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10-12-2011, 11:08 PM | #1156 |
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10-12-2011, 11:26 PM | #1157 |
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I completely understand and agree with you. I have never looked forward to each episode of any show like this.
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10-13-2011, 01:23 AM | #1158 |
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Breaking Bad sets record with season 4 ratings.
http://blogs.amctv.com/breaking-bad/...-4-ratings.php |
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10-13-2011, 02:44 AM | #1159 |
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I think you could argue that each season of this show was better than the last. You can't say that too often about television...most shows do their best work at the beginning and go on far too long.
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10-13-2011, 10:38 AM | #1160 |
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Finally got a chance to listen to the Cranston episode on Marc Maron's podcast.
Definitely worth a listen if your a Cranston fan, and the last 40 minutes or so discussed how BB was created, and the input BC had in creating WW. And and interesting comment on Jesse's arc early on. |
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10-14-2011, 07:05 AM | #1161 |
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I can't view this at work, but it looks interesting. Billed as a video essay explaining Walter's machinations.
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10-14-2011, 07:14 AM | #1162 |
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Rep.
There are some wicked-smart people out there, and it seems obvious after they break it down for us simple minded folk. |
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10-14-2011, 07:21 AM | #1163 |
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heh, for those that care....Whitlock slammed BB in his latest column (hes an unabashed "Wire" fan)
Sorry. I’m in a very cynical mood today. Touchdown Timmy reminds me of the AMC drama “Breaking Bad,” the show idiots claim is on the verge of replacing “The Wire” as the greatest in television history. “Breaking Bad” aired its Season 4 finale a couple of hours after Tebow flung his final incomplete pass into the end zone. I got a bit swept up in the “Breaking Bad” hype this season. I never put it on the same level as “The Wire,” a show about cops, drug dealers and big-city politics that is being taught as political science on college campuses across the country, a show US attorney general Eric Holder stated in a public plea to creator David Simon is worthy of a sixth season. “Breaking Bad” never had a chance to be as important, as gut-wrenchingly heartbreaking and compelling as Simon’s masterpiece. But by the final two or three episodes of this season, I put away my “Wire” bias and opened my mind to the possibility that “BB” could be viewed on the same level as “The Shield,” “Mad Men” and “The Sopranos.” After last night’s “BB” finale, the show is on the same level as “Happy Days.” For those of you not old enough to remember Fonzie jumping the shark, you’ll always have Walter White’s “24”-Jack Bauer-esque blowup of meth kingpin Gus Fring, complete with Gus walking out of the room with half his face and body blown off before falling to his death. “Breaking Bad,” a show about a high school science teacher-turned-meth cook embracing his dark side, morphed into a suspension-of-reality, ignore-the-plot-holes action movie. A few of the highlights: 1. Walt took the bomb off Gus’ car and walked back into the hospital to talk with Jessie Pinkman without knowing where Gus was in the hospital; 2. No one ever explained why Gus walked away from the car in the first place; 3. The careful, meticulous Gus — a man who just a few episodes before plotted the mass killing of an entire Mexican drug cartel, including setting up an on-site hospital to help him recover from poisoning — hatched a half-baked plan to kill Walt even though Gus had every reason to suspect the DEA was watching him and Walt; 4. The same Gus also went to personally kill Hector just hours after Hector had met with the DEA. If Hector had cooperated with the DEA — which there was zero proof he had — Gus would surely suspect he and Hector were both being watched; 5. There was no explanation given for how Walt poisoned the child Brock. I could go on. The show was an absolute joke. It jumped the Gus. Chuck Klosterman, the talented thinker and writer who authored the original idiocy comparing “Breaking Bad” to the all-time great shows, owes David Simon, David Chase ("The Sopranos"), Shawn Ryan ("The Shield"), Matthew Weiner ("Mad Men") and all of America an apology. “Breaking Bad” is a car-crash buddy flick featuring meth dealers rather than cops. It’s “Bad Boys” powered by fawning media and the Emmy committee telling the public Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul are better actors than Will Smith and Martin Lawrence. Child, please. http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/t...nalysis-101011 |
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10-14-2011, 07:31 AM | #1164 |
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You have to have be able to think to enjoy BB, Whitlesslock.
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10-14-2011, 07:32 AM | #1165 |
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WOW, Whitlock is a total douche. I almost feel sorry for how reeruned he is.
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10-14-2011, 07:36 AM | #1166 |
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Jesus, Whitlock just gave us evidence IN PRINT that he has zero critical thinking skills.
In other words, he writes stories that go against the public grain just to get attention. Hard job. |
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10-14-2011, 07:52 AM | #1167 |
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Some Wire fans are like soccer fans. They get so defensive about it, and feel like they have to bash perceived competition. They almost make you dislike it even though you shouldn't.
BB obviously doesn't suck, Whitlock just has his panties in a wad because someone dared to compare it to the Wire. |
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10-14-2011, 08:14 AM | #1168 |
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Whitlock literally has a neurotic complex when it comes to The Wire.
That said, he privileges realism too much in his assessment of dramas. That's why the last two s04 episodes of BB ring false to him. But he also inconveniently dismisses how mythic Omar is in The Wire, or how much you need a suspension of disbelief to watch Wire season 5's plot arc where McNulty and Lester do what they do (the value in that plot arc lies mostly in metaphor). |
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10-14-2011, 09:15 AM | #1169 |
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Cranston was good on the nerdist podcast as well.
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10-14-2011, 11:49 AM | #1170 |
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...and that folks is why they call him Whitless.
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