hey dudes i read somethin abt this in the nyer and it sounded really really bleak. shld i listen to that? or shld i hear that and then move past it
― just sayin, Tuesday, 10 March 2009 23:35 (fifteen years ago) link
naw its totally fun and hilarious and bleak - a morbid masculine transgressive fantasy more or less
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 11 March 2009 00:30 (fifteen years ago) link
i mean its an absurd show w/occasional real life details just to fuk w/u
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 11 March 2009 00:34 (fifteen years ago) link
like his moustache?
― Thrills as Cheap as Gas (Oilyrags), Wednesday, 11 March 2009 00:39 (fifteen years ago) link
like his moustache
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 11 March 2009 00:41 (fifteen years ago) link
Does anyone have the leaked files for episodes 2 & 3? I'm trying to download a torrent right now, but it is creeping along veeeeery slowly.
Anyway, I just got turned on to this show & I love it. ..a morbid masculine transgressive fantasy more or less is OTM.
― 2 ears + 1 ❤ (Pillbox), Wednesday, 11 March 2009 01:47 (fifteen years ago) link
Update: If anyone is interested, I found m3g@upload links here.
― 2 ears + 1 ❤ (Pillbox), Wednesday, 11 March 2009 02:02 (fifteen years ago) link
o damn i didn't think to look for leaks
― eman, Wednesday, 11 March 2009 03:34 (fifteen years ago) link
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, March 10, 2009 8:30 PM
^ otm
― eman, Wednesday, 11 March 2009 03:35 (fifteen years ago) link
really well-cast too. the palsy son is great
― eman, Wednesday, 11 March 2009 03:39 (fifteen years ago) link
otm all around guys
― -:¦:-•(¯'•omg•'¯)•-:¦:- (dan m), Wednesday, 11 March 2009 16:17 (fifteen years ago) link
EP 2 & 3 SPOILERRRRZ >>>>>>>**************
^^^^
luv the emerging plot of the brother in law unknowingly investigating walter
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 11 March 2009 16:24 (fifteen years ago) link
kind of surprised they didn't try to move on getting him to bust Tuco to save their own asses
― -:¦:-•(¯'•omg•'¯)•-:¦:- (dan m), Wednesday, 11 March 2009 16:26 (fifteen years ago) link
― 2 ears + 1 ❤ (Pillbox), Tuesday, March 10, 2009 10:02 PM
thanks!
― eman, Thursday, 12 March 2009 00:41 (fifteen years ago) link
oh man tio with the little bell!
― eman, Thursday, 12 March 2009 03:59 (fifteen years ago) link
wow, a lot happens in the space of one episode.
― Simon H., Thursday, 12 March 2009 04:01 (fifteen years ago) link
tuco cracks me up when does that "tight-tight-TIGHT"
― eman, Thursday, 12 March 2009 17:26 (fifteen years ago) link
n e more leaks yet?
― eman, Sunday, 22 March 2009 23:20 (fifteen years ago) link
naw its prob the typical case where they sent the 1st 3 out to reviewers and well have to just wait for the rest to air - tho there is a torrent on demoniod of the 1st season ripped from dvd that claims to be [UNRATED.UNCUT.NEW.MATERIAL] - might check it out
― ice cr?m, Sunday, 22 March 2009 23:32 (fifteen years ago) link
Tuco's grandfather is now officially my new favorite television character. That bell = pure genius. And in general, I think that the subtle details and quirks of the characters is the best thing about this show, at once kind of Lynchian and realistic-seeming (which would seem impossible, but they pull it off somehow).
― 2 ears + 1 ❤ (Pillbox), Monday, 23 March 2009 00:47 (fifteen years ago) link
Tio means uncle.
― Thrills as Cheap as Gas (Oilyrags), Monday, 23 March 2009 00:49 (fifteen years ago) link
Thank you for the clarification.
― 2 ears + 1 ❤ (Pillbox), Monday, 23 March 2009 02:23 (fifteen years ago) link
Haha, I know right? What a game-changing revelation that must have been for you!
― Thrills as Cheap as Gas (Oilyrags), Monday, 23 March 2009 12:01 (fifteen years ago) link
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
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 14 April 2009 22:34 (fifteen years ago) link
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
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 15 April 2009 22:43 (fifteen years ago) link
im at the last ep of the first series and am very impressed by this show.
― FREE DOM AND ETHAN (special guest stars mark bronson), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 22:45 (fifteen years ago) link
2nd season just gets better and better IMO. This is def my current favorite show.
― SORCEROUSES..roll on stage! (Pillbox), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 22:58 (fifteen years ago) link
"i thought we were going to coldstone creamery"
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 16 April 2009 00:14 (fifteen years ago) link
COIN FLIP IS SACRED
the guy who plays the brother in law has his whole thing down cold
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 16 April 2009 00:15 (fifteen years ago) link
season 2 is next level
― Dr. Phil, Thursday, 16 April 2009 00:43 (fifteen years ago) link
tuco's burritos looked gross. it was just chopped steak in a tortilla. no pico, no nothin'.
― Duderonomy 1:69-420 (iiiijjjj), Thursday, 16 April 2009 00:44 (fifteen years ago) link
jesus christ this show!
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 16 April 2009 00:51 (fifteen years ago) link
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
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 16 April 2009 00:53 (fifteen years ago) link
even the dickhead brothher-in-law is kind of Good People underneath it all - am i just a huge softie??
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 16 April 2009 00:56 (fifteen years ago) link
Anybody watch the 'minisodes'? Also, what's a minisode as opposed to a webisode?
― Vincent and Julio Gallo (Oilyrags), Thursday, 16 April 2009 00:57 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 16 April 2009 01:00 (fifteen years ago) link
^^ MTF is applicable to last season, I believe, but yeah, Dr. Phil OTM, we're on to the next level here.
― SORCEROUSES..roll on stage! (Pillbox), Thursday, 16 April 2009 01:22 (fifteen years ago) link
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
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 16 April 2009 03:33 (fifteen years ago) link
i am a huge expert on those three episodes and do hereby challenge all comers to an interpretive duel
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 16 April 2009 07:16 (fifteen years ago) link
I cd go a coldstone creamery right about now
― the most naturally gifted poster of his generation (cozwn), Thursday, 16 April 2009 09:30 (fifteen years ago) link
i cd go 4 some crank
― SORCEROUSES..roll on stage! (Pillbox), Thursday, 16 April 2009 09:43 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― the next grozart, Thursday, 16 April 2009 10:05 (fifteen years ago) link
hmmm compelling thesis
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 16 April 2009 13:19 (fifteen years ago) link
dea brother in law was on last nites lost
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 16 April 2009 14:21 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 16 April 2009 14:32 (fifteen years ago) link
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
http://news-briefs.ew.com/2009/04/breaking-bad-am.html
― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 18 April 2009 01:30 (fifteen years ago) link
how does this show differ from 'weeds'?
― Michael B, Saturday, 18 April 2009 14:12 (fifteen years ago) link
1 - it's an hour
2 - it's not fucking terrible
― Vincent and Julio Gallo (Oilyrags), Saturday, 18 April 2009 14:17 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 18 April 2009 14:29 (fifteen years ago) link
(Talking about El Camino, if that's not clear.)
― clemenza, Sunday, 8 December 2019 03:55 (four years ago) link
Watched El Camino a second time coming right out of Breaking Bad. Improved a little, not much--at least it made more sense.
One thing I didn't understand: where on the Breaking Bad timeline is that meeting between Jesse and Walt in the diner (where Walt suggests Jesse go to college)?
Robert Forster's fees seem a little exorbitant. I mean, he's basically printing up a few fake IDs, no?
― clemenza, Thursday, 9 January 2020 05:23 (four years ago) link
He sets people up with an entire new identity, with a false history and social security number etc, and physically smuggles criminals across state lines & international borders. How much would you charge?
― don't care didn't ask still clappin (sic), Thursday, 9 January 2020 06:28 (four years ago) link
The diner scene is after they get stuck in the desert trying to cook the first giant batch and the battery dies on the RV.
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Thursday, 9 January 2020 06:55 (four years ago) link
There was the shot of the RV...That makes sense; I thought Walt looked more like he did towards the end, and that threw me a bit.
I would very aggressively underprice my competitors in the new-identity business; $149.00, something like that. And I'd follow Saul's lead with splashy commercials and my picture on billboards and benches all around town. (I mean, I really don't have any anything to base an estimate on, but I would think $10-25,000 would be ample?)
― clemenza, Thursday, 9 January 2020 13:14 (four years ago) link
It’s stated when forster’s character is first introduced in the series that the price increases exponentially based on the amount of heat iirc; by the time they’ve killed a cop and are all over national tv the risk is pretty big so it makes sense that he charges the premium rate
― Baby yoda laid an egg (wins), Thursday, 9 January 2020 13:29 (four years ago) link
I got the sense that his thing was not a one-man operation, he has to get fake SSNs and open up bank accounts and the like
― frogbs, Thursday, 9 January 2020 14:21 (four years ago) link
Definitely seems to be a one-man operation. So maybe Jesse and Walt are the extreme cases, and someone just trying to escape debt or a bad marriage or something would get a rate closer to what I suggested.
Robert Forester is so good, in both the series and El Camino. One of the saddest moments in the series is when Walt offers him $10,000 just to hang out for an extra hour (and Forester takes it--he's a stand-up guy, but he never romanticizes the purely mercenary part of his job).
― clemenza, Thursday, 9 January 2020 14:32 (four years ago) link
Misread frogbs's post...I don't know; it seemed pretty much one-man to me, although I suppose he'd need some outside help hidden from view.
― clemenza, Thursday, 9 January 2020 14:34 (four years ago) link
What was his fee? 200k? I would say if I was new I would start at 50-75k for the package he was doing.
― Yerac, Thursday, 9 January 2020 17:46 (four years ago) link
Clemenza, you’ll have time when the rewatch is over - set up a working SSN & see how much that costs you, then move on to establishing a fake identity with a backstory that employers can research which holds up, see how much that costs you, and price out the time you spent on each as a one-man-operation. Add on the losses from closing your vacuum shop down for a week to drive to Alaska and back, with or without people-smuggling involved, but including petrol & motels & meals. It’ll be a fun spreadsheet project!
― don't care didn't ask still clappin (sic), Thursday, 9 January 2020 18:04 (four years ago) link
He didn't really set Walt up with a new identity thought, he just bunged him in a cabin in the middle of nowhere.
― chap, Thursday, 9 January 2020 19:26 (four years ago) link
(xpost) First I'll have to get the proper training in vacuum-cleaner repair, but if I can look after that, this sounds like a worthwhile project--will report back.
― clemenza, Thursday, 9 January 2020 19:37 (four years ago) link
Occurred to me that I would’ve liked breaking bad if it were a 110 minute movie but as a TV show I got sick of it in season 2 somewhere.
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Thursday, 9 January 2020 19:39 (four years ago) link
Cancer dx, encounter with Jesse, virtuosic cooking sequence, flying high, confrontation with the cartels, third act yadda yadda, Walt gets a bullet to the head and Jesse rides off into the sunset with Krysten Ritter, boom.
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Thursday, 9 January 2020 19:42 (four years ago) link
Couldn't disagree with that approach more strongly, completely cuts out just how debased and detestable Walt gets.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 9 January 2020 19:44 (four years ago) link
that's what made me sick of the show early on, dude was like strangling a kid in his basement, wtf
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Thursday, 9 January 2020 19:45 (four years ago) link
I guess if that's what put you off, then fair play, this def wasn't the show for you.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 9 January 2020 19:46 (four years ago) link
"chemistry teacher with nothing left to lose and genial dirtbag team up to cook meth in the picturesque southwest" is a good start to something though.
yeah I was coming in late (this was already years ago) and getting into s2 after the first season was basically comedic in tone was like "oh this is just going to constantly escalate, never mind." Same reason I only watched one season of Downton Abbey. anyway I don't watch much TV anymore.
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Thursday, 9 January 2020 19:48 (four years ago) link
true but I think Walt was a special case because his picture was all over the news & wasn't gonna live long enough to see the heat die down
― frogbs, Thursday, 9 January 2020 19:56 (four years ago) link
only because he figured out that the kid was planning to stab him the instant he got free
― frogbs, Thursday, 9 January 2020 20:00 (four years ago) link
after the first season was basically comedic in tone
I mean maybe relatively speaking but, yeah, this is the same season where a dude gets strangled with a bike lock and dissolved in a bathtub full of acid, so
― Drive Like a Demon From Steakhouse to Steakhouse (Old Lunch), Thursday, 9 January 2020 20:13 (four years ago) link
...but funny!
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 9 January 2020 20:23 (four years ago) link
Gene is a square citizen
― don't care didn't ask still clappin (sic), Thursday, 9 January 2020 20:28 (four years ago) link
(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)
― Drive Like a Demon From Steakhouse to Steakhouse (Old Lunch), Thursday, 9 January 2020 20:36 (four years ago) link
Can't imagine Walt's chemo stuff in that cabin was cheap
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Thursday, 9 January 2020 21:26 (four years ago) link
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.
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Thursday, 9 January 2020 21:27 (four years ago) link
hey now it's really only 3.9999 seasons of that
― frogbs, Thursday, 9 January 2020 22:50 (four years ago) link
The peekaboo does lead to what is probably the show's greatest moment, though.
― clemenza, Thursday, 9 January 2020 23:00 (four years ago) link
I assume it's
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKTT-sy0aLg
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Thursday, 9 January 2020 23:37 (four years ago) link