Ozymandias (Breaking Bad) is the best piece of television ever produced
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My favorite episode of any TV show ever, the ending is beyond amazing.
Unforgettable, for sure.
Second favorite easily
I really liked that confrontation because I felt like I'd been waiting for it to happen for a long time. One of my favourite scenes in the show.
Syph Medwes
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nah man nah
i just finished the sopranos the other week
loved it
but breaking bad was just perfect
especially when viewed as an entire episode
like, i do understand if you want to debate final shots though
lol what you expected the ending?
Master Yoshi
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Hank... I still get sick thinking about that episode... 
I've never had to pause a show from being emotionally overwhelmed up until that moment...
I've never had to pause a show from being emotionally overwhelmed up until that moment...
What!?!? Season 4 was the peak of the show. There really should't have even been a season 5. Anyway in terms of Breaking Bad, my personal favorite episode is "Salud" (Season 4 Episode 10).
Gustavo Fring said:
When I think about those final few episodes it all comes down to, Granite State.
Shit's about to go down.
I can hear the theme swelling up.
Shit's about to go down.
ginger ninja
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-4qDsnLkKQ
this and that scene at the fire station always fuckin tears me up..it hurts so much
this and that scene at the fire station always fuckin tears me up..it hurts so much
akachan ningen
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Seriously? I thought the last ep was pretty weak compared to rest of the last season. I mean, there so many shocking moments like when
but in comparison, the last ep was pretty much what I expected to happen. I hoping that something would throw me for a loop but nothing came.
Andrea got killed
I'll also nominate Metalocalypse's "The Doomstar Requiem" - their hour-long rock opera episode - as one of the most amazing feats of television I have ever fucking seen. If you're at all a fan of the show and have the chance to see it in a way that has subtitles enabled so you don't miss a joke (I just paid a couple bucks for it on YouTube and turned on CC), then you will be absolutely be blown away the feats of music, comedy, and animation. Some of the most insane shit I've ever seen in any media - TV, game, or movie. I say that as someone who doesn't like opera or musicals at all; it's just, something really special.
GrandHarrier
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Mah boy. You know what's up.
Sleeping in the Light was hands down the most satisfying, cathartic, bittersweet and triumphant ending to any series I've ever watched. That episode was fucking earned.
Second place nomination for Deconstruction of Falling Stars for being the other finale that might have been if they hadn't gotten their 5th season, that is also amazing in its own right.
DontBeThatGuy
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I'm not about to fight with anyone that holds that opinion.
Agreed.
The crazy thing about the Sopranos is that I don't know if I could ever rewatch it again, knowing how it all ends. It breaks my heart every time I think about it. The Sopranos was so fucking good that I feel like I know all of the characters in real life. They were so perfectly written and portrayed.
God, what a fucking masterpiece.
maquiladora
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It really is the single best episode of any TV show.
Triggerhappytel
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Which episode was Ozymandias? The one where they rob the train was my favourite overall. But I wasn't into the show nearly as much as most people. It was really good TV, but I wouldn't call it one of the greatest shows ever.
Though this episode is nowhere as good as the ones mentioned in this thread, I think the final episode of Twin Peaks deserves credit for redeeming the mostly shitty second season by actually being terrifying.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbkD8mCwVXw
Seriously. Screaming in reverse? FUCCKKKK
And the doppelganger....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbkD8mCwVXw
Seriously. Screaming in reverse? FUCCKKKK
And the doppelganger....
I have literally gotten choked up explaining what the famous "cut to black" signified and how the season gave clues about "how it happens" leading up to that moment, and I still can't believe the heartbreaking, unflinching, starkness of the ending to The Sopranos. It's like the most violent ending that was possible even though showed no blood, because it actually steps into the end of the human experience in such a personal way that it just frightens and chills you. After watching I felt like I knew what it was like to die alone.
Jeeezus I never made it all the way through season 2 because it just kinda goes on and on... So that's the first time I saw that. I just had to turn it off when the screaming started! The dead eyes, unholy noise, horrible facial expression and unnatural movements are straight up terrifying, fuck!
David Lynch can fucking push my buttons when he wants to be unnerving, goddamnit!
darkwing-buck
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Slightly off topic but Crawl Space felt like a Joker Origin Story lol
SCULLIBUNDO
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You can. I've watched The Sopranos from beginning to end around 5 times.
I agree.
The perfect Dark
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naha, Twin Peaks is better.
Bur yeah, the episode was amazing.
Bur yeah, the episode was amazing.
I agree 100% and that was very well put. Fantastic post.
Yup yup yup.
My all-time favorite tv episode. I've never experienced so many emotions in a single hour as during the Breaking Point. Just an absolutely magnificent piece of television in my opinion.
HP_Wuvcraft
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You do know it's about people making drugs, right?
I 'get' why Ozymandias is viewed by many as BB's finest, but I prefer Granite State as the series' greatest.
The destruction sets off in Ozy, but you truly see the impact and finality of what Walt has done in Granite. It manages to be both break neck paced yet slow and complatitive in nature. A once proud family man above all else cuts a lonely figure paying someone $10,000 an hour for company - and the guy being paid to stay is hesistant at even that.
And that finale, where Walt's in the bar and hears 'his contribution was nothing' - that being the sole thing that speaks to him, giving him the strength to finish things is perhaps one of the most succicint character summaries I've ever seen. Such a well done moment. Cranston deserves all the acclaim he's ever got for BB JUST for that. He sold that like nothing else I've witnessed in drama.
The destruction sets off in Ozy, but you truly see the impact and finality of what Walt has done in Granite. It manages to be both break neck paced yet slow and complatitive in nature. A once proud family man above all else cuts a lonely figure paying someone $10,000 an hour for company - and the guy being paid to stay is hesistant at even that.
And that finale, where Walt's in the bar and hears 'his contribution was nothing' - that being the sole thing that speaks to him, giving him the strength to finish things is perhaps one of the most succicint character summaries I've ever seen. Such a well done moment. Cranston deserves all the acclaim he's ever got for BB JUST for that. He sold that like nothing else I've witnessed in drama.
DontBeThatGuy
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There's so many shows I want to rewatch but damn, it's become something of a struggle gearing up for such a thing.
Tesseract
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it is truly earned.
the only notch against the series is the sloppy first half of s05 (understandable given production constraints), and the unfortunate mental downfall of the original lead. rip.
i loved season 1, it was the perfect setup for darker things to come.
Higgins113
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Ozymandias was ruined by Hank saying "My name is Ballsack Schrader, and you can go fuck yourself."
What the fuck is that supposed to mean?
What the fuck is that supposed to mean?
He says 'ASAC Schradar' - i.e. his rank
Prophet Steve
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I should change my avatar because i dont have a recollection of that image ..
That's what I heard the first time too. :lol
nortonff
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I think it's the only episode on IMDB that's got a 10 rating:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2301451/
Pretty impressive.
Perfect episode of a perfect series.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2301451/
Pretty impressive.
Perfect episode of a perfect series.
Moff
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in retrospect, I think I didnt really like breaking bads final season, now it's certainly not bad, the quality is there, no doubt. but it just felt like an encore, an addon.
my favourite piece of TV would probably be twin peaks episode 2, sopranos' pine barrens. thiose 2 really stuck with me.
my favourite piece of TV would probably be twin peaks episode 2, sopranos' pine barrens. thiose 2 really stuck with me.
My single favourite TV program. Not a series but a mini-series. I find everything goes on way too long with popular series (yes including Sopranos, Shield, etc) and the need to have some many episodes results I slack.this thread isn't about Edge of Darkness
yup that's Robert Muldoon from JP, the late, great Bob Peck
I just love the tightness you get from the mini-series format of Edge of Darkness with just enough room to be expansive too.
The Hermit
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Hahaha your version is much better!!
Haloid1177
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The Shield finale was better. Hell I think most of the seventh season of The Shield is better.
Ozymandias and Granite slate are as complementary as it gets. Either episode enriches the other.
Honey Bunny
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Is a a shame the episodes after it were such shite
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