| Really got into Breaking Bad 18:06 - Apr 29 with 2359 views | Warkystache |
I never watched it first time round (I'm not usually keen on US drama series) but this is excellent. I'm up to Series 3 so far and it's been a real eye-opener, better than probably anything I've watched on telly so far in the lockdown.
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| Really got into Breaking Bad on 18:13 - Apr 29 with 2047 views | Lord_Lucan |
Loved it.
You also have the advantage of then moving onto Better Call Saul - even if the last series was a bit sh1te. |  |
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| Really got into Breaking Bad on 18:15 - Apr 29 with 2035 views | giant_stow |
one of thos rare times when the hype was right - brilliant tv show. |  |
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| Really got into Breaking Bad on 18:17 - Apr 29 with 2024 views | Bluefish |
Top tip. When you get to the episode with the fly just skip it. Nothing at all happens |  |
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| Really got into Breaking Bad on 19:06 - Apr 29 with 1980 views | BlueBadger |
| Really got into Breaking Bad on 18:17 - Apr 29 by Bluefish |
Top tip. When you get to the episode with the fly just skip it. Nothing at all happens |
This is basically my approach to ITFC matches for the past 18 months. |  |
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| Really got into Breaking Bad on 19:07 - Apr 29 with 1981 views | Warkystache |
| Really got into Breaking Bad on 18:17 - Apr 29 by Bluefish |
Top tip. When you get to the episode with the fly just skip it. Nothing at all happens |
Walter turns really nasty in this series (3). But my favourite episode so far is the ATM-head-crusher one | |
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| Really got into Breaking Bad on 20:41 - Apr 29 with 1908 views | davblue |
Massively so, i only watched it a few years ago and it is very good! |  | | |
| Really got into Breaking Bad on 06:20 - Apr 30 with 1748 views | IPS_wich |
| Really got into Breaking Bad on 18:17 - Apr 29 by Bluefish |
Top tip. When you get to the episode with the fly just skip it. Nothing at all happens |
Wrong IMHO - I'll grant you it's a divisive episode and nothing 'happens', but for me it is one of the most critical episodes over all five seasons. You are effectively watching the last trace of 'Walt' ebb out of his body as he gives himself up fully to 'Heisenberg'. I swear there were passages where I didn't breath for minutes. Just an incredible, claustrophobic episode and in my top five episodes of BB. |  | | |
| Really got into Breaking Bad on 06:58 - Apr 30 with 1732 views | C_HealyIsAPleasure |
Absolutely yes, ridiculously good programme
Although I’d give El Camino a swerve if I was you |  |
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| Really got into Breaking Bad on 08:09 - Apr 30 with 1695 views | Funge |
| Really got into Breaking Bad on 06:58 - Apr 30 by C_HealyIsAPleasure |
Absolutely yes, ridiculously good programme
Although I’d give El Camino a swerve if I was you |
Harsh call on EC, say I.
Jesse needed a proper ending, and he gets one.
Plus Robert Forster is great. |  | | |
| Really got into Breaking Bad on 08:38 - Apr 30 with 1662 views | GlasgowBlue |
| Really got into Breaking Bad on 18:13 - Apr 29 by Lord_Lucan |
Loved it.
You also have the advantage of then moving onto Better Call Saul - even if the last series was a bit sh1te. |
I enjoyed the latest series of BCS.
Breaking a bad is a great series but lacks a main character who is genuinely likeable or someone you you can root for, other than Walt’s brother in law.
Walt has absolutely no redeeming features.
That’s why I put series like the Sopranos or the Wire above Breaking Bad.
Tony Soprano may be a murderer and a drug dealer but he’s a likeable murderer and drug dealer. [Post edited 30 Apr 2020 8:52]
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| Really got into Breaking Bad on 08:42 - Apr 30 with 1663 views | Bluefish |
| Really got into Breaking Bad on 08:38 - Apr 30 by GlasgowBlue |
I enjoyed the latest series of BCS.
Breaking a bad is a great series but lacks a main character who is genuinely likeable or someone you you can root for, other than Walt’s brother in law.
Walt has absolutely no redeeming features.
That’s why I put series like the Sopranos or the Wire above Breaking Bad.
Tony Soprano may be a murderer and a drug dealer but he’s a likeable murderer and drug dealer. [Post edited 30 Apr 2020 8:52]
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Dexter is still the best | |
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| Really got into Breaking Bad on 08:44 - Apr 30 with 1653 views | GlasgowBlue |
| Really got into Breaking Bad on 08:42 - Apr 30 by Bluefish |
Dexter is still the best |
I genuinely haven’t watched a single episode of Dexter. | |
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| Really got into Breaking Bad on 08:50 - Apr 30 with 1654 views | itfcjoe |
| Really got into Breaking Bad on 08:38 - Apr 30 by GlasgowBlue |
I enjoyed the latest series of BCS.
Breaking a bad is a great series but lacks a main character who is genuinely likeable or someone you you can root for, other than Walt’s brother in law.
Walt has absolutely no redeeming features.
That’s why I put series like the Sopranos or the Wire above Breaking Bad.
Tony Soprano may be a murderer and a drug dealer but he’s a likeable murderer and drug dealer. [Post edited 30 Apr 2020 8:52]
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I've struggled with better Call Saul, have gotten to the start of Season 4 but just not grabbing me in - feel like I'm watching it because it's supposed to be good. I like a few of the characters, and don't mind it but it isn't grabbing me.
The key for BB for me is the decent from Walt into being someone who is your average Joe, good guy, to someone who has the no redeeming features - is that nature or nurture? Who else would follow that path once on it, when you miss those turn back points. WHo else has that bubbling away under them?
A bit like the Stanford Prison Experiment, fascinating re the psychology of a man |  |
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| Really got into Breaking Bad on 09:04 - Apr 30 with 1632 views | Darth_Koont |
| Really got into Breaking Bad on 08:50 - Apr 30 by itfcjoe |
I've struggled with better Call Saul, have gotten to the start of Season 4 but just not grabbing me in - feel like I'm watching it because it's supposed to be good. I like a few of the characters, and don't mind it but it isn't grabbing me.
The key for BB for me is the decent from Walt into being someone who is your average Joe, good guy, to someone who has the no redeeming features - is that nature or nurture? Who else would follow that path once on it, when you miss those turn back points. WHo else has that bubbling away under them?
A bit like the Stanford Prison Experiment, fascinating re the psychology of a man |
Better Call Saul has the same descent for both Saul and Mike. But it's much more nuanced and real.
Don't get me wrong, I loved Breaking Bad but it is much more broad strokes and plot-driven rather than a proper character study. |  |
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| Really got into Breaking Bad on 09:18 - Apr 30 with 1590 views | C_HealyIsAPleasure |
| Really got into Breaking Bad on 08:42 - Apr 30 by Bluefish |
Dexter is still the best |
I loved the first season of Dexter but gave up halfway through season 2 as it just became ridiculous
Does it get better again? | |
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| Really got into Breaking Bad on 09:25 - Apr 30 with 1578 views | Bluefish |
| Really got into Breaking Bad on 09:18 - Apr 30 by C_HealyIsAPleasure |
I loved the first season of Dexter but gave up halfway through season 2 as it just became ridiculous
Does it get better again? |
Oh yes!
The last 2 are not so sharp but the last episode in series 4 is the biggest wow moment I've ever had watching TV | |
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| Really got into Breaking Bad on 09:35 - Apr 30 with 1557 views | ElephantintheRoom |
It's very good - right to the end.... as is better call saul which I think now has more episodes that breaking bad
The one-off spin off featuring jessy pinkman is a bit of a slow burn though.
When you've fnished and start to get withdrawal symptoms.... I can recommend Ozark, also on Netflix | |
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| Really got into Breaking Bad on 09:46 - Apr 30 with 1542 views | Warkystache |
| Really got into Breaking Bad on 09:35 - Apr 30 by ElephantintheRoom |
It's very good - right to the end.... as is better call saul which I think now has more episodes that breaking bad
The one-off spin off featuring jessy pinkman is a bit of a slow burn though.
When you've fnished and start to get withdrawal symptoms.... I can recommend Ozark, also on Netflix |
Many thanks for the recommendations.
A few things I've noticed (now on Series 3 Episode 11). That Mike character who is watching Walt's back: Does he work for Saul or Gustav Fring?
I think Fring's going to be killed. He seems too powerful. Also, is Skyler really working for the DEA? | |
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| Really got into Breaking Bad on 09:53 - Apr 30 with 1533 views | C_HealyIsAPleasure |
| Really got into Breaking Bad on 08:09 - Apr 30 by Funge |
Harsh call on EC, say I.
Jesse needed a proper ending, and he gets one.
Plus Robert Forster is great. |
Unusually you are off the mark on this one Fungers
Agree re an ending for Jesse and was excited to see what happened with him, but El Camino could basically have just been him ordering a hoover and being taken to Canada, the rest was guff | |
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| Really got into Breaking Bad on 09:56 - Apr 30 with 1522 views | BLUEBEAT |
| Really got into Breaking Bad on 08:42 - Apr 30 by Bluefish |
Dexter is still the best |
I haven’t watched Dexter.
Does the series come to a conclusion or does it keep going? |  |
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| Really got into Breaking Bad on 10:00 - Apr 30 with 1505 views | C_HealyIsAPleasure |
| Really got into Breaking Bad on 09:25 - Apr 30 by Bluefish |
Oh yes!
The last 2 are not so sharp but the last episode in series 4 is the biggest wow moment I've ever had watching TV |
May have to get back on it at some point
I got the feeling watching series 2 the writers had basically written one series which was brilliant then had no idea where to go with it so ended up with more of the same but more silly. But did guess as there were about 7/8 seasons there must have been more to it again at some point | |
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| Really got into Breaking Bad on 10:00 - Apr 30 with 1506 views | Bluefish |
| Really got into Breaking Bad on 09:56 - Apr 30 by BLUEBEAT |
I haven’t watched Dexter.
Does the series come to a conclusion or does it keep going? |
It has a last episode | |
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| Really got into Breaking Bad on 10:19 - Apr 30 with 1472 views | Bent_double |
| Really got into Breaking Bad on 10:00 - Apr 30 by Bluefish |
It has a last episode |
Yes, quite possibly the worst, most disappointing ending to a great series, ever.
It's almost like they ran out of ideas or money, or just couldn't be bothered in the end. Such a shame for what was great TV uptil that episode. |  |
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| Really got into Breaking Bad on 10:54 - Apr 30 with 1444 views | ElephantintheRoom |
| Really got into Breaking Bad on 09:46 - Apr 30 by Warkystache |
Many thanks for the recommendations.
A few things I've noticed (now on Series 3 Episode 11). That Mike character who is watching Walt's back: Does he work for Saul or Gustav Fring?
I think Fring's going to be killed. He seems too powerful. Also, is Skyler really working for the DEA? |
I dont think I should answer those.... its the slow revelations that make the series so good!
I think you'll have to navigate your way through better call saul for the full answers to the mike questions..... it's a curious series, made slightly odd for a prequel in that the characters are so much older..... but it is very entertaining and fills in loads of gaps.
I'm not sure I agree with some of the other comments from others in the thread.... one of the key things about the series was how the characters changed as the series developed.... most became badder... but maybe jessie became better....
Like someone else just said, the sopranos stands the test of time.... and i found myself revisiting my dvds of The Saint.... when tv entertainment was shall we say a little more innocent!! | |
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| Really got into Breaking Bad on 10:58 - Apr 30 with 1432 views | Bluefish |
| Really got into Breaking Bad on 10:19 - Apr 30 by Bent_double |
Yes, quite possibly the worst, most disappointing ending to a great series, ever.
It's almost like they ran out of ideas or money, or just couldn't be bothered in the end. Such a shame for what was great TV uptil that episode. |
Agreed and the last 3 series were just an unwinding towards that as well. A massive shame but I'm still thinking of watching it all again | |
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