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

Also I'm really sad that everyone thinks Walt actually killed Hank.

I doubt "well I didn't do it myself, it was the nazi meth gang that I hired that capped him" really would play that much better

my assumption is that walt didn't want to sic the DEA on the meth gang, lest they seek revenge, and already knew he'd be leaving the fam either way

Or crazy-ass Walt wants to exact revenge himself.

either way, there's no upside to the gov knowing what went down in the desert, better everything's pinned on crazy heisenberg

that said, it IS sad, esp since walt jr gets the same story

yeah I meant Marie, Sky, Walt Jr. Walt did try *quite* hard to save him!

wonder if there will be a scene of skylar trying to provide nuance about dad's criminal activity and him just being like "well is he a monster or not?"

"Do I have to give back the Challenger now?"

Who do you guys think Charlie Rose is gonna interview

Todd.

Huell, who will be promoting his book "Wrong Place at the White Time"

Season 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5 of The Wire started poorly but redeemed itself in spades by the end of the season, I thought.

I'm only halfway through Season 4 of the Wire, but I have noticed a pattern.

I am kinda dreading the Charlie Rose cameo tbh. if it is him interviewing Marie or something (and what else could it be?) it's gonna be very rmde

but I have noticed a pattern

gratuitous sex scenes?

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hate to admit it, but it feels like it could only be Marie on Charlie Rose - but for some reason that just feels like a real bad move for the show to me.

It's plausible, it would be national news if a former high school science teacher was revealed to be a meth kingpin responsible for the deaths of two DEA agents I guess - but like somebody said way upthread (Shakey maybe?) - it feels like the some of the absurd elements of the storyline would be highlighted if it was presented as part of the real world's news cycle.

Still hoping a character is just watching Charlie Rose in a waiting room or something.

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Slow start, insane build-up and pay-off in final 2-3 episodes per season.

What if Saul is on Charlie Rose?

if they were gonna go with the media angle they should have gotten the America's Most Wanted guy

Feel like that could really work.

oh ye of little faith

i mean c'mon these guys have upended and improved on all our suggestions, you should be excited to see how the rose cameo goes

Nah, it's been great up to now, but I'm pretty sure Charlie Rose is going to ruin the show forever.

in the spirit of their left-field quirks, i'm going to guess it's lydia or skinny pete in the interview seat

Walt hires Charlie Rose to murder Jesse

Charlie Rose is the guy driving the van

guys its just gonna be a clip on good morning america none of the cast are going on the charlie rose show cmon

Charlie Rose holds the snowball in the final scene

you thought it'd be a snow globe, but it's a misdirect

it'll be the principal Walt worked for.

i hope it's a montage of people saying heisenberg on news shows ending with joel mchale making a jesse eisenberg joke on the soup

oh God, already in pain thinking of Leno telling a Heisenberg joke...

leno was actually part of a pretty good BB joke already

I meant Leno telling a Heisenberg joke on Breaking Bad as part of that montage

there's going to be a Heisenberg statue erected at season's end

Jesse peers through the darkness of his underground meth lab/slave pit and sees a filthy and half-naked Charlie Rose wearing a dog leash and assembling bootleg Mexican action figures.

Season 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5 of The Wire started poorly but redeemed itself in spades by the end of the season, I thought.

Can the Pulp Fiction fans in the writer's room resist a gimp reference in the next episode

is there any show that avoided both introducing newer, weaker characters AND completely bungingly a series long payoff?

Avatar: The Last Airbender. No I'm, not kidding here: it's probably my favourite American TV show of the 2000s, and for a series aimed (at least nominally) at kids, it managed to build up a remarkably nuanced and complex plot that totally payed off at the end. (It was only three seasons long, though; I can't imagine a plot like that having been stretched longer without there being too many filler episodes.)

Never thought of it before, but Charlie Rose would be a great voice-only Charlie for Charlie's Angels.

Also, maybe he'll be doing a drug-war analysis with Jeffrey Toobin on a TV in the background in some diner.

No wai, all the 'getting the band back together' episodes are great.

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ok guys i have a theory how this show ends.

jr. asks skilore "I just don't understand. Even after the cancer. How... how could he become that person? How could dad do those things?"

And she says "I guess some people just break bad."

James Brown's "Superbad" over the credits

Still finding it hard to process the fact that Walt Jr knows.

James Brown's "Superbad" over the credits

― da croupier, Monday, September 16, 2013 5:44 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i was thinking a "boiiinnng" sound effect. but that works, or michael jackson's bad cues up and zombie hank and gomie climb out of the hole and start dancing

what was i saying it's obviously going to be "bad to the bone"

Todd and Lydia making out to "Any Way You Want It" and there is a knock at the hangar door

I'm probably in the minority but i do miss the hijinks and black comedy of earlier seasons. but then I'm less enthralled and convinced by the darker turn of the show (obviously necessary for the story it wants to tell). the A to B construction is obviously the big pleasure of the show but it's very limited.

― ryan, Monday, September 16, 2013 4:21 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

i felt that way about the first half of s5, but the 2nd half has been pretty satisfying for me.

Walter acting churlish to Jesse, as if he was the "dumb sidekick" prior to meeting Saul were some of my favorite comic moments