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Friday, March 6, 2009

TV You Know What TV Show I Love?

Posted by Paul Constant on Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 2:05 PM

I love Breaking Bad! Granted, I don't have cable, and so I'm watching it on DVD right now, so if things go tremendously wrong by the end of the first season, I apologize in advance. But this whole show, especially the amazing third episode, has been nothing but great so far.

If you're unaware of the series, it's about a bumbling, meek high school chemistry teacher who discovers he has lung cancer and will die within 2 years. He begins making and dealing meth to earn a whole lot of money for his family very quickly. His brother-in-law is a DEA agent, which feels a little stagy, but I hope and trust that things will keep from getting too over-the-top. It's especially great because Malcolm in the Middle's Bryan Cranston, who plays the main character, is a phenomenal actor. I could watch him sit in a corner doing nothing and it would be the most interesting thing in the world. This kind of actor getting this kind of role is a special kind of alchemy.

Here: Instead of working, you should watch the first episode of the first season of Breaking Bad.

So good.

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It's an AMAZING show.

Posted by Patti on March 6, 2009 at 2:10 PM

Bryan Cranston is a brilliant actor. He's just fucking awesome.

Posted by qwerty on March 6, 2009 at 2:13 PM

And it comes back this weekend!

Posted by TheFang on March 6, 2009 at 2:14 PM

Yous jus' a-getting turned on to this now?????

This is perhaps the best show currently on television.

Posted by Keekee on March 6, 2009 at 2:31 PM

I'd have to go with Big Love for best show-especially this season, but Breaking Bad is GREAT.

Posted by jonah on March 6, 2009 at 2:35 PM

AMC did right with this and Mad Men. I hope they consider producing more series.

sincerely,
diggum

Posted by diggum on March 6, 2009 at 2:35 PM

The only thing this show needs to be the best is more Cylons. Though I think that may be next season's cliff hanger.

Posted by GDC on March 6, 2009 at 2:44 PM

New season starts Sunday, AND a marathon of all of season one this weekend on AMC. EEEEEEEEEEE! Happy to welcome you to the party, Paul. Enjoy.

Posted by Gidget on March 6, 2009 at 3:24 PM

Holy crap! I just watched the first couple of minutes; that looks incredible. *adds to list of things to watch* Thanks for the heads-up. I think we need to pit Bryan Cranston against J.K. Simmons for an act-off of some sort.

Posted by Stacy in Austin on March 6, 2009 at 3:31 PM

I started watching this after binging on all two seasons of Mad Men in a few weeks and going through withdrawals for good TV. I agree it's really good, and I can't wait for the new season.

Posted by another Andy on March 6, 2009 at 4:40 PM

I hope the pilot isn't representative of the series.

If it is, no intsrest. At all.

Posted by trailer trash on March 6, 2009 at 5:22 PM

Where can I watch the rest of season one for free on the internet?

Posted by danhowes on March 6, 2009 at 6:51 PM

Couldn't agree with Paul more. It's a fine, fine series and Bryan Cranston is very gifted. I thought his work on Malcolm was underrated. He was only nominated for an Emmy for the last one of two years of that run, but he is a wonderful comic actor. I was delighted to see his talent doing drama, and I was thrilled when he won his Emmy first year out on Breaking Bad. Not that the Emmy is all that, but if you're going to hand out awards for achievement, it's nice when they go to deserving people.

As an aside, Aaron Paul and Walter White, Jr. are adorable and if I were a hundred years younger, I'd be trying to hit that so hard.

Posted by Bauhaus on March 6, 2009 at 7:51 PM

In the DVD extras, creator Vince Gilligan says he hired Cranston because of his guest appearance on The X-Files (though I agree he was great on Malcolm). If you watch the show very closely, you'll catch the occasional X-Files reference. I'm sure there'll be more to come.

Posted by Kathy Fennessy on March 6, 2009 at 10:49 PM

Paul Constant, thanks for posting this - I am riveted. One small disagreement though - the fact that the brother-in-law is a DEA agent is not a "stagey" contrivance. He is the catalyst for the dweeby teacher to do what he does. If the DEA brother had come into the story later in the series as a mechanism to manufacture more conflicts and tensions, that would have been stagey. The way it is written, his existence is essential to driving the plot forward.

Posted by Loushka on March 6, 2009 at 11:07 PM

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Posted by joe on March 7, 2009 at 10:23 AM