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

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.

it did, it was a bit of a comedown after the frantic last three episodes.

Fucking Outbreak ad!

O ILx you have sold me a pup with this one. The precise moment it lost me:

"We've analysed the chemical composition of the entire human body, but we're still 2lbs short! What could be missing?"
"The soul...?"

that whole string of flashbacks didn't work for me either; it's confusing and hard to figure its relationship to anything else. i saw it as walt's (cheesy) idealized memory of the kind of life he used to have before he became a dad/chem teacher drone.

that episode is one of the best episodes of tv i've ever seen though, even with the flashbacks.

whats w/these b&w crime scene opens - stuffed animals body bags in walts drivesway

they're obv leading up to something beeg, i hope it's not a season-ending cliff-hanger but argh you kind of figure it has to be

well know were getting close once the stuffed animals start showing up

"DLZ" was just too perfect at the end!

so walter is addicted to the rush - luvs the kingpin status

ya. pretty awesome ending.

"I whipped cancer - what do I have to worry about from some vato gordo?"

"Smoking weed, eating Cheetos and masturbating does not constitute having plans"

walter on his way to make a million dollar deal while is wife goes into labor - how will he fuck this one up

Relapse subplot pretty weak and predictable, esp. the levitating off the bed shot. Esposito is a welcome addition, though!

yeah esposito ownd luv that guy

re relapse: drug addicts tend to be pretty weak and predictable

well, yeah, but what I mean is it seems like they added it in just as a 'drugs are bad mmkay' move.

No one has mentioned that this was renewed for a season 3 have they?

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

Shows GREAT and getting GREATER imho

i dunno between espositos advice jesse irresponsible behavior and the fact that walter doesnt really need jesse anymore looks like the drugg plot could be setting up a schism between our two main guys - i predict walter tries to short him

one thing i dont get tho is the $1.2 esposito offered is the same number walter came up with when he was figuring their profit selling it on the street - but theyre wholesaling now so it should be much less

goddamn that was bleak

o they are really trying to turn us against walter white here

http://savewalterwhite.com/

Father, Husband & Teacher & Murderous Drug Kingpin

o they are really trying to turn us against walter white here

hardly the worst thing he's done tho. perhaps, even, one of the smarter moves.

super Tony and Chrissy, tho.

goddamn that was bleak

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Also I’m not sure how this isn’t the worst thing Walt has done, he could at least try and morally absolve himself of the other deaths in some way but he’s pretty directly responsible for allowing this to happen. Isn’t it his shaking of Jesse that rolls Jane onto her back in the first place?

Anyone notice the pink stuffed animal at the start?

well he did straight up chain a guy up in a basement for a couple of days and then straight up choke the guy to death in like episode 3 or 4.

This is true but dude was gonna try to stab him with the plate shard so there's at least some element of self-defence in there. I suppose there's a similar level of self-preservation going on here but it seems way more sinister.

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i don't understand why he didn't try to save her

is his thinking supposed to be - if she lives, they continue to get fucked out of their minds on heroin, generally fuck up and get arrested, get questioned about the money, and they roll on him? if so, how in the world does her current DEATH not simply lead to this scenario even quicker?? and all that aside has he simply lost every shred of decency? how in the world can he not attempt to save her from choking to death???

His thinking is she tried to blackmail him once -- she knows his secret now afterall -- what keeps her from blackmailing him again after they inevitably blow through all the money. So: better off dead. And she's corrupting jessie, his surrogate son, so better off dead. But mostly the first part. Operation's cleaner without loose cannons.

And yes, he's lost every shred of decency. That's his character arc for the season.

ok yeah that makes a bit more sense - when they have the face-off in the doorway he says "how can i be sure i can trust you?" and she says "i guess you can't" - it sorta zipped by though and i didn't quite put two and two together

i wonder if this marks the moment when him and jesse truly become enemies, even if jesse never learns about walt's role in her death. walt has no need for jesse any more. they've alway kind of hated each other.

but yeah pretty difficult to root for this guy now. the unfulfilled wish that has sustained the whole show is for walt to finally be honest w/his family, or at least his wife. it would provide the ultiamte catharsis, for him and for us. but in this episode, saul's like "what about communication?" and walt is like "communication is OUT!" .. when he shows the money to his new daughter, it's like yep - this is as close as walt will ever come to being honest. it's profoundly depressing.