Breaking Bad

by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Thu Jul 01, 2010 9:21 pm

Hahah erm, ahhhhh, well, haha

Erm

He goes to "LA" for a week once a month!

Don't you drag Gracie into this, Bugs, you homewrecker!

by **Flack** » Thu Jul 01, 2010 5:09 pm

Not to add fuel to the fire, but when I went to Denver to meet up with Jonsey, Pinback was mysteriously out of town ...

by **Bugs** » Thu Jul 01, 2010 4:48 pm

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:Bugs was calling JC when it was dial-up. When the Washington Redskins were winning Super Bowls. You better watch out, he's OG. He's going to ask who the fuck YOU are.

I thought pinback was an alt of your creation, conjured out of thin air so you would have someone to argue with since Matt Gracie is no longer around.

by **pinback** » Wed Jun 30, 2010 11:43 pm

I...

I DON'T KNOW WHO I AM!!!

by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Wed Jun 30, 2010 11:08 pm

Bugs was calling JC when it was dial-up. When the Washington Redskins were winning Super Bowls. You better watch out, he's OG. He's going to ask who the fuck YOU are.

by **pinback** » Wed Jun 30, 2010 10:49 pm

Bugs wrote:OK, OK, I'm into the second season now, and will admit it's not the worst thing I've ever watched.

Addendum: It's like MacGyver + high school chemistry + exploding turtles.

Bugs already thinks is the best show in history. This is his way of expressing it.

Actually, I have no idea who the fuck Bugs is. Bugs? BUGS!!!?? Who are you?

by **Bugs** » Wed Jun 30, 2010 9:32 pm

OK, plus half of Mr. Show. Bob Odenkirk just appeared onscreen, but in my mind, this show just improved EXPONENTIALLY.

by **Bugs** » Wed Jun 30, 2010 9:28 pm

OK, OK, I'm into the second season now, and will admit it's not the worst thing I've ever watched.

Addendum: It's like MacGyver + high school chemistry + exploding turtles.

But I still say the overarching theme is overplayed these days.

by **pinback** » Tue Jun 29, 2010 8:22 pm

The MacGuyver stuff largely falls away as the series goes on.

DO NOT PIGEONHOLE THIS PROGRAMME.

by **Bugs** » Tue Jun 29, 2010 6:48 pm

I take that back. I've watched a few episodes now, and it's basically MacGyver + high school chemistry.

Or, to put it another way, Breaking Bad is to Revenge of the Nerds what Christian Bale's Batman is to Val Kilmer's Batman.

by **Bugs** » Tue Jun 29, 2010 11:36 am

Ooh, so it's like Weeds + The Sopranos. My (breaking) bad. Ha!

by **pinback** » Sun Jun 27, 2010 12:31 pm

I have not seen Weeds. I HAVE seen 100% of the people who are familiar with both shows say that comparing BB to Weeds is laughable, and that one is a quirky, playful, lightweight piece of fluff, and one is the greatest goddamn television show of all time.

Guess which is which.

by **Bugs** » Sun Jun 27, 2010 6:36 am

Let's see, normal everyday suburban X turns to an illegal life of Y so that they can Z.

I liked this show better when it was called "Weeds." At least that main character is hot.

by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Sat Jun 26, 2010 8:52 pm

Hopefully I'll be able to watch it at their home. My TV sucks. I've been downloading it off the Internet, which I don't feel bad about, because it's on cable television.

by **pinback** » Sat Jun 26, 2010 7:05 pm

No, every episode of BB is different, and as already has been stated, each of them is better than most, if not all, movies.

That ("no") being said, yes.

That's a good project. That's something to work on for the next year and a half.

by **AArdvark** » Sat Jun 26, 2010 6:21 pm

I hesitate to ask, but..

Will you be able to reproduce the magic of -every single episode of House- with Breaking Bad?

THE
DOESN'T WATCH TV
AARDVARK

by **pinback** » Sat Jun 26, 2010 4:29 pm

I've attempted to put this in perspective, but mostly I end up using sporting events as markers.

Here's my list so far...

When the next episode of Breaking Bad airs:

1. Super Bowl XLV will have been played, and training camp for the 2011/2012 NFL season will have begun.

2. The 2011 NHL and NBA finals will both be long over.

3. I will be 40 years old.

4. We will be gearing up for the 2011 green chile season. We haven't even gotten close to THIS year's green chile season.

5. Starcraft 2 will have been out a full year, long since mastered by Koreans.

6. You know how the 4th of July is in a week? We'll be fondly looking back on the NEXT 4th of July.

It's...

It's gonna be a while.

by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Sat Jun 26, 2010 3:35 pm

So, I've got three episodes to last one year, if I am reading this right.

When Kat said there would be no more episodes until July, my thought was, "Well, at least there aren't year-long droughts like in The Sopranos." (I never kept up with The Sopranos.)

There is now a 13+ month drought. This is terrible. The man has cancer people. Cancer.

by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Wed Jun 23, 2010 10:13 pm

I just saw S03E10.

I'm gonna need a day.

I'm gonna need a day to talk about what I just saw. Because HOLY CHRIST.

Holy Christ.

SPOILERS.

It is the single greatest episode of television I have ever seen in my life.

by **David Milch** » Tue Jun 22, 2010 8:45 pm

Breaking Bad is indeed awesome. Deadwood was still better, but Breaking Bad is -- see previous -- indeed awesome.

Breaking Bad's chief strengths are the cast -- well, mainly Bryan Cranston but everyone else, too...even Anna Gunn playing a character that I defy you to explain what the fuck she's doing scene-to-scene -- and the ridiculously good writing. I would say 80% of the episodes end with something akin to a holy shit moment, and a HSM percentage of 0.800 is unheard of.

As far as chief strengths go, those are pretty goddamned formidable.

That said, I don't think one inhabits the world of breaking bad, as a viewer, the way one does the world of Deadwood. And every single word spoken on Breaking Bad is not, on its own, brilliant, the way they are on Deadwood. (As evidence, I will pay $20 just to hear Al Swearengen say "the" again.) If people do not, years from now, look back on Deadwood the way we do today on Shakespeare, something will have gone seriously fucking awry with humanity.

That said, Breaking Bad is as good as anything on the air today.

So fuck yeah.

Breaking Bad

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