i don't watch this show (though i may have to start), but i just found out that the guy who played "badger" is my neighbor.
― robotsinlove, Thursday, 11 March 2010 14:29 (fourteen years ago) link
haha that guy is awesome. i get the feeling he didn't have to do a ton of research for his character.
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 11 March 2010 14:41 (fourteen years ago) link
ha ha!
when does it air??
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Thursday, 11 March 2010 14:59 (fourteen years ago) link
March 21st
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― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 11 March 2010 15:39 (fourteen years ago) link
hey whuddya know.
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Thursday, 11 March 2010 15:46 (fourteen years ago) link
I would imagine that badger dude has to have some decent money in light of the fact that he was in every single commercial on tv for like 6 months. I hope he saved some of it.
― mayor jingleberries, Thursday, 11 March 2010 17:53 (fourteen years ago) link
^^^ badger's dad
― fuckin' (jeff), Thursday, 11 March 2010 18:02 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah i saw an ad last night w/ him. can't remember what it was for though
― king willie style (will), Thursday, 11 March 2010 18:15 (fourteen years ago) link
his weird voice will carry him far...
― robotsinlove, Thursday, 11 March 2010 18:23 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykCFDR5k2fQ
― am0n, Friday, June 12, 2009 11:05 AM (8 months ago)
― am0n, Thursday, 11 March 2010 18:26 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fn9UiP0D41c
― am0n, Thursday, 11 March 2010 18:28 (fourteen years ago) link
lol i've not seen either of those!
― king willie style (will), Thursday, 11 March 2010 18:29 (fourteen years ago) link
i think he was a delivery guy on community
― am0n, Thursday, 11 March 2010 18:31 (fourteen years ago) link
lol Badger is hilarious.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0awYP21rdY
― Man or Austro-Hungarian? (Pillbox), Thursday, 11 March 2010 18:41 (fourteen years ago) link
Also a pizza guy on How I Met Your Mother.
― Jouster, Thursday, 11 March 2010 18:44 (fourteen years ago) link
I just watch every episode in like a week. It's pretty darn good despite drug dealers saying fuck a lot less than I would have suspected.
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Friday, 12 March 2010 03:47 (fourteen years ago) link
i watched the "director's cut" of the first seaason and it's full of swearing iirc
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 12 March 2010 10:19 (fourteen years ago) link
wait, I am confused... does AMC censor this or something?
― richie aprile (rockapads), Friday, 12 March 2010 17:31 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, no "shit" or "fuck".they just leave blank air generally.
― forksclovetofu, Friday, 12 March 2010 20:28 (fourteen years ago) link
I will say though that I thought the long foreshadowed climax was a little unnecessary. Minor complaint though.
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Friday, 12 March 2010 20:42 (fourteen years ago) link
Season 2 is on On Demand right now. Love this show.
― Darin, Friday, 12 March 2010 20:48 (fourteen years ago) link
Slightly gutted I won't be able to torrent this week to week as I'm away on my travels till the end of April. Still, big juicy catch-up when I get home.
― BTW, I'm frightfully middle-class (chap), Saturday, 13 March 2010 07:23 (fourteen years ago) link
Big fan of this show, watched it all over the last few months. Didn't really like the airplane anticlimax either, though, it was built up way too much.
I'm surprised nobody brought this up, and I'm fully prepared to be jumped on for this statement, but a big downer for me is that the women characters in the show seem to be really badly or aggravatingly written. Skyler in particular, while perfectly acted, is this archetypal wifely shrew and foil who I dread seeing every time she comes on screen. As the show kept going into the second season, I only hated her more. It seems like most of the women (Skyler's sister, Jane, random methheads) all just end up being evil bitches. Even Hank got more nuance written into him! Sure you could argue just about everybody (except Walt's son) is kind of a bastard on this show, but the men seem to get a more balanced look.
Granted BB is hardly alone in this problem - its a symptom of the likely demographics of the middle-aged men writing many TV dramas (Dexter has this problem for many of its women, too).
― Nhex, Saturday, 13 March 2010 08:24 (fourteen years ago) link
by the end of S2, I was like "you go, girl!" to Skyler.
― richie aprile (rockapads), Saturday, 13 March 2010 08:45 (fourteen years ago) link
Skylar isn't an evil bitch at all! Walt is an evil bastard. She gives him the benefit of the doubt plenty of times before she finally snaps.
― BTW, I'm frightfully middle-class (chap), Saturday, 13 March 2010 10:54 (fourteen years ago) link
She is meddling and interfering tho, and always wants to put a public front on everything. That's not evil but it does make her a bit annoying.
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Saturday, 13 March 2010 11:08 (fourteen years ago) link
Am I the only one who loves the brother in law? I sort of feel the longer the show goes on the more you feel that he's actually a decent dude, even if he is a meathead and even if he is vulgar etc. Sort of feel walt likes him too.
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Saturday, 13 March 2010 11:10 (fourteen years ago) link
Season 2 is on On Demand right now.
Uhm, where? Online or do you have better cable than me?
― DISASTÜR ZÜN RHINE (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 13 March 2010 12:23 (fourteen years ago) link
skyler starts out horribly but after a couple of three episodes it became clear to me that she really does love walt, and thereafter i was totally on her side about pretty much everything despite her being walt's main "obstacle" to geting what he wants - it's a weird and unsettling dynamic
― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 13 March 2010 12:30 (fourteen years ago) link
"It seems like most of the women (Skyler's sister, Jane, random methheads) all just end up being evil bitches."
Really? That's not how I read Skyler or Skyler's sister or for that matter Gretchen at all. The final episode of Season 2, it's hard to see how your sympathy is supposed to be anywhere but with Skyler (annoying or not).
Jane, random methheads sure they are evil bitches, but it's not like the methhead guys are great shakes either.
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Saturday, 13 March 2010 16:11 (fourteen years ago) link
this show fucks w/you cause walt is the hero even tho objectively hes doin v bad things
― ice cr?m, Saturday, 13 March 2010 16:29 (fourteen years ago) link
thus the v reasonable ordinary reactions of skylar et al are seen as impinging on walts freedom
― ice cr?m, Saturday, 13 March 2010 16:30 (fourteen years ago) link
― Darin, Friday, March 12, 2010 3:48 PM
yup gonna do a marathon seeing as its raining buckets all weekend
― am0n, Saturday, 13 March 2010 16:58 (fourteen years ago) link
exactly. it's not even because we agree with what Walt's doing. it's because, as viewers, we want the show to keep going into unpredictable, exciting, and bizarre places - where as all Skyler wants is normalcy & stability. if the show was done from Skyler's perspective, with us only knowing what she knows, it would be depressing Lifetime Network stuff.
― richie aprile (rockapads), Saturday, 13 March 2010 17:16 (fourteen years ago) link
I just have Comcast cable. It's under On Demand here: TV Entertainment > AMC > Breaking Bad
― Darin, Saturday, 13 March 2010 17:43 (fourteen years ago) link
i like the brother in law too and would like s3 to switch to him as a main character hustling after walt on the run
― forksclovetofu, Saturday, 13 March 2010 18:08 (fourteen years ago) link
i dunno rockapads - what i want more than anything is for walt to finally come clean and then skyler join him bonnie and clyde style.. but that ain't never gonna happen
― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 13 March 2010 18:18 (fourteen years ago) link
I don't necessarily disagree with you guys, especially about how Skyler is supposed to be somewhat unlikeable due to audience expectation and supporting the antihero main characters, akin to what rockapads is saying. But the way the show has been moving, the main characters, Jesse and Walt, and have always have their core negative traits (stupidity/shortsightedness and pride/abusive/vindictive/vicious) while also getting a lot of sympathetic breaks as well. The second season I think really continued to make them deeper, more fleshed out characters, going back and forth constantly on that balance.
But with Skyler, the writers must've thought she was TOO sympathetically written in the first season, since this time around they made her even more "pregnant TV wife" annoying. I will give them points for doing that angle where she figured out the accounting scam (thus setting up her smarts and the great confrontational scene in the last episode), but between her general harpy nature, that bit where she was smoking (WTF) and the revelation that she was flirting with her ex-boss which led to the "sexual harassment" claim in her past, I felt they were trying to escalate how irritating she was. Of course a lot of the character's anger is justified, no doubt, but the way it's directed or written kept bugging me. I hope they do a better job with her this year.
― Nhex, Saturday, 13 March 2010 20:47 (fourteen years ago) link
see, I guess I have a different perspective. as much as I have liked Walt, I think he has pretty much gone from anti-hero to villain at this point. he is more despicable and less sympathetic than Tony Soprano was for me - at least in the first few seasons. I agree that Skyler is kind of annoying, and maybe not as deep as she could be, but I think they did a great job toward the end of that last season of tilting my sympathies away from Walt and toward her.
― richie aprile (rockapads), Sunday, 14 March 2010 02:09 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, I found it... Comcast's menu system is so ridiculous.
― DISASTÜR ZÜN RHINE (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 14 March 2010 09:36 (fourteen years ago) link
on my on-demand there's an episode missing (number 7), wtf
― am0n, Sunday, 14 March 2010 19:39 (fourteen years ago) link
just watching this again...how would jane's blackmail have been any way effective? if she told the papers or police about walt he'd incriminate jessie too surely?
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Thursday, 18 March 2010 18:06 (fourteen years ago) link
She could tell Walt's wife.
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Thursday, 18 March 2010 18:16 (fourteen years ago) link
well she did threaten to call the papers specifically...
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Thursday, 18 March 2010 18:21 (fourteen years ago) link
is the stuck in the desert w/ dead battery episode the "pine barrens" of breaking bad?
― ☀☃ (am0n), Thursday, 18 March 2010 19:35 (fourteen years ago) link
does not involve 'universal remote' or even 'docking station' so
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 18 March 2010 20:51 (fourteen years ago) link
so..........
― ☀☃ (am0n), Thursday, 18 March 2010 21:32 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.tvsquad.com/2010/03/17/vince-gilligan-on-breaking-bad-season-three
Interview w/Vince Gilligan, mostly talking about the second season finale. Interesting in that it basically does confirm that overall, Walt already is/will be tipping really far over into the evil category (though he and Cranston don't necessarily agree, lol) though for Jesse, it's not quite so, he hints that it might not be the case by the end of this season...
― Nhex, Thursday, 18 March 2010 21:59 (fourteen years ago) link
jane was full of guff but walt doesn't know how to play hardball
I was trying to put that as a poker analogy but I don't know enough about poker
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 19 March 2010 00:00 (fourteen years ago) link
Yep, no one really knew what they were doing in that situation. They are all amateurs.
― BTW, I'm frightfully middle-class (chap), Friday, 19 March 2010 05:15 (fourteen years ago) link