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Post by Kurt on Jul 17, 2011 22:36:25 GMT -4
Any fans here?
I'm currently in the middle of the 3rd season, and really liking it so far. White agreeing to work for the Pollos drug dealer really looks like it'll kick up the speed of this season.
I have to catch up so I can start season 4, which starts tonight I believe!
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Post by brandenharvey on Jul 17, 2011 23:11:05 GMT -4
I've never seen the show but I've heard others on here mention it. I'm more into Burn Notice.
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Post by Dr. Matt on Jul 19, 2011 6:04:56 GMT -4
I started watching it last year, and I'm hooked. I just re-watched the whole series in the past two weeks in anticipation for the start of Season 4 two days ago.
This is show is bad-ass. Bad. Ass. The acting on this show is A-1. I always thought Bryan Cranston would be typecast as the Dad from Malcolm in the Middle (I can't even shake that when watching him as Tim Whatley on Seinfeld reruns), but he's one three Emmys in a row and he's deserved every one.
Plus, the twists - usually which involve insane amounts of violence - are incredible. The Season 4 premiere blew me away. It had one of the most tense scenes I have ever seen on a television show.
For those of you who don't know what the show is about; here is a quick synopsis:
Walter White (Bryan Cranston) is a brilliant chemist (one of the first scenes of the show establishes that he did research on a project that won a Nobel Prize), who, though never really thoroughly explained, has settled for an unsatisfying job of teaching high school chemistry. Already on the verge of collapsing under a middle-life crisis - his wife is pregnant with their second child while his oldest is a 15-year-old son with cerebral palsy and he is working nearly a second full-time job at a car wash to make ends meet - he discovers he has inoperable lung cancer. His only chance at survival is treatments that will cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, and even then he's only given a few years to live beyond that.
Meanwhile, Walt's brother-in-law Hank works for the DEA, and Walt - after seeing a news report on one of Hank's busts on a meth lab - asks to go for a ride-along. While watching DEA bust in a meth lab, Walt sees a former student of his, Jesse Pinkman, running away from the next building over.
Walt, deciding that he needs to make some serious money to provide for his family after his inevitable death, shows up at Jesse's house asking him to start cooking crystal meth. Walt, the chemist, knows how to make nearly pure Crystal Meth while he realizes Jesse knows the business well enough to move the product. The two begin an unlikely relationship of cooking crystal meth in an RV out in the desert while beginning to take a stranglehold on the crystal meth trade in Albuquerque.
Most of the drama of the show comes from either the various drug dealers and cartel members that they cross, or from Walt's attempts to keep his double life secret from his wife and his brother-in-law. The more Walt tries to provide a good life for his family, the more he continues to destroy the lives of nearly everyone else.
There's almost a real Shakespearean quality to the writing on this show. Walt suffers from a real tragic flaw of pride - pride in his ability to cook meth and how he has worked so hard to earn his money - which really causes him the most of his problems.
By this point in the show, Walt has been fighting people who have been seen as dangers to him, but now, he and Jesse have really accepted the inner criminal that they need to become to be successful and now have turned into a real danger for everyone who is trying to fuck with them.
This show is incredible, if you can't tell by how much I gush by it. It features stories that go on a very slow burn while also keeping up a pace that makes the show fly by. And it's just fucking layered. Some characters are a little one dimensional, like Walt's sister-in-law Marie or his son, Walt Jr.; but most characters are just so rich.
Watch this show. You'll thank yourself for it in the end.
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