Breaking Bad withdrawal support society

I could easily see that being used, it would be hilarious to have Gene watching it from his living room.

lol walt's speech abt why the planecrash actually wasn't so bad, so awkward and agonising to watch i've had to stop it abt six times even tho it's only a couple of minutes long

is that the one in the school gymnasium? i literally watched thru my fingers, could not deal

yep, where he freestyles a top ten terrible air disasters you've forgotten to demonstrate they'll get through this

Really was a Larry David moment

an episode of larry david takes me abt three hours to watch as well

great shot in the reveal scene when walt realises saul and mike have been bugging his house, saul points out that skyler has not talked so it doesn't really matter that she went "off the reservation" for a little "down deep and dirty", an enraged walt jumps on him and they wrestle wildly -- shot out of focus in the foreground with mike sat watching them for a while, not moving but in focus, before coming to break them up. the comedy rhythm and balance between these three -- even tho odenkirk's conception of jimmy hasn't quite landed yet, the core of his competence isn't really established and he's a touch too clownishly sleazy -- is so great! mike's disgusted respect for jimmy *is* already there but haven't really been shown why yet*: mike seems so obviously much more on top of things, why does he tolerate this patently ridiculous figure?

*maybe it takes the bsc backstory to get to this?

Gilligan has confirmed that the BB movie will be Pinkman-centric.

well that pretty much confirms I won't watch it haha

The Phantom Meth-Head

jesse pinkman went on to live a long, happy and drama-free life after overcoming five seasons of intense trauma and no damn movie is gonna tell me different

the film is set during JP's time at school, much of it during an illicit "day off" of some sort

"the 39-yr-old actor's performance as a stoner in his mid-teens furthers gilligan's experiments with flashbacks, time-jumps and busting the norms of age-conventional casting"

has he learned how to act yet?

u just deliverd a wikked sick burn to 'actor' aaorn paul, i bet hes crying now

oh stop xpost

I don't know man he was easily the worst part of that show to me -- the storyline with jane was probably his best moment but overall he was a pretty one-note guy especially in the earlier seasons from what I remember

you remember incorrectly bcz he's good from the start

K3v I was just re reading another few BB threads and you shat all over them saying you hated the show only half to one season in!

kevin is right that Jesse is p boring and not particularly well-acted character BUT he's wrong that he was easily the worst part because Skyler (and her sister) were 100x worse

no they are good too, everyone's memory is worrying poor i blame trump

worst actor in a recurring role was Gretchen Schwartz. seemed like an amateur.

what are you talking about, those two were great.

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mark s otm, the opening of the character from caricature to person is really great w/Jesse. I actually found the Jane arc the least satisfying because it leaned harder on junkie-love cliches though its conclusion was really brutal. as Jesse matures his understand of Walt as a character is utterly key imo

I thought Jesse was one-note until Jane came along, much better after that. Thought Skyler was fantastic for much of the run, although there were a few episodes towards the end where I found some of her motivations obscure or inconsistent. (I'd have to rewatch to give you specific examples.)

skyler was pretty bad too...basically this was a tough show to get into from a character standpoint because all of the major characters were just objectively awful people, and tbh aside from the ones who ended up on BCS I didn’t really care about their fates one way or another because they seemed so flimsily drawn to me. the show was great for the spectacle and the plot tho

the fly scene

"so it's not dangerous?"
"not… to us… particularly… no"

particularly is genius

just got to the "One Minute" ep, midway through Season 3. jfc this show is nuts. Jesse staring at the frowny face on the pain chart was hilarious though

is it just me or was the scheme to lure Hank away from the RV sort of meant to be a parallel to the scene where Walt has to make the drop to Gus's crew for the first time, only to find out his wife is going into labor? Hank's willing to drop everything for family, Walt on the other hand....

i hadn't thought of that but i think it's entirely likely, there's a LOT of plot rhyming going on

i just rewatched the ep called "box cutter" and :0 not just for content (not spoilers for frogsbs' sake) but also for the fact i watched this ep before a couple years back and totally didn't remember how it played out :0 :0 :0 :0 :0 :0

of all the characters here with two very different modes of self-deployment, gus is the most extreme: gently charming and urbane vs pitilessly terrifying

xp didn't notice that, definitely seems intentional now that you mention it

Read a review of Box Cutter to remind myself what happened in it, but was distracted by its references to Anna Gunn's alleged plastic surgery and her "joker face". So baffling and insulting. I'm glad the supergross fandom that attached itself to this amazing show seems to have petered out for BCS (or, at least, found something else to be a dick about).

Gilligan should make a skyler movie instead just to fuck those ppl off (and also cause she is a good character fuiud)

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wins otm, would watch

I binged all five seasons in the three weeks before the finale, and made/forced myself not read anything about the show - recaps, imdb pages, ilx threads, whatever - while I was watching it. Amazing experience. Was genuinely shocked about to read about the Skyler hate afterwards.

I mean, I'm wasn't *genuinely* shocked - misogynists gonna misogyn - but it was another one of those "what people are these people on" experiences that seem to occur now with increasing regularity

Lol proofreading, sorry

mhm

not gonna lie, i remember finding her plastic surgery really weird at the time

It wouldn't be much more than a formal experiment and probably not worth most people's time but I would love to see the entire Breaking Bad story reshot from Skyler's perspective.

Post BB focus on skyler seems way more interesting than Jesse - broke, pissed off, surly kid who may or may not have $9 million dollars, competent money launderer, feds probably monitoring her to some degree, awkward relationship with your sister whose husband died because of your husband who is also dead, etc.

skyler was a great character

her relationship with Walter was the crux of the show for so long and was usually more interesting to me as a dynamic than Walter/Jesse

Strange - it's the 40th anniversary of Jonestown, and reading about it I saw that Gilligan and MacLaren were down to make a six-episode miniseries for HBO about it. But this was back in 2016 and I can't find anything more recent about it on the innuhnet.

is it just me or do some of the plot points in the latter part of S3 seem a little...too convenient

like, Jesse hooking up with the girl from his support group, only to find out that her little brother just so happened to be the one who shot Combo? and then Jesse being able to come up with the perfect murder plot because he happens to know the junkie who delivers the burgers? and Walt figuring things out and running into the dudes (lol) literally a second before a shootout is about to erupt? I haven't watched the season finale so maybe it explains that a little better but for now it's kinda feeling a bit soap opera-ish.

idk I feel dumb even complaining about it because this show is so good but I felt they were a bit more careful about that in the first 2 seasons. a lot of the show's most dramatic elements were a direct cause-and-effect; for example the fact that Hank is unknowingly investigating Walt's crime ring is a result of the fact that he's kind of a braggart, talking about all the money meth dealers make and offering to take Walt along on a bust, leading him right to Jesse. here it's just a lot of "wow, small town"

this show is 100% ridiculous plot contrivances, how is that a question

I mean, that doesn't make it a bad show, it was fun to watch and a great series of cliffhangers but c'mon

It's all one giant Rube Heisenberg machine.

exactly - that's what makes the show so awesome. Walt cutting Jesse out of the operation -> Jesse ghosting Walt -> Walt being unable to contact him to tell him that Hank is looking for the RV -> Walt taking matters into his own hands to destroy it -> Jesse inadvertently leading Hank directly to the RV with Walt inside -> Walt having to plant a "fake" injury story about Marie -> Hank beating Jesse's ass for messing with his family -> Walt having to take Jesse back as partners so he won't roll on him...that stuff's brilliant. maybe that's why "let me tell you about my little brother who killed a guy down on Guerrero street" felt so out of place?

anyway just watched the S3 finale, I guess we aren't getting a Gale spinoff show after all. probably unintentional but I loved how Gale looked and acted like the archetypical chemistry teacher, right down to the succulents and the odd obsession with old French music. I'd kind of assumed Gale was a plant, but nah...poor guy

skyler is the only one saul can't snow (and he comes across as a fool when he tries, in a way that seems quite unlike the jimmy of BCS)

odd obsession with old French music

Italian -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5vd70oytDo