Breaking Bad - Season 5, Part 2 - The Final Eight Episodes - Sundays on AMC

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- TVbtN: 'Breaking Bad' Premiere Delivers 5.2 Million Viewers, 3.6 Million Adults 18-49
AMC Press Release said:
New York, NY – August 12, 2013 –AMC’s Breaking Bad returned last night with the first of its eight final episodes, delivering 5.9 million viewers, the most in series history and up 102% over the show’s season five premiere last summer. From 9pm – 10pm, the network earned a 4.2 HH rating delivering 3.3 million adults 25-54 and 3.6 million adults 18-49. Immediately following Breaking Bad, AMC premiered its newest dramatic series, Low Winter Sun, which got off to a strong start, attracting 2.5 million viewers. To close AMC’s first ever three-premiere night, the Breaking Bad after-show, Talking Bad – hosted by Chris Hardwick and featuring discussion and analysis of this iconic television series – debuted with 1.2 million viewers.

With 3.6 million viewers among adults 18-49, Breaking Bad is second only to AMC’s The Walking Dead in delivery to this key demographic, across all cable networks. With the success of these two shows, AMC is now home to cable’s top two dramas among adults 18-49.

“We are so pleased and gratified by viewer response to a historic four-premiere weekend on AMC,” said AMC’s president and general manager, Charlie Collier. “For Breaking Bad to continue to deliver record-setting ratings in its fifth and final season is remarkable. Our new series, Low Winter Sun, is off to a strong start, and we have successfully launched another after-show in Talking Bad, which will super-serve Breaking Bad fans all the way through these final episodes. On Saturday, we also launched another night of original programming on AMC with Hell On Wheels, doubling our prime time average on Saturday nights, even before time shifting, and delivering the network’s highest Saturday night rating all year.”

The first of the final eight episodes of Breaking Bad also became an event on Twitter, with 759,689 total show-related Tweets from nearly 400,000 unique users – approximately two Tweets per unique user. Aaron Paul’s (@aaronpaul_8) “It’s so close I can almost taste the meth #BreakingBad” Tweet at 7:23pm EST generated 25,175 retweets. Peak activity for the show on Twitter was at 9pm EST – 11,799 Tweets-per-minute and at the end of the show at 10pm – 7,859 Tweets-per-minute. Twitter data from SocialGuide.
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:O
 
A Serious Man said:
I'm not sure why you'd publish that piece right now though, other than as a snotty response to all the buzz. Just wait for the show to end and then dissect it as a whole.
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Being contrarian. BB is everywhere right now, so it's probably a reaction to that. Plus, we don't know what the ultimate end of the show will be, and it's clear that BB uses plot to get its themes across (as opposed to character) which makes it a bit of an odd duck amond the hour-dramas right now, and makes the resolution of that plot supremely important to judging the show overall. The jury's out. If all we get is a Scarface-like cresendo, then sure. But I expect a lot more.

killertofu said:
That Star Trek talk was boss, yo.

Like seriously, the whole teleporting and making a new copy bit? Have people actually thought that cause as a mild Star Trek fan I was kind of amazed at that theory
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Oh yeah. For sure. God, that whole scene rang seriously true, if OOT silly.
 
Cornballer said:
- TVbtN: 'Breaking Bad' Premiere Delivers 5.2 Million Viewers, 3.6 Million Adults 18-49:O
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killertofu said:
That Star Trek talk was boss, yo.

Like seriously, the whole teleporting and making a new copy bit? Have people actually thought that cause as a mild Star Trek fan I was kind of amazed at that theory
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Yeah there's an episode of TNG where a teleporter mishap creates a full-blown copy of Riker.

The characters ultimately all decided that was entirely too much godlike beard for one ship to sustain and the clone Riker left to go do his own thing (and awesomely later reappeared on Deep Space Nine).
 
killertofu said:
That Star Trek talk was boss, yo.

Like seriously, the whole teleporting and making a new copy bit? Have people actually thought that cause as a mild Star Trek fan I was kind of amazed at that theory
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I think it's a common SciFi theme. I first came across it in Michael Chriton's Timeline, a fun book that's much better than the crappy movie.
 
Ignatz Mouse said:
No.

Tread lightly is a much, much better line than either of those. "Say my name" never really meant anything to me. It was like asking asking the Meth Dealer for a handjob. And "I am the one who knocks" sounds awesome out of context, but at the time didn't really play.

"Tread lightly" gave me chills, however.
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yeah"one who knocks" is slightly cheesy and comic booky

tread lightly is great and doesnt feel silly at all

those ratings are insane
 
Jeff-DSA said:
"Tread lightly" ranks up with some of the best show closing moments I can think of. I remember having a similar reaction to "Not Penny's boat."
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It's hokey, preposterous, and obscenely stupid. Doesn't make it bad, but it doesn't compare to endings to shows that actually require real, substantive writing.
 
border said:
I don't know. It's like when your grandma says something vaguely racist at the dinner table. You probably won't love her less for it, but it's embarrassing at the same time. I don't think it's ever really gotten in the way of the show getting its stories across.

I think I'd certainly like Breaking Bad as much or better without those elements though. I suppose it only gets to me when the show is hailed as good or better than programs that didn't ever resort to off-the-wall pulp or gross-out slapstick.
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Fair enough. Thanks for the response. I've always seen the gross humor and hyper-realism as part of the DNA of the show, and it hasn't bothered me at all. I can understand how it might cause some eye rolling for certain people, though.
Steelyuhas said:
WHHHAAAAAATTTT

Has a show ever jumped like that?
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There might be some other examples out there, but it seems unprecedented to suddenly double your ratings in the fifth season of a show.
 
GremlinFool said:
It's hokey, preposterous, and obscenely stupid. Doesn't make it bad, but it doesn't compare to endings to shows that actually require real, substantive writing.
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Joke?

It's understated, and the message is chilling. "If you don't know me, then you don't know what I am capable of. But you can probably put together some ideas looking at all these files in your garage. And that is cause for you to stop being smug, and start being scared. Tread carefully. Because now I know that you know."

All of that is implied in just a couple of lines and a look. It's brilliant writing.
 
Cornballer said:
Fair enough. Thanks for the response. I've always seen the gross humor and hyper-realism as part of the DNA of the show, and it hasn't bothered me at all. I can understand how it might cause some eye rolling for certain people, though.
There might be some other examples out there, but it seems unprecedented to suddenly double your ratings in the fifth season of a show.
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Well, sixth if we are being technical.
 
Just saw the episode and lord all mighty this might be one of the best i have ever seen. Wildly exceeded my expectations. This thing will be on my mind for the rest of the week. We're having TV history here and we're right in the middle of it.

Incredible performances by the entire main cast what tha fukk
 
The look of fear on Carols face during the cold open, was just woah. In comparison, before the events of the cold open, she's all nice.
 
Cornballer said:
The Breaking Bad podcast isn't up yet - they're working on some sort of a technical issue. Someone will link it when it's finally available.Eh, perhaps sixth if we're being honest, but contractually this is the second half of the fifth season.
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It is the sixth season, except no one gets paid like it's the sixth season, because it's technically the fifth season split over two years. Great job, AMC.
 
ivysaur12 said:
It is the sixth season, except no one gets paid like it's the sixth season, because it's technically the fifth season split over two years. Great job, AMC.
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We really need an appropriate AMC meme that we can bust out for this and all of their other penny pinching shenanigans. It comes up a lot these days.
 
The only two major weak points I can think of in BB are the S2 plane crash and Tuco's cousins. Mainly because both were given a lot of build up and were ultimately anticlimactic. Otherwise, nitpicking about specific lines or "slapstick" moments seems silly. Breaking Bad is unapologetic about its absurdity; it has always had a layer of dark humor from the very first episode and the very premise is arguably unrealistic. To me, stuff like that just doesn't detract from the show, because the dialogue, characterization, atmosphere, and storytelling is strong across the board.
 
Jimothy said:
Are you seriously claiming fucking LOST has better writing than Breaking Bad?
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No, Lost is equally preposterous. I'm saying that no Breaking Bad moment ill have the understated sublimity of the best scenes from The Sopranos or Mad Men because Breaking Bad's writers don't really understand human beings.
 
Demos approximate:

BREAKING BAD: 2.9 A1949, 5.9 million
LOW WINTER SUN: 1.1 A1849, 2.5 million
TALKING BAD, THE: 0.5 A1849, 1.2 million

No demos yet for Hell on Wheels, but its Saturday 2 hour premiere was 2.5 million, up from last season's Sunday premiere.
 
GremlinFool said:
No, Lost is equally preposterous. I'm saying that no Breaking Bad moment ill have the understated sublimity of the best scenes from The Sopranos or Mad Men because Breaking Bad's writers don't really understand human beings.
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child please.

breaking bad has been going for a different tone from those series from day one. it's more of a pulp comic book crime show than a character drama.
 
I feel like Lydia has something to do with Walt being on the run. Maybe she tries to get Walt back into the cooking business by having some goons rough up or even kill his family members. She's a pretty crazy lady like that. When it's her ass on the line, just like Walt, she doesn't mind other people dying.
 
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