Breaking Bad on amc

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SamRebel35 said:
My wife and I watched the premier of "one minute". It was her first attempt to "get in to" Breaking Bad. That's the one where the cousins are coming after Hank. We watched the whole episode up to the last five minutes. Then she said, "This is boring, I'm going to bed". Four minutes later, the most intense scene of the entire series up to that point... Every time after that I tried to get her to watch she would say, "No, it's too boring, blah blah blah". It took two more years before I finally got her to see another episode. She stayed awake this time, and now she's hooked. Now we are binge watching the whole series to get her caught up.
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My wife got hooked at the same time I did. When its all over, I plan on watching the series again.
 
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You know you watch Breaking Bad too much that when you go to a friends house you knock instead of ringing the door bell and when they answer you say 'i'm the one who knocks'
 
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I don't get the "it's boring til season 3" one. I was instantly hooked after the first episode. I actually started watching between season 2 and 3 and watched the first 2 seasons in about a day and a half.
 
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Cdywolfe said:
I don't get the "it's boring til season 3" one. I was instantly hooked after the first episode. I actually started watching between season 2 and 3 and watched the first 2 seasons in about a day and a half.
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Absolutely! The episode with crazy 8 in the basement is probably the most affected I've ever been while watching a TV show. It really made me put myself in Walt's shoes to make a decision between two horrendous choices. That is not boring TV, it is completely suspenseful and is emotionally draining to watch.
 
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My sister and my nephew were telling me about how good Breaking Bad was. I was at their house one Sunday night and they turned it on. It happened to be the episode where Walter chased a fly around the lab for an hour. It's a wonder I ever watched another episode but I'm glad I did.

I bought all the DVDs through season 5 1/2 and will get the second half when available.
 
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I don't see any time for Walt to take down Grey Matter. It would also feel like an afterthought at this point. I think his focus is on Todd and his uncle's guys.
 
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Thrasher865 said:
I don't see any time for Walt to take down Grey Matter. It would also feel like an afterthought at this point. I think his focus is on Todd and his uncle's guys.
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I wish they were going one more season. As good as these last seven episodes have been, it has felt a bit rushed.
 
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rkw38 said:
My sister and my nephew were telling me about how good Breaking Bad was. I was at their house one Sunday night and they turned it on. It happened to be the episode where Walter chased a fly around the lab for an hour. It's a wonder I ever watched another episode but I'm glad I did.

I bought all the DVDs through season 5 1/2 and will get the second half when available.
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That is the only episode that I don't like. The rest are so good that I'll give it a pass.
 
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When I first saw The Fly episode, I read some stuff about it online. Apparently it was a "bottle episode" where they just wanted to use a couple of characters and kept it all in one set. I guess it's just a way to save money in the middle of the season.
 
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I caught a few more episodes, or more accurately parts of episodes, during these marathons. I guess I'm kind of ruined by having watched last Sunday for the first time because I found the intrigue of the criminality and those characters in that episode very interesting, but seems like all these episodes I've watched in the last couple of days focused almost entirely on the wife and the kid, with just everyone walking around with all this angst all the time. Kind of boring. The crime stuff much better, imo.
 
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Panthro said:
When I first saw The Fly episode, I read some stuff about it online. Apparently it was a "bottle episode" where they just wanted to use a couple of characters and kept it all in one set. I guess it's just a way to save money in the middle of the season.
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Season 3’s "Fly" — the first episode directed by Looper’s Rian Johnson, whose "Ozymandias" might stand as the best of the series — could be the most polarizing hour in Breaking Bad’s run. You remember it: The one where Walt, obsessed with the idea that the insect that's infiltrated the pristine confines of his superlab will contaminate the cook, spends the entire hour on an Ahabesque quest to destroy it before everything is ruined. Jesse stumbles into the middle of Walt's seemingly insane overnight pursuit — "So you're chasing a fly, and in your world, I'm the idiot" — ultimately finishing the fly-swatting job while an exhausted Walt, eased off the hunt by a cup of coffee Jesse dosed with sleeping pills, naps.

Oh, right, there are some other things going on: Walt's discovery that Jesse is skimming product, an offense that could get him killed by Gus; Walt's admission that he met Jane's father the night Jane died; Walt's frustration at his inability to explain the motives for his cooking to Skyler; the crushing guilt (Walt is still capable of experiencing guilt) of his calculating non-intervention in Jane's death. When Walt pressurized the lab, he wasn't messing around. By the end of it, you feel like they've been locked in a phone booth, not in the cavernous meth-fabricating palace Fring built them.

So dismiss this as a boring bottle episode if you must. There are no magnets, no train heists, no fatal standoffs in the desert. It's just two people chasing a fly.
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YouTube HOF: Our Favorite Breaking Bad Episodes - Hollywood Prospectus Blog - Grantland
 
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lawgator1 said:
I caught a few more episodes, or more accurately parts of episodes, during these marathons. I guess I'm kind of ruined by having watched last Sunday for the first time because I found the intrigue of the criminality and those characters in that episode very interesting, but seems like all these episodes I've watched in the last couple of days focused almost entirely on the wife and the kid, with just everyone walking around with all this angst all the time. Kind of boring. The crime stuff much better, imo.
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I don't think you understand the dynamics of effective storytelling.
 
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Apparently LG can't grasp the concept of start at season one episode one.

The Sopranos isn't nearly as good if all you ever see is Tony sitting in Dr. Melfi's office or in the office at Bada Bing or Satriale's.

It all ties together.
 
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There are so many memorable payoffs throughout the seasons that not only keep your interest, but make for good conversation at the water cooler.

For instance, just off the top, the body disposal in the acid in the bath tub that eats all the way through to the basement, the shoot out scene in the parking lot between Hank and the twins, the Tortuga scene in the dessert, the way that Gus meets his fate, the escape from the mexican drug lords with Jesse getting Gus and Mike to the safety of the awaiting medical staff, etc.

So many memorable scenes.
 
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To me, one of the best scenes in the entire series was the cousins going to the shrine in that Mexican village.

They were two of the creepiest characters I've ever seen on a tv show and they barely had a word of dialogue.
 
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