Breaking Bad - Part 14

[hellblazer103]

You know, I wonder, does anyone know of any other shows that became megahits in their last season almost randomly? I was trying to think of that earlier today, and I really can't think of any. I'm sure it's happened, but it's really rare for a show to have such a huge success at the very end like that when the rest of the series was more moderate/average in ratings.

actually, no. not that i can think of .

that kind of annoyed me, too, because before the last season i was the only one in my group of friends who watched the show and then it gets on netflix and suddenly EEEEVERYONE i know is a huuuge fan. damn bandwagon jumpers. lol

 

[Great Mind(s)]

I admit I watched it all on Netflix but I did watch the first two eps when they aired. Dunno why I stopped exactly.

 

[Tron Bonne]

Wasn't it on Netflix for awhile, though? I seem to remember when Gilligan was on Colbert after the finale, he mentioned how Netflix help keep the show alive in the early seasons. I may be wrong, though. That would attribute a lot of it's sudden success.

 

[hellblazer103]

I admit I watched it all on Netflix but I did watch the first two eps when they aired. Dunno why I stopped exactly.

i guess i should be a little honest myself ; i only started watching it once season 4 premiered. lol. saw box cutter and immediately knew i had to go back and watch this thing from beginning to end. but hey, atleast i didn't come into it TOO late. lol

 

[Tron Bonne]

I started at around the time season 3 came out on DVD, I think. The first two seasons were on sale at Wal-Mart, and I was doing third shift on an assisted living job at house with no internet and no computer policy, so really all there was to do was watch TV and read. So, I picked those up and then the third, and followed it from there.

 

[Drizzle]

I broke down and watched it in the summer of 2012, right as the first half of season 5 was winding down. So many of my co-workers were talking about it, so I signed up for Netflix specifically for that reason and I was hooked immediately. I was all caught up in about two and a half weeks. I finished just in time for the mid-season finale where Hank found out the truth.

 

[Maximus One]

Cool premiere OG right here, son.

 

[A Necessary Evil]

Yeah, I was the first in my group to like it, but it wasn't until around July of 2012 I even bothered with the show. Not that it looked bad, I just never heard of it. Took me one month to get all the way caught up, not including time for finding the recently aired episodes lol.

 

[Mrs. Sawyer]

I waited until the series was over to watch all of it straight through.

 

[DyeLorean]

Just finished the 2-hour documentary. Spectacular, I envy those people so much. Such a great place to work. Aaron Paul's final words are very emotional, I would feel the same way if that was my first pivotal show in my career. Him and Bryan Cranston developed a true friendship, you can tell.

 

[Maximus One]

Soon as I saw previews on tv way back in 2007 seeing "The dad from Malcolm in The Middle" is going to be in a tv show about cooking meth was all I needed to hear and I was hooked. Think I watched it all in jail as a matter of fact cuz when it first started I was still a bit of a rowdy one lol

 

[scatterax]

Started borrowing the season sets from my library before just season 4 premiered myself.

 

[Maximus One]

That No Half Measures documentary kinda pissed me off because they didn't talk about the scene with Walt in the bar seeing Gretchen and Elliot or the kid with cancer who supposedly came up with it or anything. Sorely disappointed about that

 

[Ant-manic]

i'm trying to get my parents into Breaking Bad; make use of having the entire series on dvd. it's proving to be an uphill battle. they nearly turned it off after the first death scene. i countered with their love of the Walking Dead.

 

[georgec]

i'm trying to get my parents into Breaking Bad; make use of having the entire series on dvd. it's proving to be an uphill battle. they nearly turned it off after the first death scene. i countered with their love of the Walking Dead.

Did they like the hand job scene in the pilot?

 

[Sawyer]

I'm watching one of the episodes of Seinfeld with Cranston in it right now. I think it's funny that his look is pretty much identical to the one they gave Walt in the flashback of him and Gretchen together back in S1.

 

[carrrnuttt]

Jesse learning how to be a street fiend: Click

 

[Drizzle]

Almost done with rewatching season 3. "No Half Measures" is still one of the best episodes of the series, certainly the best of season 3 hands down. Mike's monologue is the gold. And even though you know how everything ends, those last two minutes are still as nerve wracking as ever.

"Run."

 

[Kane52630]

 

[Kane52630]

Btw watching the different takes of this great scene in that 2 hour documentary was hard to watch.

 

[Whiskey Tango]

The last few scenes with Skyler are part of the reason the ending haunts me so much. You go back and look at how happy and normal they are in the first eps and compare that to the end... she's just broken and a shadow of herself.

 

[Sawyer]

You feel bad for Skyler at the end of it all? What about Marie? For God's sake, man, she stopped wearing PURPLE!!!

 

[georgec]

The last few scenes with Skyler are part of the reason the ending haunts me so much. You go back and look at how happy and normal they are in the first eps and compare that to the end... she's just broken and a shadow of herself.

The way she tells Walt, "If I have to hear you say one more time that you did this for the family..." is utterly heartbreaking. The tears streaming down her face, the weakness in her voice.

 

[Brother Jack]

By the end Skyler is kind of a mirror to where Walt was at the beginning of the series. Just empty and colorless. Course, the big difference is that Walt was the way he was through his own actions whereas Skyler was a victim of Walt, albeit with her own complicity.

 

[Whiskey Tango]

You feel bad for Skyler at the end of it all? What about Marie? For God's sake, man, she stopped wearing PURPLE!!!

I actually feel like Marie got shortchanged in the end. Like as soon as Hank was killed they tried to get her out of the way with the minimum amount of screentime possible. And as one of the three people on the planet who actually liked Marie it was a little unsatisfying.

Also, it's Mulberry! Jesus Christ, Sawyer.

The way she tells Walt, "If I have to hear you say one more time that you did this for the family..." is utterly heartbreaking. The tears streaming down her face, the weakness in her voice.