Breaking Bad withdrawal support society

Somebody could probably do a decent one of these for Breaking Bad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ml9hAN5km14

Also recommended tv --the series about Pablo Escobar (Patron del Mal) was quite good. I never finished watching it because the episodes were dvr-ing all screwy and I got sick of dealing with it, but the show was muuuuuch more tastefully produced than your average novela, if that's what you might imagine (if you watch Spanish lg tv, which most ppl probably don't?)

Anyway I'm sure it has English subtitles. It was pretty good.

I'd call Canada minor compared with Ford's more celebrated books but "minor" for Ford is anybody else's major

not the same, but watching the first season of Orphan Black has helped to scratch the itch. the pacing & structure seem influenced by BB, like there were will be some crazy unexpected violent turn but it won't come as a cliffhanger like most shows would do it, it'll be 15 minutes before the end of the episode and then the end will be other thing entirely.

that's funny, I mentioned something on the BB thread about the show reminding me of '70s caper movies and the last one of those I watched was probably Charley Varrick. I didn't make the direct connection though. Is that the one where the bank is in a trailer and they steal the whole bank?

Here's the Patron del Mal trailer with subtítulos en English
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLszT9sAktQ

charley varrick is fucking awesome

WINTER'S BONE

Charley Varrick is so great

Patron del Mal looks up my street, thanks for that. Wonder why there hasn't been a big Hollywood biopic of Escobar yet.

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

oh the one with the trailer I was thinking of is Bank Shot

haha holy crap, watching Charley Varrick again and it all takes place IN NEW MEXICO. at one point charley is like, well, dunno if i can really fly us all the way across the border, i haven't done fancy flying in a long time and his hot-headed young partner is like WHAT GOOD ARE YOU THEN, that full-on utilitarian view of others as parts for the machine of your own schemes. and charley pulls off all these walter white moves, like switching dental records.. SO DOPE. it really is one for the fully-paid up member of Team Walt.

maybe something we haven't touched yet is something that captures the pressure cooker domestic drama of micro-lies that S2 embodied (and which filtered out through the rest of the show)..

i.e. ... Far From Heaven??

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kZivVxB3vU

Watched Charley Varrick the other night, fun movie.

Joe Don Baker is always so monumental

You just know he was always smelling faintly of beernuts, farts and cologne

http://clickingbad.nullism.com/

my hand says fuck you for showing me that

Ripoff of drmeth.com?

tbh I cheated like hell on DrMeth and downloaded an autoclicker app - who has the time to hire hundreds of thousands of dealers?

a friend just told me he's been hired for the writing staff on Better Call Saul. He's super talented, so I've got hopes for that show.

clicking bad has given me as much fun as gta5 and the new batman combined, mega thanks for that tracer

can't.... resist....

I AM THE ONE WHO CLICKS

can't decide whether to play until I've bought the entire senate, then make enough money to buy both the mega-mart and the industrial complex in two consecutive clicks - either one of them seems like the end, right, though if you had the whole senate maybe not

pfft that's amateur level, I'm working on buying a planet

so i guess all i'm doing today is playing this game with "for the love of money" on repeat

pfft that's amateur level, I'm working on buying a planet

I have two stars, there's really a planet? given that the mega-mart increases risk 55% I figured it was instant game over

I just bought a Meth Star and I'm saving up for some Space Mules next. I have $1.39 trillion in the bank. Just another day in the life...

ok fuck it I'm going for the methmart

Taking this all the way baby. Every time I think it's gonna end it gets more cosmic

(I still think we're all actually mining bitcoins for the programmers)

https://soundcloud.com/audible/the-things-they-carried

http://www.forbes.com/sites/allenstjohn/2014/01/27/jonathan-banks-to-join-amcs-breaking-bad-prequel-better-call-saul/

is this is a more lighthearted comedy series featuring characters we know wind up having to abruptly escape their entire life or with an incidental and unceremonious death

I guess Mike being in the series makes sense... When he was introduced, wasn't he working for Saul as his enforcer/clean-up guy? It was only later that he was revealed to be doing the same for Gus, IIRC.

I think his first appearance was cleaning up after Jane's death, can't wait to see more capers like that!

This is clearly just BC being mischievous, but thought I'd post it anyway:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/30/walter-white-not-dead_n_5415300.html?ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000024

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/better-call-saul-might-actually-bring-back-walter-white-and-other-breaking-bad-characters-9575313.html

lol

it's a prequel except that the timeline will jump forward so that we can squeeze in as many breaking bad characters as possible, in fact 10 minutes every week will be devoted to the ongoing adventures of walter white who survived and now cooks meth with jesse in the basement of saul's cinnabon restaurant opposite zombie gus's chicken shack

(stoked obv)

is it stupid of me to put @Homer_Marijuana here cause yesterday felt p breaking bad to me

Is anyone else watching Metastasis?

No, is it any good?

Compared to the telenovelas that Univision would normally be airing? Definitely.

Wait, is that rockist

If Walt reappears I hope it's just as dorky chemistry teacher Walt in a minimal cameo, these two character intersecting in some completely inconsequential way.

TV is done guys - better bring back novels and going to the cinema again.

Been watching Orphan Black recently, and while it's trashier and less artfully done than BB it's the only thing I've seen since that comes close in terms of tension and narrative drive.

Strongly disagree, it's muddled and going on way too long. Nothing like the tautness of BB. Still enjoying it to an extent but it HAS to end soon, surely

Like with many shows, it relies way too much (narratively) on piecing together random bits from the past which may or may not still be relevant, etc and which come to light in a piecemeal way just to drive the plot.

I'm only on season 1, maybe it loses it in S2.

xpost similarly:

More movies should start like The Stuff (old man finds weird goop on the ground and immediately sticks it in his mouth) pic.twitter.com/iqGGsAhbCY

— robarbarian (2022) (@robtrench) October 2, 2022

me when i delve mithril

domingo is literally the first person who talks sense to walt (or indeed to anyone)

KEN WINS

Mark S / everyone: There's a new podcast just started called Best Quality Vacuum by the Duckfeed.TV guys where they're going to deep dive into the show. It's only just started but I recommend their stuff highly https://open.spotify.com/show/1nEvrTfeVKumy9c6w9pVNW?si=aN7ZAhRnS3K8uoi1DLqI0w

badger klaxon!

thx DL i will check that out if i have moment in between ned raggett's pitiless tolkien schedule

pic.twitter.com/Y5IKBjbALA

— duck (@ExtremeBlitz__) October 8, 2022

hahaha

s2e1 opening: bear in the pool foreshadows what will happen to fring

https://thumbs.gfycat.com/FirstThreadbareAmericantoad-size_restricted.gif

Nice! As opposed to the bear beside the pool in The Sopranos, which is basically Tony himself.

link to the TV shows polls mentioned above? surprised ilx rated BB over mad men

where did sopranos rank?

I had the score wrong, but it must be this one:

BREAKING BAD vs MAD MEN

Just a two-way poll, no Sopranos.

forgot how funny the long scenes with just jesse and walt odd-couple sniping at each other are

My daughter just started watching this, for some reason, so I've been sitting in on a few episodes with her, and it is indeed slower than I remembered it, which is a good thing.

wait till you get to the beginning of season 4, soooooooo slow

this ep is just two unlikeable man stuck in a meth-lab camper out in the desert yelling at each other for 50 minutes (it's grebt)

JP: "what are we building?"
WW: "you said it yrself!"
JP (awed whisper): "robot??"
WW (curt disgusted snarl): "battery!"

The way Aaron delivers the line “a robot??!!” is delightful.

have you seen Bojack Horseman? his character in that is like 100% over-the-top tomfoolery of that sort

How to Blow Up a Pipeline scratches certain itches...

How is there not a single shot of Skylar standing over Walt while he's asleep contemplating stabbing him to death.

Or at least turning him onto his back..

Skyler.... Skyler.... put. the. knife. away.

She did better than a knife: "I fucked Ted."

https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/09/entertainment/mike-batayeh-death/index.html

I had to look the character up...I still don't remember any specific scenes with him; his character was one of the multi-hit prison murders engineered by Lydia.

He was running Gus's laundry, he was first seen when Hank and Gomez arrived for a surprise inspection. I only know this because I watched this episode about 3 days ago.

Hank grills him a couple of times in jail but at that point all of the Fring guys blur together.

just getting to final season of this after a rewatch of community and noticed they shared 3 characters but missed the badger cameo.

most wtf moment: skinny Pete playing classical piano

he is a very convincing tweaker

finished BB. it kind of lost track after the explosion in the nursing home, and the cousins died too early too.

started BCS. same level of detail. and so many unanswered questions on the pilot.

and i didn't even know of the existence of El Camino so I'll have to pick that up.

Happiness is contagious. pic.twitter.com/81igNemjAk

— Breaking Bad (@BreakingBad) July 22, 2025

Rhea Seehorn (Better Call Saul) reunites with Gilligan to star in the psychological sci-fi drama. Filmed across seven months in Albuquerque, New Mexico – the setting for much of Gilligan’s television legacy – the new series imagines a version of present-day Albuquerque where the world has shifted dramatically from what we know.

Your Honor is nowhere near as good/complex as Breaking Bad, but it does at least somewhat scratch a "Bryan Cranston as an ostensibly upstanding citizen who very quickly gets in over his head with bad people and starts doing bad things himself" itch.