Why do you love Breaking Bad?
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Better Call Saul is arriving on Netflix next week, so here at Digital Spy we're preparing ourselves by looking back over its parent show, Breaking Bad.
We loved watching Walter White's descent from mild-mannered chemistry teacher into the dreaded Heisenberg, as well as the general excellence of Bryan Cranston, best known before for his slapstick role in Malcolm in the Middle.
Why do you love Breaking Bad?
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We loved watching Walter White's descent from mild-mannered chemistry teacher into the dreaded Heisenberg, as well as the general excellence of Bryan Cranston, best known before for his slapstick role in Malcolm in the Middle.
Why do you love Breaking Bad?
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It had a subtlety in its storytelling lacking in many TV dramas. Few characters, with lots of development. I found watching Walt's relationships with Skylar, Jessie, Hank, Gus and Saul all fascinating.
So I didnt watch it for a few years until a few months ago. Basically whilst discussing with a friend I decided to give it another go and I'm glad I did. For me it's the kind of show that works best on platforms such as Netflix because you can watch a few episodes in one sitting - I did - so much so that I completed it all in just over a month.
Stunning show.
got netflix turned on just before christmas and after a few episodes was hooked. took me 3 weeks to watch the lot. think i was just screaming WHAT, NO, WHY, YOU IDIOT at the tv screen all the time.
Series 4 & 5 are incredibly intense & compelling. And the last three episodes of S5 are absolutely harrowing but fantastic viewing.
I've only watched the whole thing for the first time in the last three weeks! I think there have been better programmes for me (The Wire comes to mind) but not many.
Walt of course is a brilliant character, but for me I was on board to see Jesse's journey. I love characters who are bad guys but actually have a good heart and that was Jesse.
However, of course, BB wouldn't be the show it was without everything else in place. The twists and turns, the well-written characters, the dark comedy, among everything else.
Seen it twice straight though and will feel in the mood to go through it again pretty soon.
It seems to be a very male oriented show and I think it's that little niggle that's put me off watching, so far.
Add into this the ascent of Jessie in the opposite direction and a sprinkling of characters that added to the whole thing and you have an excellent series.
Topped of by the fact that they ended it before it became stale or run out of plot lines.
For me, I will never forget that disinterested face of Mike when dealing with anything.
There's Skylar, who is Walt's wife. She's particularly good, in my opinion, in the later seasons. There's one episode in particular that (without spoiling it) involved a script, and I think that was the funniest scene on the entire show! There's also Marie, who's Skylar's sister.
BIB: I agree, the way Jesse and Walt kind of balanced each other out throughout the entire show was extraordinary.
The journey of both the characters was hinted at in the very first episode - when Walt explained to his students about chemistry being about the study of change & transformation. I kind of guessed that the two would be undertaking opposing transformations from that quote.
I don't. Its boring. I watched it once and that was it.
Quite tired of Netflix hyping this to death.
Better Call Saul. Giving it a go, bit of a slow burner but will give it a few more episodes as it seems to have potential.
Have you actually watched it? When you say you watched it once, do you mean you've seen one episode or you've watched the entire series once? I don't understand how anyone could call Breaking Bad boring. Fair enough, people may not like characters or may not like the story. I appreciate that obviously not everyone is going to like the show, but to call it boring...seriously?! Anyone who calls the show boring, in my opinion, doesn't have much of an attention span. What's even more puzzling is that despite claiming the show is boring, you've now gone onto watch Better Caul Saul...a spin off from the show you called "boring". A bit odd.
I watched them all avidly and even caught season 2 as it aired on consecutive nights at midnight on 5USA... At that point it felt like being part of an exclusive club cos a lot of cool types would name drop the show and it was coined as "the best show you've never seen". It was a rare time for an old fart like me to feel part of the in crowd.
No. They are completely unbelievable and used only as foils to the main characters.
It was one of the reasons I could not connect with the show at all.
The female characters were completely ridiculous and unbelievable.
Personally I was not a huge fan of the show, I never warmed to the main characters especially Jesse. And I actually DID watch ALL the seasons as people said it got better. It did improve but I just did not like the characters especially Walt's son.
See, this was pretty much what I was afraid of, shows with a heavy male cast tend to be dry as a ryvita and like you said, hard to connect with.
I might watch a couple of episodes and try and get a feel of it but there's no way I'm going to invest time getting suckered into the entire thing hoping it will improve.
Fantastic writing, brilliant acting. One of the best shows ever