Sorry about the Sopranos spoiler - I'll edit my original post. Just need anyone who quoted it to do the same.

I personally hated the Sopranos after awhile. How many car accidents can one Mafia boss get into?

I'm sure there's a Sopranos thread around here somewhere....

Superficially, yes. Tonally, no. The two shows are about as dissimilar as possible, so either it was a lousy pitch or that executive was an idiot (or both).

I"m currently about 8 episodes into Season 2. While I am enjoying the show and plan to see it to the end, if I had to stop watching at any point, I really wouldn't be upset. I enjoyed Walking Dead much more.

This is one of the few shows that gets better with every passing season, though Season 3 starts off brutally slow.

Its only been off the air for 5 years now. If you haven't got to it by now you watch way too much TV.

Spoiler alert Vito liked playing

Recently finished S1, now on to S2. Man, all that shit with Tuco had my gf extremely tense. It's cute that she still doesn't understand they'll never kill off the main characters in a show like this.

So have a lot of movies and TV shows, but we don't go around spoiling them in threads that aren't related. And I actually am watching The Sopranos now, nearing the end of Season 2.

Oh wow you're in for a treat when Tony and Silvio

"I love you, too, Johnny Cakes."

That is all.

Well I just finished watching the first 4 seasons in about 10 days on Blu-ray, and have been avoiding this thread so as not to spoil Season 5.

I don't watch much TV (check my TV collection under Aficionado), and I don't even know if I have AMC on my cable package. I heard a well-known radio personality heaping praise on this show, so I said "what the heck".

I have to agree with the sentiment that this is one of the best dramas of all time. I got hooked (no pun) early on, and stayed with it. The episodes were consistently compelling, with a few slow patches in Season 3 (the Fly?). I can't imagine watching this on broadcast, with commercials, waiting a week for the next episode to air.

As a non-TV watcher, I would appreciate any recommendations for other shows which might be as compelling as this one. Thanks.

As a TV watcher, so would I. Homeland is the closest I can think of right now, but that's only 1 short season thus far.

I wish I could recommend Boardwalk Empire or Dexter, Walking Dead or True Blood or something along those lines, but none of them are anywhere near as compelling imo. Actually now that I think about it, I don't think any of those are particularly good shows either.


And I feel like a fool for saying it, but watch Terriers, once the show starts rolling it's a compelling, fun 13 episodes 1 and done series.

I'm kinda surprised FX passed on Breaking Bad but their reasons made sense at least.

1.) They didn't want to run another show where the main character was an anti-hero.

2.) Fear that a show that revolves around cooking and selling meth could have turned out bad for the network.

BE is fine, but can be hard to get into. Walking Dead took a few steps back in S2 but I'm looking forward to s3.

Never watched True Blood as the subject matter doesn't interest me. Dexter needs to end already.

The only show on TV I'd rather watch the next season of more than Breaking Bad is Game of Thrones.

Obviously she never watched The Wire?

Thanks. I watched the first season of BE....not bad. I'll probably catch Season 2 once on Blu. WD....I just snagged Season 1, haven't started it yet (not really into zombies....kind of been done before). TB....I watched the first two seasons then gave up, never to return.

Terriers? I never heard of it. I may have to check it out.

I watched Dead Set just before Walking Dead started, and for some reason Walking Dead seemed kind of bland to me. I think I'm just over zombies as well.

Not sure if there's something similar.

My favorite shows, as I got as excited about them as BB, are: The Wire, Lost and Six Feed Under. They are not similar to BB, of course, but, specially The Wire and Lost, are the kind of shows that you can marathon, because "you can't wait for the next episode!!!!".

The Shield is another one.

Just finished season 3 last night. Holy shit! I can't wait to start watching season 4.

Actually, she keeps trying to turn me on to it. She's seen the entire run; I haven't seen it at all.

Well I just finished season 2, so SHHH!

The last 4-5 episodes finally got me to the point of being impatient for the next one ,but the finale pissed me off. All season they keep hinting towards something big with that damn pink teddy bear fished out of the pool and such

Count me as someone late to the Breaking Bad bandwagon. Started season 1 two months ago and I can proudly say as of tonight I am caught up with the series.

Season 4 might be the greatest 13 episodes of anything ever.

Every season has been better than the one before. Easily. Though I will say I'm not as impressed with season 5, though it's still miles away better than any other show.

Keep watching. And remember what shape it was in.