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Breaking Bad - Season 4 - Sundays on AMC

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Copernicus said:
Dexter, mainly seasons 3 and 5.
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Mother fucker...
 
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Amir0x said:
LMFAO

MAD MEN all seasons are as good (and, in my estimation, better) than Breaking Bad. Completely different tone, though, if you're looking for ten deaths per episode and action scenes skip it.

THE WIRE - the greatest television show ever made, period. This is in a class so far beyond the next closest competitor it almost deserves its own category.

The SOPRANOS - a few weak seasons out of the bunch, but its highs are so much higher than Breaking Bad (and far more consistent, writing-wise) that you'll be blown away.

DEADWOOD - Three seasons that will make you cry that it got cancelled harder than you cried when your first love dumped after three special years together.
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What he said about The Wire is true.

Breaking Bad is still better than the rest of those shows though.
 
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So if GTA V does follow a multiple-protagonist route I have a feeling it'll be alot like Breaking Bad.

Older white fellow = Walt
Younger black fellow = Jesse
Hipster black guy = Gus

If the
drug trade
rumors are also true then that gives it more of a reason.
 
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I love GTA, I love Breaking Bad, I really don't love how many people are trying to link the two together over in that trailer threat. How do you know the 'hipster black guy' isn't just a random pedestrian design that they liked and decided to put in the trailer? We don't know it will be multi-protagonist, and if it is, why does that make a BB style storyline more likely than if you only get to play as the 'Walt' or 'Jesse' character?

Come on people! :)
 
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blahblah...blah said:
I love GTA, I love Breaking Bad, I really don't love how many people are trying to link the two together over in that trailer threat. How do you know the 'hipster black guy' isn't just a random pedestrian design that they liked and decided to put in the trailer? We don't know it will be multi-protagonist, and if it is, why does that make a BB style storyline more likely than if you only get to play as the 'Walt' or 'Jesse' character?

Come on people! :)
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Well I was mainly referencing to the Walt-Jesse relationship the protagonists might have and the
drug trade rumor
 
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Deadstar said:
I just watched the pilot and really enjoyed it. I'm wondering if the show gets any better, it's already pretty interesting.
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It doesn't really hit its stride until the end of S1/beginning of S2. Keep watching
 
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Yami

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Rewatched the first couple episodes with a mate new to the series, and it holds up damn well. The cinematography is still top notch, yet only gets better throughout the series.

Let's just say my mate is hooked on Breaking Bad right now.
 
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I wouldn't compare BB to The Wire since they're so completely different. If you want a show on the same caliber and sophistication of BB, then it has to be The Sopranos.
 
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Amir0x said:
LMFAO

MAD MEN all seasons are as good (and, in my estimation, better) than Breaking Bad. Completely different tone, though, if you're looking for ten deaths per episode and action scenes skip it.

Other than that...

THE WIRE - the greatest television show ever made, period. This is in a class so far beyond the next closest competitor it almost deserves its own category.

The SOPRANOS - a few weak seasons out of the bunch, but its highs are so much higher than Breaking Bad (and far more consistent, writing-wise) that you'll be blown away.

DEADWOOD - Three seasons that will make you cry that it got cancelled harder than you cried when your first love dumped after three special years together.
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co-sign ALL OF THIS but I'd probably tie Sopranos with Wire (or possibly above it)
 
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Full Metal Jacket said:
I wouldn't compare BB to The Wire since they're so completely different. If you want a show on the same caliber and sophistication of BB, then it has to be The Sopranos.
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BB isn't in sopranos league.. the writing doesn't compare.

the closest thing to breaking bad is probably the shield, but even that is better

sopranos > mad men > deadwood > the wire > the shield > breaking bad
 
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Copernicus said:
That's amazing.
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A friend of mine on that pic:

Gus Fring requires 100 pounds of biscuits and cornbread each day.

Hahaha could you imagine a show about the two of them providing food for all the Los Pollos franchises?
 
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asdanosgiao

AIIGKNJ.ASKIU BOI OWI

:-O

O-:

Translation:

I spent the last three days (almost literally) doing nothing but watching Breaking Bad for the first time, starting from the pilot and ending at the S4 finale. I just finished the series, and I'm paralyzed with amazement. And now I drunkenly stumble into this thread, utterly unable to express myself coherently.

I've never watched a show like this in my life. Dirty, crazy, human, and absolutely fearless. And somehow, it got better every season.

If you had asked me to rank my favorite shows a week ago, it would've looked like this:

1) My So-Called Life
2) Mad Men
3) Friday Night Lights

The list may change if Homeland continues being incredible this season and when I (one day) pay up for HBO Go to introduce myself to The Wire, but for now, I feel comfortable letting Mad Men slip down a rank.

hold meeee
 
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Amir0x said:
LMFAO

MAD MEN all seasons are as good (and, in my estimation, better) than Breaking Bad. Completely different tone, though, if you're looking for ten deaths per episode and action scenes skip it.

Other than that...

THE WIRE - the greatest television show ever made, period. This is in a class so far beyond the next closest competitor it almost deserves its own category.

The SOPRANOS - a few weak seasons out of the bunch, but its highs are so much higher than Breaking Bad (and far more consistent, writing-wise) that you'll be blown away.

DEADWOOD - Three seasons that will make you cry that it got cancelled harder than you cried when your first love dumped after three special years together.
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This.
 
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noah111

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I am late, but I finally caught up and finished this season. Holly shit, this was an amazing show. This was the last season, right?

Also, was Gus gay by any chance? I have a feeling when jesse said that gus said 'it was someone close to him' about the guy they killed over the pool in Mexico, that perhaps they were partners.
 
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noah111

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OMG, for some reason I thought I had read this was the last season, ending sure seemed like it. What could the plot for S5 possibly be?

I mean, S5 will be the first season where it is not heavily intertwined with the ending of the previous season, since usually they end on a cliffhanger and have the same plot line.

Hope this show doesn't turn to shit, that would be tragic.
 
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I also watched S1-S4 during the last 2 weeks or so.. I couldn't stop! Amazing show and definetly on the list for one of my top all time favorites... YO!
 
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outsidah said:
I also watched S1-S4 during the last 2 weeks or so.. I couldn't stop! Amazing show and definetly on the list for one of my top all time favorites... YO!
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Now you have to play the waiting game with the rest of us :(
 
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noah111

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^Yeah, that's what sucks the most about plowing through any TV show anew. This happened to me with Lost (I watched S01-5 on Hulu) and the wait for the next season sucked.

Now I need to go back and read the pages where everyone watched the finale, I want to see the reactions/speculations. Anyone remember what page range that was?
 
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Sentry said:
^Yeah, that's what sucks the most about plowing through any TV show anew. This happened to me with Lost (I watched S01-5 on Hulu) and the wait for the next season sucked.

Now I need to go back and read the pages where everyone watched the finale, I want to see the reactions/speculations. Anyone remember what page range that was?
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It aired 10/9 I believe, so around page 119 if you're set to 100 posts per page.
 
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Don't forget to set your DVRs for this Sunday's episode of America in Primetime on PBS. Vince Gilligan and Bryan Cranston are featured on this week's episode.

AMERICA IN PRIMETIME presents some of the most compelling shows on television today, as well as those of the past, by focusing on key character archetypes — the man of the house, the independent woman, the misfit and the crusader — that have remained a staple of primetime through the generations, capturing both the continuity of the character and the evolution. Each episode of the series focuses on one of the key archetypes:

...

“Man of the House” showcases the evolution of men from the kings of their castles in classic family sitcoms to more intricate, conflicted figures in modern shows. Interviews include Marcy Carsey and Tom Werner (“The Cosby Show”); David Chase (“The Sopranos”); Bryan Cranston (“Breaking Bad”); Ron Howard (“The Andy Griffith Show”); Carl Reiner and Dick Van Dyke (“The Dick Van Dyke Show”); and Phil Rosenthal and Patricia Heaton (“Everybody Loves Raymond”), among others.
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Preview: http://www.pbs.org/america-in-primetime/episodes/man-house/
 
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Does anyone think cancer is going to come and bite Walt in the ass again?
 
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Dr Eggman said:
Does anyone think cancer is going to come and bite Walt in the ass again?
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I'm expecting/hoping that Walt will lose control to such a degree that his family will abandon him, his meth empire will fall apart, Jesse will beat him in someway, and Walt will be left alone to die slowly of cancer.
 
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big ander said:
I'm expecting/hoping that Walt will lose control to such a degree that his family will abandon him, his meth empire will fall apart, Jesse will beat him in someway, and Walt will be left alone to die slowly of cancer.
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That's pretty much the only way this show can end. They clearly set Walt down the true bad guy path, and Jesse is just one of his victims. Given that in this show no bad deed goes unpunished, Walt is in for a reckoning.

He coughed a bit towards the end of S4 and shrugged off his cancer screening as being fine, but we don't know that to be true since we didn't hear the diagnosis for ourselves. He could very well have cancer again, but wants to end his life riding high as a criminal kingpin, only to have it all come crashing down on him.
 
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