Deep Show. Lots of angles. Keeps you on the edge.
Brilliant show, one of my all time favorites
Definitely true. I've been hooked from the first season and it hasn't gone downhill yet.
This show became one of my favorite shows. Bryan Cranston (the dad from Malcolm in the middle) does an outstanding job acting as the underachieving chemistry teacher who makes the best meth in town to pay for his treatment against lung cancer and to support his family once he is gone. Just like The Wire this show has given us an understanding of the inner works of the drug world. And it does so in a way that i want to see more. I sure hope that there are at least a couple more seasons to come.
Probably one of the best innovative explorations in the human character and what can happen when faced with crisis. Well written and very well acted. Definitely a show not to miss.
(via TV Blaze for WP)
Rating: 81
Saul Goodman
He is one of the characters who made Breaking Bad funnier. Especially with his two guys, Huel and Kuby. Saul's mouth is just like any lawyer in general, good with words. At first, he seems dangerous for Walt's drug operation, but in a matter of fact, he helped Walt and Jesse so much. Anyways his role in Breaking Bad could be more developed, but probably that's why there is a spin-off about him, Better Call Saul.
Marie Schrader
Marie's role is kind of underappreciated by Breaking Bad fans. But that's understandable because she barely got her important moments as a character. It was unfortunate as a regular character in the show from day one. In her few moments, she successfully gave this show an emotional element especially when she reacted to the situation regarding Hank. Her moments with her sister also created more depth for Skyler.
Tuco Salamanca
The first villain for Walt and Jesse. Only one word can describe his character, wild. His behavior was very unpredictable. He was so easy getting temperamental and he didn't hesitate to beat his men for no reason. His first appearance was the brutal side of the drug business. The way he talks made everyone don't want to be in the same room with him. Salamanca's family is not the right people to be messed with.
Mike Ehrmantraut
Mike is proved how good the writing of Breaking Bad is. The show's decision to give Mike more depth, instead just showing him as a random hitman is made his character feel real. He already showed up in the second season but did not get much exposure until the last season. His connection with Saul Goodman was interesting to watch, there is some history between them that is interesting to explore in Better Call Saul.
Gus Fring
He is the main villain in Breaking Bad. Also, he is the scariest and most dangerous person throughout the seasons. Gus made the tension escalate when Jesse and Walt had a conflict with him. Gus's power in the show is incredible, a famous person with the most innocent looking in public. Then we got his backstory with the Cartel which made us feel odd because we had some kind of empathy for this guy. His last moment is so badass.
Skyler White
Some people are probably annoyed by Skyler's character because of her conflicted heart. But that's made her character how normal person reacts to what Walt did. Skyler and Walt are similar, they are selfish on some points. That made their communication is so problematic and put their family harmony in a bad way. Skyler has a lot of moments that show how good Anna Gunn is as an actress.
Jesse Pinkman
Jesse is the most destroyed person in the show. Since season one, Walter White never stopped manipulating him and made him in a lot of low points. But he had an ups and down relationship with Walt. Sometimes Jesse sees Walt as his tutor or even father figure since his real father ignored him. Every moment with Jesse is almost always depressing. Jesse and Walt are the best interaction and relationship that this show gave.
Hank Schrader
Hank's mission to put Heisenberg in jail made the show feel so exciting. The fact that the person whom he looking for is his brother-in-law made him in a unique position. From the first episode to his last episode we could watch how he turned from a cheerful uncle to a grumpy serious officer. If we compare his facial expression from season 1 and season 5 we could know he through a lot of stress, anger, and disbelief.
Walter White
The man behind the chaos. A normal chemistry teacher became a drug lord mastermind. Walter is the example of a best-written character ever in the history of television/series. His transformation from boring Walter White to heartless Heisenberg put us in a lot of shock in the entire series. Kill after kill he did make his eyes blinded by blood and his mind only thinking of winning without caring about the cause of it.
Absolutely brilliant. Enjoyed all the episodes until the very end.
the most realistic shows of all time no question!
Amazing show but I grew to loathe episodes with Skyler in it. Shes incredibly masculine and very irritating which is perhaps the point. However it took away a lot of the shows focus IMO.
Not sure what all to say about this show in a few words except that it is incredible. Other than some SLIGHT pacing issues in season 1, every episode gets better and better. The story builds. The characters build. The severity of everything just keeps building. And then its over. Then you realize nothing will ever come close to the near perfection that this show was. Not Better Call Saul. Not El Camino. Breaking Bad is world class content that I can only hope I get to nearly experience in some other show in the future.
Average Season Review: 9.8/10
Recommendation: Must See (For Anti-Hero Drama Fans)
the fourth season was the best one i have seen till now
Overall this show is great, it does suffer from those slow episodes but it all has a magnificent pay off. The final season was absolutely brilliant and gripping; this is definitely a show to watch.
Superb. I think one of the best I've ever seen. A must see TV show
Breaking Bad is a product of what we might call the “second wave” of the golden age of television; the time when other channels besides HBO got in on the act of making movie-quality, mostly serialized TV, with boundary-pushing subject matter.
Because Breaking Bad first premiered nearly a decade after The Sopranos launched the era, it was obviously made with the benefit of the lessons learned from the first wave shows. Because of this, I suspect it will hold up a little better than, say, the first season of The Sopranos, which now looks like it was made in another time.
Many people have talked about Breaking Bad as one of the greatest TV shows of all-time, or perhaps the greatest. It is definitely not the greatest fictional TV show of all time – that award should probably go to The Wire if we’re being honest about it – but it is probably the greatest “thriller” TV has ever produced, and it is one of TV’s great black comedies.
Like most great drama, Breaking Bad tells us something the human condition: it shows us how crime actually happens. Most people aren’t born criminals or don’t one day wake up and say “Hey, I think I’ll be a meth kingpin!” Most criminals become criminals because of circumstances and the poor choices they make in response to those circumstances. Walt – though he is an extreme case – and Jesse are far more representative of actual criminals than Todd, who is a total psychopath and seems to have been “made” that way. (In real life, a small portion of people clinical psychopaths but most people are just trying to go about getting through life and most people are going to rationalize their bad – and good decisions – which psychopaths and sociopaths do not need to do.)
So we have perhaps the best fictional TV story of how someone can go from “good” to “evil” simply by the choices they make when faced with difficult circumstances.
It’s interesting; I know a few people who have suggested Walt was always “evil.” I think this is an odd and overly traditional – i.e. religious – interpretation. Sure, we all have the potential to do terrible things, but that is only because there are no actual extra-human moral laws forcing our hands. Really, most of us are just normal people who do not face terrible circumstances every day. Trying to claim that Walt was always evil ignores the central message of the show: that the failings of healthcare and drug policy created the desperation that sent Walt to alternative means of earning money. It is only when he succeeded in transgressing that he began to lose his moral compass.
So, on the whole, the show is effective and, as I said, stands as one of the great thrillers in the history of the medium.
I had two major problems with it, neither of which I think makes the show on the whole particularly weak. I still think it was probably the best “thriller” in TV history, as I already said.
First, the longer the show went on, the harder it was for me to suspend my disbelief: Walt and Jesse should have been caught or killed multiple times and what we might excuse for luck once or twice got hard to take eventually, especially when it came to Mike, a professional who should have easily handled or avoided Walt.
Second, and for me much more serious, was the ending. If this show wanted to make a real statement about the power of circumstances and bad decisions in crime, Walt should have never been allowed to complete his revenge. Remember, he was dying of cancer. A shocking, uncompromising, unconventional and incredible thing to do would have been to let us see Walt’s plans for revenge, and to buy into how he was going to accomplish them, only to see Walt succumb to life: to cancer, to some associate of Tuco’s or Gus’ or Mike’s who had been missed or, frankly, to have been hit by a bus. Allowing Walt to achieve his end exactly how he saw fit – to get closure with Skylar and to provide for his children – added an element of poetic justice to the show that felt, to me, totally inappropriate and out of tone with everything that came before. I can’t help but feel disappointed that Walt was able to free Jesse and die on his own terms. He should have failed at his final mission. That would have been incredible and would have made it, in my mind, one of the greatest TV shows in history.
Sometimes, a show is just made perfect.
It's almost the perfect story.
Had a few episodes that were meh, but overall it was fantastic.
It's almost the perfect story.
Had a few episodes that were meh, but overall it was fantastic.
I love this series very much!
Already rewatched once & will probably rewatch again. One of the best shows ever made.
Great show. It does get slow in some parts but the story is plain brilliant with one of the greatest tv show finales!
Good show, very realistic, that I highly recommende.
I finally had time to rewatch "Breaking Bad", and it has been just as fun as the first time. Definitely one of the best TV series ever made in terms of writing, direction, and acting. Popular series tend to grow stale over time, but the quality is uniform throughout the five seasons here. Everything is crafted so carefully that even the subplots and fillers are worth it. It's basically a crime drama with a lot of focus on exploring the depths of all characters. It's not a new formula but has the perfect balance between action, black comedy, introspection and tragedy. The cast is what makes this series so unique: even though the spot is on Walter and Jesse, the side characters are just as iconic and meticulously written that even potentially boring daily life sequences and family drama events are entertaining. Gus is one of the best villains in television history, but does he really count as a villain? I understand that he could not stay around forever, but after he is gone I couldn't help feeling the void that he left. Hank didn't get the same recognition, but I personally thought that in the end he was one of the most likable and multifaceted characters, and the one with the most realistic development.
Even though I enjoyed the whole series, the first two seasons are by far the best in terms of pacing, development and realism. It's impossible not to binge-watch mid-season one to early season three. Things get bigger and more complicated in later seasons, but basically rely on the same structure and situations of the first two. Season three and four introduce great characters like Gus and Mike, but season finales apart the pacing significantly slows down. A lot of situations also start to repeat themselves: Walter and Skyler have the same conversations every single time, Jesse gets manipulated by Walter and turns against him when finding out, Jesse loses himself and gets saved by Walter in some unorthodox way, etc. Season five tries to change the game a little and mostly succeeds, the second part in particular offers a lot of great moments as all storylines start to close. The ending was maybe a bit low-key, but it felt like the right thing to do without getting too unrealistic and leaving loose ends.
Honestly after all the hype I’ve heard about Breaking Bad I thought I would finally sit down and get an understanding of all the breaking bad references I’ve heard over the years and why the show is so highly praised. I was always skeptical of starting this show since Brian Cranston has always been (still is) Hal (Malcolm in the Middle) for me and I didn’t want to start thinking about him as Walter White/ Heisenberg. Another thing that stopped me originally from watching was that I thought there would be too much emphasis on the drugs (making, selling, etc.) than the psychology of it (power complex, turf wars, murder, etc.) but luckily it focuses more on the later.
The first two seasons were rather slow & repetitive in my opinion, constantly going back and forth about making meth (or not to) and Walter's physical/ psychological condition. After season three (more precisely after the introduction of Gus) I think the show definitely picked up due to the exponential growth of operations and looming threats.
Some things I didn’t like about the show were the unnecessary character stories (Marie’s shoplifting/ lying, Skyler’s cheating, etc.) even if they gave us a deeper understanding of what the person is like. I also wasn’t a huge fan of the end scenes playing out bit by bit at the start of the episodes leading to the season finale since you knew it wasn’t going to be that detrimental to our main characters (which was mostly correct) and personally felt like it to took away some of the anticipation (in terms of storytelling). I also watched the series on Blu-ray and was rather annoyed that the subs for the Spanish/ German weren't embedded which meant I had to keep turning on & off the English subs to understand what was being said.
Overall I was happy with how the series ended (except how a few characters died) which made me happy since a lot of very popular series generally have very crappy endings (like Game of Thrones).
Seasons 1-4 10/10
Season 5 8/10
I really really like this show. I´ts ups and downs and fu..ing ewerything!
Really a mindbogglingly good series to be said. Every episode is so fantastic, really recommend people to see this if you still haven't.
Great writing all the way threw the entire series
Breaking Bad is one of not too many TV show that I have watched from season 01, episode 01 to the very lend. Loved it.
After many starts and stops, over the length of the series and beyond, I finally resolved to finish watching this series. You cannot deny the quality of the writing, the depth of (d)evolution of characters and the fine acting that made this series transfomational to the industry, to it's fan base, and earned it's many accolades. But, it was not an easy watch for me. To do it credit, when I resolved to finish it I started (again) from the beginning and binge watch it over a week. It's violence, it's dark themes and it's unredemptive plot tragectory keep it from being a favoured series for me. I will probably never rewatch it. But, I admire the qualities I've already mentioned, plus the fact that they make clear that bad decisions having tragic and evil consequences, not the least to the character of those who make them. This series is about the making of a bad man, but he is not made a hero, or even sympathetic, and his decisions destroys himself and all he loves . I appreciate the intention of unvarnished realism, so I give this series a 9 (groundbreaking) out of 10. [Crime, Thriller, Drama]
Great show!
I love this, great show!
Especially the first season of the serie is awesome, I always get a kick when watching it. The further you get into the serie, the less cool it gets. I think it went on a biiiiit too long and the ending was actually pretty sad. But this is still one of my fave series ever. Totally recomment watching it!
Really impressive show, gets you hooked on it after couple of episodes. Really recommended for anyone.
Vince Gilligan's work of art!
From Season 3, it gets irresistible.
This is one of the best shows I ever watched. All Hail the King.
This series started out slow (for me). I mean, some episodes dragged on, and nothing really happend. However, around Season 3 it REALLY got good - so good that I couldn't wait to see what happened next. By the last season, I was VERY sad to see it end! :(
whole show was just brilliant, every bit brilliant because it was plausible, but the ending scene, come on, it deserved a more believable ending.
This show is as good as it gets!
While I think this show is quite good, 9/10... the outlandish nature of some of the things that happen over the course of 5 seasons prevents it from going any higher than that. You can't claim gritty and realistic as the TV territory you want to live in, and then expect me to buy the events that happen to Walter.
The best thing about this show is that it layed down the carpet for the masterfully crafted Better Call Saul.
Just to be clear, Breaking Bad is a very solid piece of television, just not as good as people make it out to be. The suspension of disbelief required from the viewer at times is too overwhelming. The main plot and protagonist transformation are not convincing either.
MY THOUGHTS ON BREAKING BAD:
-WARNING: Spoilers Below-
There's a single word that explains this TV Show perfectly and that single word is... MASTERPIECE. From start to finish this show was amazing and kept you captivated all throughout. I honestly believe this will be remembered as a television great. Of course there were some episodes that were mediocre and could have done better but overall the show was phenomenal.
Looking back on it I don't think there was a single season that I disliked, of course some seasons had episodes which I didn't like but that doesn't mean I didn't like the season as a whole. I think the opening season and the final season were the best out of the lot mainly because they opened and closed the show off perfectly, giving us the perfect opening chapter and perfect closing chapter.
There was some characters in the show that annoyed the life out of me though and at times I stopped focusing on the scenes when they were the main focus because I found them far too annoying. These characters were Walter White JR and Jesse. Walter was honestly one of the most annoying characters in television history and then Jesse was so irritating, there were many decisions he made which I wish he didn't it was like he did it just to be edgy.
Overall this was possibly one of the best TV Shows that I have ever watched and I'll always look back on it fondly, it had a brilliant yet sad ending and it had an amazing start. It was such a brilliant journey. If you're reading this before you've watched it all I'll say is... You're in for a treat.
Overall rating: 8/10
8/10. Slow going, but the world building was necessary at the beginning. Watched because of the memes tbh.
"Dread." This is what you'll feel in the early episodes in the series. Reason being you will be really in Walter and all the other people's shoe. You would get the scenario and feel like it is hopeless for all parties involved. It's how good it is as a show, that you would really be immersed in this world made by Vince Gilligan
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This show will question your moral compass and have you picking sides. But in the end. I love the contrast on how I felt in the beginning of the show and the end. In the beginning it is full of dread, in the end you still have that feeling but in a positive light somehow. Maybe, it's because finally over at that moment or the ending showed the humanity inside Walter. However, he still had unfinished business which why it was bad ass about that machine gun thingy in the end because it shows how Walter treats his grudges. This show was good!
Will in the season 1 i was waiting for something big, because from what I heard about this show it’s “Legendary” show, but the season one was fucking normal one. Same goes to season two and three, In the fourth season it became more interesting and the show attracts you more than before. But when we talk about season five will it’s fucking another story the last season was the best.
Don’t get me wrong, I really enjoyed this show.
I will give it 8/10 :pray_tone2:
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the shows?
What if i told you that Walter is not dead?
Season 1: 9/10, Amazing concept for a show. Decent acting, capable directing, interesting plot point that flow into each other very well, A few minor mistakes but overall a great season.
Season 2: 10/10, this is why a lot of people started saying BrBa is the greatest show ever. There is literally nothing wrong with this season. By far the best acting performances, by far the best directing, by far the best plot, everything is better in this season
Season 3: 6/10, this is when BrBa starts to disappoint. They come off a godly season like the second with extremely generic villains, annoying bullshit subplots abundant, and the absurdly cheesy lines. The main plot is still pretty good but there is a lot wrong with this season.
Season 4: 7/10, same thing as Season 3 except they used Gus more often and toned down the hammy performances, so it's slightly better.
Season 5: 1/10, this is honestly the most disappointing thing I have ever seen. The show runners went completely wild with cheesy lines in a blatant attempt to get free advertising for their show on social media. The acting is terrible for the most part, every single one of the subplots is pure shit. Every character makes idiotically simplified reactions that just feel false. You will also notice that every episode except the end finishes off with a cliffhanger. That'd be all good if it made sense for them to end that way but most of the time the cliffhangers are completely out of place. The real reason Gilligan put them there is to make sure the viewers watched the next episode from the very beginning and thus improve the ratings. This season is literally a scam so Gilligan and his buddies could grab as much cash as they could before they ended the show. DO NOT WATCH THE 5TH SEASON! Just stop at the end of Season 4.
Great series,
but ricin attacks started after this series. I guess making knowledge easily available for everyone is dangerous.
Just imagine if somebody would make a new series where someone used "Deadly Hemlock" to kill somebody? This weed grows on every square meter besides the road in WHOLE Europe and is several times more poisonous (and really deadly) than the seeds from the "Castor oil plant"
Also there is no antidote for coniine and death is gruesome and slow like with curare. The victim will be paralysed but fully conscious until it suffocates because the breathing will eventually stop. It has been told to take up to half an hour or more before death releases the victim of it's futile struggle to stay alive.
It should be considered a crime to share this information in films or on the internet. Back in the middle ages everybody knew their poisons and therefore it wasn't a very pleasant time to live in. Nowadays people don't know these things anymore and I see a huge difference in making it available while eating a cookie or going to the library or a book store and actually start reading a book or Trakt.tv for that matter.
Brilliant .. The bad ass character of Walter was amazing
I just started watching this well for them month I have come to the last season and I find that I don't like Walter White very much but through the show so far what I think irritates me the most is that his character keeps trying to control the drug game..he keeps trying to maintain some kind of order in world where there isn't any order just chaos, violence and nastiness.....he thinks some how he can change that...it is ridiculous
science bitch! (via Clutter for Windows Phone)
the best !!!! (via Clutter for Windows Phone)
I found it kinda boring until the middle of the second season, but then it started getting good! (via Clutter for Windows Phone)
Walter White.....o Mito
I seriously can see why so many people like this; sure is different and unique but for some reason it just didn't "grabbed" me. Tried 4 episodes...that´s it, I didn't connect with the story or the characters, and with so much show I´m currently following i gave up...
A fun ride, but not one I feel any compulsion to labour through again.
What a magnificent series and it has a perfect ending. I love it when 'villains' are portrayed in such a way that you still feel sorry for them.. So many conflicting feelings over situations! I love the casting [Sal is awesome!] and despite my irritations for Skyler every now and then, I think they all did a wonderful job. It's great how much quality there is in every episode and I highly recommend this.
well, I´m going to keep trying then... at least see the entire season 1
Great cinematography and acting, even though the story isn't my favourite I enjoyed watching it.
This shit is so overrated. The Wire is better and more realistic. I can't take bryan cranston seriously. He's made MILLIONS from shooting numerous guns and yet in real life he is an anti gun bitch. If you truly don't believe in our second amendment then you shouldn't be on screen glorifying gun violence for profit.
This shit is so overrated. The Wire is better and more realistic. I can't take bryan cranston seriously. He's made MILLIONS from shooting numerous guns and yet in real life he is an anti gun bitch. If you truly don't believe in our second amendment then you shouldn't be on screen glorifying gun violence for profit.
This shit is so overrated. The Wire is better and more realistic. I can't take bryan cranston seriously. He's made MILLIONS from shooting numerous guns and yet in real life he is an anti gun bitch. If you truly don't believe in our second amendment then you shouldn't be on screen glorifying gun violence for profit.
This shit is so overrated. The Wire is better and more realistic. I can't take bryan cranston seriously. He's made MILLIONS from shooting numerous guns and yet in real life he is an anti gun bitch. If you truly don't believe in our second amendment then you shouldn't be on screen glorifying gun violence for profit.
This shit is so overrated. The Wire is better and more realistic. I can't take bryan cranston seriously. He's made MILLIONS from shooting numerous guns and yet in real life he is an anti gun bitch. If you truly don't believe in our second amendment then you shouldn't be on screen glorifying gun violence for profit.
This shit is so overrated, The Wire is much better and more realistic. bryan cranston shoots more people with numerous guns to earn MILLIONS but in real life he's an anti gun bitch. If you feel so strongly against guns you shouldn't make a career glorifying gun violence.
in the beginning it was boring , in the end looked like the beginning , doesnt live to the mainstream expectations
TBH, I was expecting more after all that hype... Narrative is super slow and I had to force myself to finish it since I spent a lot of my life waiting for something interesting to happen.
Took me an awfully long time to get through the first season. And I'm very tempted to drop the show entirely since I'm now at S02E03 and the show still hasn't got me hooked!
Clever plotting is not an adequate replacement for actual substance
Must see, though you have to plough through the seasons in the middle. But: rewards you at the finish line.
So fucking overrated couldnt even finish it
12/10 Stars!
I watched this series now the 8th time, and I can't stop watching it again and again. This is the best series I ever watched!
Breaking Bad and The Wire!
Best Series ever!
After you finished it, I give you a few months! ...
You want to watch it again! :D
PS
and maybe Firefly... ;)
Arguably the finest tv series of the last decade.
The latest season is again hilarious.
Absolutely must see.
The actors nominate themselves to get awards again.
I rate it "could you please" Jess"my "E" "out of ten
Binge-watched it 3 times so far, and I’m still not done with Breaking Bad. Simply put, it’s brilliant in every way.
Fantastic tv show! In my opinion, this is my favorite!
One of the best shows ever!!
i watched it along the way
Collective abduction. A decent show with a well structured plot but terribly sloooooow and a horrible last season with characters making a bunch of incoherent and stupid decisions yet ending in a grand finale.
Skyler reminds me of Woody Harrelson with a blonde wig and Marie of the young Ozzy in the video of the song Paranoid
The best show there ever was.
I seriously don't get the point of this show or why would anyone want to watch this. There are so many shows out there that are more interesting than this.
Just fucking amazing, one of my favorite shows.
Jimmy Fallon's "Breaking Bad" parody - Joking Bad: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duKL2dAJN6I
Man what a show wonderful every episode is peak mainly I have became big fan of a Jessi pink man
BB/BCS: THE GOAT, THE GOAT
I did try to like this show, but after the episode with the fly I gave up. I was hoping it will grow on me as there was so much hype about it, but I just can't get into it. There is a lot to like about it, but maybe it is just not for me.
I can understand the appeal, but at the same time... it's just so slow. I watched the whole first season and I just don't care enough about it to watch more. the memes and YouTube videos about it are both hella funny and hella entertaining though, I won't lie.
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Not at all what I expected, in a good way. Very deep show full of surprises. Only a few episodes in and hooked.