad"? I think I may.

I'm guessing two or three, if he stops slumming in stuff like Rock of Ages.

― the new dire homonomoreboobsativity (Eric H.),

I reckon classier leading roles will start pouring in once BB wraps.

He'll pull off a Tommy Lee Jones in one of the next Bourne movies, no doubt.

Would love to see an example of a foreign-language movie or television show featuring a scene in English. The only thing I can come up with right at this moment is the final scene in "Life Is Beautiful" where the American soldier in the tank says to the Italian kid, "Hello, boy!"

― pplains, Thursday, July 19, 2012 10:40 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1m0fW-SY7eY

xposts to LL, as I understand it, the writers didnt know where gus came from until the 4th season. They were forced to pick somewhere for the gus/max/hector storyline. I suppose it would be ridiculous to change his accent that late in the game?

i find it hard to imagine cranston getting a lot of juicy film roles post-BB, but i hope im wrong. i just see a lot of dads, grumpy bosses and bad guys in his future

That makes lots of sense. It's not that geographically it was inaccurate -- I don't even really know that I would recognize the exact features of Chilean Spanish even though I listen to it all the time at work. It's just that he is clearly not a native Spanish speaker at all and they didn't train him/his mouth well enough to make that inaudible/undetectable (to me, ol' eagle ears). I've always been interested in the strange world of dialect coaches. I wonder if they have formal linguistics/phonetics & phonology training?

Anyway he's gone now.

I think.

http://www.amctv.com/breaking-bad/videos/sneak-peek-episode-502-breaking-bad-madrigal

preview for e2

*bites tongue*

i have never been able to summon the energy to get angry about bad accents

― funny-skrillex-bee_132455836669.gif (s1ocki), Thursday, July 19, 2012 11:32 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Me neither, unless it's someone trying to do one of my local accents.

― pplains, Thursday, July 19, 2012 11:37 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ha yes

That's because you guys aren't linguists! This is my thing.

― nicest bitch of poster (La Lechera), Thursday, July 19, 2012 11:44 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

do they make you take a vow to get irritated at bad accents before they hand you the degree

we have to draw the vowel chart for our native language at gunpoint, then we take the vow, then we get the paper

...then you get the women? (scarface, sorry I couldn't help it)

http://www.nbc.com/the-tonight-show/video/id/1410523

sepinwall linked to this on twitter. Aaron Paul in his late teens or early twenties on The Price is Right. Totally perfect.

hah, wonderful!

And here are GIFs!

http://www.buzzfeed.com/whitneyjefferson/aaron-paul-the-best-the-price-is-right-contesta

BOB BARKER BITCHES

THE PRICE IS WRONG BITCH

fkn adorable, yo

that has brightened my day a bit

Julia as Hector "Tio" Salamanca:

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i191/fluxion23/julia-hector-face-web.jpg

(I called her and asked her permission to post that. Not everyone wants their best Hector face on the internet.)

"Look at me, Julia. Look at me."

who?

Dude was very otm to eat the nuggets without the sauces.

"who?"

Fair question. I guess she's always been a bit of a lurker, but she's been here longer than I have. Which is a long damn time.

cajun kickass

forget about julia, who is lydia

She's The Tattooed Lady. Jeez. Keep up.

Franch

i had to imdb but it but OH YEAH the chick from Neverwhere

way, way better than the premiere imo

Heh, I used to sell those rolling pig toys at my previous job.

Skylar / Walt bed scene...gaaaahhhhh could that have been creepier

One of the best cold opens of the whole series. The sauce tasting reminded me of the scene in Mulholland Drive with the espresso. And then it gets even better. And all before the titles.

Skylar / Walt bed scene...gaaaahhhhh could that have been creepier

It gets easier. I promise.

This episode is even better the second time. I love the way the scene with the DEA boss is lit, and the way his shirt collar is at least an inch too wide, and his shirt is overstarched and too big for him. It makes him look tiny and shriveled. The metaphor is obvious, but I didn't notice it until the second time I watched.

And I love that the line of dialogue that rings through this whole episode is actually from the last episode. It's from Mike, about to shoot Walt, yelling, "Do you even know what you've done?" Walt has no idea. And neither do we. And that's who Lydia is. She's what Walt has done that he doesn't know.

it's a roomba!

i was pleased that this ep featured not only a roomba, but a weeping jesse, and intense questioning from hank.

jesse crying! I was like I HOPE YOU FEEL REALLY BAD NOW WALTER WHITE YOU BIG MEANIE

loling at the madrigal chick trying to order tea at the diner

loved the sleeves on her blouse, for the record

love that the whole magnet scheme was pointless (hank dismisses gus' laptop as unusable evidence) and actually made things worse by turning up the offshore accounts

This episode is even better the second time. I love the way the scene with the DEA boss is lit, and the way his shirt collar is at least an inch too wide, and his shirt is overstarched and too big for him. It makes him look tiny and shriveled. The metaphor is obvious, but I didn't notice it until the second time I watched.

― cue "White Rabbit" (kenan), Monday, July 23, 2012 7:31 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post

also liked the mirroring of the boss complaining about how gus was right under his nose to hank who has walt right under his nose

Yeah, it's maybe one second of a reaction shot from Hank, but it's priceless.

And totally agreeing with Lechera about those sleeves. Truly remarkable sleeves.

Really the whole interrogation scene is fantastic. They know who the guy is, they know he's dirty as the day is long, and they know that "good cop/bad cop" isn't going to work on this guy. So instead they play "smart cop/dumb cop", and they do it so well that they almost fooled me into thinking that Gomez is actually a complete boob. But no. That was planned.

Just finally caught up with the premiere, which was ... OK. Walt's arrogance is off the chart in that one. Looking forward to ep 2, but in terms of total assholes, Walt is currently sort of sub-Vic Mackey. It's not even clear if Walt loves his family, and he more than seems willing to cut them off (or worse) rather than go down with them. Like, even when he "saves' them, or protects them, it seems like one more step in some long game that he's playing.

A+++ episode. I'm slightly breathless from the amount of confidence and versatility this show is displaying right now.

We're not supposed to know exactly how Lydia fits in yet right? Because if we are I must have missed something. I thought maybe she was Gus' wife at first, but that's obviously not right.

I thought it was implied she's a Madrigal exec or connected with the one who killed himself at the beginning? Because she didn't seem the sort who would take the initiative on "cleaning up" the mess, working under someone

but i could just be imagining that

I agree, although did BB show its hand a little too much in letting Mike make such an obvious and uncharacteristic mistake by not killing her? He's supposed to be smarter (and colder) than we are, after all.