Just started watching this on Netflix and I freakin' love it. Watched the first 12 episodes in one day.

You must be on meth, so I see why you like it.

We're about 5 episodes into season 3 and it's taken about 10 days or so. That being said, after two kick ass seasons, season 3 is a bore so far.

I'm clean man! But I have a hankering to get me an RV, drive out to the boonies and cook man!

Really? Everything get better, a lot better, after that. There's one pause down there though.

Anyway, if you think episode 7 (One minute) was a bore, stop watching immediately.

Weird. As much as I liked the first two seasons, I think season 3 shits all over both of them, and the 4th is even better than that.

Season 3 started out tremendously slow (all the rehab stuff, and basically dealing with the aftermath of Season 2), it was a chore to get through... but the second half of the season is some of the best of the series. Minus Fly. That episode was fucking terrible. But episodes 6 (Sunset), 7 (One Minute), 11 (Half Measure), 12 (Full Measure) are some of my favorite TV eps, period.

I agree completely about season 3. While it at times reaches series highs (the 4 episodes RichC2 lists) it's also a chore to get through at certain points. I found this to be the case especially on my re-watch.

And then there's "Fly". A terrible episode. There are some good moments in it but mostly the basic premise is so fucking stupid it's hard to ignore, and IMO the end renders the entire hour kinda pointless.

Season 4 is much better.

Sez you - I loved Fly.

That's what I'm getting at. Walt's a pussy now, Jessie's barely in it. Skyler is a hypocritical bitch. Hank is no longer just a blowhard, he's now a pussy, and a complete asshole to compensate. His wife is still the weakest link in the show. Couple all that with the fact that nothing has happened and it's been a chore thus far. It feels like what happened to Lost. Once the writers got wind of it's popularity they decided to slow the show to a complete crawl to extend it's life. Despite all that, the worst bit on the show has to be Walt missing his daughter's birth. For a show that goes way beyond the line most other shows don't even aspire to creatively, to rely on a 50 year old cliche was fucking terrible.

I have enjoyed the flashbacks showing what happened to Tortuga and the "purchase" of the RV. Speaking of, I'm watching the Blu-rays and there was some decent tit action at the strip club, was that unedited on TV?

No - the TV version was edited. Season 3 was arguably my favorite of the series and where it hit its creative high. I've said it before, but that creative high continued in season 4 (though didn't go any higher). Season 4 redeemed itself in the second half (it started out a bit slow -- excluding 'Box Cutter').

Just finished. Now that's what I'm talking about. We're back on track.

I knew it!

heh heh - awesome. Hope you enjoy the rest of the run

Thing is, without the slower, more "boring" (or rather, deliberate) episodes, you wouldn't have the build up and background that's necessary in order to have the "kick-ass" episodes that pay things off.

I don't agree with that at all, especially given all the characters' turns in the first 6 episodes I discussed above. You can have "deliberate" episodes where the plot actually advances the story or characters and you can have slow, drawn-out episodes where nothing happens. BB chose the latter in this case, IMO.

I'm avoiding reading this thread since I just finished season 1 for the first time, but I had to say that it's some of the best television I've ever seen. The season 2 BDs are on the way from Amazon.

This show truly is of the "stop whatever you are doing right now and watch this immediately" variety!

I finished the 1st 3 seasons on Netflix over the Memorial Day weekend, I was hooked from the 1st episode. I'm catching up to Season 4 now in preparation for the Season 5 premiere, it's gonna be difficult waiting a week between episodes!

Well, I'm to blame for this thread existing, so I just wanted to say, while I just never could get into this show and eventually gave up, Downton Abbey hooked me after about 3 shows. What a VASTLY SUPERIOR show that is compared to this boring turd of a series.

You're on crack!...er... meth.

It just dawned on me ... is Walter the guy who played the dad on Malcolm in the Middle?!

Call the New York Times immediately.

Season 4 comes out on BD/DVD on Tuesday, so I've moved it to the top of my Netflix queue. Can't wait to see it!