I actually specialise in comparing things that are very different. Its an innate skill I have. You tell me two things, it doesnt matter how different they are, I will tell you which one I prefer.
Television Breaking Bad
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It had outstanding character development, humour and drama. It eats and shits things like Game of Thrones. Better than Breaking Bad too if not quite as accessible to the masses.
Really?! It's not fecking Chaucer.
The Sopranos is the most watched cable show ever, how exactly was it not accessible to the masses?
I think he means presently. I watched through the whole Breaking Bad series in about a month on Netflix and I've had a hard time trying to watch all of the Sopranos episodes.
We really should have a cafe poll on the Greatest Show.
Ah shite. Still though 2014 was just after BB ended, the hype around it was still going back then. Would it win another poll today?
My money would be on the Wire. Gotta be the most re-watched.
I didn't claim it was. But Breaking Bad is more accessible to more people who don't have the patience for some shows.
Well even if we take it literally the world is a bigger place than America.
Make drugs, deceive family, dodge Hank, call Saul, is Jesse dead yet? For the first four seasons. Thats pretty repetitive. You could skip a few episodes each season and still know the lay of the land.
I think it's a show that should have been over in three seasons but they dragged it out.
If that's all you can recall from the first 4 seasons, I'd probably go to see a neurologist. Might just be early onset amnesia for all we know.
He completely forgot about Marie's stealing.
How could he forget about one of the most gripping storylines in tv history?
I almost managed to completely forget about Maria did she have any point?
The Wire and Sopranos are absolute top tier for me (along with Twilight Zone and Arrested Development) But I'd have Mad Men and Breaking Bad in the second tier of personal favourites, on par with stuff like Game Of Thrones, Spaced, Friday Night Lights etc.
And when Walt had to hide his phone in the ceiling at the school.
People who don't like BB take for a simple serious action series from start to end and completely don't get the dark humor that was the primary constant theme of the show.
Bizarre statement.
I don't think anyone will argue that BB had some great dark comedy/humourous elements but to say it's 'primarily' about that is just wrong. The Wire and The Sopranos were full of moments of dark comedy too, would you say they're primarily based on that as well?
Im also always a little skeptical when people suggest anyone who doesnt like something is somehow failing to understand it. It might be that they "get it" just fine, but simply dont like it.
The guy who created the show said that
He said the dark comedy and drama are 'two cups of the same arm'. That's not 'primarily a dark comedy'.
I'd also say the first season is the only one that mixes the two pretty equally and as the show progresses along it becomes more about the drama and less about the comedy.
Anyway, I agree with Abedesi, 'you just didn't understand the show' is a lame turd of an excuse to drill at people who don't like the show as much as you.
No one is drilling anything dude. chill. To each their own as far as I'm concerned.
Just to carry from what a few others have said a bit, I think it had the perfect balance of dark themes presented in a lightish manner.
As we know from Walt's clothing choices, they paid a lot of attention to colours, so they made an obvious choice to keep things bright overall with some serious if slightly over the top stories.
Made for great entertainment and a fairly easy but also in depth watch.
As we know from Walt's clothing choices, they paid a lot of attention to colours, so they made an obvious choice to keep things bright overall with some serious if slightly over the top stories.
Made for great entertainment and a fairly easy but also in depth watch.
Best shows ever are
3rd breaking bad
2nd sopranos
1st acorn antiques .
I'm sure you will all agree with that.
3rd breaking bad
2nd sopranos
1st acorn antiques .
I'm sure you will all agree with that.
I'm only 3 seasons in going onto the 4th on The Wire but, so far, BB>TW
Not accessible? The reason I didn't like it quite as much as BB was that you have seen it all before. Just a really good mafia drama. Not that different to Goodfellas if it were made for tv.
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Just a general opinion from people I know that couldn't get into it. It was pretty unique to television and was the beginning of the golden age for television drama. Goodfellas is a great film but it's not like The Sopranos in any way.
Oz was the beginning.
Nah, it was clearly Knight Rider.
Oz was the beginning of the golden age for television.
Knight Rider was bang in the middle of the bronze age.
I'll see what I can do, been a few years since we did a few lists...
What is "groundbreaking" about Mad Men?
Or The Sopranos. Like Wibble said excellent execution but nothing we haven't seen before.
People are always banging on about its extraordinary attention to detail, in terms of the props and costumes etc, so I assume that.
Breaking bad is repetitive only if you look at it from the "So, what happens then?" angle. The show is more anout the journey, both internal and external, of mostly one and sometimes a few characters, and less about big twists and turns like, say, Game of a Thrones. If that's what you prefer then yeah it's repetitive. But I loved it's style of story telling, standard of acting and realism too much to care about epic twists not happening fast enough.
So, essentially groundbreaking props and costumes. Sounds like a real game changer.
Id say the first series of 24 was more groundbreaking and game changing than Mad Men.