What is the new breaking bad

kidneyfan

Hi Guys,

I've tried true detective (loved it!) , orange is a new black (bleeuurgh) and the americans (got bored).

I need you to tell me WHAT IS THE NEW breaking bad?

ollie1

Narcos is a good watch

drugstore cowboy

Rectify

moby2101

Bloodline

Dirty Dingus McGee

Better Call Saul

callaway92

Narcos

The_Honeybadger

Just finished Narcos myself, thoroughly enjoyed every episode. Can't wait for the next series.

Links234

Rick and Morty

SlinkyDog

I really enjoyed marco polo but I like history programs! Try longmire trailer looks interesting haven't seen it yet myself though are you looking for shows similar to breaking bad?

sweetie

Game of thrones is the biggest watercooler show since BB

don ramo

just re-watch breaking bad

there is no new breaking bad, breaking bad is breaking bad,

breaking bad itself didnt get highly popular till around the end of season 3, start of season 4, and then ended on season 5,

but for recommendation purposes Mr Robot has had 1 season and it was great, definitely one of the best new shows the last year or two,

ColeTrain

Dirty Dingus McGee wrote: »

Better Call Saul

Surely this is the obvious one!

Dr Turk Turkelton

Narco's. You can thank everyone here that suggested it in the morning as you will watch it through the night.
Also you will be able to thank them in Spanish.

Severard

The Strain on FX is well worth a watch, also as others have mentioned Narcos is pretty good as well.

kidneyfan

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

ratsam

If ye haven't watched The Wire then its worth a watch. So too is The Killing (Forbrydelsen) .... the original Danish one not the crappy remade American one.

Mother Brain

You could check out Mr. Robot.

kidneyfan

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?

Mother Brain

Yeah it's pretty 'dark' too. Really well acted and shot as well.

pickarooney

kidneyfan wrote: »

Does American House of Cards have the family element?

I certainly wouldn't describe it this. Also it's really not that good.
Bloodline might be worth a watch.

motley

Gomorrah. It's similar to the Wire as it shows the mafia and godmother works from street level to the king pin.

Its like Breaking Bad too as the main character is someone you want to root for but he is a unrepentant killer at the same time. And it gets very tense the further you get in to the series.

Bigcheeze

Dr Turk Turkelton wrote: »

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Also you will be able to thank them in Spanish.

Funny that. I find myself picking up bits of Spanish watching narcos. They seem to speak quite slowly compared to Spaniards which makes it easier to work out what they're saying. I don't know if that is a Colombian characteristic or done deliberately by the makers to make it easier on the ear.

CliCliW

In terms of what people I know are talking about, it sounds to me like House of Cards is, if by 'the new Breaking Bad" you mean the new popular show that everyone is talking about.

Phoebas

kidneyfan wrote: »

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

I don't know how long Narcos can run as a series. It follows Pablo Escobar's career, which, at the end of series 1, doesn't have a long way to run.

In TV programmes based in fiction, good writers can bring the story wherever they want if the numbers are good and the show gets extended.
Narcos has a natural end of life.


Great series 'though.

MaceFace

Justified.

pickarooney

Bigcheeze wrote: »

Funny that. I find myself picking up bits of Spanish watching narcos. They seem to speak quite slowly compared to Spaniards which makes it easier to work out what they're saying. I don't know if that is a Colombian characteristic or done deliberately by the makers to make it easier on the ear.

Colombians are widely considered to speak the 'best' Spanish, with very little slang and clear enunciation. I usually find them much easier to understand than other Spanish speakers.

Tefral

No one has said Ray Donovan yet. Very very well worth a watch. It's no breaking bad but no show ever will be. Also a second vote for Narcos

joebloggs32

Narcos. I have 3 episodes left to watch. Can't wait to put the kids down tonight to finish it.

smilerf

Justified

Roger Hassenforder

The wire is brilliant (bit dated now)
Ray Donovan very underrated worth a watch.
First few episodes of Saul a bit "meh" but stick with it, gets very good.

Thought House of cards was very overrated, first series good but went downhill after that. Struggling to finish it.

Must take a look at Narcos.

munster87

Narcos was very good, watching Marco Polo and Peaky Blinders recently, both entertaining so far

Skerries

Mr. Robot was our water cooler show in work recently

adox

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

The unit

ixoy

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

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

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

kidneyfan

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

Watched ep1 Mr robot, it's brill

gypsylee

Loving Sons of Anarchy at the moment.

Potatoeman

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

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

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

Banshee. Slightly dodgy first season, brilliant thereafter.

DvB

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

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

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

ixoy

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

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

The Black Oil

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

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.