Breaking Bad

[naomi24]

I know this has been around for a long time but I've only just given it a try ... and three episodes in I'm loving it. It reminds me of Mad Dogs, the superb 'black comedy' starring Philip Glenister.

Any thoughts?

[pixie374]

I was warned it was a slow- starter.... which to me, is about 20 mins. One and a half seasons was just too slow for me.

[Patsy33]

I loved both of them, Naomi.
I know a couple of people who gave up with Breaking Bad, First few series, they found boring, but thats part of the story, how his/their characters, change quite dramatically over time.

[Peter Pedant]

agree patsy
series 1 is quite different to the rest.
big thing about being a teacher, having cancer and not being able to pay for it
and then sort of other things happen

unlike queens gambit ( all the chess games are real) Heisenberg's phophorus reduction tecnic is possible but has not been used. Relevant only really where he poisons bad people with phosphine.

[Arksided]

I can relate to that Pixie, BIG rave's about something, for me I watched most of Peaky Blinders season one ... utter Yawnful.

[Ken4155]

I could never understand why everybody and his uncle were 'bigging up' Cheers. I tried on 3 or 4 occasions to 'get it', but found it absolute dross. Each to his own, as they say.

[naomi24]

Arksided, I couldn't get on with Peaky Blinders either.

Ken, I've never seen Cheers.

[BAKERS DOZEN]

Grandson kept telling us to watch Breaking Bad but I thought it sounded like a youngsters' show. So glad we eventually watched it as it is brilliant and we just binge watched it once we had started. Bryan Cranston is superb and the show is The Most Awarded TV Show Ever with 229 nominations and 139 wins. Nuff said.

[Ken4155]

Naomi, i once decorated a bedroom and had trouble moving a large wardrobe. The lady of the house came up and relieved said wardrobe of it's contents - video cassettes containing every single episode of Cheers. Oh, and one or two dresses :-/

[Ken4155]

Bakers Dozen, i recommended Orphan Black to my grand-daughter. "Grandad, i'm not going to enjoy something you like watching, am i?" she said, not only referring to the difference in our ages but also our gender. She texted me two days later to say she was hooked and had recommended it to all her friends. Weird thing, taste :-)

[Arksided]

Good to see PP is using the Spoiler alert function.

[Khandro]

We're now watching Ethos on Netfix: set in modern Turkey - a complicated slow, but measured pace dealing with lot's of women's social issues. Rather good.

Some surprisingly good music, the credits of first 2 episodes end with the most weird singer in a wig, obviously some Turkish popular entertainer.
Some trad. Turkish music in last night's ep. 4 was a dead ringer for Bo Diddley!

[tiggerblue10]

Breaking Bad is one of the best shows ever. I haven't watched Mad Dogs but I have watched Mad Men and that is another brilliant show.

[Patsy33]

You have to watch Mad Dogs, tigger. It's quite funny in parts, sort of tongue in cheek, funny. I loved each of the characters, and you get to love & understand them, for who they are.

[tiggerblue10]

I will try, Patsy. Got so much going on at the moment and I'm moving house next weekend.

[Ellipsis]

We binge watched Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul and El Camino at the start of lockdown 1. Loved all three, but Better Call Saul was our favourite.

[Patsy33]

Tigger, wait until you're all settled in your new home first. I want you to enjoy it! :-)

[Patsy33]

Ellipsis, I started to watch, Better Call Saul, over at my daughters house, quite a long time ago. I must finish the rest of episodes, as I found it very funny.

[Ellipsis]

Better Call Saul is just genius and, best of all, it's not over yet! Although Covid has got in the way ...

[Peter Pedant]

// Good to see PP is using the Spoiler alert function.//

erm - no I havent wrecked your enjoyment for either Queens Gambit or Breaking bad - as neither wreck the plot.
Breaking bad is not new - as Walter White in the AMC crime drama series Breaking Bad (2008–2013), so if you dont know it is about someone making crack cocaine I am not responsible

Oscar Wilde in his finals TCD I think was asked to translate a passage of the New Testament and when they said OK
he insisted - oh no I want to see what happens in the end!
[ er yeah OK I suppose you cd say the examiners didnt spoil the ending]

[douglas9401]

"Ken, I've never seen Cheers."

That's absolutely not the NORM! :-P