Comment on Breaking: BAD

MrPnut@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Scrollone@feddit.it ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I think Better Call Saul is one of the best series I’ve ever seen (better than BB)

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• Wispy2891@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Really, it’s too slow. The 40 mins episodes could be condensed in 5 minutes shorts.

  I rage quit during an episode where Kim Wexler asked “do you want a cup of tea?” And then proceeded of preparing it in FUCKING REAL TIME!!

  Ok, it’s more cinematic, but usually when they do this they just take a cup prefilled behind the counter and move on, don’t need to show the whole process. Ok, probably it’s intentional, to show the detail how how empty and lonely were the cupboards but…

  So, for me it’s too slow to be watched with full attention but at the same time there are too many important details that are shown “silently” to be watched while doing errands or something else

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  • Rcklsabndn@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Maybe it’s just me, but they could have had an entire episode where Kim paces around a parking garage, smoking cigarettes and waiting for a phone call and I’d still watch to the end.

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  • AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    To me the odd pace and the cinematography of Vince Gilligan shows are part of the draw.

    Like a lot of his shows feel like they’re meant to convey a peak into the beauty of niche monotony. It can definitely be difficult if not impossible to keep that entertaining while stretching out over several seasons.

    When it’s done right, it kind of disarms you/hooks into your sense of empathy and reels you in. It’s more than just slice of life where you’re watching as part of the audience. You get to momentarily slip into the perspective of a stranger by feeling what they’re feeling.

    For example, always feeling a bit out of place among your elite peers at a prestigious law firm. Convinced that no matter how hard you try or how successful you are, somehow they just know you’re not like them. And you’re not exactly wrong.

    Finding yourself looking forward most to moments when you slip away from the job you fought so hard to land, for a quick a smoke break where you can finally let your guard down and just breathe and let it all out with the only other person who really gets it.

    Or, finding yourself looking back at the end of your career as a dirty cop with deep sorrow and regret for all the things you did while knowing it was the wrong thing to do. Yet always choosing to take the easy way for your own sake. Then trying to start over new, by picking what feels like the safest most routine job you can find as a parking attendant, just trying to break good.

    Even the little peaks into the lives of side characters tend to give little brief glimpses in their shoes.

    There’s a throw away scene in the first episode of Pluribus before the aliens begin to take over that stuck with me. It shows a big group of industry scientists pipetting in synchronization while they toil away in a huge lab.

    No lines, the characters are all extras, and it’s such a niche scene, but it also perfectly conveys the kind of hive mind flow that tends to become a normal tendency for all humans when you’re working together, and also foreshadows the entire plot of the show.

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  • KeenFlame@feddit.nu ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Maybe?

    Did do you think they just oopsied that scene and just recorded him making tea?

    From several angles?

    Is this why direct action comedy works best for you?

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• Walk_blesseD@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Chicanery!

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• blady_blah@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I honestly can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic, but I kind of agree with those statements. I just couldn’t get into breaking bad or better call. Saul and I gave each of them a number of episodes to get there. I think it doesn’t help but I don’t like the characters and that makes me not want to hang around and see what happens.

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  • kofe@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Thats part of what made me keep watching. It’s almost masochistic. Walts character going further into the narcissistic abuse with each season is horrifying to me, but it’s also so well written through that psychological lens that it fascinates me.

    The difference between that and BCS for me was mostly that there was a ton more back story to see how Jimmy’s psychology developed. I had a lot more sympathy for him.

    Both are interesting to me in the sense of how TV shows were starting to pivot away from these more traditional perfect protagonists into complex mixtures of horrible people that I still wanted to root for. But again, masochistic for me, cuz I want to see the good in everyone — and that has come at the cost of understanding when I need to set boundaries and walk away irl. I like to tell myself its like exposure therapy when in reality I need professional therapy 💀

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    • blady_blah@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I hear you but I can’t relate to you. It says no one in the show. I actually like I don’t want to watch it. I’ve yet to find a show or book or anything where that’s not true. I don’t have to like the person in their entirety, but if there aren’t at least some aspects of them that I enjoy then fuck them. I’ll go spend my time doing something else.

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    • KeenFlame@feddit.nu ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Why the skull? Are you beset by Ghosts?

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      • kofe@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Iiiit can be risky following those impulses, like retraumatizing rather than healing. So… kinda? I say while currently binging true crime lol

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• AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Blasphemy!

  And Chuck was amazing!!

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