{"id":379,"date":"2012-08-08T18:55:31","date_gmt":"2012-08-08T18:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/movieox.com\/?p=379"},"modified":"2012-08-08T18:56:55","modified_gmt":"2012-08-08T18:56:55","slug":"tv-rant-breaking-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/movieox.com\/?p=379","title":{"rendered":"TV Rant: Breaking Bad"},"content":{"rendered":"

*Spoilers follow<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n

So, Breaking Bad is back.\u00a0 Walter was able to survive his idiocy in season 4 by poisoning Jesse’s girlfriend’s kid and convincing Jesse Gus had something to do with it.\u00a0 Jesse let slip that Gus would sometimes visit the elder Salamanca in his rest home and a little home made bomb solved Walter’s pending death.<\/p>\n

So Walt and Jesse are alive and season 5 opens with them moping up the loose ends and convincing Mike to not kill Walter.\u00a0 (if I were Mike, I would still have killed Walter)\u00a0 But they make peace and dispose of damning evidence.\u00a0 And after they use a clever ploy with a magnet to destroy Gus’s laptop without removing it from the police evidence room, they decide to move forward with cooking operations.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It makes sense.\u00a0 Walt is benefiting from Gus’s masterful, Corleone like beheading of the Mexican cartel leadership.\u00a0 There’s a market that has no service and money to be made.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The new gag is to cook in houses that are being fumigated.\u00a0 And the new setup is pretty mobile and slick.\u00a0 Even compared to the laundry basement lab.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And the shadowy part played by the Swiss company Madrigal is slowly coming to light.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Basically, it’s still great TV.<\/p>\n

If I have one issue, it’s with Skylar.\u00a0 She’s been on board with the cooking and money laundering and all that.\u00a0 Not to mention cooking Ted’s books and committing fraud to lower the purchase price of a carwash.\u00a0 Then all of the sudden she’s almost catatonic with guilt about Walt and his criminal activity.\u00a0 Bullshit.\u00a0<\/p>\n

There are 2 possibilities.\u00a0 It could be bad writing.\u00a0 That hasn’t reared its head yet on the show, but it’s AMC.\u00a0 Other than BB and Mad Men<\/em> (and The Killing<\/em> you fucking assholes) they’ve been suspect.\u00a0 Hell on Wheels<\/em> anyone?\u00a0 The other is, Skylar is just pissed she has no power in the new setup.\u00a0 She can’t go to the police because she’s complicit, she can’t challenge Walt directly, and she has no say in what’s going on.\u00a0 So, she’s decided to go all pouty bitch pious.\u00a0 Which is dissapointing.\u00a0 Walt would probably do whatever she wanted for a little head.\u00a0 But Skylar has always liked Walt better when he was weak\/meek\/accommodating.\u00a0 So as Walt has grown into himself and acted with more confidence; its pissed her off into depression.\u00a0 So she’s now Walt’s primary adversary.<\/p>\n

So the 2nd possibility would be good writing and in line with the character so far; I’m just disappointed with the fictional person.\u00a0 Almost everyone else in the show has shown themselves capable of being pragmatic in the face of adversity.\u00a0 Skylar is a disappointment.\u00a0 I know I’m siding with the meth criminal; but I find Skylar to be hypocritical, passive aggressive, and stupid.\u00a0 But this is the fictional character I’m talking about.\u00a0 The show is still wonderful.<\/p>\n

Lydia is an interesting character.\u00a0 She’s one contact the gang has with Madrigal and their chemical hookup.\u00a0 Another contact commited suicide very creatively.\u00a0 I’m kinda hoping Lydia hooks up with Jesse.\u00a0 She’ll end up being like a Walter he can fuck.<\/p>\n

Anyway, the show is still compelling as all hell and I have literally no idea where its going.<\/p>\n

Well, due to the cold open taking place roughly a year from now we know that Walt will eventually buy an M-60 at a Denny’s and grow his hair out.\u00a0 But none of us have any idea what the hell that means.<\/p>\n

Right now its down to this show and Hard Knocks<\/em> for me.<\/p>\n

All other TV is highly stupid.\u00a0 I still watch True Blood<\/em>, but you shouldn’t.\u00a0 Just watch some porn, you’ll be happier in the end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

*Spoilers follow \u00a0 So, Breaking Bad is back.\u00a0 Walter was able to survive his idiocy in season 4 by poisoning Jesse’s girlfriend’s kid and convincing Jesse Gus had something to do with it.\u00a0 Jesse let slip that Gus would sometimes … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=379"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/movieox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":381,"href":"https:\/\/movieox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions\/381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}