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If it takes 30 episodes to not be boring, it's not a good show.
BB wasn't bad though, I just was completely unable to connect with it.
The joke is that episode 30 "Fly" is famously the lowest-rated episode of the series. At 7.9/10.
Interestingly, that was the episode that made me stop watching.
I suspect I just don't normally like watching shows about miserable people making other miserable people even more miserable, which made the fact that I really enjoyed Boardwalk Empire a surprise.
Guess there must be some other element to it.
Hm... yeah, I get that (not the part about Boardwalk Empire, haven't seen that yet). Most people in BB are definitely miserable!
I liked BB a lot, especially on a second watch through many years later, but the main reason is probably just that I can understand why each character behaves the way they do - the writing is consistently "realistic" in a manner I haven't really seen anywhere else with a comparable length.
That's 0.9 higher than the best-scored episode of Starfleet Academy.
It's my fave ❤️😁🤌
I gave it up at season 2 when I first started watching.
Then I watched Better Call Saul years later and it was one of my all time favourites. Then I went back to Breaking Bad and liked it even better than Better Call Saul. Breaking Bad didn't resonate with me initially and I'm so very glad I have it another chance.
The third season really became boring as fuck somewhere half through it. Totally missed the density and speed of the first season. I think the fact that they got a contract to produce five seasons made them stretch the plot to the point where basically nothing happened over certain episodes. Compare that with the speed in which the early plot moved...
Third season is where I gave up. First two were good but didn't draw me in enough to slog through the absolute snooze fest of the third. I've never been interested in going back.
‘Severance’ must have like fifty seasons planned.
I'm crying inside 'cause I heard something along these lines in some random blog/post/idr. :c
I want it to end in a good place & at the right time before it grows a GoT season 8.
I can't imagine they'll try to go past 5, but I hope the next one is the last.
Though I'm a bit biased - IMO the last episode of season 2 was a perfect ending, and I'm completely satisfied.
Did you watch the movie el camino after bb? We just finished both for probably the 5th time, will watch bcs again this summer.
I haven't. Thanks for the recommendation. I've added it to my watchlist.
It's not a great movie, but it wraps up Jessie's story pretty well. I liked it. Solid 7 in the BB universe. Lots of cameos too, which was cool.
I'm completely up for watching average media. When did we become too good for average? 5/10 is enough for me to give something a shot. Maybe even 4/10 if someone tells me it had some nugget of value.
Oh, I watch "avg" shit all the time. Anaconda only got a 4 on imdb, that shit was amazing. I don't trust the numbers always. And siskel and ebert rated tommy boy the worst movie they've ever seen. Lmao. They can't be trusted with reviews.
Somewhat similar experience for me: I tried watching Twin Peaks in the late 00s, couldn't get over the hammy melodrama of the first few episodes, abandoned it.
Fast forward to five years later, watch Fire Walk With Me, loved it. Revisited Twin Peaks and completely devoured it.
Sometimes coming back to something after you've grown/changed as a person can be nice.
Alternately, there's a lot of stuff I thought was genius in my 20s that is absolute crap.
Exactly, well written, well acted but the absence of sympathetic protagonists killed it for me. I just couldn't care.
I liked that they weren't afraid to have the main character so unlikable. It also made more sense after I realized it was a Neo-Western.
I don’t blame you for not being able to watch a show without any sympathetic characters. I’m the same way. But I disagree about Breaking Bad not having any sympathetic characters though. I felt like it did. Yes, they were doing heinous stuff. But I feel like they did a good job at showing the main characters’ humanity despite the poor choices they have made.
But I do understand why you would see it the way you do. Shows resonate differently for different people.
yesssssss
I hate those shows where the first 3-6 episodes are just slow dramatic shots with no plot whatsoever
I vaguely remember some spy show where you didn't learn any character names until episode 2
or those where if you didn't read the book you haven't the slightest clue what's happening for basically the entire first season
I hate watching shows where you’re supposed to hate everyone. BB is one of those shows. Like how is that entertainment?
do you MST3K comment on your shows or do you sit back and take them in?
I don’t know what your sentence means.
do you make fun of your shows and shout "no don't go in there" and whatnot and have puppet shows during breaks and pretend you are a little robot stuck in space (go watch Mystery Science Theater 3000 seriously) or do you sit in silence and enjoy cinema as critics and only the snootiest frenchmen demand cinema to be experienced? they're both valid and fun, just y'know, they're very different experiences
the mst3k experience is a little more fun for watching shows with hateable characters
My wife and I complain about shows constantly (I’m talking about the shows and movies we like!), pausing to point out every little thing, and I’m in absolutely no way a movie critic, in fact I hate most shows that critics like. If I was to watch a show where I hated every character I would be pausing every five seconds (this isn’t hyperbole, I’m being serious it would be every five seconds) to complain more and more. The show isn’t enjoyable when there’s literally zero reason to like anyone in it.
oh, the difference is we don't pause it. we just turn on the subtitles
I agree about the fact that watching those type of shows is not enjoyable. But not everyone feels that way about Breaking Bad, including me. Yes the main characters do a lot of wrongs, but the writers do a good job at showing their humanity and didn’t portray them as “evil” people.
BB was a little slow at times. For that reason I don’t think it was as great as some people make it out to be.
I liked Better Call Saul a lot more. Didn’t seem as slow. But also seems like they didn’t really finish it properly or wrap up all the story arcs, which was a bummer.
I remember watching it. I don't remember anything about it.
I feel this very strongly - I could even have written this comment - but I'd like to mention that Adventure Time is amazing ... Two seasons in. Before that, it's not a good show.