Breaking Bad withdrawal support society

'The series aired from June to September 2014, airing a total of 62 episodes'

Eh? How is that possible?

I'm guessing four nights a week. Common for telenovelas. And soap operas, and late night shows.

u+k:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/drug-lord/

Tickets to the immersive party experience, 'Breaking Mad' - includes two themed cocktails

This December, we're creating our own empire of entertainment at the Old Truman Brewery where you'll be taught a lesson in being bad as you descend into debauchery and a series of thematic adventures. Through a series of high octane, sensory explosions of consumption and intriguing encounters, you'll get a glimpse into the lives of those in your favourite TV show all in one awesome night.

£44

lol

if one of the themed cocktails is a gloopy half-melted red mess served from a bathtub, count me in

'Breaking Mad Bad Men' immersive mash-up party experience missed opportunity

the amount of shit immersive theatre out there cashing in on the good work of the few companies who do it well - it's grim

There's also a Twin Peaks immersive theatre/dining club thing happening in London right now, which looks like it has the potential to ruin both food and theatre for me for some time.

That's a snip at £65 per person.

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All breaking bad-related culture is for cunts

― smoke weed listen to Satie (wins), Wednesday, June 24, 2015 10:44 AM (5 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i thoroughly enjoyed watching this show and imo it was very well done but BB fan culture is the fucking worst

― marcos, Wednesday, July 29, 2015 5:20 PM (4 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

BB fan culture is the fucking worst

― sleeve, Wednesday, July 29, 2015 5:24 PM (4 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

with BB there's this extra unpleasant "tee hee meth" thing that makes it shit in a way that goes slightly beyond like where's wookie? and big lebowski quote-along screenings and other undeniably horrible shit like that

Walt Jr. eats breakfast at least 19 times over the entire run of this show. This does however count a time when he just drank a cup of coffee and a time when he was shown talking to Skyler as she prepared breakfast but wasn't shown actually eating the breakfast.

http://www.rollingstone.com/tv/news/breaking-bad-creator-teams-with-hbo-for-jonestown-series-w438953

First I'd ever heard of this:

Gilligan's follow-up series, 2015's Battle Creek, was canceled by CBS after 13 episodes.

Gilligan had nothing to do with the series itself; it was made from a pilot script he'd written before Breaking Bad.

rewatching from the start bcz it soothes me in dreadful times

• walter white is a bad person
• this series is very funny
• i am a bad person

1: very good from early on with characters being intense while just quietly watching (poor old domingo, chained with a bike lock to the post in the cellar)
2: very good on all the layers of hiding and emotional -- and quickly misperceived -- need for lies within the family (walt mostly but skyler also)

brief scene where jesse turns up at his parents and -- after they decide to lay down the law -- they see him meticulously laying out the cutlery at table, like a little kid doing his chores properly, is just heartbreaking

this is probably just coincidence but i can't help noticing how often people in the crystal meth game same "saul good" to one another :)

I noticed that too! Wondered if I was just reaching.

I never got round to watching more than S1 the first time round so I'm also watching it at present, also to see the BCS overlaps ("it wasnt me! It was Ignacio!" was the best one).

Even though hes now a cranky cripple I still hate Hank. Stupid arrogant meathead.

https://i.imgur.com/UkV9aOn.png

at the end of series one the only person i like even a little is jesse (and i wouldn't want to spend IRL time with him)

it's really hard to imagine what this show would have been if jesse had died in s1 as originally planned

man he really goes through the wringer in this show :(

lol i had def forgotten how fast this moves and how quickly walt descends into a chaotic hellworld

compare BCS: mike sits in a car for three eps, grunts once

I actually just started watching this, on like Episode 5 of the first season now. I think I'm the only person I know who hasn't seen it all yet.

really enjoying it so far but I kinda get the impression that a lot of the plot was rearranged to make an awesome pilot episode. kind of getting whiplash from how quickly this goes from an insane crime drama to "how ever will I pay for this cancer treatment?"

kind of a nice touch making the sign-spinner be one of Jesse's buddies, I've heard numerous times that nearly everyone who does that job is someone who just got out of jail

Even though hes now a cranky cripple I still hate Hank. Stupid arrogant meathead.

― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Sunday, October 21, 2018 6:04 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hank is the decentest major character on this whole show imo

That may be true but he is also a boorish racist pig

hank is a great character because there's always simultaneously more to him than you quite thought, and then less: like the boorishness is a mask, for a slightly different more anxious kind of boorishness -- he really is kind sometimes, and worried, but he never won't cloak that just when you're about to like him a bit, with more being an arsehole

btw can I just say that for a meth head Jesse has some really great teeth. like, those chompers practically break the fourth wall. just sayin

Thats a really good point.

Ugh speaking of meth teeth I have never felt such visceral creeped-outedness at the scene where Dale Dickey as the freakish meth lady let out that INSANE cackling as she was robbing ...Combo or Skinny Pete or whichever of them it was. Dear god she was in that role.

I can't imagine re-watching this show tbh

otoh omg clickbad is still up and running

clickingbad

I mean

rewatching from the start bcz it soothes me in dreadful times

― mark s, Saturday, October 20, 2018 4:48 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'm not rewatching it fwiw, I havent seen it before.

wikipedia quotes gilligan as now regretting jesse's too-great teeth -- i guess i took as i watched it to mean that jesse isn't that huge or long-term of a user yet? (which is also why he can sortakinda get on top of things now and then: yes he's a stoner doofus but he's not yet ineluctably on the slide away from all possible potential) (esp.in tow with his old buddy and mentor walt white)

Hank was definitely my favourite character when he was Hank; thought the show lost a lot when he was Shell of Hank after the shooting (even if that did make sense). Flawed, for sure--in the best possible ways, I thought.

https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/breakingbad/images/a/ad/Schraderbrau.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20140317220030

he was just a one-note doofus/foil before the shooting though

no, Mark’s post is v otm - the mix of masc dickhead & empathetic caring was always a fun part of Hank’s makeup, and a big pointer to Walt’s ineluctable assholiness. Hank v plainly didn’t get Walt’s whole non-blokey deal, but was genuinely committed to his well-being as a family member. whereas Walt, always seething with more resentment than his sad sack ought to be able to hold, couldn’t find a way to meet him halfway.

yeah, that's v otm - dean norris does a phenomenal job fleshing hank's character out, it's a shame that he hasn't found an opportunity to showcase just how good an actor he is outside breaking bad (afaik anyway)

also it was funny when he tweeted the phrase 'sex gifs' a while back

he hasn't been shot yet in my rewatch

maybe he'll escape injury this time

fingers crossed

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

(sorry 4 spoilers)

Didn't find pre-shooting Hank to be one-note at all--would echo the posts above. For me, the most recognizable character from real life. I've know a few Hanks in my life, starting with my dad, to a degree. Norris also seemed to be having more fun than anybody with his role, something that always registers with me--cf. Joanna Cassidy in Six Feet Under.

i tried rewatching this a while back, i did not enjoy it. so much of the appeal of the show for me is the fast-moving forward pace of the plot and it just wasn't as interesting to me the second time around.

we started better call saul recently, it is... different. really slow. we are almost done w/ the first season and i still feel like we're only 3-4 episodes in plotwise