Breaking Bad

[B_Buster]

I did, too, Dave. My comparison was not a knock. Kids today!

[mostlymeat]

I did, too, Dave. My comparison was not a knock. Kids today!

Streets of San Francisco didn't hold up too well when I tried to watch it again after all these years.....but it's still fun to cruise around '70s San Fran with Karl Malden.

Breaking Bad is great because you can watch Walter White slowly devolve into a sociopath, which seems to be his true nature. He's finding himself! I love that show. It's also really good at ratcheting up the tension to the breaking point, again and again, what thrills!

-AG

[cavorting with nudists]

This is pretty cool: a montage of weird point-of-view shots from the show.  Rather poetic.

Breaking Bad Remix // POV Compilation

[~L]

http://www.matadorrecords.com/matablog/2011/12/16/walter-white-kicks-because-air-pollos-hermanos-doesnt-really-roll-off-the-tongue

[~L]

I just made RICINS in Words with Friends for 46 points!

[Kormod]

[neilnumberman]

[~L]

Totally full of spoilers, 10 minute recap deluxe!
http://www.slate.com/articles/video/slate_v/2012/07/breaking_bad_s_first_four_seasons_delivered_in_10_minutes_video_.html?tid=sm_tw_button_chunky

[Kormod]

[thom]

Has there been a more cartoony and simplistic episode in the series?

I don't think I'm complaining... but I want this series to end in a cosmic conundrum, you feel?

(Did Mike say, "I'm getting too old for this shit." or was it just that he might as well have said that?)

[shrugsy]

You'd expect them to sell it with more brutality, like for somebody's dental implant to get ripped out of their head or something. 

[B_Buster]

Has there been a more cartoony and simplistic episode in the series?

I don't think I'm complaining... but I want this series to end in a cosmic conundrum, you feel?

(Did Mike say, "I'm getting too old for this shit." or was it just that he might as well have said that?)

No, I said Breaking Bad morphed into MacGyver for Season 5.

[nec13]

I polished off the last two episodes of season 3 and all of season 4 in about a day and a half.

At this point, I'm ready to call Breaking Bad the Reagan '84 of tv shows. It simply blows away its competition. There's not a single show in its stratosphere. And this is coming from someone who doesn't readily hand out such praise. But yeah, Breaking Bad is that good.

[dave from knoxville]

I haven't gotten to Season 4 yet, but the pair of episodes that ended Season 3 had me raving about the entire season to anyone who would listen.

[ArchieFromPGH]

Went on an instant queue marathon of this show this weekend, so I'm caught up through season 4. If the crime show realism spectrum goes from Sons of Anarchy as a low to The Wire as a high, I'd put Breaking Bad pretty close to the middle. It's definitely entertaining. Since X-Files is on instant also, here is a link to Gilligan's X-Files work, which, as far as X-Files goes, has aged pretty well.

http://x-files.wikia.com/wiki/Vince_Gilligan