Is anyone else anticipating Sunday night’s premier of Breaking Bad as much as we are?
Brian Cranston (from Malcom In The Middle) plays a high school chemistry teacher who is diagnosed with a terminal illness. He decides to put his energies into creating a “rolling meth lab” to provide for the future of his family when he’s gone. It sounds and looks fascinating to us. I hope it doesn’t disappoint. It premiers this Sunday night (Jan.20) on AMC. If you’re into it, here’s an even cooler trailer site about it (you need to stay with it, it blends from one strange thing to another).
I hadn’t paid attention to it. If it conflicts with Desperate Housewives, I may have to give it a pass. My DVR can only record two shows at once! Hee hee.
@ LM – My DVR is the same way. Every once in awhile I’ll be watching something and it blips over to a car or motorcycle show, because you can only tape two thing and not watch a third, etc. This sends me in to a crazed screaming panic, probably more than it should, and I’m so hysterical I can’t even hit the right buttons to cancel out Buck’s shows.
Cranston is pretty great, I’ve clicked past Malcolm… and caught him enough times to respect his talent. However, your description of the premise is nothing but frightening to me. I’m worried about how our media is sliding ever faster into a morasse of numbingly violent comedy. It’s in the commercials too. The violence that I like to watch always has a hero to kick ass for the good guys!
We’re still on VHS, but I can boast that I often tape shows that we never end up watching, just like you folks with your DVRs! HA ha (Nelson Muntz laugh).
I don’t think Breaking Bad is a comedy per se, but my son Max said a similar thing about the show. He’s the one who told us about it in the first place and he said, “It looks really interesting, and disturbing.” The subject matter is definitely disturbing, but as a writer I’m intrigued by the idea of taking a contemporary problem and presenting it in way that the audience could feel some kind of sympathy for someone who is promoting such ugliness, someone who is in essence a monster because of what he’s doing. I think Quentin Tarantino did it with Pulp Fiction, where you found yourself rooting for these appealing characters until you realized, hey wait a minute, these people are murderous drug addicts and psychopaths …
I’m sure Breaking Bad will disappoint me, but I do have high hopes for it. The trailers are wicked good, but then trailers always are.
I still have a VHS, but I found that I didn’t watch anything I taped. With a DVR it’s much easier to watch what you want without any effort. I hate effort! (in Homer’s voice)
I love DVRs. I worked for about three years for a company that made them and our UI was by far superior to Comcast. Sad thing is they never had effective leadership that could take the product where it needed to be, and hence, they will fold soon. However, I still have one of their Moxi units at home and as long as they support the service I get to record two shows and watch a third. Unbelieveable! Yes indeedy. They never asked for the unit back and dammit, I’m not giving it back. LOL. And I just got my mom set up with a DVR too. For the extra $10 a month, it seems to make so much sense. Simpler for her. My favorite feature? Pausing live TV.
Oh, and the title to that show… I keep reading Breaking Wind, not Breaking Bad.
I got a DVR just from listening to you and LM talk about yours. It’s fantastic– TV heaven!
I did watch “Breaking Bad” tonight. I really like Bryan Cranston. I think his acting was great, but I wasn’t that crazy about the show (maybe too much anticipation). A couple of really great scenes, but there were a lot of holes in the story. I’ll probably watch it again to see if it picks up steam though.
I wonder how many people will be inspired to start their own meth labs after watching.
In your neighborhood? Probably not too many. It’s passe there. Sorry… just kidding. Had to say it. Lily made me.
(you know i’m teasing you…)
That last comment was for MB… 😉 I’m tired.
@ LM: No, it’s true!!! You can see the people who used to do meth. Now it’s all crack. It’s the “in” drug in the hood.
I finally watched Breaking Bad last night. We DVR’d it (Yay for DVR!) so we could blow past the commercials, and there weren’t any! Anywho, we liked it. My only hesitation with it, is that whenever there is a new show with an odd subject matter or is filmed in something other than a traditional style, it barely makes it through a first season.
Anything outside of the box is never given a chance to develop a following, or if it given a chance, they move it around so much no one can find it. Then they forget about it. Like what happened to Arrested Development, which I adored. If this one doesn’t make it, I at least hope that Bryan Cranston comes out of it with lots of work. He’s so good, and so likable.