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

Two. There was the lady the Cousins killed.

Women don't really appear much in Breaking Bad unless they're in Walt's family, girlfriends of Jesse or meth heads.

or high-powered executives

Don't know why, but I suddenly find the lack of dead women in this show problematic.

just watched this morning -- i loved how walt marches in to meet lydia all cool with his hat and sunglasses and he stares at her for a moment, and then reaches into his pocket to put his regular glasses on.

He totally seems like the type who would have transitions lenses, but if he did, we wouldn't have the whole becoming Heisenberg moment

Dead women killed by cousins coming across the border.

xpost Maybe he was speaking hypothetically about how hard it was to kill Bin Laden, because back then they hadn't killed him yet despite tons of effort?

"You expect me to pull this off with the utmost precision? Who do I look like, U.S Airways Pilot Captain Chesley Sullenberger?"

can't stop thinking about lydia's voice/speech cadence.

she does have an odd way of talking, eh?

She talks like ... Rosanna Arquette.

laura fraser is pretty spectacular in the role imo.

she does have an odd way of talking, eh?

― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, September 5, 2012 3:02 PM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oddly neurotically sexy, i cant quite figure it out

she seems like a twitchy bird to me but that's not entirely a bad (or unfamiliar) thing

I am gald David Lynch did not get a hold of this show

one thing that i really love about this show, as compared to something like lost, or fringe, is that it doesnt dwell on flaky ~mysteries~. it's pure plot.

Right. The most elemental you could break it down into is moral vs. physical punishments.

it's pure plot

Not only that, but incredibly dynamic plot. The stakes are constantly shifting.

Like the protagonists are in an utterly different set of circumstances at the start of each season. I can't really think of another show that's done that.

I love the scene with Jesse unzipping the bag. The music and the tension makes you think that there's a body in the bag, or something gory and awful, and then it's much worse -- it's the money he wanted.

Also Hank's line, "Who am I to fly in the face of public demand?"

c'mon, it was so obviously the money

Yeah, but we're with Jesse in that scene. It's the thing he least wanted.

oddly neurotically sexy, i cant quite figure it out

ha, i thought i was the only one.

i think her speaking style could almost be an attempt at a clipped american accent by the actress, who is scottish i believe.

but even if its that it's a brilliant accident.

I didn't feel like it was the money that freaked Jesse out so much as the compounded trauma of having a 'normal' conversation with Walt, standing there like a coiled spring waiting for the other shoe to drop and it never did, loaded gun in his pants ready to draw. Like the money was almost an anticlimax, like JESUS CHRIST THAT'S WHAT YOU CAME HERE FOR YO?

I do think the money has a subtext of "now I could afford a REALLY bad drug habit" ... not just in the audience's mind but in Jesse's. and they showed he had fallen off the wagon a bit, had the bong out on the coffee table.

Jesse was on the wagon for what, a few weeks?

but yeah I think it was mainly relief that he didn't have to shoot Walt

he's been getting high since killing Gale iirc

xp

Yeah, on and off.

but even if its that it's a brilliant accident.

― ryan, Wednesday, September 5, 2012 4:36 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

a super sexy accident

i wish i knew enough about idk the twilight zone or twin peaks or some crazy w/ intense fans to make a ilx thread/avclubdiscussion parody like the 'omg i just heard kennedy got shot' one.

oddly neurotically sexy, i cant quite figure it out

I don't find her especially hot or anything, but I am loving the character more and more. I love the bags under her eyes. I love the way she's twitchier than the actual meth addicts we've seen on the show. I love how she's always wearing WAY too much makeup. This isn't just a nervous woman, this is a woman with things to be nervous about.

that diner scene where she tried to order tea told us so much about her

she's a great type A caricature

one thing that i really love about this show, as compared to something like lost, or fringe, is that it doesnt dwell on flaky ~mysteries~. it's pure plot.

Amen. I mean, I understand that network dramas have to fill 22 episodes per season with something, which may inform a lot of that wheel spinning, but still. Procedurals and straight dramatic shows with an overriding narrative throughline are different television formats with different strengths/structures, and it's usually an awkward fit when you try to mash the two together.

I love the scene with Jesse unzipping the bag. The music and the tension makes you think that there's a body in the bag, or something gory and awful, and then it's much worse --

http://i.imgur.com/fr4NJ.jpg

HAHA Damnit now I want to eat junk food.

That would have at least put a smile on ole Jesse's dial

I am gald David Lynch did not get a hold of this show

― Sweet Yin Yang ☯ (Latham Green), Wednesday, 5 September 2012 19:19 (1 hour ago) Permalink

Gilligan should do a show with Lynch tho

i remember some talk about them getting Werner Herzog to direct an episode

I do think the money has a subtext of "now I could afford a REALLY bad drug habit" ... not just in the audience's mind but in Jesse's. and they showed he had fallen off the wagon a bit, had the bong out on the coffee table.

― dmr, Wednesday, September 5, 2012 4:42 PM (30 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Jesse was on the wagon for what, a few weeks?

― chicago rap twitter luminary (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, September 5, 2012 4:43 PM (30 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

he's been getting high since killing Gale iirc

xp

― chicago rap twitter luminary (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, September 5, 2012 4:44 PM (29 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah, on and off.

― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Wednesday, September 5, 2012 4:45 PM (28 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

guys be srs weed is not a drug

"i think her speaking style could almost be an attempt at a clipped american accent by the actress, who is scottish i believe.

― ryan, Wednesday, September 5, 2012 3:35 PM (38 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink"

Yeah she definitely has a Scottish accent IRL. The american accent was made all the more difficult in the nsc ene ion her office where she was a scottish actress playing an american woman speaking fluent german on a conference call

have started watching the third season of this show, and some of the first for context (though it wasn't really necessary). i like it in the compulsive sense inspired by any good soap opera, but i don't know how i feel about it. there's a strong and rather distasteful, fight-club-like "rogue masculinity vs domestic castration" theme to the first few episodes that also seems to crop up later on. the introductory fake bacon and "did you take your echinacea?" breakfast full caps this so hard that i almost bailed at that point, and walt unbound staring down the taunting thug in the clothes shop only underlines the point. characterization of skyler and especially marie seems to support this (for ex the super condescending third season ep where skyler calls the cops on walt), but only sometimes. they're humanized and treated with respect elsewhere.

i'm sure all this has been discussed to death in this and other threads, but i'm new to the show and don't have time to play 10,000-post catch-up, so i'm dumping it here. at the very least, i wanna know what happens next.

loved Jess bashfully hiding the bong!

I think the show is pretty explicitly working with some archetypical Western themes (there's a shot I swear is a quote of the end of The Searchers in season 4) but at the same time i think it's about how Walt has internalized those archetypes as a kind of death wish (literally a cancer!) that fails to found the Home it claims to be founding but instead poisons it.

xp Whatever happens, W.W. is always the grown-up in the room, in Jesse's mind.

It makes me a bit sad when I think about happy go lucky Jesse of Season 1, and now he constantly has THE PHEAR in his eyes now.

rip capn cook