Breaking Bad

[senco78]

heard gov't is shutting down a shit load of dispensaries in Cali lately.
just 2nd hand hear say so IDK how true it is???

 

[Bread]

Skyler's scenes in season 5 are almost unbearable to watch. Fokken chilling.

There used to be this thin separation between Walt's acts and their consequences - Walt and the gang are usually oblivious and/or don't care. Which is already disturbing enough for the viewer. But it's not nearly as disturbing as seeing the complete horror on Skyler's face as she becomes increasingly aware of the scope of their fokked-up-edness.

That Anna Gunn is one hell of an actress.

I'm not even sure I "like" this show anymore. There are bits of great cinema in there every week, but fok.

Scarface feels like a cartoon compared to Breaking Bad's darkness. Walt seems to think so too.

Very nicely put, Machoo.

 

[Mudcat]

I'm going to go out on a limb and say that Skyler is still kind of freaked out.

 

[RayRay]

meh, her role was extremely overboard imo... she is back to killing the show for me in the scenes she is in... i did like the way walt let her know that more money would be coming in because they had about 600k to make up for it wasnt subtle

 

[Cami]

I do not like this Skyler charecter anymore, I think she is a cunt.
I think Walt is a fool. I mean I understand wanting to keep his family together, but......

 

[Bread]

Did enjoy when she told him she was going to wait out cancer's return though :O

 

[Matty]

Unbearables.

tickticktickticktickfokyou

 

[rito]

I hope he kills her.

 

[xpansive]

Overall was dissappointed at the lack of killing and use of hydrofluoric acid here although Skyler's foray into the pool had part of me eerily chanting for her demise due to the extreme sadness perceive her situation to be.

 

[Mudcat]

I like Skyler.

I mean I don't like like Skyler - but I like what the show is doing with her. There must have been some temptation to turn her into some kind of comic book character - but instead she is raw reality.

Walt has been the main character of the show all along and there can be tendency on the part of viewers, myself included, to see him almost as a hero, as someone to pull for. And so therefore Skyler, by not becoming the kickass chick at his side, is a bad guy.

Well here's a little reality check:

Walt is not a hero. Walt is an asshole. Walt has become a horrible person. He is a killer and crack dealer and constant liar who has put his family in grave danger before but is stupidly blinded by pride and ambition to the very real possibility it could happen again. Easily.



Skyler is right. She is appropriately fearful and desperate and unstrung. She has been pulled into some impossibly confusing shit - and she has not been perfect - but she makes sense. She wants her kids to be alright. Obviously for the sake of the TV show you can't have her win and have Walt say, "Okay, I'll stop." But in terms of reality, she is the closest thing there is to a good guy in the situation.

 

[Matty]

Imagine that Lorraine Bracco's character in The Sopranos was fully aware of everything that Tony was doing, and was constantly reacting in kind. Show woulda been unwatchable.

Skyler's reactions, as realistic as they may me, are making for some very uncomfortable TV to watch.

I wish her cancer RIGHT BACK.

 

[rjt721]

A whole hour dedicated to getting methylamine?

Those Vamonos Pest guys are ruthless.

 

[Matty]

-Out burying bodies?
-Robbing a train.

 

[Mudcat]

A good old-fashioned caper.

But in the end, that was some cold shit.

 

[Matty]

Yeah, that was brutal.

Having Todd The Newbie do the deed was quite the cop-out too. Woulda been more interesting to see what Walt & Jesse woulda done on their own.

 

[RayRay]

took a day or so for me to watch...its no longer must watch sunday night tv for me...might fit it back in after newsroom and political animals finales and since longmire ended, but its not the same show anymore:donthinkso:

 

[Matty]

Agreed. I didn't even watch it live, watched a replay of Olympics closing ceremonies instead.

Show ended with Gus Fring.

 

[Mudcat]

I am loving the current season. It is my favorite currently running show. Love Mike. Love the jittery broad. Loving the endstages of the journey into monsterdom.

I am completely fascinated to see where they are going.

The Todd bit was a cop out but in the world of TV where most shows never venture outside convention, I can forgive a moment of conventionality from such a generally original show.