Breaking Bad

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  1. JC

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    Been watching off and on over the past few days....my wife and decided to watch the last season on Netflix just to skip out the commercials. Watching Ozymandias last night was so difficult. It was worse knowing what was going to happen to Jesse and Hank.
     
  2. George Costanza

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    Have been watching most of it the past few days. Forgot a little bit how great the show was done. Trying to get my dad to start watching it
     
  3. Nostradumass

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    I've tried to do a rewatch every year. Love the show. Always appreciated the humor as much as the great drama.
     
  4. Buster Mahomes

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    Was about to watch the last two episodes of Westworld but just turned it to AMC. Gonna be hard to change the channel now.
     
  5. Henry Blake

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    Watched a lot of it during the marathon. Gonna have to get the series.
     
  6. Shawn Hunter

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    It's on Netflix.
     
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  7. laxjoe

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    Breaking bad is doing a marathon of Saul Goodman "eps" today in AMC. It's been great, but unfortunately Saul was apparently not involved in any of the end of season 3 eps, and not much of the last half of season 4, so it skipped over a whole bunch of great episodes. But it's still been really fun just having this on and watching some of the old eps.
     
  8. je ne suis pas ici

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    decided to watch to'hajiilee and the rest of the season last night after seeing some of season 3 last wknd
     
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  10. Room 15

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    Finally finished it after starting this years too late. Obviously incredible. Acting was elite, love how Jesse developed after being the most annoying little shit in the beginning.

    Season 5 was good, but I could never get behind the gang as the bad guys after having Fring who was great. I liked season 5 because you got more Mike and Hank figuring it out but in a perfect world I probably prefer it ending with Gus.
     
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  11. Nostradumass

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    I can understand that, but I love Mike so much I was happy to see him more prominently featured in the final season.

    besides, can you imagine if the show ended with Hank on the crapper learning the truth?
     
  12. Nostradumass

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    This is probably the best thing I've ever written.
     
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  13. Room 15

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    Yea I can't really come up with a sequence in my head that makes it perfect, and Mike is amazing.

    I'm assuming I don't need to spoiler things at this point?

    Walt killing him might've been my least favorite part in the whole show.
     
  14. laxjoe

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    i can't agree here. we got what is probably the greatest hour in tv history with ozymandias. so anything that didn't include that ep wouldn't have been as good
     
  15. laxjoe

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    Ozymandias is on AMC right now. Just FYI
     
  16. Nostradumass

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    Amazing episode, breathtaking final few minutes
     
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  17. AIOLICOCK

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    Been watching the marathon off and on all day. :popcorn:
     
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  18. laxjoe

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    Same. Been doing that a lot the last few weeks. Pissed the bb marathon is being replaced by a fucking walking dead marathon after today though. Talk about your all time drop off
     
  19. Shawn Hunter

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    What's interesting with Breaking Bad is its live viewership skyrocketed in its final season, unlike most shows where there studio or network runs a show into the ground until the ratings are shit. The lowest viewership total for any episode in the second half of season 5 was 4.41 million. The highest viewership total for any episode prior to the second half of season 5 was 2.98 million. Lowest for the entire season was 2.20. Only one episode prior to season 5 ever saw 2+ million, so season 5 produced 16 of the 17 most viewed episodes and the top 12. The series finale drew 10.28 million, nearly 4 million higher than the next highest episode.
     
  20. Nostradumass

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    It's a unique situation. Sort of a "I never knew what I was missing" thing.

    The show was always under the radar but would have been a huge hit from the beginning if the people who would have watched it merely knew about it. AMC was not exactly a destination channel back then (Mad Men never got strong ratings till its very last episode(s)). Netflix and word of mouth combined with the show nearing its end allowed millions who had simply never bothered to give it a chance the opportunity to see it.
     
  21. Shawn Hunter

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    I wish I had known about it when it aired. I never watched a second until I got Netflix, which was late summer 2014. Of course, when Breaking Bad was on the air, I barely watched any TV outside of sports and never really paid much attention to anything other than some repeats on TBS and History channel.
     
  22. Emma

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    Masterpiece
     
  23. 941Gator

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    I got a little emotional.
     
  24. val venis

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    Just finished my first rewatch. What a fucking show. Ozymandias is one of the best episodes in television history. Also fuck Skyler.
     
  25. FTK

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    Been doing a rewatch, watched like 25 episodes this week. I'd rank the seasons as follows: 4, 5, 3, 2, 1. Seasons 3-5 is arguably the best television run ever. In season 4, the way the tension builds up as the season progresses is incredible, there are no wasted moments. While Season 5 is fantastic, Gus and the Cartel is a more interesting storyline imo. Season 3 is the worst paced of the all the seasons after season 1 imo, it has some of the greatest moments in the series (the twins vs. hank, Mike's full measures speech/everything Mike does, the entirety of the last two episodes), but it has several lulls as well.
     
  26. FTK

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    Also Lydia is one uptight, sexy piece of ass. I love her
     
  27. Nostradumass

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    Love the humor of season one.
     
  28. dahldennsull

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    was so excited for the rewatch during the 10th anniversary run...

    my wife hates the show, and was like "YOU JUST WATCHED THIS"

    woman... it's the 10th anniversary and this is season 1, so no, simple math tells you I did not, in fact 'just watch this"

    she complains everytime it comes on... drives me nuts, such a damn good show
     
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  29. bturns

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    And you married her... Why???
     
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  30. dahldennsull

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    yes yes, surprised to say, I did not feature 'love of breaking bad' as the top priority in spousal selection
     
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  31. TC

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    She probably has him completely whipped like Skyler. I anticipate a boutique meth business in dahldennsull's future
     
  32. bigred77

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    my wife was really into the show the first time around, but now acts the same as yours any time I put it on
     
  33. laxjoe

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    Threw on the marathon after that football game. Got "problem Dog" on right now. I forgot how powerful that scene at the group therapy or whatever was.

    Suck a great show
     
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  34. Clark W. Griswold23

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    He was just there to sell Wynn Duffy meth.
     
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  35. Lorne Malvo

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    So many articles about the 10th anniversary, decided to rewatch the show. Walter Jr. randomly going by Flynn because his dad disappeared, when he knows nothing about wtf was really going on, always kills me. Skyler is a horrible person in this moment (going "out"), but at least she has reasons not to trust him with the second cell phone business. But Jr. being pissy for no reason = wtf.
     
  36. laxjoe

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    fify:awesomeface:

    and agreed
     
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  37. Room 15

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  38. Craig Pettis

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    I’ve been doing another rewatch, doing an episode over lunch a few days a week. I just watched One Minute, and it reminded me of something I notice every time around and have never quite figured out for sure:

    Who do you guys think killed Don Juan Bolsa?
     
  39. Big Ern McCracken

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    Gus to take power back from Cartel
     
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  40. Emmy Rossum

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    Do you mean who ordered it or who actually did it? Because Gustavo Fring definitely ordered it
     
  41. chet fire

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    Las federales did the shooting, right?
     
  42. Craig Pettis

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    I know Gus set it up, I’m just wondering who actually did the shooting. Bolsa says on the phone that the Federalis are surrounding the house, but we never see the shooters, and they never try to arrest anyone, they just kill everyone. Doesn’t seem like law enforcement to me. I’m wondering if Gus bribed some Mexican law enforcement or military to kill him, or if he sent a kill squad down there or what.
     
  43. Big Ern McCracken

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    I could be wrong and have timeline mixed up, but I want to say that this was after Gus warned Hank about the twins prior to the shooting. So now the DEA/US Gov. are now involved because they viewed this as a hit on the DEA by the cartel. In my mind, Gus Ok'ed the twins to shoot Hank and set the ball in motion for actual agencies to do the dirty work whether through themselves or through locals.
     
  44. Craig Pettis

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    So you think either the DEA or Federales sent or contracted out a kill squad as retaliation after they traced the twins back to Bolsa? I could buy that.
     
  45. Big Ern McCracken

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    Correct
     
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  46. cutig

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    Whatever it ends up being I'm sure Gilligan will hit it out of the park.
     
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  47. slhorn

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    But how?
     
  48. cutig

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    Who knows. But he crushed better call saul so I'm a believer in whatever project in this story he decides is worth doing
     
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