Breaking Bad’s final 8 episodes start in less than a week. In order to prepare I am giving myself ulcers by rewatching seasons 4 and 5.1 of the most captivating show of the last decade. It is killing me. It is killing me and I love it.
The HijiNKS ENSUE Store seems to have gotten a makeover.
I have SO MANY thoughts, ideas and opinions about Breaking Bad. I could go on for pages about character motivations, growth, plot complexity, the absolute beauty with which it is shot… but, instead here are some things I posted on Twitter:
- Rewatching Breaking Bad season 4 to prep for the new eps and getting crushed under the weight of its fantasticness.
- I wonder if Aaron Paul would have grown into such unbelievable talent-pants if not for Breaking Bad. Did it awaken his latent abilities?
- I would imagine working with Cranston and Gilligan forced Paul to up his game. To play in their world he had to rise to their level.
- Not that Paul wasn’t great in season 1 but by season 4 he’s in a whole new league.
- I play this game during every Breaking Bad where I try and chart Walt’s motivation throughout the episode. Is fear, ego or pride in control?
- I also try to track Walt’s shifting layers of deception. Is he lying to himself, others, both? He moves in and out of lies so fluidly.
- Sorry. Breaking Bad Spoilers: Walt lies a lot.
And one for the road:
- My daughter is talking about Equestria Girls like they just announced Peter Capaldi is playing Twilight Sparkle.
COMMENTERS: What’s the most/longest/hardest/fastest you’ve ever binged a show/series/book/whatever? Was it worth it?
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@DarthNoll · 97 weeks ago
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Thomas · 97 weeks ago
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Bill Murphy · 97 weeks ago
When I was in Jr. High, I was home sick and watched six episodes of Muppet Babies back to back followed by Knight Rider. (The episode where CARR returns) 😉
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Kryss · 97 weeks ago
Yes, yes, Magnum PI was CBS and the A-Team might have been, like, ABC or something. I don’t care; you know what I mean.
Damn, now I want an epic crossover.
@kellyskritters · 97 weeks ago
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hijinksensue· 97 weeks ago
groklife · 97 weeks ago
I tend to binge series, too. “Fringe” is what I’m on now. Netflix just screwed me on that tip, though. They emailed me, letting me know that Season 5 was available. I watched the first 8 eps in two evenings (at work), clicked on the 9th and was told, “No longer available to stream.” I was pissed!
Got an email from them yesterday telling me that it’d be available in September. Woo. Freakin. Hoo.
@DJC6535 · 97 weeks ago
It’s so hilariously different than I expected. I grew up with Next Gen, which took itself a lot more seriously and was much more of a soap opera. TOS is a lot more like Twilight Zone. Episodes are very self contained. You meet the Space-god of the week and Kirk does his special brand of kung-fu to fight it while Leonard Nemoy outshines and out-acts everybody so much that it’s stunning to see.
What’s also fantastic about TOS is that, for such a progressive show, it is astoundingly sexist. My ‘favorite’ lines so far:
Kirk, explaining to a young boy why a lady got upset when he slapped her on the behind: “There’s no…. right way…. to hit a woman”
Nasty space queen in a ‘Taming of the shrew’ type episode: “Tell me again about this… spanking”
and this one that requires no explanation: “Believe me, it is better to be dead than to live alone on the body of a woman”
yeesh
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runcibletune · 97 weeks ago
This was before I understood how to get TV shows on my computer so we would borrow 4 DVDs at a time from our local library. It was awesome.
The Unknown FB · 97 weeks ago
You could put ENT before TOS, but I don’t think that’s wise…and for even more fun, mix the Prime universe’s 10 movies into your viewing, in date of release order.
Hotsauce · 97 weeks ago
DuckAmuck · 97 weeks ago
**I so want this to end with Walter White, holding a gun, standing over a shot Hank gasping his last breaths. Walter leans in and says, “I AM Heisenberg.” choke-rasp- black.
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DuckAmuck · 97 weeks ago
Walt gets shot in the neck, Hank gets shot in the gut. Jesse gets shot by Hank.
Walt and Hank, both sitting on the floor, gasping their last breaths. Hank says “I knew this day would come.”
Walt says, “I have to tell you… I am Heisenberg.”
gasp-gasp. rasp-rasp. choke-choke. black.
I really think Hank needs to die.
@ibealex · 97 weeks ago
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Surely Hank will have realised that Walt is Heisenberg after his literal “Oh Shit” moment with the book from Gale at the end of the last episode?
DuckAmuck · 97 weeks ago
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@efin98 · 97 weeks ago
After that, it’s up to you. 9 and 10 are basically sequential in that they have long storylines in the first two seasons and then have callbacks to earlier episodes in the last episodes 10 is in. 11 has only one real season that has a long storyline, his 2nd season. This should be seen in order since it will then make sense. His first season you can see out of order after the first episode and not miss any storyline or new characters.
And if you really want to drive yourself crazy, check out the classic shows as some of the monsters he faces are featured in them.
hijinksensue· 97 weeks ago
Siirenias · 97 weeks ago
Sadly, and I did research on this, some of the old series were lost in a warehouse fire on BBC property. Amongst the original reels lost were legendary episodes from the first season onward, but some has survived. I would still recommend watching ALL the old stuff, but the very oldest episode is quite disorienting. I’m not sure if the very first episode was lost, or if Netflix just doesn’t care.
@persoconchii · 97 weeks ago
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@efin98 · 97 weeks ago
With the interest in the 50th anniversary in November there has been a strong effort to animate the missing episodes, with two already for sale and three more going on sale over the next four months.
Siirenias · 97 weeks ago
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Ceri · 97 weeks ago
Best. Night. Ever.
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lou · 97 weeks ago
As for TV shows, my friends and I also watched Season 4 of Fringe (because certain complications with our schedules kept us from watching it on TV and DVR’s can only hold so many episodes) so we could follow what the deuce was happening in Season 5. ALL worth it!
@persoconchii · 97 weeks ago
Some of the more memorable ones include being home sick <s>with plague</s> for 2 weeks, and watching nothing but Monty Python & Fraggle Rock on Netflix
and just a few weeks ago when Tumblr was nothing but GIF-sets of Hugh Dancy in a flowercrown, decided to finally check out that Hannibal show … yeah… watched it all in 2 days and absolutely regret everything!
Skye · 97 weeks ago
I still haven’t forgiven him for spoiling Z’ha’dum–we’ve been married for 11 years now and he’s still in trouble. *glares*
@borednihilist · 97 weeks ago
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Adam D. · 97 weeks ago
Wife would usually read it after I had finished… except for book 5, where the local radio station decided to blurt out the ending… at 9AM. You could imagine how that went down.
Ben · 97 weeks ago
If I’m feeling some BSG, then it’s off to the Pilot I go.
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen Jack Shephard wake up in that jungle after Flight 815 crashed. Or how many times I’ve heard Christopher Eccleston has said “Run!” Or
Star Wars? LOTR? Back to the Future? Robotech?
With me, it’s “In for a penny, in for a pound.” I can’t watch one without all the rest.
@WaltAPR · 97 weeks ago
I also binged the first 5 seasons of Supernatural over the course of 3 days when I had the flu once. The whole thing felt like a fever dream.
The first time I watched Breaking Bad was similar – I think I started watching shortly after season 3 hit home video – I burned through the whole series (up to that point) in about a day and a half.
xero · 97 weeks ago
working through detective conana atm…i’m on chapter 7 of 696 :.((
@corgimas · 96 weeks ago
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