PERSONAL DISCOVERY 001: Staying up all night and watching an entire season of Breaking Bad in one sitting is not good for one’s mental health
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I wonder how many of us, given the right circumstances, would be capable of turning into monsters, like Walt.
Cranston had lots of practice being evil. He played a bad guy on the Power Rangers in 1993.
http://powerrangers.wikia.com/wiki/Bryan_Cranston
And he played the husband on Malcolm in the Middle, the most chilling portrayal of a doormat.
Breaking Bad is one of those shows I simultaneously can’t wait to see and dread watching. It may very well be the best show ever created for television. And I’m rarely given to hyperbole.
So, which season was it? We are totally hooked, but we have suffered the agony of watching it week by week and season by season.
I don’t get TV anymore. I tried watching some shows, but they move way too slow.
I could read the script in under 5 minutes. An entire season would set me back a little more than an hour.
Spoiler Alert: He starts selling meth.
Parker Posey giving Brian Cranston a shout out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyFfo4UdzN0&feature=youtu.be
If you want to have your mind blown, follow this link. It’ll take you to footage of Cranston on an ’80s Lifetime Network show called Crisis Counselor. He plays a man in family therapy after discovering that he’s bisexual.
http://www.newnownext.com/bryan-cranston-played-a-bisexual-man-on-the-weirdest-tv-show-ever/07/2012/
I like when he strangled the guy who was chained to the pole in the basement. That was a great scene.
Peter Larson, that may be the funniest and most ridiculous thing I’ve read in weeks. Do we still believe that tv is all crap? Breaking Bad is brilliantly executed entertainment.
I don’t really understand the “show cramming” approach though. That show gives you much to absorb and think about. Half of the joyis in waiting and anticipating where it will go. Why force it all down in one sitting?
Or just read it all in five minutes. Adorable.
Finally today a friend told me I don’t have to like him and now I feel like I can overcome the dislike of this show and try again. I have so so so many moral issues but I’m beginning to understand now that you aren’t supposed to like him.
Bob,
I can’t really say whether all TV is crap or not, being unable to watch all of it.
The shows I have watched in the past few years move incredibly slow. So slow, that I watch them on fast forward and just read the subtitles.
I used to love TV shows. The older I get, the less I like them. I fully blame myself.
I merely though it odd. I’m sure there’s great TV out there.
Peter Larson sounds like a tool. “I could read a season in an hour.” Oh hooray – good for you – television and cinematic experiences are more than just words on pages.
MM – welcome to the cult! Breaking Bad is the greatest television show I know of. Wait until “Crawlspace.” Amazing.
I cracked up when I saw title of this post. Yes indeed. I did the same thing when I discovered it on streaming. WOW. I watched the pilot and from the moment the pants flew in the air and the gun got tucked into his underpants waistband…I was hooked and it was a long marathon – luckily on a weekend.
I don’t have a TV either, Pete. I mean, I have one, but it’s just to watch DVDs on. We don’t have an antenna, or cable. I’ve been watching Breaking Bad on Netflix streaming. I can’t remember how much it costs. I think it’s like $14 a month. I don’t watch much, but we sometimes watch movies on the weekend, and occasionally I get hooked on a show. The last show I got hooked on was The Wire. I think it’s better than Breaking Bad, but both shows are good. As for what season I watched last night, it was season two. Season three starts tonight.
And I don’t know if it came across in my post, but I was trying to equate watching the show with doing meth.
I watched two episodes of the Wire. I didn’t really get it.
The last show I liked was that Joss Whedon thing that got cancelled.
Pete likes old-timey serials.
But breaking bad is thrilling, provocative.
Oh, sorry. Firefly.
You’ll have to be more specific, Pete. Everything Joss Whedon has ever touched has gotten cancelled.
True, though they were all good.
Buffy but not The Wire? At least you didn’t accuse The Wire of being racist, your old go to criticism.
I’m with Pete.
I used to waste time listening to music. Then I realized that I can get through a 3-minute song in about 20 seconds by just reading the lyrics.
I used to waste time reading books. Then I realized that reading them takes too long, and you can get through hundreds of pages faster by watching a two-hour movie. Then I realized that you can get through the two-hour movie faster by turning on subtitles and fast-forwarding it. Then I discovered Book-A-Minute.
Now I no longer read books, watch movies, or listen to music. It’s freed me to spend my valuable time on much more important things, like commenting multiple times on every post at MarkMaynard.com
Hey, me too! I just watched all four seasons of Breaking Bad (on Netflix) in the last two weeks (finished last Friday). Yes, I completely felt like a drug addict by the end of it. Nothing got done. The house fell into chaos. It was even hard to work. I just wanted go home and watch Breaking Bad.
Breaking Bad with puppies!!!
http://i.imgur.com/eCHaj.jpg