Movie Theater safe to say breaking bad is the best TV show of all time?

[elfster1234]

safe to say breaking bad is the best TV show of all time? really really sucks that it had to end, but I get it.

simply amazing TV show.... if you haven't watched it, then start from the start and give it a few episodes. you will not be able to stop watching after 3 to 4 shows.

I would say yes, best TV show ever produced.

 

[EasternNChunter]

I haven't seen it but my brother said the same thing. Said he recorded a bunch of them and stayed up until 3:00 AM watching them. Luckily for him, he gets to make his own hours at work.

 

[Irish Bacon]

Just watched the series finale it was so good!!! By far my favorite show.

 

[DT1]

Glad to see it end on a high note. So many times, shows hang on a season or two too long and get cancelled due to the storyline fizzling out. Not so with Breaking Bad! What a great show!

 

[mrbungle]

great show, great ending.

now, if they would have ended dexter with half the class that breaking bad did. it would have been a better world.

 

[Iamironman]

I'm one of the few that actually watched it from the beginning. It has been one of my favorite shows. All bad things must come to an end.

 

[Strykervet]

This was THE BEST SHOW EVER! There's no other way of putting it. It had it all, and then stuff no other show had. WELL planned and thought out. You never knew what was gonna happen next. Lots of WHAM! moments. Wife was addicted to it also.

We watched it on Netflix to start, then only started watching the last season on TV, using On Demand to get past commercials.

Wow, what an amazing show. The writing, the acting, the producing, the directing, all of it, just amazing. So well done. And I thought I'd hate it at first, a show about meth. Of all the popular drugs in the world, that's the nastiest one BY FAR, but it's part of what makes the show so appealing too I guess, that and the meth component is simply a vehicle of evil, it's not what the show's about.

Fringe was another good show, I think, but not this good. Walking Dead isn't nearly as good either, nor was Madmen. Breaking Bad is gonna win a lot of awards I feel.

If you haven't watched it, go order Netflix or get the discs and get started. Hell, this one's even worth owning and they'll be selling the box sets soon. If you haven't seen it and don't have Netflix or anything, that may be a good way to go. Has extra footage and a documentary too.

 

[ksthomas]

Two best shows ever, and on totally different ends of the spectrum. One was "Frasier." Funniest TV comedy series ever done, and one of the outstanding features was the fact that over eleven years, the characters never changed. They aged and matured a bit, but they remained fundamentally the same people they were at the beginning of the series. That's true to life, and was just a good example of really good writing. "Breaking Bad", hands down best dramatic series ever done, but for exactly the opposite reason; the characters all changed radically, but we got to see why and how, and understood the changes taking place. Seeing Walt go from some lost dweeb totally out of his element when dealing with the drug world, to a hardened master of that same world was awesome. Likewise with Jesse going from some shallow asshole, to truly feeling the guilt for his actions, and developing a real conscience about the business he was in. Neither of these shows ever "jumped the shark," and both remained consistently the best of their kind from start to finish.

Sorry to see it end, but glad to see it go out on the note that it did; at the top of the game and the best in the field. Outstanding.

 

[E. Bryant]

I think that we need to wait a good 5-10 years before entering a TV show into the "Best Ever" conversation.

My favorite part of last night's episode was Walt's explanation to Skyler about why he did it:

I did it for me. I liked it. I was good at it. And I was ... alive.

Everything about that kitchen scene was masterful.

 

[fx77]

Excellent show which I will miss...saw every episode...such is my life
I was pleased that the ending was not ambiguous..

 

[5RWill]

I'm on season 3 episode 3 and it's up there with House Of Cards which was my previous favorite show of all time. It's pretty epic.

I have to ask am i suppose to hate the wife this much? Because right now i absolutely can't stand her.

 

[ksthomas]

Lots of differing opinions from those who root for Hank, or for Walt, or for Jesse . . . but an intense hatred for Skylar seems to be pretty universal.

 

[5RWill]

I mean honestly it's like they put her character in there to frustrate everyone. Yes what he did was absolutely wrong given what he's doing. Then the other side of the coin is a man with six months to live wants to leave his family the means to be well off. I realize that his passion/addiction for cooking eventually surpasses his love for his family, or so it seems from what i read. I just don't understand how the wife can't see it from his point of view. The guy threw away his life so his family would be well off..good or bad, the gesture in itself is good. Whether the means of doing so is moral or immoral, good or bad is an entirely different question.

Then again I guess he could've just let Gretchen and Elliot pay for it.

 

[Mike_in_FL]

It's been a loooooooong time since there was writing of this caliber for a show. I'm having to go back and watch all the episodes over again since the marathon and the realization that it's done.

I liked the way they ended the show. In a previous thread on this show I asked about Walt and the M60. At first I thought it was a flashback, not forward, to an episode I had missed. That was the only prediction I had about the ending, he did use it to rescue Jesse.

I remember hearing Steven Tyler comment about how kids today will associate the song with the video on MTV rather than where were you, how old were you, when you first heard the song. I have liked how the show used music pre-MTV and I don't feel bad having new thoughts about "Baby Blue" and "Crystal Blue Persuasion". The final episode is titled Felina. It took me a minute to catch the reference to Marty Robbins' "El Paso". Just as appropriate a beginning as the Badfinger ending.

The progression of the characters was amazing and it was a great story. It will be hard to replace or top.

 

[Okie Gordon]

Guess it depends on how you define "Best".

The finale had 10.3 million viewers, which is darn good. ?Breaking Bad? Finale Ratings Hit 10.3 Million | Variety

Compared to some cable only shows it is still trailing. For HBO: Thrones Ratings Second to Sopranos -- Vulture
Sopranos showed about 14.4 M viewers per episode
Game of Thrones is running about 13.6 M viewers per episode
The chart shows others down from there.

Game of Thrones is just now filming the 4th season so I am guessing that it will outrun anything that has come before by quite a large margin before they get to 6 or 7 seasons.

Also, based on the Netflix viewing of AMC programs like "Breaking Bad" and "Hell on Wheels" and the DVD sales of all the top series, you could do quite a bit of changing to the numbers to try to come up with the best series to date.

Personally, I am a big fan of "Game of Thrones".

 

[TheGerman]

It was a very good series. But we get attached to them, especially the ones that make us think and/or wonder what will happen next.

All time best? Hard to say because something else WILL come, and even some shows over time really stuck with me only to be replaced some time down the road.

 

[ksthomas]

At present, I'm more than willing to go with Breaking Bad as being "the best" of its genre, hands down. Hard to base anything on sheer numbers alone. Barack Obama got elected twice, and with over 50% of the vote. So much for numbers equaling "quality".

Breaking Bad was absolutely masterful, and going back and rewatching many of the earlier episodes just reinforces how good they really were. Every detail, every soundtrack, every camera angle and each and every line and action of the actors was simply brilliant. Amazing show, no other way to put it.

On another note, I was in Phoenix last week for a rifle match. Coming home via I-40, I was approaching Albuquerque when I noted exit 131; To'hajillee. If anyone recalls this, was where Walt and Jessie first drove the RV to for their early "cooks." It was also where the final scene of the confrontation between Jessie, Walt, Hank and Uncle Jack took place, and the name of that particular episode.

Damned right I stopped and took a picture!

 

[StrayDog]

One of the best for sure.
Watched all the seasons but the last while living in NM and finished the last season back east, almost like Walt followed us when he hid out in NH.
When I make it back to 'burque someday, I will scan every phonebooth top for a Monaco chronograph, and then maybe seek the Forrest Fenn treasure, lol.
All kidding aside, BB was about as good as The Wire, and will be missed.

 

[5RWill]

Just finished it this morning at 4am maybe it was me but even after the fall i still liked Walt. Honestly by the end of it ultimately i just didn't give a shit about any of the characters except for Walt. Almost like watching a mafia movie knowing full well how the protagonist are evil yet pulling for them. I know Walt is about as evil as it gets, yet i was still rooting for him by the end. Hell of an ending it was as well.

My two favorite characters were Walt and Mike, Jonathan Banks did a great job as Mike as well.

I thought this was awesome, Anthony Hopkin's letter to Cranston.
"Your performance as Walter White was the best acting I have seen -- ever," Hopkins writes.


Anthony Hopkins's letter to Breaking Bad star Bryan Cranston | Film | theguardian.com

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6eSrcfqEtY

If you've finished it watch this compilation, it's very very good.

 

[Limedust]

Really good show. Best camera work I've seen on television. Best ever show . . . don't think so. I 'd put The Wire and The Sopranos both ahead of it in terms of overall aesthetic achievement. I do think it's pretty damn close to The Sopranos, though.

Have to say that even though I don't like finale of Breaking Bad, it's probably the most true-to--the-show finale I can remember. Perfect ending consistent with the episodes that came before.

 

[Krav69]

Any word on when the box set is due out?

It'll be worth every penny...

 

[5RWill]

Breaking Bad Blu Ray collection 200$.

 

[45.308]

Define best, I think its I Love Lucy why, Desilu productions changed TV and every TV show since has them to thank. Like Ida Lupino changed hollywoodland too but of course, young generations do not understand.

I could never get into this show, tried but hated it.

 

[6brshooter]

Saw the show a few times, though so so. It probably is a little early for claiming best title. Lot of old good shows, some i liked and some i didn't. For comedy i gotta say sienfeld, the finale was kinda letdown. Some would say the Cosby's, pretty good show. What about mash or my favorite archy bunker. Honey mooners, anybody remember that one? For sci fi x files win hands down in my opinion . Action well 24 was good, never knew who would be killed off except for jack bauer. Miami vice was damn good too. Then there is Dallas the old one, great series but finale was kinda fubar.