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Old 06-14-12 | 08:09 AM
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Re: Does Breaking Bad ever get good?

Every time this thread gets bumped, a little part of me dies. Whenever I see it, even though I know it exists, I'm always surprised all over again, that anyone could possibly ask such a ridiculous question. anyhow, doing a rewatch of the series on my own right now and just finished season 2. Damn that was a good year, with only the Skylar stuff dragging. I was cheering when Gus and Mike showed up the first time. Fun to watch it with all we know now, looking back. I fucking love this show. Counting down days until s5. One Month!
Old 06-14-12 | 10:15 AM
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Re: Does Breaking Bad ever get good?

Damn. I got rid of cable right after season 1 ended. I've been slumming it on Hulu. But I just got Netflix yesterday. I'm loving going back through. I took in five episodes yesterday evening. Netflix ends at season 3, though. I'm getting my fill of good TV. This show is great. I'm excited to get to Half/Full Measure that everyone online creams over.
Old 06-14-12 | 10:26 AM
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Re: Does Breaking Bad ever get good?

Just watched the first episode of season 4. This show cannot possibly get better.
Old 06-14-12 | 10:42 AM
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Re: Does Breaking Bad ever get good?

Originally Posted by madcougar
Just watched the first episode of season 4. This show cannot possibly get better.
Watch the rest of Season 4
Old 06-14-12 | 11:54 PM
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Watch the rest of Season 4
Absolutely this.
Old 06-15-12 | 01:02 AM
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Re: Does Breaking Bad ever get good?

Damn. I'm still on Season 2. Netflix doesn't have Season 4 and I don't like to buy DVD's anymore. I guess I'll see how I feel after Season 3 ends.
Old 06-15-12 | 07:54 AM
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^ They're all airing on AMC overnight now. Not sure where they're at right now though. They're doing 2-3 episodes most nights.
Old 06-15-12 | 09:18 AM
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Re: Does Breaking Bad ever get good?

Originally Posted by troystiffler
Damn. I'm still on Season 2. Netflix doesn't have Season 4 and I don't like to buy DVD's anymore. I guess I'll see how I feel after Season 3 ends.
Originally Posted by aktick
^ They're all airing on AMC overnight now. Not sure where they're at right now though. They're doing 2-3 episodes most nights.
Season 4 starts on June 23 at 1am (CT). Here's the full schedule:

6/23
E401 - Box Cutter (1:00am)
E402 - Thirty-Eight Snub (2:04am)

6/24
E403 - Open House (3:30am)

6/25
E404 - Bullet Points (1:00am)
E405 - Shotgun (2:04am)
E406 - Cornered (3:08am)

6/26
E407 - Problem Dog (12:30am)
E408 - Hermanos (1:34am)
E409 - Bug (2:38am)
E410 - Salud (3:42am)

6/27
E411 - Crawl Space (1:00am)
E412 - End Times (2:04am)
E413 - Face Off (3:08am)

Then they will start reairing the entire series again, with season 4 starting on July 9 and finishing on July 15 right before the season 5 premiere.
Old 06-15-12 | 10:54 AM
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Re: Does Breaking Bad ever get good?

Originally Posted by RichC2
Watch the rest of Season 4
I'm working on it!
Old 06-15-12 | 10:56 AM
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Re: Does Breaking Bad ever get good?

Originally Posted by Michael Corvin
No offense but can we avoid season 5 stuff(no matter how vague)?
I'm offended!
Old 06-15-12 | 12:38 PM
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Re: Does Breaking Bad ever get good?

Originally Posted by madcougar
Just watched the first episode of season 4. This show cannot possibly get better.
Crawl Space.
Old 06-15-12 | 01:17 PM
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Re: Does Breaking Bad ever get good?

Originally Posted by Gunde
Crawl Space.
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Old 06-15-12 | 01:51 PM
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Crawl Space.
This episode and the episode where
Spoiler:
Hank goes head to head with the twins
are two of the best moments ever shown on television.
Old 06-16-12 | 02:17 PM
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Re: Does Breaking Bad ever get good?

I'm half way through Season 3. Both wives are as stupid and annoying as Jesse's drug dealers.
Old 06-16-12 | 06:55 PM
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Re: Does Breaking Bad ever get good?

Damn. I love watching these shows and not having to wait week to week, or even for commercials.

Onto the last episode in Season 3.
Old 06-16-12 | 09:41 PM
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Re: Does Breaking Bad ever get good?

I wish AMC could've scheduled it so that we got Mad Men ending and this starting the following week. The wait is killing me.
Old 06-17-12 | 12:24 PM
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Re: Does Breaking Bad ever get good?

Only thing I don't get... Is Walter really the only one who could cook that meth? I mean, they surveillence the cooks for months. Is it really so proprietary at this point? Otherwise, everything is really tightly written.

And I hate Skyler less going into Season 4. She was really a bitch for two seasons.
Old 06-17-12 | 01:15 PM
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Re: Does Breaking Bad ever get good?

I believe one of his excuses was that if anything went wrong, nobody else would be able to figure out how to correct it.
Old 06-17-12 | 05:04 PM
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Re: Does Breaking Bad ever get good?

Just finished Season 4. I LOVED being able to just watch the whole thing. So that's three seasons in a week. I think it's easier to get involved in the fiction, when it's all at once. I'm glad to see that Season 4 had a lot of closure. After Season 3, I had to keep watching (this show is like crack) and was able to find them online.

Spoiler:
I'm going to assume that Walt becomes the new king in Season 5. Or they give it up and focus on an exit strategy. Mike will be back - good character. Ted is dead and that could be a plot point - the loan and IRS stuff could still be a problem. Did Skyler ever learn of Ted's death? I think that Saul never told her. The car wash business could be a problem. Other that that, I think that everything is wiped clean. But there's endless posibilities for different cartels, more legal problems, etc.

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Old 06-17-12 | 05:06 PM
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Re: Does Breaking Bad ever get good?

Originally Posted by aktick
I believe one of his excuses was that if anything went wrong, nobody else would be able to figure out how to correct it.
Yea. And they filled in that point during Season 4. Even when they were in Mexico, Jesse only acheived 96%. Walter was doing over 99%. And the other chemist said that extra 3% is a big deal.
Old 06-17-12 | 05:08 PM
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Re: Does Breaking Bad ever get good?

Remove the "s" from your spoiler tags.

And I think this show is for the Internet era. I mean is not Lost, that after every episode we there would be 10 page threads, but still, I love reading the BB threads here and elsewhere. And that's one thing I really missed when I was watching The Wire in HBO Go, after an episode ended, instead of clicking next I would have loved to go an Internet forum and discuss it.
Old 06-17-12 | 08:54 PM
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Re: Does Breaking Bad ever get good?

Yeah, I've been going back and reading some of the threads as I watch them. Just read the 4x08 "Hermanos" thread last night after watching it. I got a chuckle out of the Gus possibly being gay talk and that no one saw that coming. I assumed he was gay pretty much from the get go. Don't want to spoil it for anyone, but everyone who's seen it should know the flashback sequence I'm referring to.
Old 06-17-12 | 09:34 PM
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Re: Does Breaking Bad ever get good?

And how I wish "Face Off" wasn't already spoiled for me. The show is very unpredictable. But I saw the Face Off ending before, because someone online was like "you need to see this". Actually, I think that it was one of you bastards.
Old 06-17-12 | 09:52 PM
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Re: Does Breaking Bad ever get good?

Again I am jealous of people who got to see season 4 immediately after season 3. That one year wait was fucking insane.
Old 06-17-12 | 10:56 PM
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Re: Does Breaking Bad ever get good?

Originally Posted by bluetoast
Again I am jealous of people who got to see season 4 immediately after season 3. That one year wait was fucking insane.
I had started the show last June and blew through it to the point where I finished Season 3 about 2 weeks before Season 4. I watched the first 2 episodes of S4 and realized I couldn't do the week-to-week thing, it was hard because of how sucked in I was. I ended up waiting until after the finale in October and watched All 13 at once.

I hope I can watch this season one ep at a time but it's just so compelling it's very difficult.


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