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

Haha, I know right? What a game-changing revelation that must have been for you!

you can see the pitch:

"it's american beauty meets grand theft auto!"

but somehow despite this it is pretty good! and certainly unusual for a tv show

from ep 1 -

"why are you doing this?"

"well - why do you do it?"

"money.. mainly"

"there you go"

"wait wait hold up. this isn't normal. it's weird! if you're crazy, or depressed or something.. i need to know! that affects me!!"

--

this last sentence from "the cap'n" has got me hooked - he's a real character suddenly instead of a stereotype - this show is going to rule

im at the last ep of the first series and am very impressed by this show.

2nd season just gets better and better IMO. This is def my current favorite show.

"i thought we were going to coldstone creamery"

COIN FLIP IS SACRED

the guy who plays the brother in law has his whole thing down cold

season 2 is next level

tuco's burritos looked gross. it was just chopped steak in a tortilla. no pico, no nothin'.

jesus christ this show!

s1e03 is an amazing, amazing episode

i have even started feeling for the overbearing mom!

this show has nothing to do with "falling down" at all btw

even the dickhead brothher-in-law is kind of Good People underneath it all - am i just a huge softie??

Anybody watch the 'minisodes'? Also, what's a minisode as opposed to a webisode?

don't know what those are?

i don't buy it as a masculine transgressive fantasy, at least not through s1e03. all the aggressive types are either idiots or villains or both. so far it seems a lot about families actually.

^^ MTF is applicable to last season, I believe, but yeah, Dr. Phil OTM, we're on to the next level here.

o big tracer 3 episodes in an hes an expert

anyway just watched the most recent ep and this shit has gone from dark to dire - still v good - not as much fun tho - enjoyed walt all full of himself for successfully lying to his wifes face while making his ex look bad - btw that was a nice touch that he left her - totally assumed it was the other way

i am a huge expert on those three episodes and do hereby challenge all comers to an interpretive duel

I cd go a coldstone creamery right about now

i cd go 4 some crank

Didn't get round to watching this for some time, mostly because the whole "cancer" premise put me off, but after two episodes - it's really good! not sure if i prefer it to mad men, but it's interesting since in the latter the characters are all intrinsically bad heroes whereas in breaking bad they're all good villains.

hmmm compelling thesis

dea brother in law was on last nites lost

each of these seasons is actually a miniseries, isn't it.

it's just not called that.

i can't imagine not starting at the beginning.

no one has yet noted that there will be a season three -

Just four episodes into Breaking Bad's second season, burgeoning cable network AMC has greenlit a third cycle of the award-winning drama series, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The show -- which stars Bryan Cranston as a high school chemistry teacher-turned-drug dealer -- nabbed 1.7 million viewers in its season premiere, a 21 percent increase over the first season's debut and a startling 42 percent bump over the first season's viewership average. Bad was awarded the revered Peabody award just yesterday, and star Cranston took home the Emmy for best actor in a drama series last fall.

http://news-briefs.ew.com/2009/04/breaking-bad-am.html

how does this show differ from 'weeds'?

1 - it's an hour

2 - it's not fucking terrible

i dunno, i've never seen weeds. everything about this show is terrific. they take a fairly outrageous premise and work through all of its implications, on an almost minute-by-minute basis. there are some vicarious thrills for sure but man, the lead character is having anything but a good time.

the thing i like most is how differently you come to see many of the characters - how you get to see all these different sides of them that you hadn't suspected at first, and even reevaluate your own initial reactions to them

I've been working on my Jesse voice impression over the last week, mostly in the car. It's coming along pretty well. Basically it's shouting, with some hoarseness, but like you have a mild cold too. The trick is to balance the appropriate proportions of those three key elements.

damn. this episode is violent

Haven't we seen the old boobytrapped tortoise baited with a severed head trick a million times before?

lol?

wtf @ bob odenkirk joining the cast !?!

That was some quasicronenberg shit right there.

uh, the turtle, not odenkirk

i guess the song at the beginning was a narcocorrido?

from the gilmore girls to jessie's girlfriend. this show is awesome.

omg the narcocorrido was an amzing move - best ep yet - loved how everyone kept repeating crushed his head w/an atm as if it made any sense at all - looking forward to odenkirk

brother in law way over his head is a sweet development - as is delving into the mexican madness - v timely

This show just keeps getting better. It is my current favorite & is threatening to edge into my all-time A-list. The dysfunctional tweaker family was waaaaaaaay too well done. I literally felt compelled to (and did) take a shower after last week's episode. Trejo turtle-bomb was def A+++

"he's not on pot any more"

"oh please! pot and chemotherapy go together like.. like apple pie, and.. and chevrolet!!"

that last episode (with the narcocorrido and the turtle-bomb) was the first one I've ever seen. my friend convinced me to watch it and tried to give me a quick overview of the plot so far, but... nothing could have prepared me for that.

(I liked it, tho)

almost caught up..

loose ends:

HUGO

the second cellphone

why hank and marie don't have a kid

DJ Qualls as a hard-up tweeker, the role he was born to play! Probably could have scratched at his face a little bit more though.

loool odenkirk - great ep

Go get a juicebox!

his whole shtick is exceptional - i welcome the return of the absurd to breaking bad

did this air last night? Can't find torrents.

...but funny!

He didn't really set Walt up with a new identity thought, he just bunged him in a cabin in the middle of nowhere.

Gene is a square citizen

(bathtub drops through the ceiling)
Jesse: (sheepishly) I done a bad bad thing, boss.
Walt: (mugging to camera) Mama mia, that's a-one spicy meat-a-ball!
(audience laughs, applauds)

Can't imagine Walt's chemo stuff in that cabin was cheap

To be clear I don’t really remember the order of operations there.

Like six seasons or whatever of playing peekaboo with the brother in law, I wouldn’t be able to deal.

hey now it's really only 3.9999 seasons of that

The peekaboo does lead to what is probably the show's greatest moment, though.

I assume it's

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKTT-sy0aLg