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

otm

hank is a fat schlub. marie is not an incredible knockout wife imho. like, I can believe that those two people, looking the way they do, would be married to each other. it's not like the King of Queens or whatever.

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hank is a fat schlub. marie is not an incredible knockout wife imho. like, I can believe that those two people, looking the way they do, would be married to each other. it's not like the King of Queens or whatever.

― what's up ugly girls? (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, August 23, 2013 7:29 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

i think the problem here is that you do not think any human beings are attractive

I've started some threads that say otherwise

Shakey's family is ok, but he wishes he didn't have to make eye contact so often

lydia is def really pretty. cranston and aaron paul are classically handsome and classically "cute," respectively. they go out of their way to make Walt less attractive than Cranston, I think.

cranston on seinfeld was used as this ridiculously handsome dbag archetype.

I think this shows generally goes out of its way to make it's characters seem less attractive than they would be if they were on another TV show.

no one is too implausibly attractive for their character but there are plenty of attractive people in this show.

dressing down attractive people is fine but their attractivity is always going to shine through

fyi cranston looks more attractive because the flash-forwards were shot first --- they got all the flashfowards done while Cranston still had hair. iirc Gilligan said that hair concerns account for like 90% of the scheduling of the show

I may be remembering that wrong, can't remember where I read it

dressing down attractive people is fine but their attractivity is always going to shine through

― socki (s1ocki), Friday, August 23, 2013 8:46 PM (18 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

its the perfect technique, you make people think theyre looking at ordinary relatable people w/o them actually seeing disgusting normal human beings and turning off the tv

there's no fat schlub with incredible knockout wife etc.

isnt that kind of exactly what hank is

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Sounds like someone's jealous!

How Skippre didn't go along with Hunk Shaver in that diner is beyond me.

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aw congratulations hunk and mire

later the photographer is going to spend ages looking for his lens cap that maire has stashed in her bouquet.

Good photo acting, her expression is pretty much "that fuckin hat."

im w shakey on this

Hmm, I just had to google King of Queens and idgi cause she's really average looking. That couple doesn't seem any less believable than Hank & Marie and they seem a lot closer together in age (just checked, actors have a 5 year age gap vs. hank & marie's 10 year difference).

Yeah but he fat

the actress who plays marie is obviously more attractive than the character is made to be. the show does go to lengths to show why these two could plausibly be together, unlike The King of Queens/insert CBS sitcom

Hank seems like a sort fit guy that has put on a few pounds. king of queens dude is a blob. would also take queen of queens (no idea what to call her) over Marie any day - but i admit that's personal preference and a little more up for debate.

Also Hank is a decent upstanding guy and a successful federal agent but I guess only looks matter, huh?
(Even if he was pretty shitty during his physical therapy with his GODAMN MINERALS)

I think Kevin James/Leah Remini was believable as a couple and got unfairly lumped in with completely absurd TV couples like the one on According to Jim.

Jim Belushi and any human female is pretty unbelievable.

Anna Gunn on anti-Skyler rage

what I love about the wedding photo above is how they capture how Hank and Marie would smile and pose.

Kinda hard to make them look younger (thus the hat?) Or have they only been married a few years

underneath the hat he has a full afro

he has comandeered bitch, probably no one else should bother saying it ever again. xxxp

― estela, Friday, August 16, 2013 12:27 AM ...

i wasn't rebuking you, i was remembering how i heard someone say it last week and it reminded me of him but sounded so weak in comparison.

― estela, Friday, August 16, 2013 12:35 AM

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ya bish

Love that Gunn wrote that Op Ed. Not sure people hate the character because she is strong. If anything, she seems driven by fear, including, several seasons ago, the fear of leaving Walt. I mean:

"Vince Gilligan, the creator of “Breaking Bad,” wanted Skyler to be a woman with a backbone of steel who would stand up to whatever came her way, who wouldn’t just collapse in the corner or wring her hands in despair."

This doesn't read right to me. Backbone of steel? Walt has bullied into a lot of her actions. And haven't there been plenty of moments where she has basically been relegated to wringing her hands in despair in the corner? Maybe I need to watch the show again, but Marie has always seemed more hardcore/tenacious/tough per Gunn's description than Skyler.

Also not sure who these people are who are supposedly rooting for Walt, but I guess I'm not surprised they exist.

rooting for Walt isn't that much different from rooting for Michael Corleone (which I'm sure most people do)

This gets back to what I was saying about the female characters not being well written. They writers think a woman with a backbone of steel would zombiewalk into a pool at a dinner party.

um, she did that to set up groundwork to get the kids out of the house? that was calculated

I enjoyed reading Gunn's point of view but I think she misses the mark a little there.

both mad men & breaking bad are about protagonists who don't like themselves and their suburban lives, and who create new identities to escape from the realities of their lives. I think that story has a pretty strong vicarious appeal for a lot of people, and since Skyler and Betty represent the forces trying to pull the protagonists back into that life, it's obvious why people react against them.

basically everything interesting that people watch MM & BB for happens outside of the home, so any scene that brings us back into the domestic drama is a downer. and these characters aren't given much of a life beyond the home, so audiences naturally associate them solely with the family drama stuff.

I'm not sure that people are that much easier on walt jr. except that he's barely around so he's easier to ignore.

I think it's more interesting to compare the protagonists and wives in BB & MM to the leading women in Weeds and Orange is the New Black.

I love BB but it has a pretty male-centric pov. To the point that when we finally get a woman involved in the manly world of meth running, she has to hide and plug her ears and eyes when the bad shit goes down.

haha, yup!

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lol

wk otm. also, like, let's remember how skylarking was set up in the very first episode. half-hearted birthday handjob and fake bacon. hmm what a mystery that people think she's a nag and a bore! it would be hard for anybody to shake off that first impression.

I found her completely unsympathetic for the entire first season, very weird but in dull, cold ways.

Never really got the hate. She was stressed about money and trying to keep a household together yet still expected to be full of smiles and not 'nag' (or 'remind' if it's a guy doing it) about spending on the right credit card.
I do agree she was cold and not falling over herself to be 'sympathetic' but who is in those circs - I thought it was clear she still cared a lot about him and his wellbeing and that stuff was just setting up that they were in a rut or w/ever.
Walt was just as distant tbh (cringing throughout his party) yet it's ok for him because he has important stuff to worry about.

good job mansplaining to the woman who actually plays the characters and wrote an op-ed about getting death threats yall

what is her usrname

ilx will not be denied its misogyny about this character, skyler. I mean skypager!!! lol!!! what a dumb woman

meanwhile, I wonder what magic words Hank will use to snap Jesse out of his fugue state. I doubt just the sight of him will do it.

good to see the actress who plays skynet fighting back

aero not to skysplain but the multiusage of different spellings/adaptations of the name are because people seem to be torn between Skylar and Skyler
i preferred shi'ar but i'm a nerd