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.
a slice-of-life of their insane and frustrating day to day locked away at that lab. it's fine, it conveys exactly what it needs to.
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.
dang
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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.
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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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one piece is awesome bro, i swear bro you just have to sit through about 150 episodes bro where it's kinda bad bro, but it's awesome bro i swear bro.
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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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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
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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
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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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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 do not accept this. The first 3 seasons were incredible. The 4th season dragged.
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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.
I know that this is like, the point of the show or whatever but it just makes me grumbly because I feel like if Walt was just 10% less of an asshole, 10% more humility. He could have had a perfectly successful criminal career and made out like a fucking bandit. But he was all like oh I'm Heisenberg bro and look where it fucking got him.
It just felt unsatisfying. I wanted to like Breaking Bad, I acknowledge that it's well crafted, I just didn't enjoy it. You can think something is a quality product but not personally enjoy it.
He could have had a perfectly successful criminal career and made out like a fucking bandit.
But it was never about the money. It was about his desire to realize his potential and feel like he was in control of his own life.
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I don't hate it, I just never got into it. I watched a few episodes which didn't really do it for me, and I just didn't really feel any need to continue it.
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I like to rip on it but it still had character development
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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