Breaking Bad - Season 1

This show is getting phenomenal reviews. IGN TV gave the pilot a 9.7 and average score on metaritic is a 9.3. Havent had a chance to watch it yet but I cant wait. Hal was always the best thing about Malcolm.

Excellent pilot episode. I certainly hope that they can keep up the high standard for the next episode. While the story line has obvious similarities to Weeds this is much darker.

Great start to a potentially great series.

Epguides lists 6 episodes, so we should get some idea if it can maintain the quality.

Absolutely brillant.. maybe it's the lack of new material coming from the States but I absolutely loved this.

The first episode was a nice little opener. It really moved quite slow at the beginning but with the introduction of Jesse, it really started to move along quickly.

The second episode was absolutely fantastic though.. everything from to the scene with .

The show really does get it's tone right. Very funny at times, very dramatic at others.. and it helps to have a good cast (though Bryan Cranston steals the show of course). The scene in the 1st episode with Walt standing up to the 3 making fun of his son was a highlight - from that scene onwards, Walt will be always be seen as a good guy simply looking out for a family.

And I really enjoy the non-linear timeline in that it hops forward and back in time on numerous occasions in the first few episodes. And how the second episode starts pretty much precisely where the pilot finished. Could possibly be like that for the season I suppose.

Knew I recognised the creator of the series somewhere - Vince Gilligan. Turns out he was a long-time writer and producer on The X-Files. And is also responsible for the script to 'Hancock' (a film I'm really looking forward to this year).

Mr E wrote: »

How many episodes were made before the strike?

According to Wikipedia, it was given a nine-episode order (including the pilot) but only 7 episodes were made before the WGA strike.

Cannot recommend this show enough and looking forward to episode 3.

PS - viral marketing from the show - Walt's Wisdom.

Just watched the first two episodes of this and it's absolutely brilliant. I can certainly see Bryan Cranston getting award recognition for this. He's absolutely fantastic. Shame it was cut short by two episodes because of the strike, though.

Roll on episode 3.

Yeah, it's shown on basic cable channel 'AMC' (much like FX or Comedy Central), so you can't say fúck, c*nt or show full frontal nudity. No idea why they included them if they were just gonna have to censor them, anyway. I can understand why they did it in Arrested Development, for comedic effect, but in a serious drama like this, it doesn't make much sense. Maybe they pitched the pilot to HBO or Showtime, and it was rejected or something?

Ye the 3rd episode was brilliant.

Are people still watching this? It just gets better and better. There was some powerhouse acting going on in the latest episode. The intervention scene towards the end was just incredible. Someone give Bryan Cranston an award, already. It was moving stuff.

Robbo wrote: »

Aside, anyone know the deal with the swearing? They seem to be allowing some of it through but blanking out the rest. I could understand this with the trailer where it might have been pitched to someone like HBO but it's an ongoing thing now, from the episodes I've seen in my cousins house.

It probably depends where your cousin has acquired his copy.
Afaik the show is shown at an earlier and later viewings on it's home channel.
The earlier viewing is censored but the later one is not. Thus if your cousin taped the earlier one and passed it on to you then you get the censored version .

As for the show itself it's the best thing I've seen in a while. Is it wrong that I've been impatient for him to get back to cooking?

I've just seen the sixth episode. The show just keeps on getting better.

It manages to be darkly funny and have it's fair share of action whilst at the same time portraying the fallout of terminal illness with smaltz-free sensitivity, all held together by a fantastic central performance.

That's a long sentence I know but it's some good TV. Hopefully with the lack of scripted shows at the moment this is getting it's fair share of viewers.

Just got around to watching episode 6,brilliant episode. The explosion was done really well.

I think its the season finale tonight in the states. fairly short season,probably because of the strike. Hopefully it will be picked up for another season.

Another absolutely brilliant episode of Breaking Bad, last night. It was a bit slap-sticky in places, but it didn't stop it from being hilarious at the same time. Definitely the funniest of the 7 episodes. I loved it.

If ever a show deserved a second season, this is it.

tvnutz wrote: »

The last episode was very good,loved the scene where they are carrying the barrell with the security guard locked in the toilet

Agreed!
The whole methylamine heist was hilarious but that particular scene was particularly funny.