Breaking Bad withdrawal support society

I've been meaning to read Canada for a while, will bump that up my list.

fiction-wise, some of james crumley's novels prob come closest to the BB 'spirit'

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Crumley

It's been years since I saw it, but at first BB reminded me of Blood Simple, the first Coen brothers movie, which is also kind of a very dark comedy of errors mixed with a violent thriller. I guess Fargo is kinda similar too, in fact it's not hard to imagine the Coen bros being an inspiration for the tone of BB.

BB >> Blood Simple

Tuomas maybe it's the narcissism of small differences, because i can see why you'd compare BB with the coen brothers, but i mainly can't stand the coen brothers while i really love BB. i think BB is more sincere, less self-impressed, more interested in character

but hey, whatever gets you through

Have you seen Blood Simple? I suggested that one exactly because (as far as I can recall) it's not as "Coeny" as some of the later films, it's not so self-impressed and has less artifice, therefore making it closer to BB. (Though I think BB does have it's share of artifice and self-impressed moments too, just think of the fakeout they pulled with the season 2 teddy bear cold opens.)

I began a rewatch of The Wire, which completely put the thought of Breaking Bad out of my head.

No Country for Old Men is completely in line with Breaking Bad.

Lol @ this thread! Have you read Methland?
http://www.samefacts.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/methland.jpg

wow, Charley Varrick sounds great!

and James Crumley! and Methland!

Great thread already

"when he runs out of dumb luck he's always got genius to fall back on"
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a3/Charley_Varrick.jpg

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!

after watching the first few episodes i told a co-worker that i'd found the bathtub/acid stuff a little hard to stomach and she kind of laughed, like, oh you have NO idea what's coming.

Not sure what she meant by that, the bathtub/acid thing is by far the grossest moment in the entire series.

Grossest but far from most immoral.

i'm about to finish season 4 but yeah i haven't encountered anything else that gross yet, at least a few moments that i found more horrifying tho

I rewatched the entire series when C was a baby, so coming up two years ago, and found it just as compelling and unsettling second time around. My sense of Walt having always been an asshole got stronger.

the bathtub scene is definitely the grossest moment of the series but far from the most intense - I'd say that goes to the box cutter scene, maybe the most nerve wracking thing I've ever seen on television.

Anna Gunn starts to look so much like Courtney Love towards the end of season 4.

I dunno how this came off in real time but it was strange watching the show on Netflix and just seeing her face drastically change from one episode to the next

it was like that in real time. one season she just showed up with a totally different face.

Seeing as JD is working his way through this for the first time, I'll hold off on anything too specific for the time being--was going to quote a great Saul line from Season 5.

The guy who plays Uncle Jack gives a really good performance--as does Jesse Plemons, who's just about the politest cold-blooded killer ever (I think Jesse calls him a psycho Opie or something like that).

Just looked him up. Michael Bowen--wow, didn't recognize him from Jackie Brown and Magnolia.

http://phildellio.tripod.com/pollos.jpg

Don't even think about making a move on my territory.

Just started rewatching Community with my daughter and Badger is in it!

wait til you get to Season 5

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— Heyzazel (@Hayzazel) April 5, 2021

lads im going back in

*record scratch* *freeze frame* yep that's my trousers

my son just started watching this on his phone before school ! 😬

start with the classics!

object lesson in how to get to the nub at speed lol, gilligan shd have showrun the elf show

I started rewatching from halfway thru season 1 rather than the very start for some reason. A few months later I and I've just got to the Naziboys/Hank & Gomie shootout :(

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

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— 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.