What is the new breaking bad

Skerries · 19-09-2015 10:58am

Mr. Robot was our water cooler show in work recently

adox · 19-09-2015 6:01pm

As mentioned earlier, Forbrydelsen is bloody fantastic. Also another Scandinavian show The Bridge.

Both will hold your attention as much as Breaking Bad and are real "I'll watch one more episode" shows.

Breaking Bad is probably my favourite to show ever but these two aren't too far behind.

maryk123 · 21-09-2015 10:16pm

The unit

ixoy · 21-09-2015 11:23pm

kidneyfan wrote: »

Downloading Narcos (legally). What made Breaking Bad so good was the family mix so hopefully there is that in Narcos.

There isn't really.

If you want the family mix (and assuming you've seen 'Better Call Saul') then 'Bloodline' is your best bet. 'Narcos' from what I've seen (half the season) is a different beast.

miamee · 22-09-2015 10:18am

adox wrote: »

As mentioned earlier, Forbrydelsen is bloody fantastic. Also another Scandinavian show The Bridge.

Both will hold your attention as much as Breaking Bad and are real "I'll watch one more episode" shows.

Breaking Bad is probably my favourite to show ever but these two aren't too far behind.

I looked The Bridge up at the weekend as I had enjoyed The Killing (the crappy American version as someone else called it earlier :P). I have watched so much of it over the weekend, I'm really enjoying it. Just watched Ep 8 of Season 1 last night, it'll be keeping me busy for another while. Picking up a few Swedish words too

Thanks for the recommendation.

show me the money.1 · 22-09-2015 11:36am

I think how to get away with murder is great
Also Ray Donavan series 1 and 3 were good

kidneyfan · 22-09-2015 2:16pm

Thanks again guys,

I am going to try her with bloodline and also a blast from the past will try to get her into the Sopranos (but Tony is far more unsympathetic than Walt).

sweetie · 22-09-2015 3:54pm

Watched ep1 Mr robot, it's brill

gypsylee · 22-09-2015 4:01pm

Loving Sons of Anarchy at the moment.

Potatoeman · 22-09-2015 4:11pm

sweetie wrote: »

Watched ep1 Mr robot, it's brill

I watched the first series and it's okay, not that great. Ray Donovan and Better Call Saul are streets ahead.

irish son · 23-09-2015 12:51pm

Rectify is the best show on tv at the moment and its mostly based around family dynamics which you seem to be looking for OP.

Be warned though that its slow paced with very little 'action' so may not be for everyone.

mynameis905 · 23-09-2015 3:19pm

kidneyfan wrote: »

I've heard that Mr Robot is good has it the elelemnt?
I love the wire Ratsam but can't see herself being into it. That is what was so amazing about Breaking Bad everyone loved it (personally the Sopranos was better and alot of my friends think the wire was better but we all love BB).

Does American House of Cards have the family element?

House of Cards is very well written and looks great on the screen but I find it strangely empty beneath all the gloss. The original BBC version is much better but if you really want a dark American political show the much overlooked Boss is far better.

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

KlausFlouride · 23-09-2015 3:35pm

Banshee. Slightly dodgy first season, brilliant thereafter.

DvB · 23-09-2015 5:02pm

For me two of the best series in recent memory were Boardwalk Empire & Peaky Blinders, both obviously set in the early 20th Century as opposed to more recent times but both excellent viewing with great characters.

Better call saul as mentioned on thsi thread is also great viweing, in fact it was considerably more entertaining than I had expected it to be TBH.

Justified also a decent watch & gets better as it progresses too.

Stevecw · 23-09-2015 5:49pm

Forbrydelsen & Peaky Blinders are the 2 I've seen recently that I found it hard to stop watching. Very different but both leave you wanting to watch that 1 more episode. Narcos is brilliant too.

sweetie · 23-09-2015 6:19pm

Looking forward to seasons 2 of the leftovers and the knick also.

ixoy · 23-09-2015 9:02pm

sweetie wrote: »

Looking forward to seasons 2 of the leftovers and the knick also.

'The Leftovers' would definitely fit the bill of family elements that the OP asked about (and that half the suggestions listed here don't have!). It's a quality, albeit very bleak show.

FlickBean · 23-09-2015 9:04pm

Narcos, Better Call Saul, Fargo, GOT and Peaky Blinders....all worth a watch!!

The Black Oil · 27-09-2015 8:59pm

There's no natural successor to Breaking Bad yet. As mentioned, the hype only caught on in later years (insanely so at the end) and downloading apparently helped to keep it alive, to a degree. If someone wants to make a show about a middled aged man in a tricky situation (not that has to be directly similar on that front) I'd watch, assuming it'd be up to BB's consistency.

The networks seem to be retreating to fairly generic stuff at the moment. Where's the quirky, likely low-viewership yet high quality stuff? It must be a frustrating time to be a TV writer in that world. Maybe this is all cyclical and things will come back around, eventually.

There's been a few articles about what's being called 'peak TV'. Here's one from Salon's Sonia Saraiya.

strelok · 27-09-2015 9:02pm

justified is well worth a watch

longmire is very good too. it's never going to reach epic levels of greatness but it's just so damned... good, aggressively so, it's weird.

don ramo · 27-09-2015 10:57pm

if you want a family orientated drama show, Tyrant would be a great shout, set in the middle east about a royal familys inner turmoil, and events that affect their country, it has been a fairly overlooked show,

but there is no show out there matching breaking bad, for me id say there would be maximum 20 shows that i could rate as highly as i do that,

Boskowski · 27-09-2015 10:59pm

The best for me since BB was/is House of Cards.

the baby bull elephant · 27-09-2015 11:32pm

Watched all of Orphan Black and Sense8 in recent weeks. Both quite similar shows in many respects and loved both of them. Sense8 took an episode or two to get into but if you commit to it's really worth it.

mckar · 20-11-2015 3:35am

gypsylee wrote: »

Loving Sons of Anarchy at the moment.

I miss sons of anarchy so much might just have to watch it again.

marklazarcovic · 21-11-2015 10:21am

sense8 is superb,only one season in ..http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2431438/

borgen is great

Gomorrah is superb

21-11-2015 10:28am

Leftovers

Leftovers

Leftovers.

We're a few episodes into season 2 and there hasn't been a single dull episode whatsoever.

Aside from that, with a family dynamic, is Bloodlines on Netflix. It's not at all action based and is somewhat slowpaced (similar to Rectify, in that way), but it is a fantastically well written, acted, and shot TV show.

SeanPuddin_ · 21-11-2015 10:49am

Fargo (season 2) is fantastic it has a similar pace to Breaking Bad.

Azatadine · 21-11-2015 10:52am

When does Fargo season 2 come to Netflix Ireland I wonder? Loved season 1.

TerrorFirmer · 21-11-2015 12:10pm

Yeah, Fargo is insanely compelling and fantastically crafted.

Leftovers is also another brilliant show.

With regards Breaking Bad, the only thing I can see as comparable in terms of the vast fan base and hype currently running, is something like Game of Thrones.

Boardwalk Empire is another show worth anyone's time, easily my favorite TV show ever, particularly the first 3 seasons.

Not too many shows can do what Breaking Bad did - get better and better right up until the very end.

Banshee is doing just that so far as well - three seasons under it's belt and the next one set to be its last, so hopefully it'll go out on a major high note as well.

Hopefully shows will now naturally start to wind down at the season 5 mark going forward, and avoid the horrors we were subjected to with a lot of shows - Dexter, True Blood, etc, which were parodies of themselves towards the end.

Nerdlingr · 24-11-2015 2:38pm

Cant recommend "Deadwood" enough.
Fantastic writing, acting, sets, story-lines, etc etc. Its got everything.
They only ever made 3 seasons of it...but 3 seasons of pure quality.

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