I haven't seen Mad Men. I think I've read more raving about it, though. But I do like BB a lot. The first season is only 8 episodes (I think) and the entire story so far takes place over just a few weeks. (Although it's funny because this season, they've mentioned "the economy" a few times, which makes me laugh because there was no "the economy" two weeks ago in show time. It's not inconsistent or anything. Just funny.)
Personally, I love the premise - chemistry teacher with lung cancer turns to cooking meth to provide for his pregnant wife and teenage son. I mean, how kooky is that? I was listening to a podcast today and the guy (I assume the show runner but not sure) said that he pitched to story as "good guy goes bad, by choice" which I think is cool because haven't we all wanted to be bad occasionally?
I'd nominate Mad Men (mainly because I haven't seen BB), which is awesome, but I'm also curious what you'll think of Mad Men.
Hee. Recognizing stuff was one of the reasons I ended up not watching Breaking Bad. It was all too close to home in many literal ways for me.
Breaking Bad is the darker of the two, which is saying a lot because Mad Men is quite dark. I think Mad Men has a little more visual flair than Breaking Bad, but both are dealing with identity crises in their own interesting ways.
They are both really good, P-C. I am more into Breaking Bad at the moment because it is actually airing, so new shows to watch. Breaking Bad is a more personal show, it's really all about Walt - the supporting characters are three dimensional real people, but they are definitely supporting Walt's story. Mad Men is more about the time and society in general, though the personal stories are also very compelling.
Yeah, this all started with him trying to take care of his family, but there's more to it than that.
I think that while we the audience can see that, Walt hasn't admitted it to himself, yet. He can do all these bad things because he "has to", but without the justification he'll have to face that he's done some seriously bad shit. It's fascinating. And it's killing me the way he has been alienating his wife and son by spending all his time doing illegal stuff "for them".
I'm an episode behind at this point, also. I sometimes put off watching it because of the bleak, though currently I just have kind of a lot of TV backed up on the DVR.
He's a bit like Frank Sobotka at this point, imo.
In Plain Sight is in here, right? It isn't exactly a procedural, although the procedure is pretty much the same every week.
In any case, if I'm in the wrong place, I'll move it.
My question is about the very end of this last episode where Mary is in the demolished building with the good!mercenary. I think I saw a twisty-roo at the end but I may be making it up.
It seemed as if, when the bad!mercenary said that Mary's speech had convinced good!mercenary not to testify, he 'saw it in his eyes' and this is why bad!mercenary confessed...to save good!mercenary from testifying or being hit by other bad!mercenaries...because, in the end it comes down to being there for your partner.
Did I see that right, or did bad!mercenary just get caught by Mary's clever scheme?
Rescue Me: Anybody else think that even for Sean, his response to the kidney thing is juvenile?
:( Leverage will be split between summer and winter. 7 and eight episodes.
Isn't that what TNT always does?
