Breaking Bad

[©brad]

Let's do it. Maybe top 5 favorites? Maybe folks could also explain in a few words why they love each episode? 

[jenkins]

I suggested last page we should start making favorite episode lists. Shall we?

Let's do it. Maybe top 5 favorites? Maybe folks could also explain in a few words why they love each episode?

the episodes that were your favorite will endure the longest, as always, by virtue of being your favorite. i'd like to hear the most cherished and a reason why! outsiders, all we're doing is reading, we could enjoy this, and one day in our future your fervor will mean way more to us than the vitriol from watchers against non-watchers (odd common trait). so i'm saying, big-kid tested, motherfucker approved

[ono]

Here's five that came to me off the top of my head.

• Four Days Out - I love Jesse and Walt cooking together.
  
• One Minute - Hank in the parking lot, of course.  One of the best action scenes ever filmed.
  
• Half Measures - Mike's monologue... RUN.
  
• Peekaboo - "I ain't no skank!"
  
• Confessions - Heisenberg at his nastiest, so many surprises.
  

[Lottery]

I suggested last page we should start making favorite episode lists. Shall we?

Why not. I might have to go back and watch a few first.

[Tictacbk]

Also off the top of my head:

Phoenix - bye bye Jane
Granite State - I wish this episode was 4 episodes long
Fly - Who doesn't love a bottle episode? Apparently plenty of people, but I loved it.
Half Measure - RUN
Crawl Space - maniacal laughter

[Pubrick]

dedicated to trashy:

dude watches BB for the first time and tries to review it.. only episode he's watched is the finale.

[jenkins]

that's what you all sound like? huh. i'll have to consider. i haven't reviewed an episode, of course. i appreciated your standard pubrick comment, and i got to learn your name:

Eugene • 3 hours ago −
Wow. Do drugs much? I would recommend never writing another sentence as long as you live. Definitely not a fresh take. Start at the pilot, watch it, then kick yourself for writing this piece.

[Reel]

this is my favorite part:

I miss the guy's name — let's just call him Wonderbread — but the woman's name I think is Gretchen. Regardless, both of them are boring, rich and white as shit. Kind of rooting for them to die.

[MacGuffin]

Meet Walter Blanco: 'Breaking Bad' Gets Spanish-Language Version
As Vince Gilligan's creation ends with record U.S. ratings, Sony TV preps a Colombian version -- but no RV this time.

Meet Walter Blanco. He's the flawed lead character in Metastasis, a new Colombian series from Sony Pictures Television with a bold premise: It's about this chemistry teacher who becomes a methamphetamine cook. It's Breaking Bad. In Spanish.

As U.S. fans of Vince Gilligan's Emmy-winning drama enter postfinale withdrawal, Sony and Colombian producer Teleset are hoping to hook Latin Americans on the story of Walter, partner Jose (Jesse), wife Cielo (Skyler) and brother-in-law -- and narcotics agent -- Henry Navarro (Hank).

"Breaking Bad is a fantastic series that wasn't widely seen in Latin America, partly because cable doesn't yet have full penetration in the region," says Angelica Guerra, SPT senior vp and managing director of production for Latin America and the U.S. Hispanic market. "[But] there is a universality to the story and its characters that we recognized could work very well."

Although Sony has sold Breaking Bad into more than 170 territories worldwide, the nature of the material (drug use, extreme violence) has made the original show a little-seen niche property in most countries. In the U.K., for instance, it was dropped after the second season but revived by Netflix.

Metastasis (a reference to metastasizing cancer) promises to be more mainstream, at least for Spanish speakers accustomed to such crime telenovelas as El Cartel and La Saga. SPT has presold the first season of Metastasis to all major Spanish-speaking markets across Latin America as well as to Univision's UniMas network in the U.S.

Sony insists no other foreign versions are in the works, but the company is an adaptations specialist, having done local-lingo takes on Everybody Loves Raymond for Russia and the Middle East and Married ... With Children in a dozen countries.

Guerra assures Breaking Bad devotees that producers have consulted with Gilligan and his team and that Metastasis will be true to its twisted source material. But a few minor details have been tweaked. "Motor homes are not popular in Colombia," she says, "so audiences will see Walter and Jose cooking up their first several batches of methamphetamine in an old, barely drivable school bus."

[Jeremy Blackman]

I want to do it, but making a top 5 episodes list is going to be hard. My instinct is just to pick episodes from late Season 4 through Season 5, because those are legitimately my favorites, and I feel like that's when the show really took things to a new level.

It would honestly be easier to pick favorite scenes. It's funny, I can't think of another show I could say that about. Maybe that's just how Breaking Bad works.

[Fernando]

yeah, a top five is impossible, I already did a top ten but fave scenes sounds about right too.

in chronological order

01. Pilot - yes and f u if you didn't like it, the dynamic between Walt and Jesse is great from the start.

02. Crazy Handful of Nothin' - Heisenberg is born.

03. 4 Days Out - like a robot?...Walt and Jesse cooking is always fun.

04. One Minute - one of Jesse's best scenes at the hospital, and obviously hank vs the evil twins

05. Half Measures - RUN! what an ending.

06. Salud - I loved so much when Mike tells Jesse "I promise you this. Either we're all going home or none of us are."

07. Crawl Space - the last 10 minutes are one of he most tense moments ever filmed.

08. Live Free or Die - Magnets!

09. Dead Freight - Best Train heist ever.

10. To'hajiilee / Ozymandias - Can't separate these two, it was the pinnacle of br ba, pure brilliance.

[Ghostboy]

Nothing like a reflective list such as that to further diminish the finale...

[©brad]

Nothing like a reflective list such as that to further diminish the finale...

Hah indeed.

My thoughts on the finale have been changing on almost a daily basis since it aired. I've been on team dissent the past few days although I still attest the dissenters are putting far too much weight on Walt's victories in the tragic grand scheme of things. I'm trying to look at the finale as consisting of the final 4 episodes and not just Felina and that makes me appreciate it more.

[MacGuffin]

'Breaking Bad' Fans Take Out Walter White Obit in New Mexico Paper
Source: Variety

A group of devoted "Breaking Bad" fans took out an obituary in the Albuquerque Journal to mourn the loss of the main character of Walter White ... who is, of course, a fictional character.
 
According to the paper, David Layman and members of the Facebook group "Unofficial Breaking Bad Fan Tour" placed the obit to honor the main character of "Breaking Bad." The obit ran on A4 of today's paper.

Layman told the Journal, "I've been a humongous 'Breaking Bad' fan since the beginning. I was actually in the pilot, and putting the obit in the paper was fitting, because the series was based in Albuquerque and it provides some of us some closure."

[Alexandro]

so, that's it? the finale was such a bad fucking trip we're not even discussing it anymore?
two things:

1. what about this guy? he makes a nice case of the finale working wonders and I think we could chip in on this. and check out how the commenters go after him because he says basically, that  walter white is pathetic and that ending was perfect for him:
http://wegotthiscovered.com/tv/breaking-bad-series-finale-review-felina-season-5-episode-16/

2. maybe this goes to another thread. but pubrick mentioned the sopranos finale, and to me that is the best ending of any series so far. yet i went to the thread, and there's hardly any real discussion on the finale. nothing about the pov shots, nothing about the real meaning of that ending, nothing about how it was carefully and brilliantly set up from season 1 and it even becomes a philosophical statement on american culture in the XXI century...and mor eto the point? what makes an ending in a tv series a great ending??