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

Pretty its 9 or 10 PST too although I've never watched live.

yeah we watch them a few hours after theyve aired so now im just confusing myself and everyone else. sorry dudes.

it's always been 10pm on Eastern Time, which is like 7pm on the West Coast

Still don't know what Mountain time does. Ski?

i think it's sort of like miller time

Pete Coors would argue...

I am on mountain time, please help me! Skiing not an option, it is 100 degrees outside.

wait, you're already on ABQ time. you could be watching it RIGHT NOW.

hahaha

http://blogs.amctv.com/breaking-bad/2013/08/breaking-bad-to-take-over-car-washes-in-8-cities-nationwide-this-friday/

haha awesome!

listening to Vince Gilligan on the Nerdist podcast and maaaan I'm geeking out so hard, I can't wait for Sunday

having finally caught everything on netflix, inc blasting through s5.1 last week, this is the first batch I'll be seeing in real time. I'd actually prefer to watch it in mini-marathons like i have, but there's no way i can wait til that's an option.

though by "real time" i mean "off my dvr". Still skipping ads.

VG, the other VG is also on Jeff Garlin podcast live at largo. So good.

I saw yr FB post abt it, will listen!!

VG seems like a very decent sort of dude. Like, it's hard to know what these dudes are like to actually work for vs talking about working but in everything he talks about on Nerdist he's so generous with his praise, he rarely takes any credit for anything except the stuff that doesn't work, lol

i dunno, I'm just thinking about him vs other showrunners like Dan Harmon or Joss Whedon where the conversation remains very much about them (and I like both of them). Gilligan is constantly singing the praises of everyone he works with in a not-kiss-assy way, that just makes me like him a whole lot

oh man, in all of those BB Insider podcasts he is like that. Amazing that breaking bad came out of such an affable guy.

he really seems like the exception to the rule, most of these other showrunners seem like the kind of dudes who would throw hot coffee in the face of an intern.

yeah I agree. even the ones I like, I'm like, I would not want to piss them off.

Yeah, I think compared to Harmon and Whedon (who I like too), Gilligan projects a sense of appreciating the shit out of how lucky he is to be able to do what he does. It's not that I think Harmon and Whedon are unappreciative, but there's a streak (strong in Harmon, not as much in Whedon) of "I deserve this" with them.

I'm on 5.5 of my most recent rewatch. goddamn this holds up well

I'm on 5.2.
I'd never heard of the 'clockwork universe' but I tried to write a post a few weeks ago along these lines about the contrived-ness of the BB universe and how they do it so well (then deleted it because I couldn't put it into words like this):
http://www.avclub.com/articles/how-breaking-bad-broke-free-of-the-clockworkuniver,101278/

I don't mind a bit of 'contrived' as all works of fiction are contrived, just some less hokey or dull than others. I don't mind Walt meeting Jane's dad in the bar, for example. The one thing so far that has me frowning slightly is the sheer mechanics of Walt getting to Brock at the end of S4 (as well as the DEA having Gus's fingerprints on file but I've argued that in another thread and I'm just going to go with the assumption they keep them on file when Gus entered the country).

TWELVE HOURS

YEAH BITCH
leaving 5.8 to watch tonight. Then I'll have to leave the internet for 48 hours before I can watch the new one...

so when exactly is this on? I need to know when to start avoiding this thread and when to start searching for torrents.

Starts in 90 minutes.

rewatchimg s1 today

CANNOT FUCKING WAIT FOR THIS BITCH

Breaking Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaad, SING IT ROBBIE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYaGChm8RWw

actually I'm gonna take a chance on some dodgy live stream of AMC.

is pixellated and with fuzzy sound really the way I want to watch this? I GUESS IT IS.

guh I have to wait 3 hours

time to unbookmark yo
peace

here we go

heh

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setup

I am going to SPOILER this post don't read on if you don't wanna hear about the episode.

thought it was great - I thought for sure they were going to roll credits on the episode as soon as the garage door went down and thought it was awesome that the Hank v Walt confrontation wasn't drawn out further - super smart imo

Jesse character development/dark night of the soul is great until he's tearing up chuckin money at the houses at which point mrs aero rightly starts goin "Emmy!" every time the money thuds

however fuck nitpicking that show fucking ruled

Jesse's dry-throated croak in the living room >>>>> throwing money

but then I've been reading Barney Hoskyns' Hotel California and drawing the blinds and staying indoors in a panic gets my vote.

Most sinister garage close ever

thought it was awesome that the Hank v Walt confrontation wasn't drawn out further - super smart imo

yeah, I was looking forward to a few weeks of who-knows-what-about-who tension, but the way that closing argument swung from place to place and left where they stand unresolved is a lot more interesting.

that was the scene i've been waiting for since i started the show. didnt disappoint imo

I got srs chills. TREAD LIGHTLY

dean norris was amazing in every scene this episode. i love the way that he and cranston keep becoming more similar-looking with every season.

yeah it was so...like, "how/when will Hank confront Walt?" is the q and you sort of instinctively feel like they're going to make you wait and instead the beginning of the confrontation is a fucking fist to the face. really satisfying. and yeah Jesse's demeanor in the living room - the line, what was it exactly - about how mike'd be on ww for killing his guys and ww doesn't really leave stuff hanging - fucking chilly as hell

Is Walt going to teleport Hank's guts into space

that reminded me of http://i.imgur.com/9lWN4oB.jpg

so unrealistic those guys would've been next generation fans

the walt and jesse conversation felt so true to the tail end of shitty relationships that i've known....jesse obviously knows walt's obvious lie is a lie, walt obviously knows that jesse doesn't believe him, but neither party cares enough to do anything about it. so it just lies there.

otm

watched this ep high. think that may have enhanced it.

just Hank's ferocity - here's a guy who's never been anything but polite to Walt, but now that he has tread on his turf, and he knows the truth, he just eviscerates him. the whole "I don't know you. I don't know who I'm talking to".....wow.

or the transition from Walt's meek, softspoken mild-mannered trapeze act quickly giving way to a chilly, violent threat on his final line.