AMC's "Breaking Bad" Discussion (2008-2013)

[WyldeMan45]

Originally Posted by adrock41

Absolutely fantastic show.

I got my first "Breaking Bad" Experience this past Saturday during AMC's Marathon. After one episode, I turned off the TV, drove to BB, and picked up both Season 1 and Season 2 on BD. I finished Season 1 in less than a day (only 7 episodes). Hands down a GREAT show, I cant wait to get back to watching more tonight! I watched Season 2 Ep 1 last night and it was a big mistake as I REALLY wanted to see what happened next...big cliffhanger, and I really had to get to sleep.

[Show spoiler]Jesse pulls up, Walt asks him why the heck he is at his house, and then.... you see Tuco in the backseat with a gun pointed at Jesse's head "Get in!"

Highly recommended show! The only downside is, I will have to catch up on Season 3 Ep 1 Premiere, as I wasnt able to finish both Season 1 and 2 before the premiere aired last night.

Lol, slow down turbo! Gonna blow through too quickly and miss half the fun. Breaking Bad is a show that keeps you guessing and thinking for the week in between episodes. But hey atleast a new fan has been born.

[mikejet]

Would it be a good blind buy to get season 1 on blu?

[Adrock]

Originally Posted by WyldeMan45

Lol, slow down turbo! Gonna blow through too quickly and miss half the fun. Breaking Bad is a show that keeps you guessing and thinking for the week in between episodes. But hey atleast a new fan has been born.

lol! It's true. I am pacing myself a little more now lol. You are certainly correct though, the show keeps you guessing and thinking! A new fan for sure!

Originally Posted by mikejet

Would it be a good blind buy to get season 1 on blu?

I just did on Saturday, and I am already done watching Season 1

So, in answer to your question: Most definitely!

[SquidPuppet]

Just finished season 2 last night. The whole season was great, but I have to say there were a couple standout episodes.

Episode 12. My head almost exploded. It was like a brutal, violently emotional sledgehammer wacking my heart and mind. And the closing 30 second shot. Talk about heavy stuff. WOW.

Hate, love, confusion, resentment, anger, fear, power, weakness, danger. Throw it all in a blender and press #10, cover it with gasoline, light it on fire and throw it out of a moving car and you have Breaking Bad.

The writers are taking HUGE risks the way they are bending things, but it works fantatically. They are walking a very dangerous (and skinny) tight-rope, but manage to RUN and JUMP on it without falling off.

Shaking my head at how good this show is.

[WyldeMan45]

Originally Posted by SquidPuppet

Just finished season 2 last night. The whole season was great, but I have to say there were a couple standout episodes.

Episode 12. My head almost exploded. It was like a brutal, violently emotional sledgehammer wacking my heart and mind. And the closing 30 second shot. Talk about heavy stuff. WOW.

Hate, love, confusion, resentment, anger, fear, power, weakness, danger. Throw it all in a blender and press #10, cover it with gasoline, light it on fire and throw it out of a moving car and you have Breaking Bad.

The writers are taking HUGE risks the way they are bending things, but it works fantatically. They are walking a very dangerous (and skinny) tight-rope, but manage to RUN and JUMP on it without falling off.

Shaking my head at how good this show is.

That's why Bryan Cranston has been nominated for both seasons so far. I am so excited to see what direction they are going in with season 3 following the introduction of those crazy new cousins!

[WyldeMan45]

New episode tonight, so everybody tune in!!!

[bootsy]

Originally Posted by WyldeMan45

New episode tonight, so everybody tune in!!!

Oh indeed

[p1trick82]

I'm catching up on last week's pacific, as soon as it's done on to breaking bad

[WyldeMan45]

Tonight's episode was fantastic, and not that I am surprised by that because every episode just seems to always fire on all cylinders but season 3 so far has just been keeping me on the edge of my seat and entertained to all hell. Walt continues to be completely oblivious to how much he's destroyed the lives of those around him, and some how he continues to make Skyler look like the bad guy in all this. I couldn't believe that the cousin's somehow are tied to Gus! That was huge! Really damn glad that Mike was watching the place when they rolled up, or it would have been a very American Psycho shiny axed curtain call for our boy Walt. I loved seeing Jesse get a little lowballed revenge on his parents treatment of him by buying the house his Aunt once left him. If his parents hadn't kick him out of aunt's house, he would never have moved in next door to Jane, and all the after events never happened. Unlike Walt, Jesse is bad, and he accepts this, atleast he isn't a hypocrite like Walt.

BTW, I slowed down next weeks preview and had an OMFG moment when I saw the cousins coming in behind those yellow plastic curtains, and in the next scene you clearly but very quickly see Danny Trejo screaming with a shiny ax being held to his neck and than a scene or two later you see the shadow through the curtain of the ax fall. So now we know that the cousins and their trust shiny ax are the ones who cut off the head of Tortuga and placed it on that turtle last season!! I am really looking forward to seeing that play out next week. As well as what appeared to be a bar fight between Hank and possibly Mike......

[p1trick82]

we never get those previews here from the next episode in canada but I did check out the sneak peak from the next epi on AMC's website, looks like gus

[Show spoiler]is a bigger dealer than I initially thought

[WyldeMan45]

Originally Posted by p1trick82

we never get those previews here from the next episode in canada but I did check out the sneak peak from the next epi on AMC's website, looks like gus

[Show spoiler]is a bigger dealer than I initially thought

I'm starting to wonder with that kind of clout if Gus is actually the head of the Mexican Cartel....

[eyesonfire]

Originally Posted by WyldeMan45

Tonight's episode was fantastic, and not that I am surprised by that because every episode just seems to always fire on all cylinders but season 3 so far has just been keeping me on the edge of my seat and entertained to all hell. Walt continues to be completely oblivious to how much he's destroyed the lives of those around him, and some how he continues to make Skyler look like the bad guy in all this. I couldn't believe that the cousin's somehow are tied to Gus! That was huge! Really damn glad that Mike was watching the place when they rolled up, or it would have been a very American Psycho shiny axed curtain call for our boy Walt. I loved seeing Jesse get a little lowballed revenge on his parents treatment of him by buying the house his Aunt once left him. If his parents hadn't kick him out of aunt's house, he would never have moved in next door to Jane, and all the after events never happened. Unlike Walt, Jesse is bad, and he accepts this, atleast he isn't a hypocrite like Walt.

Really an amazing episode!!

Don't you just love how the writers get down to business and don't tease with the cousins being after Walt for I don't know how long? This is great writing, episode two and they show up at his doorstep.

Walt is close to losing it it seems, things are going to get even worse for him if he keeps denying that he's creating one hell of a mess - "I' can't be the bad guy." Well, Walt.. you are. Surely a great scene.
But I also have to say, the cop didn't help in the opening scene. "Down means off." LOL, cops.

Jesse buying the house had me smiling, little triumph for the poor guy. He sure has been through a lot of crap lately.

And of course I gotta mention the scene where Walt was breaking into the house while "The Fixer" is installing the listening device in the backyard. This was some very intense stuff, even though it was just a guy trying to get into his own house. That's just great filmmaking.

What's left to say... this is going to be another amazing season if they keep this up. I feel like diving into another reality entirely when I watch Breaking Bad so much, that I think tonight when I'm stepping out of the shower I'll have to check first if two bald guys with an axe are sitting on my bed.

*ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding*

[Adrock]

Originally Posted by SquidPuppet

Hate, love, confusion, resentment, anger, fear, power, weakness, danger. Throw it all in a blender and press #10, cover it with gasoline, light it on fire and throw it out of a moving car and you have Breaking Bad.

The writers are taking HUGE risks the way they are bending things, but it works fantatically. They are walking a very dangerous (and skinny) tight-rope, but manage to RUN and JUMP on it without falling off.

Shaking my head at how good this show is.

Great 'mini' review of Breaking Bad. Perfectly said! I just finished Season 2 this past weekend as well...absolutely hooked. I really enjoy this show, definitely one of the best, if not thee best newer show on TV.

[WyldeMan45]

Just read this fantastic interview with Bryan Cranston and my god, what he says about the idea of the show that Vince Gilligan pitched to him specifically the words take the character from Mr. Chips to.............!!! I was blown away by just eight words and they where exactly what I have been hoping we would see before the show ends, which Cranston says would be Five or Six seasons tops. Which well means 2-3 more years so I am very ok with that considering how each season is better than the last. But anyways read this interview at your own risk, it doesn't ruin anything from this season, it does however talk a lot about the previous and the direction they will take this show over the course of it's length and it's amazing!!!!

NOTE - Spoilers from the first two seasons of Breaking Bad are discussed in the interview. Consider yourself warned.

So are you wrapped on the next season?

Bryan Cranston: Oh yeah. We finished all 13 episodes of season 3 the end of January.

So you are the man with the answers.

Cranston: I’ve got them all. I’ll tell you everything you want to know.

I actually I hate spoilers, so I will not ask that question.

Cranston: All right.

But I’m sure there’s a lot of fans that would love to know. First of all a huge fan of your series and a huge fan of your work on the series-the season 2 and season 1 are incredibly well received by critics and audiences. When you guys were sitting down to do season 3, did that sort of add any pressure to making the show - knowing what the critics and fans have been saying?

Cranston: I think added pressure for Vince Gilligan and the writing staff. They have the most pressure. They have to develop the whole concept of how they put themselves into a corner and how they get themselves out. And I think it’s always been a very, very interesting relationship with that. I mean they truly agonize over how can we then now justifiably put him in another condition that the character’s in in another environment that is equally painful and high stakes.

Well one of the things about your character in season 2 is…hopefully people reading this will know the arc, but you thought you were going to die. And then the cancer went into remission. And you discovered that normal life was sort of not what it was before. Now there’s sort of that added drug of the excitement of dealing with stuff that’s say against the law. How does that factor into the arc of season 3?

Cranston: Well I think it’s a few things. First of all the remission, as I thought the connotation was as well, was that oh, it’s improved. Your condition is improved. And remission specifically means it hasn’t spread. It hasn’t worsened beyond the initial diagnosis. So the diagnosis is I’m still going to die of lung cancer. It’s still terminal lung cancer. Remission means it hasn’t progressed rapidly. So it’s still the same condition.

At the end of season 2, I mean to put it bluntly, the shit hit the fan, you know? You had a phenomenal finale. The family life is in chaos. Did we join season 3 moments after season 2 ended? And what’s the immediate stuff that Walter has to deal with?

Cranston: Season 3…well let me just give you a general overview first. If season 1 was about Walter White and his decision based on a set of bizarre and unusual circumstances how he decides to become a criminal altruistically for the betterment of his family and then die. That’s his general plan. Season 2 then had to explore the consequences of that decision. Going into the gray areas of the idea of self-defense and murder and being that kind of person and knowing that you have to develop a set of skills that are different from anything you’ve ever had before. Season 3 now explores between both Jesse and Walt-the acceptance of who you are-of the darker side of yourself, that you are capable of this. You now know the players and the rules and now it’s about surviving within that construct. So the first episode of the 3rd season starts about a week and a half after the plane crash. And we realized that Walt does learn his end of it-his culpability to…the chain of events that happened that culminated in the plane crash. And he has to deal with that and he’s struck by tremendous guilt, of course. And also the interesting thing that the happens in the first episode is that Skyler, who is fed up with him, makes an educated guess as to what he’s doing. “How did you get so much money?”, and she hits it and he can’t answer her and she knows she’s right. So she finds out what he’s doing in the very first episode, which I think is very courageous because it really throws the whole conceit out the window that when this show first started that Walt has to keep this a secret from his family or else it’s all lost. So now she does know. Now what? How does that change things? If now…talk about a tailspin. Walt and the rest of the group just start spinning out of control.

Well, that’s one of the things that’s actually what I find great about your show is that it’s not just trying to rest on one storyline, that season 1 and season 2 have explored so many different things. But one of the things that I really loved about season 2 is the way, right from the beginning, there were like 4 episodes that planted the seed of where you were going at the end of season 2. And, you know, people were wondering. Does season 3 do something similar?

Cranston: No. No, that was an idea that Vince had at the beginning of two…to have this mid-air plane crash that somehow Walt was connected to. And they worked backwards, how do we get to that horrific tragedy? And because they knew where they were going, they used the iconic figure of a pink teddy bear to tie that in. And even the names…if you go back and look at the list of names of the titles of each episode, the ones that had the teasers up with the teddy bear and what was going to happen, you can put together like an anagram. It’s like 747 is the first episode, one that I directed was called 747, which meant $747,000 he needed to make before he can get out of this horrible business. But, 747 was also the name of an airplane. So if you put them all together of the 6 or so episodes pertaining to the plane crash, it goes 747, down over ABQ…something…..747…something, something, down over ABQ. So you can actually put together what was going to happen.

I’m curious with the difficulty in making a television show and how everything is very rushed, have you guys all reached the point where you know the characters, you know the situations, it’s not so much rehearsal as much as just filming? Could you sort of talk about as an actor how it’s changed from the beginning or how it is now?

Cranston: Well, by this stage of the game you’re not exploring character as much. I mean, that being said, my character is changing before our eyes by design. You know, Vince told me from the very first meeting he wants to take the character from Mr. Chips to Scarface. So by the end of our run, however long that will be, I will become this drug kingpin murderer. And that’s fascinating to me. How do you actually change from a nice person, long abiding citizen family guy to being this guy? So we, in season 3, feels like the middle to me. I have no way of basing that on anything, but it feels like the middle. I feel like we can go 5 seasons, maybe 6 tops to tell our story. And over the course of that story, he metamorphosis’s from one person with a completely different set of characteristics to another. And we’re going to see that played out before us.

[McCrutchy]

5 or 6 seasons of Breaking Bad would be all kinds of sexy.

[WyldeMan45]

Originally Posted by McCrutchy

5 or 6 seasons of Breaking Bad would be all kinds of sexy.

Considering we have only had 22 episodes of this show, and it has already transformed to all the insanity it currently has in such a small amount of episodes, I cannot image what they could do with another 50 episodes, lol.

[McCrutchy]

Originally Posted by WyldeMan45

Considering we have only had 22 episodes of this show, and it has already transformed to all the insanity it currently has in such a small amount of episodes, I cannot image what they could do with another 50 episodes, lol.

Cranston seems to think they can do it.

[Bear28]

There is an awesome sneak peak of next weeks episode on AMC's website. It's a full 5min scene!!

http://www.amctv.com/originals/breakingbad/

Don't watch unless you are uptodate with the series.

Thanks

[WyldeMan45]

Originally Posted by McCrutchy

Cranston seems to think they can do it.

Oh no I didn't mean I didn't believe they couldn't do it, I meant that with everything they have managed to give us in 22, I just simply couldn't fathom what level of epicness they could do with 50 more. I was very excited by his statement and I am all for the 50 episodes, so bring it on!

[Porkchop Express]

Originally Posted by WyldeMan45

I'm starting to wonder with that kind of clout if Gus is actually the head of the Mexican Cartel....

I just caught up on my dvr last night. That was a great episode!! I think you're right, it looks like Gus (Pollos) has a lot more power outside of just distributing drugs.

I can't help but think that he is going to put Walt in a make me drugs or die situation.