Breaking Bad - Part 1

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Saul is a great character. The epitome of comic relief, but he serves many important purposes to the plot.
 
Blew up half your face due to a 20 year old grudge?

Better Call Saul! :up:
 
Caught up last night. Great stuff.

But now I need my new Breaking Bad fix.
 
^Those minisodes are great. AMC needs to produce more of them. :D

Also can't wait to see how they use Gus in Season 5. Gilligan has promised some flashbacks featuring him (probably pre-credits scenes) which will be awesome! Giancarlo Esposito is awesome.
 
I just finished watching Crawl Space, and, oh my god. That ending.... I have no words.
 
Man...I just started watching Breaking Bad, finished the first season this weekend, what an awesome show. I'm sorry I've been missing out. Every episode had a classic moment, it was great. I think my favorite bit was "Helicopter, *****!" When Jessie got picked up by the other druggie and swung around in the R/V. I nearly died laughing.
 
Yeah man, look forward to more Badger and Skinny Pete shenanigans. :D

And don't read through the thread!
 
Skinny Pete was ****ing hilarious, can't wait to see more of him.

The thing that's freaking me out about this show is that bald Bryan Cranston looks exactly like my dad, if he had a black stache.
 
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The best character on this show.
 
Yea he's a great character as well, always seems very neutral and under-stated. I think if ever there was a weaker aspect of the show, it's that the female characters kind of maybe are abit too naggy and whiny. The aren't for me personally but they teater very close on being anoying and dislikable.

I think it would be very balsy in the next season to have his son with cerebral palsy killed off due to Waltz actions Godfather III style. Alot of people hate that movie but the moment his daughter dies and he basically, breaks is pretty awsome. He's constantly brought danger to his family behind the scenes and pushed and pushed to see how far he can go. It could be a great crescendo point.
 
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Soapy said:
Mike is great, but I'm 100% Team Jesse.
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The whole cast is great, but the best character is always going to be Walter White, as it has been from the very beginning of the series. It doesn't matter that this season I really grew to hate him, that Walt has turned into a loathsome human being who ruins things for other, more likeable characters. All this is ultimately his story, and Bryan Cranston is giving perhaps the greatest performance in TV history bringing this character to life. With how well the rest of the cast has been rounded out, it's easy to take this phenomenal performance for granted, but we shouldn't. Even if we hate him as a person, Walter White remains most definitely the best character in Breaking Bad.
 
Poeman said:
Four will go down as one of the best seasons in television history...Book it for a win of Best Drama at the Emmys
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Well said. As much as I've grumbled about Breaking Bad being out of contention for this year's Emmys, obviously that extra time in the writing room paid off dividends, and we have what in any just world would surely be considered a shoo-in for next year's Emmys. Here are the awards I think Breaking Bad should be in line to win:

BEST TV DRAMA - BREAKING BAD
Easy, hands down. As I said before, if The Wire Season 4 is the greatest single season of television ever made, then Breaking Bad Season 4 is surely the second greatest.

BEST LEADING ACTOR IN A DRAMA - BRYAN CRANSTON
It'll be his fourth win for the same character, but each season Cranston gets better, and adds enough new dimensions to the character of Walter White to make each new win well deserved all over again.

BEST LEADING ACTRESS IN A DRAMA - ANNA GUNN
This one will be controversial, as Skyler has her haters. But Anna Gunn does great in what is too often an overlooked and thankless role. Something worth pointing out, while often (even in good shows) the wife characters are just the female leads, Anna Gunn makes it so that the marriage between Skyler and Walt is utterly believable, where you can see how these two personalities would be drawn to one another. Her character arc tapered off a bit in the last few episodes, but early in the season especially she was on top form.

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A DRAMA - GIANCARLO ESPOSITO
Aaron Paul, Dean Norris and Giancarlo Esposito all deserve nominations in this category, and choosing just one to win is very tough. But Aaron won it last year, and Dean can get the nod next year. This, however, was Gus' season. He was a terrifying Big Bad in Season 3, but in Season 4 we got development, nuance, and even traces of humanity in the character that evoked our sympathy, so much so that you had some people saying the wrong person died after the season finale.

BEST WRITING - GEORGE MASTRAS & SAM CATLIN, CRAWL SPACE
Again, it was hard choosing just one in this category, but if I had to pick the most masterfully written episode of the season, it would be this 11th episode that took us screaming into the endgame. THAT ending... man. That could have been how you ended the penultimate episode of the whole series, never mind the season!

BEST DIRECTING - VINCE GILLIGAN, FACE-OFF
The directing in this was of the quality you'd find in a Hollywood movie. The masterful, agonosing drip-feed tension of Tio's talkboard, all those slick slow pan-ins - from Walt in the parking lot listening to the radio to the final reveal - and of course that crazy SFX shot of Gus, not to mention the poignant depiction of Gus' walk to the nursing home. Everything about this episode was just beautiful, haunting and memorable. Gilligan showed himself to be a TV auteur.
 
If you guys haven't listened to it already, please listen to the WTF podcast with Marc Maron with Bryan Cranston. It's very interesting--their conversation about Breaking Bad, Cranston's take on the character, some info on Vince Gilligan that I didn't know about, and you'll love how Cranston talks about the season four finale without giving anything away..

I don't have the link, but just search "wtf podcast maron bryan cranston"
 
Keyser Soze said:
The whole cast is great, but the best character is always going to be Walter White, as it has been from the very beginning of the series. It doesn't matter that this season I really grew to hate him, that Walt has turned into a loathsome human being who ruins things for other, more likeable characters. All this is ultimately his story, and Bryan Cranston is giving perhaps the greatest performance in TV history bringing this character to life. With how well the rest of the cast has been rounded out, it's easy to take this phenomenal performance for granted, but we shouldn't. Even if we hate him as a person, Walter White remains most definitely the best character in Breaking Bad.
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I didn't say anything about anyone's performance. I just said I like Jesse. :/
 
Soapy said:
I didn't say anything about anyone's performance. I just said I like Jesse. :/
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I wasn't saying anything about your like of Jesse. It's just the one guy said Mike was his favorite, you said Jesse was your favorite, and I was explaining why Walt was my favorite.
 
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