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.
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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.
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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...
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Did you watch the movie el camino after bb? We just finished both for probably the 5th time, will watch bcs again this summer.
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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.
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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?
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ITT: lemmites circlejerking about how big a contrarian they are.
Potentially? In my experience people will flame you hard for not liking BB. Usually when people bring it up, if I mention I didn't care for it, they get irrationally pissed.
One person even tried to tell me that the reason I didn't like it was "because you're young yet". Like mf I'm in my 30s
I felt thing after stopping at season 2 and hearing about it after s4 started. I decided to catch up. I enjoyed it over all, but still felt it was too slow. Out of any "slow burn" character-driven shows show I at least moderately enjoyed it by the end? I'll forever rue watching all of Mad Men.
Similarly, I will never go back to finish The Wire, The Americans, or Homeland after this.
You should not finish Homeland. I feel like they did not know where to go after the success of the first narrative arc. The Wire is slow but I found it worth it. At least watch the fuck scene.
I mean everybody is entitled to their own opinions, and after so many seasons, inevitably a show will have moments that are better and worse.
However, if you just shit on Vince Gilligan shows in general, what kind of shows do you actually enjoy watching?
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I gave up on this show the day Vince Gilligan was born. I knew from that day forward he was destined to be a terrible screenwriter. I vowed to never watch anything he would create.
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I thought it was brilliant
Me too.
I felt breaking bad would have been better as 3 seasons instead of 5. The middle just dragged on too long.
You really did need to watch the entirety of malcolm in the middle after season 3 to get the full lore.
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Wow, it’s interesting how different shows resonate differently with different people. I was on the edge of my seat through the whole series.
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I like to rip on it but it still had character development
I do not accept this. The first 3 seasons were incredible. The 4th season dragged.
Season 3 was when I really got into the show. The problem wasn't that the first two seasons were slow, they were just really dour. Especially the first season.
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Ive learned that people have totally different opinions about what is a good tv show... So not surprised some people dont like this. To me its the best tv show ever made, along with Better Call Saul.
But some people like Star Trek Academy better, and thats shocking to me, but true and funny. :)
I think age and gender plays a big role in what people like also.
I don't know why so many people hate it. I thought it was really gripping. Sure, some of the characters were pretty stupid. I hated Jesse, and Hank missed some pretty obvious signs. The real DEA would have caught Walter by the end of the first season. Some parts were a bit dragged out, But regardless I found it entertaining. I was definitely rooting for Walter at certain points.
All the characters just felt like sad upsetting people and I wound up disliking Walt because it was clear his ego was gonna get him killed. Especially after he killed the dude he was supposed to train.
Fair. Although Gus wanted Gale to replace Walter because Walter was a bit of a liability. So for Walter, it was kill or be killed.
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I stopped after the first season, when they repeated the same plot in a row, I just kinda shrugged and moved on.
I loved breaking bad when it aired. I'm not sure how much i would like it now. People forget that the whole format was still kind of new back then.
I watched breaking bad a couple years ago and thoroughly enjoyed it. What was new about the format?
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