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

He's also said they're not letting him off the hook easily, so I expect some kind of colossal humiliation and awakening to just quite how horrible a person he's become.

steady there, I haven't finished The Shield yet

Ha, I keep reading things like "This is like what happened in Season 2 of The Wire" and I'm all SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP I CAN'T HEAR YOU.

http://i.imgur.com/TMhRo.gif

useful gif

I mean yeah they could be off on their own without having to pay the prison dudes a cut, but without Mike they'd be using Badger to be their main dealer or something.

The "success" which resulted in the retention of Mike's services is what's commonly referred to as a short-term gain. I think once we've seen the long-term consequences of choosing to not just chillax with Badger on a low-key tip, it's going to look like anything but a win.

i think it might end badly for them yeah

I think Mike is doomed, but I can imagine a scenario where Walt's arrogance gets the best of him. I wouldn't be shocked if he takes out MIke at the end of this mini season, leaving next mini season for everything to fall apart.

I have a feeling that this last leg of Breaking Bad will serve as a really useful object lesson whenever I start to arrogantly balk at my own life's "two steps back" equivalent of Walt's refusal to start cooking with pseudephedrine again.

The "success" which resulted in the retention of Mike's services is what's commonly referred to as a short-term gain. I think once we've seen the long-term consequences of choosing to not just chillax with Badger on a low-key tip, it's going to look like anything but a win.

― Old Lunch, Thursday, August 16, 2012 7:27 PM (36 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hey man, we're building an empire here

http://blog.al.com/tuscaloosa/2012/08/man_named_walter_white_wanted.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyIo6OrGtqA&feature=youtu.be

this is a bit overblown but rather well done.

wth, i don't seem capable of posting youtube links lately

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyIo6OrGtqA

I thought I found the filming location south of Santa Fe, but who knows.

― pplains, Tuesday, August 14, 2012 2:09 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

http://goo.gl/maps/BQfRP

that's right bitches.

That's a decently put-together compilation video. (Though I would have done it differently, starting with the swelling music.)

But if I were trying to sell someone on the series who didn't know anything about it, I think I'd pick this clip.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xU0O4PeMAwg

I do wish you could lose the subtitales, but whatever. It kicks ass. And so does the song.

Cranston on How I Met Yr Mother as a broken down divorcee architect who designs penises.

There comes a time when an actor becomes a role and it kinda freaks me out when he is anyone else.

i think it may have been mentioned on another BB thread, but cranston in "malcom in the middle" when they go to burning man! wow that guy can really do comedy

As another clearly super-talented and multilayered actor playing a TV dad on an okay sitcom that isn't really my cup of tea, I'm looking forward to Ty Burrell's future foray into Cranstonville.

but cranston in "malcom in the middle" when they go to burning man!

Love that episode, specifically Hal's thread (Malcolm doing the nasty with Rosanna Arquette ain't so hot though).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYRSLwVsB5s

i wish ed o'neill got a chance to go full cranston when he was in his prime, he probably could've blown some people away with the right role

if his part in Wayne's World is any indication then yes

O'Neill almost played Al Swearengen in Deadwood.

cocksucker

yeah milch originally wanted o'neill for al and hbo vetoed, wary of al bundy baggage. also looking forward to ty burrell breaking bad.

As thrilling as the train heist was, it's bits like tonight's dinner scene that really make this show for me.

I'm increasingly convinced that they're actually gonna make it to the finish line without stumbling (i.e. that thing that always happens where an otherwise great show is hobbled by a weak final season(s)).

Also: Skyler hearing about her affair from Marie, the explicit revelation of the probable roots of Walt's ambition, Mike fucking with the DEA... Just an embarrassment of great stuff.

And whoever gave me a line of snark re: my suggestion that Walt might use Todd to get at Mike's guys...seems like Todd has someone on the inside! We'll just have to see where that choice little tidbit leads, now won't we!

great, great episode. the only thing that's bugging me is Mike's kind of completely exposed now. he tries to sell himself as this very expert operator who's so tough that the people who crossed him aren't around any more to say how thoroughly he dealt with them, etc etc, but the actual fact? Mike lets literally everybody off the hook, always. Mike is Mr. Second Chance. Dude like Mike lets Todd live because of Todd's uncle's prison connections? Come on, now.

So that element is farce, but fuckin A, the dinner scene (with probably unintentional echoes of a dinner scene in Taxi, the meetup with the Phoenix meth dudes, Walt's justification & how infuriating it is but how you can get that if you look at it from the right angle...just tremendous.

Yeah, Walt is infuriating at least in part because he's every viewer's tendency to rationalize bullshit thoughts/beliefs/actions taken to its logical extreme.

seriously half-assed job by Mike restraining Walt. u rly think methguyver won't find his way out of that come on man

really wondering what the hell Walt's plan is in the next episode, nothing occurs to me other than killing all the phoenix dudes and taking the money. Maybe selling them fake methylamine?

Ha ha. While he was half-assedly securing Walt to the radiator, I was all like, "Aww, c'mon, Mike! You know he's Dark MacGyver!"

i couldn't stop laughing through the whole dinner scene

I thought the whistle while you work scene was really funny too

why did Walt burn the restraint against his hand and not against the rad?!

the dinner scene was hilarious, jeese talking abt eating scabs then drinking his water like he wanted to disappear into it

great, great episode. the only thing that's bugging me is Mike's kind of completely exposed now. he tries to sell himself as this very expert operator who's so tough that the people who crossed him aren't around any more to say how thoroughly he dealt with them, etc etc, but the actual fact? Mike lets literally everybody off the hook, always. Mike is Mr. Second Chance. Dude like Mike lets Todd live because of Todd's uncle's prison connections? Come on, now.

― steven fucking tyler (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Sunday, August 19, 2012 11:23 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

mr half measures

btw I disagree w/ jesse about microwaved lasagna cheese, I love when the top layer of cheese gets super crispy and scabby like that, it's like a little cheese chip appetizer.

I thought the whistle while you work scene was really funny too

― Matt Armstrong, Sunday, August 19, 2012 11:25 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

or completely creepy!

great, great episode. the only thing that's bugging me is Mike's kind of completely exposed now. he tries to sell himself as this very expert operator who's so tough that the people who crossed him aren't around any more to say how thoroughly he dealt with them, etc etc, but the actual fact? Mike lets literally everybody off the hook, always. Mike is Mr. Second Chance. Dude like Mike lets Todd live because of Todd's uncle's prison connections? Come on, now.

― steven fucking tyler (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Sunday, August 19, 2012 11:23 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

mr half measures

― lag∞n, Monday, August 20, 2012 1:25 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

iirc thats not why they let him live

point stands, Mike talks boss talk but all you gotta do for Mike to let you off the hook is ask nicely

"that was before Ricky Hitler shot the kid!"

Can someone explain Skyler's anger at Walt for telling Marie about the affair? IIRC Walt was thinking on his feet when pressed by Marie about Skyler's breakdown... Marie was really putting the screws in and it seemed to satisfy her. What was the alternative? I feel like I'm missing something v. obv. here.

Walt made sure that Marie thought the problem with their marriage was Skyler's doing. Skyler is understandably upset when this revelation comes to light, on top of everything else she's shouldering, particularly when pretty much all of the major problems in her life are Walt-derived.

I mean, imagine you were on the verge of a breakdown because your significant other was a shitty person but in a way you could never discuss with anyone. And then your significant other tells someone in your family that you're on the verge of a breakdown because of something shitty you did.

i dont think theres anything ur missing. ideally walt shouldve told skyler he used that to cover for the way she acted in front of hank & marie but obv they arent exactly communicating as calm, rational ppl and shed be pissed abt it regardless prob..

having it come back 2 her from marie, esp @ the pt when shes maybe really abt to confess real shit to her (prob not really but a statement like 'if u only knew, etc, youd never talk 2 me again' is some classic self-involved & martyr-ish shit) is gonna rankle sky to no end

yeah, word

Yeah I don't know if I'm buying that...what else could he have said? Besides, who gives a shit what Marie thinks? Doesn't make sense that Skyler would be worried abt Marie's condemnation. Historically she's shrewder than that, more likely she'd spin it back, "Yeah, I fucked Ted because stress cancer money etc. and anyway Walt can't satisfy me anymore, he has to wear a fedora to get it up...."

Marie's understanding in last night's ep was predicatable. People have affairs.

xpost yeah, Walt should have let Skyler know he told her, he underestimated Marie's nagging/prying

It just seems like in the general scheme of things:

Murder>>Meth Empire>>Massive tax fraud>>new baby>>canver>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>fucking Ted

"cancer."