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

I love thinking of this hack Boston tv critic trying to come up with a dismissive pun.

I mean, FX starts running ads of Al Bundy becoming a cocaine overlord in Durango and .... Ok, I'd watch that, but you get my point.

Oddly enough, David Milch really wanted Ed O'Neill to be Swearingen on Deadwood, but HBO refused to center their expensive new Western around Al Bundy.

He was all right on Dragnet and in that Mamet movie; I could see potentially pulling off an edgy serious drama

iirc milch was inspired by seeing him do shakespeare, it was just about HBO not wanting to risk everyone lol'ing at the poster

honestly, that's a fair complaint

yeah, though I wonder if it'd be different now, post-Cranston

i can only imagine how differently BB would've been with Matthew Broderick

who is the next sitcom dad to become a serious cable antihero

Ray Romano's Men Of A Certain Age probably would have done better ratings if they'd had guns

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I know a couple of critics who were ambivalent about BB early on. One pro writer friend of mine actually tuned out for much of the third season because she couldn't really take the show, but then quickly caught up with what she had missed and never got off the boat after that.

who is the next sitcom dad to become a serious cable antihero

I called Ty Burrell a while back, but we're clearly going to be some time before we see get to see his turn to the dark side.

we're = it's

xp yeah, Modern Family is gonna stick around at a few more seasons

C'mon, Will Arnett. Time to step it up a notch.

Bob saget always had a dead reptilian look in his eyes.

These all sound crazy, but 30 years ago, I bet Jerry Lewis could've played Walt.

Deniro could be badger then lose 50 lbs to be skinny pete

xp The problem is Jerry Lewis is totally unsympathetic

I'd like to see Dave Foley take a stab at something like this.

No, no, no. It's

SCOTT: Walter
MARK: Skylar
KEVIN: Jesse
DAVE: Hank
BRUCE: Marie

lol Bruce would do a GREAT Marie

xp The problem is Jerry Lewis is totally unsympathetic

― Nhex, Thursday, October 3, 2013 12:31 PM (30 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Maybe, but he would've turned the barrel-stealing scene into a slapstick tour-de-force.

just switch Scott & Dave and then omg

yeah Scott is great at asshole cop types

Paul Bellini as brock

good call, would definitely like to see Foley in a black comedy/drama - any of them really

you should watch this it's really funny http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120536/

"Skylar, these are great eggs."

"They're fresh from my body onto your plate!"

this thread has taken an amazing turn

and i agree Scott should play Hank.

I didn't even know The Wrong Guy existed until I read about it a few weeks back. It really is hilarious and great.

And Dave played a really good depressed version of himself on Maron recently. Dude has a (totally justified) air of melancholy that would translate really well to a darker dramatic role.

Who would play Tuco or Gus or Tortuga?

Joe Flaherty in Forster role

i think we're all forgetting that the very premise of Breaking Bad is implausible in Canada

"i need to cook meth so I can afford Montreal Canadien season tickets"

Canadian Walt would create a super-addictive, blue-tinted maple syrup.

xpost ha haa!

the Canadian BB would be based on the Rob Ford story; seriously would make an amazing movie or mini-series when all the facts come out. Could be very Wire-like with parallel stories intertwining with the dealers, city hall, cops and reporters.

In March 2013, former mayoralty candidate Sarah Thomson accused Ford of touching her inappropriately and making inappropriate comments while posing for a picture together at a political function.[130] Thomson, in a later interview on radio, suggested that Ford was on cocaine: “I thought he was, yes, but I don’t know,” she said. “I went back and looked up, you know, what are the signs of cocaine use. I looked it up and you know sweaty, talking quickly, out of it, arrogant — all these things were on there. What I read on Google, I would think he’s either on that or some other substance … he was definitely out of it.”[131]

OMG GOOGLE FOR COCAINE AND FIND ROB FORD

ha - actually that ass-pawing was actually before the crack tape, so I think she meant she googled "cocaine" and found "sweaty, arrogant"

still sticking with Scott for Walt and Dave for Hank.

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Kevin can do nebbish Walt. Bruce can do speechifying Walt. Foley can do exasperated why aren't you applying yourself Jesse Walt.

so what you are saying is walter white could do a one man KitH show?

"I'm crrrushing your head I'm crrushing your head...with an ATM machine"

He's hip he's cool he's 52

forgot about the ATM machine. wow a lot of things happened in Breaking Bad

Lotta kids with dead parents.