Breaking Bad withdrawal support society

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.

But I've definitely been on the edge of my seat a lot so far.

Oh yeah s1 is pretty good! Fun mix of genres. S2 is where it gets a bit flabby

so Better Call Saul is going to be like Godfather Part II, except centered around the Robert Duvall character and a comedy

i mean, i'll definitely be there

yeah whatever misgivings i have i'll definitely be watching this. the heavier gilligan involvement and season 2 pickup would give me hope that this thing actually turned out alright except amc is pretty desperate right now. in retrospect pure luck breaking bad got to end when/how it did, had that ratings bump or amc's realization that the only two prestige shows they pulled off were their first two (that they didn't have much to do w/ developing) and beyond that they have one fluke megahit that even fans of the show don't think is actually executed very well (but zombies so they'll still watch) occurred earlier and we're looking at three more seasons of breaking bad. i don't rate it quite as highly as most but i do miss it, just ridiculously well executed entertainment. the closest i've come to the hit that breaking bad could provide routinely was that big scene from true detective.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdQ88Ft7epw

Not sure Gilligan would've been down for it running for any more seasons whatever the circumstances (though whether he would've had the power to prevent it is a different matter...).

Just watched Blue Ruin, an excellent film. Reminded me somewhat of BB aesthetically, and in the thoroughness of its plotting.

Is there a Better Call Saul thread?

It would be so easy to do a sequel (maybe a movie):
Recreate that last shot, in which Walt Heisenberg, both "sides" of his personality/self-image now integrated by taking responsibility, admitting his sin of pride, solving all problems his way etc.,is lying there, bleeding out, staring up at the Great Beyond, those angels standing over him----then he recognizes them as cops. He blinks, wakes up in massively guarded hospital room. DAMN! Start another plan.
Not like the cast is doing anything much: Cranston's finished his Godzilla movie, for inst. C'mon Vince, this would add to your savings, you could be even bolder with other projects, go even further beyond BB...

it could just be a new season of Oz with Walter White at the prison

madrigal agents steal walt's corpse from the morgue and transplant his brain into a 15-foot-tall armoured death machine. he must juggle his attempts to rebuild his relationship with his family with his new working life as a madgrigal enforcer raining laser death on the corporation's enemies.

They've also salvaged Gus' brain, which they've implanted into Waltbot's cybernetic boss. Comedy bickering ensues.

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.