Shall we anticpate the AMC series "Breaking Bad"? I think I may.

ha, I'm only 4 eps in! It goes straight into the first two guys (Crazy 8). Also I'd remembered Walt as quite loving at the start but I don't know where that came from, he's been kind of a passive-aggressive jerk from day 1. Only time he's opened up so far has been to Crazy 8 in the basement.

oops, I suppose not everyone's on the kind of errrrr variable schedule that I am where I can decide to watch six episodes a day. Walt's always been pretty terrible it's true. Actually maybe the most genuinely caring thing he ever did was the RUN murders...

RUN murders?

sry, when Walt runs over and shoots the kid-killers Jesse's about to face off with. Then tells Jesse to RUN.

Jesse def the person he's been most considerate of over the course of the series.

Y'know, apart from allowing his girlfriend to die and poisoning his stepson.

Writing those two sentences just made me realise anew how batshit and amazing this show is.

http://www.thewrap.com/tv/article/breaking-bad-creator-vince-gilligan-saul-goodman-spinoff-moving-full-speed-ahead-101091

Wow, looks like this might actually happen.

RUN

I suppose not everyone's on the kind of errrrr variable schedule that I am where I can decide to watch six episodes a day.

i am! i'm doing a rescreen right now & watching it like this really illuminates how much the paranoia walt feels following the sudden series of murders at the end of season 3/beginning of season 4 really lets his assholism blossom. like letting jane die, definitely an asshole, but in this new context it becomes truly delusional, much more grandiose.

<i>apart from allowing his girlfriend to die</i>

Which girlfriend was that?

jane, season 2.

I really, really hope there's some fallout there's some fallout from Jane's death in the final episodes. Like, Walt's done so much terrible shit since but that really felt like the tipping point from frightened self-preservation to calculated evil. Also, kind of a massive secret for him still to be keeping from Jesse.

Doesn't look like that's gonna happen though - it's totally unprovable without Walter having some kind of breakdown like he almost did in the Fly episode. Plus they seem to keep making a point of Walt foolishly keeping the ricin cigarette, looks like that's more likely to be the real event. But honestly I'd be fine with both deceptions never being uncovered by Jesse, it would fit in this world.

I wouldn't rule out Walt having another breakdown like that for one second.

i think we've already passed the point that admission would shock jesse. for all its hideousness it was iirc the most passive role walt's played in another person's death, aside from the obv bulk meth manufacturing.

walt compelling jesse to murder gale and then jesse being drawn further into gus's trusted circle, and having to negotiate these two poles of moral degeneracy, is the real, lasting break in their relationship. i think it overshadows everything that came before and sets the tone for what's happened since.

i am absolutely loving rewatching this, it is so rich in sympathy and detail, and some of the big scenes that seemed overwrought when i first caught it are just killing me now. like jesse in the 12 step group in season 4, setting up his own kangaroo court when he talks about killing a "dog," and demands to be judged for it (in this environment specifically organized to suppress judgment), because everyone in his world who holds sway over his life, walt or gus or mike, won't do it; would only encourage it.

and Jesse gets so cute so quickly

I don't know how the logistics of this would work but I'd be really into a spinoff called "RUN" where different people get into jams and Walt just appears in the last 5 seconds to run over people and solve the problem

yesss. could just apply it to different tv shows.

i've been using headphones throughout my rewatch, and i'm noticing even more how the sound design is consistently amazing. the quiet drips of blood onto the floor while gus is letting victor bleed to death: D:

Odenkirk standup - masterful portrayal of Steve Job's fictional brother

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8LKaxCfHvw

I can't deal with that crowd

You can't deal with that Clint howard.

Clay, sorry are you saying Jesse let Jane die? I remember Jesse being in a heroin induced sleep too and Walt letting her choke.

Jesse def the person he's been most considerate of over the course of the series.

― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Wednesday, July 3, 2013 7:05 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Y'know, apart from allowing his girlfriend to die and poisoning his stepson.

― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Wednesday, July 3, 2013 7:06 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark

<i>apart from allowing his girlfriend to die</i>

Which girlfriend was that?

― Chewshabadoo, Wednesday, July 3, 2013 11:58 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

jane, season 2.

― Clay, Wednesday, July 3, 2013 12:05 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

seems like the pretty clear line here is "walt was nice to jesse, haha except when he did terrible things including letting jesse's gf die." -- "which gf?" -- "jane. walt let jane die."

Ah, read the original line wrong, sorry!

I wonder how todd is going to play into the final 8.

It'd be funny if there was a scene where he tells Jesse "don't you see he's making all this up as he goes along?" Not actually funny, just "I'm twiddling my thumbs waiting for the big finish and will say any random shit" funny.

Will there be 8 new episodes now and more in 2014? Or are they just finishing it all off with these 8?

only 8 more altogether

update on my ongoing rewatch: every episode of season 4 ends with me thinking SHIT WALT IS SO FUCKED NOW.

but i remain confident that he'll make it through.

http://www.gq.com/entertainment/celebrities/201308/bryan-cranston-walter-white-breaking-bad-season-6?currentPage=1

brilliant feature.

thanks, good stuff!

Do you believe in evil

"Yeah. I think it's right next to good, inside every person."

And have you encountered it yourself?

"I had one girlfriend I wanted to kill."

product promotion!!

https://twitter.com/mrbobodenkirk/status/360227610426494976/photo/1

skinny pete scrubs up well.

Wow I totally forgot that hank was in starship troopers

http://cdn.uproxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/USA_1374755435.jpg

Is that really what heaven looks like?

Netflix UK showing them just after US transmission.

lucky bastards. we don't even get that on our own Netflix!

fucking A, really?
I signed up to Netflix for Arrested Dev and figured I'd keep it until I'd rescreened all of BB.

my bad, it has up through season 4. but i meant that netflix doesn't get the show after broadcast

weirdly, Irish language network TG4 is the only TV channel in the UK and Ireland that's shown Breaking Bad up to now

(I'm in the UK, this is good, sorry US netflix guys)

does anyone know if you have to be physically in the uk to use uk netflix streaming, or do you just need a card with a uk billing address like itunes?

I think it's a DNS thing.

skinny pete is in the newest malick, and he is grotesque

Caek if you have a US netflix account you can still watch UK content through unblock-us or unotelly

(or a vpn)