Shall we anticipate the FIFTH SEASON of the AMC series "Breaking Bad"? I think I may.

Figured this is a good time for a new thread, seeing how the other one's too unwieldy with 5000+ posts. (And hey look, I eliminated the typo!)

Good call - but you guys really gotta stop using quotes in the subject lines because it breaks the search engine

anticpate was how i was able to find the old thread
now what

Bookmark it and when you want the thread, ctrl-f breaking bad.

So excited!

Is this linked in the OG thread? I can't link on my phone but if someone else can that might be a good thing

also omg so excited to finally watch a season irl

oh wait nm durrrrr

s4 just released on netflix instant. 3 hours after i bought in on itunes -_-

Work is going to long tomorrow. I will be thinking about not much else all day.

For anyone w/ a Dish issue, AMC is streaming the show live on heir site in 20 minutes.

*their

rethinking my 'at least it was better than alien vs predator' stance re: prometheus

uh hu.

psyched!

Noooooowwwwwwwwwwww!!!!!!!!!!!

s5 - brought 2 u by "fuckin' magnets how do they work?"

First "bitch" of the season was the best moment

this is probably the best "aftermath" episode

So, the baconography: 52 or S2?

Had a hard time w/ buying Mike going in on their insane plan, but 'twas fun. And very much like a crooked episode of MythBusters.

compare w/ S1E1

xp

http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120210202844/breakingbad/images/a/af/1x01_-_Veggie_Bacon.jpg

that was probably the least helpful post on ilx ever

nice cap! i had a feeling that might've been a callback

I really enjoyed the "because I said so" moment in the car

fake bacon vs Denny's bacon

Thk you e3, that was driving me crazy!

tofu bacon in S1E1?

walt's solo birthday breakfast has some nasty implications for his other family members

silly episode but pretty good for a recap and a "here we go"
i do not like gilligan's penchant for "in the opening i will tell you how the season ends" grandstanding but i can cope

The artillery in the trunk has some nasty implications for someone.

How much time elapsed from the beginning of S1 to the end of S4?

in S1E1 he turns 50 and S5E4 is titled "fifty-one" so I'm guessing about a year

i was halfway hoping he was gonna come home to a birthday cake, but maybe too cute i guess

solo breakfast could mean nothing (he was there on business)(plus season one bday breakfast was alone right? walt's exactly the type of fuck to be miserable on his bday). so do ppl think we'll see that scene/reach that state of affairs by this end of this year's block of episodes or is that a glimpse of the endgame?

walt is creepy

i think it's best not to overthink what gilligan's doing with the flashforwards; it's an unwinnable game

dont think abt the show everyone

xp word

S1E1 breakfast was with skyler and walt jr

in fact walt's had so many breakfasts w/ walt jr it's a meme

http://www.vh1.com/celebrity/bwe/images/2012/04/Walter-Junior-Breakfast-Club-1334865488.jpg

anyway walts on the lam? he wants to kill someone w/a big gun? he has maybe been to new hampshire?

check out the big brain on brad

cool reference

anyway I'm not making any prognostication here, it could be total misdirection on gilligan's part, but the S5 cold open has more subtext than just "walt spends weird bday bfast alone"

he def wasnt feeling as confident as in the rest of the ep

i'm always happy to see jim beaver onscreen

way I read it, it's a flashforward a year, walt's spent some time hiding out in NH, now he's back in town and is planning to settle some score w/ a v big gun

breakfast + the callback to E1S1/happier times indicates his family is somehow involved, mainly due to their absence

what would one need such a big gun for

yeah if i didn't already see that this guy's gonna get humbled before he possibly buys it i would've been hoping for mike to blow his arrogant head off even more tonight.

again, could be total misdirection on gilligan's part, for all I know walt jr is sucking down lobster rolls back in NH while heisenberg is just planning to big-dick his way into some high noon action

mike secretly loves walt tho, hes like the friend who drags you to the party when you dont want to go and then you have the best time

wow

over/under on her getting fired?

"So you think no one watches LOW WINTER SUN? Check out how few witnesses there were for this weekend's mass shooting!"

I'm just amazed she hasn't apologized yet

Delete and mea culpa seems like the way to go instead of defensively responding to a couple offendees and then radio silence

Rewatched Dead Freight yesterday (and the 2-3 following episodes, and the finale) and I think that's my favourite episode. So much happens apart from the heist (I'd kind of remembered it as just being the heist), and it seems like a key fulcrum for the final season(s) now.

My favourite one is definitely the one where they're being held hostage by Tucco and trying to poison him with the ricin.

and Tuco chewing all of the scenery

"I fucked Ted" still the most ice cold moment.

just re-watched the first few episodes in season 2 where skylar knows walt's up to something w/ his extended disappearances and over-eager breakfast making but she doesn't know what. when she starts freezing him out and disappearing herself for hours at a time and he starts getting nervous it's portrayed so well.

one of the most underrated parts of the whole series imo. #teamskylar

yeah i agree. the tension of season two, all the micro-lies, all the little domestic strategies, had me gripping the edge of my chair at least as much as the more conventional action sequences that would come later. the stakes seemed just as high. or higher.

season 2 was when i really turned around on Skyler, was so glad they could write her as more than shrewish wife

funny, she doesn't look shrewish

Just rewatched "…And the Bag's in the River". That's an amazing episode.

is that the grill in the river ep?

Think it's the Krazy-8/plate episode

ohh. way early

http://variety.com/2013/tv/news/mipcom-katzenberg-offered-to-pay-75-million-for-three-extra-breaking-bad-episodes-1200708639/

wouldn't mind watching a compilation of all the cold opens, they were pretty much all great. Wonder how well the showier/more gimmicky ones hold up. What was the episode where it's just a close-up of a hummingbird or sth and then in the ep it comes to a key bit and a character goes "woah did you see that hummingbird over there? anyway, meth." or whatever, I don't remember the details

lol

Buried somewhere in one of these threads is a link to a blog post where an uninformed viewer tried to piece together the plot entirely from cold opens of the first few seasons. All those flashforwards made her synopsis weirdly disjointed.

been having some dreams about ol' Walt, miss your antics boo

I was viewing an early episode again recently where Walt was discussing music with Walt Jr. and raving about Steely Dan (who Flynn has never heard of) and it occurred to me that Walt's culinary skills kinda made him like Kid Charlemagne...and then I do a bit of Googling and find that "Kid Charlemagne" was the name Hal used when hosting his college radio program on "Malcolm In the Middle"! Weird...Wonder if Cranston is a Dan fan and wrote that stuff into the scripts himself?

i forget which interview it was, but you're right - he's a Steely Dan fan, he admitted to sneaking those references in

My wife started Netflixing this after the finale and she's near the end of S4. She started out watching 3-4 episodes at a time, but now she has to take a break to watch, like, an episode of Glee after each one to clean the nihilism out of her brain.

how would Glee clean away nihilism exactly

Fuck, I don't know, I just picked a show at random from the ones that she watches and I don't. The logical answers are down the hall and to the left.

haha ok. i'm just saying that Glee makes me believe in nihilism far more than BB. that show at least had some kind of moral compass

Is there gas in the Aztek
Yes there's gas in the Aztek

http://entertainment.ie/images_content/TonyHopkinsLetterBreakingBa.jpg

damn

boss

thats p sweet

I was half expecting that letter to explain how Hopkins could have done it much better

to be fair, my dad wrote the same letter to the producers of "In the Heat of the Night".

lol is that real

so says Gomey!

I trust the Gome

that's so cool

legome

it's funny, my downstairs neighbor for awhile was a Welsh actor in his 40s, acted all his life, currently doing Shakespeare with the Globe theatre, been in 1,000,000 things, and i loaned him Breaking Bad, and he talked to me a little while later and said literally the same thing, that Cranston was the best acting he had ever seen anyone do in any role. i was like whoa alright there buddy.

INT., LATE NIGHT, MALIBU

Anthony Hopkins sits alone, illuminated by the light of AMAZON

actors like ACTING

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dq4K4M9WMw

INT., LATE NIGHT, MALIBU

Anthony Hopkins sits alone, illuminated by the light of AMAZON

― schlump, Monday, October 14, 2013 6:19 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is cracking me up

actors like ACTING

― Hip Hop Hamlet (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, October 14, 2013 10:20 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

picturing hopkins practicing growling 'i am the one who knocks'

Guys this is a photoshop hoax. Check Snopes. Hopkins actually wrote the letter to the cast of Dexter.

my dad just watched Breaking Bad front-to-back by "tivo"-ing (his words) the marathon before the final episode. I choose to believe Hopkins did the same thing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbeYwK3d99w

awesome.