Posted on 09/24/2013 8:25:23 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
Feeling left out of the "Breaking Bad" hoopla? Upset you can't join in the fun of Sunday night's finale because you never caught up on the series everyone seems to be talking about?
Take heart viewer, because AMC is here to help with your binging needs.
Starting Tuesday at 8 p.m. with the very first episode that originaly aired Jan. 20, 2008, the cable network will screen every instalment of the Emmy-winning series in an ultra-marathon that will culminate in the 75-minute finale airing Sunday night.
Already riding high on fan love, the series about a high-school chemistry teacher Walter White (Bryan Cranston) who enters the drug trade to pay for his
Along with taking the top award, actress Anna Gunn also won an Emmy for outstanding supporting acting in a drama series for her portrayal as White’s wife, Skyler.
AMC's decision to air the "Countdown to the Finale" binge-fest coincides with the onine marathoning of all 234 episodes of Comedy Central's "South Park." The massive four-day celebration of all things Eric, Kyle, Stan and Kenny can be viewed at SouthParkMarathon.com. It began Sept. 21, and will
AMC will air the first four seasons of "Breaking Bad" through Friday, Sept. 27. The marathon will then pick up with episodes from the current fifth season Sept. 28 at 11 p.m. and continue through the night and day leading up to the 75-minute series finale.
Funny but the meth is just a side line...
It’s really all about Walt....
Not everybody likes happy entertainment. As the lead singer of Metallica said “we can’t all sing songs about puppies and flowers”. Some people are drawn to a more honest less rose colored version of reality. And keep in mind that success is a relative thing, for most of its run BB scored less than 3 million viewers, it’s doubling that for this last half a season, but that’s still only 2% of the country.
Please read my post #41. I address that point.
And the point really isn't about wanting "happy entertainment".
It's about more themes and time spent watching people who actually -- Break Good.
I don't disagree with that statement.
I did watch the first five episodes of it. It was well written and suspenceful. 60 hours of it though is not for me. And I think my point still holds.
Boils back to the same thing. Not everybody is into breaking good as entertainment. I tried watching an episode of Touched by an Angel once and almost developed diabetes, that kind of sickening sweet entertainment just makes me ill. I like mob movies, I like heavy metal, I like things that reflect the darker version of reality I see, actually I like things DARKER than the world I see, makes my world lighter and happier by comparison. Nothing cheers me up like a Lou Reed song about somebody ODing, it gives voice to my own pessimism and leaves it feeling spent and satisfied so I get to have less “back chat”.
And with something like BB, which is so much about repercussions, helps restore a sense of fairness to the world, where I see a lot of people NOT facing repercussions for what they’ve done (yet, I hope) I at least get to see Walter White have his world destroyed in a way he so richly deserves.
I still have a soft spot for ‘Little House on the Prarie’.
That show actually got really dark. A lot of bad things happened to them, authentic frontier unpleasantness, but not really the cheerful show people like to remember it as.
Fring’s death was outstanding TV.
I think the reason the show works so well is that it puts a bad (pun intended) guy in the role of protagonist. It turns how you feel about the characters around. We’ve all been wired to root for the main character. Well, what happens when he goes from pitiable to detestable to outright evil?
It’d be like telling the story of Superman using Lex Luthor as the protagonist. It’s a different take on the unlikely story of the rise and fall of a drug kingpin.
Next week is 1h 15m and I agree - there will be a lot of dead bodies. I hope they bring it to an ending - none of this open ended (i.e. Sopranos) or interpretive (i.e. Lost) crap.
Finish the story.
He was "helping out" on the farm while Pa was off working on the railroad to help his family survive hard times.
Nice going, Ma.
Well it was highly melodramatic and sappy. It’s not a question of nothing dark happening but how its presented. ‘The Sound of Music’ is filled with Nazis but that doesn’t make it ‘dark.’ I love TSOM as well btw.
Finish the story.
Agreed. I hope the end credits roll over two scenes: First, they should show Huell - sitting in a pizza box-strewn motel room, waiting for the DEA guys who aren't coming back - getting kicked out by the motel manager. Then they should cut to a mall in Omaha, showing Saul behind the service counter of his Cinnabon shop.
Huell might be in the finale but Saul isn’t. Odenkirk said he didn’t even read the script for the 2nd half of Sunday’s show nor the finale. Its looking like “Better Call Saul” is going to be a prequel.
Well they did always have that “we’ll get through it” Waltons spirit. But by year 5 or 6 the stuff they were getting through was just brutal, it went from being saccharin to character torture. Which is about when I stopped hating the fact that mom made me watch it.
The Ingalls estate wasn’t thrilled with how Michael Landon sugared up her books btw. Laura Ingalls Wilder was a tough old broad.
i can tell you haven’t watched the show, given your comment.
heisenberg was a stinking nazi too. he dragged his own reputation thru the mud.
this is why people like this story.
walt is breaking bad but he thinks he’s doing a greater good.
it resonates because we see this as real and occurring to a lot of people all around us.
rationalization is the second greatest human drive.
nope, it ends fully this sunday. it be over, fini.
actually i take that back, he was not listed or recorded as a nazi, but he did work on the german nuclear bomb.
It’s never been conclusively proven one way or another what Heisenberg’s true feelings about national socialism were. That said, stinking nazi or not, he will go down in history as one of a handfull of the most brilliant people to have ever lived. Probably the smartest *known* nazi award however would have to go to Pascual Jordan.
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