Breaking Bad

[Mr. Brian]

Anyone watch this new drama/dark comedy on AMC?

It's about a 50 year old family man chemistry teacher in a mid life crisis trying to make ends meet by working at a car wash too. He finds out he has terminal lung cancer and through a series of events starts up his own meth lab to make money.

It was very very good. Vince Gilligan who helped with X-Files is the shows creator.

More here

[zabird]

Anyone watch this new drama/dark comedy on AMC?

It's about a 50 year old family man chemistry teacher in a mid life crisis trying to make ends meet by working at a car wash too. He finds out he has terminal lung cancer and through a series of events starts up his own meth lab to make money.

It was very very good. Vince Gilligan who helped with X-Files is the shows creator.

More here

I saw a couple of articles about it, and noticed that Vince Gilligan had a hand in it. He wrote some of my favorite X-Files eps. So, it's worth a watch, then? Not too "Weeds"-like?

[Mr. Brian]

I saw a couple of articles about it, and noticed that Vince Gilligan had a hand in it. He wrote some of my favorite X-Files eps. So, it's worth a watch, then? Not too "Weeds"-like?

I've never seen Weeds but from what I've read this was written before Weeds and is much darker.

If "Breaking Bad" sounds a bit like "Weeds," the Showtime series about a suburban soccer mom who becomes a dope dealer, Gilligan hastens to point out that he came up with the idea before "Weeds" got on the air. In fact, he says, the first time he ever heard of "Weeds" was when he was trying to sell "Breaking Bad" to FX.

"I was so fortunate that I didn't know about 'Weeds' in advance because I might have said, 'Well, this is too much like "Weeds." ' I would have shut the whole thing down right then and there," Gilligan says.

"Now that I know about 'Weeds,' I've tried very hard to make our show even more different."

"Breaking Bad" is a good deal darker and more of a pure drama than "Weeds," although the show gets funnier as it goes along. For one thing, outside of the Drug Enforcement Administration, people tend to view marijuana as a rather benign drug. Crystal meth? That's nasty stuff and, as a plot point, it may explain why HBO, TNT and FX all passed on the series before AMC picked it up.

http://www.mercurynews.com/charliemccol ... ck_check=1

[Fish Hook Girl]

I thought the first episode was pretty good. Bryan Cranston is just great. The run is 9 shows, but only 7 got made. Did you ever watch Mad Men on AMC. That was a very good show, too.