What do you think made Breaking Bad so good?

i wish they didn't drift away from the dark comedy moments they had in the first few seasons. seasons 4 and 5 were all drama and heists and lost the bit of magic the first few had. the string of bumbling walt incidents in season 3 from pizza on the roof, getting fired from his job for trying to seduce the principle, his boxed shit falling off jesse's car to trying to hoist a plant through ted's window was incredible

when Tuco starts shouting "tight tight tight!"

The dynamic between Walt and Jesse is by far the biggest strength of the show. It is consistently hilarious yet also manages to organically evoke a lot of deeper emotions. You can literally just put Walt and Jesse together in a room and have them talk and it's kino. There are several episodes like that.

The whole cartel/Gus plot line is a serviceable narrative too but it would be pretty unremarkable imo if it weren't centered on those two characters. They're just very engaging.

he doesn't like Combo

That’s why it was so good. It was rare in 2008 to make your main character a genuinely bad person criminal drug dealer. The contrast between that and the facade of his normie family life was somewhat unique when the show came out.

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drift away from the dark comedy moments

They didn't. There are plenty of them. What is a dark comedy moment for you?
Todd's autism is both comedic and dark. Walter's entire demeanor in Gliding all over when Hank talks to him about how he would rather paint trees than have hunt him, to which he simply responds that he used to love camping, when in reality he just refers to the time he was cooking in an RV in the desert.

Fuck are you talking about? The show is packed with fantastic characters

Walt

Jesse

Saul

Mike

Gus

Hector

Hank

Holly

Most shows would kill for a cast like that

Appealing to twitter reactions when writing seasons.
Cliffhanger on every commercial break.
Seasons 1-4 pushed on Netflix streaming right when the show hit normalfag zeitgeist.

It's the most tightly plotted story on TV, maybe even ever, considering its length and scope

Pretty much. It's amazing how far great acting and writing goes

I think it naturally became harder to incorporate dark comedy once Walt and Jesse became actual hardened criminals and know what they're doing. Their total incompetence in the early seasons is where a lot of the comedy comes from.

Fucking lol. The whole show is Vince flailing around trying to make the plot coherent

Not really. The antihero craze was already in full swing by 2008

I love Hank.
Mike was reddit.

No. Stop trying so hard to be an edgy contrarian

I actually think End of the Fucking World came close. Probably the only thing that made me feel like watching Breaking Bad for the first time.

This has always been a Mike board newfag

They won't. I noticed it becomes part of the identity for some people.

You are not the guy.

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Mike is saved from being wholly reddit by the fact that he actually does fuck up quite a bit despite his hyper competent boomer shtick. Like his claim that his guys were solid, they were really not solid.

normies not knowing shit about meth.

"breaking bad is not the most tightly plotted tv show in history"

"Y-YOU'RE AN EDGY CONTRARIAN"

Lurk more before posting and watch more tv shows

What is then?

He would be the one to get away if his disdain for Walter didn't boil over, after which he lashed out at someone who was always deemed an absolute nutcase mentally.
No one ever points out the irony of Mike being the hecking straight shooter, the truth teller.
youtube.com/watch?v=e-okHmYJZK4
And as he is about to get away:

You are the time bomb. I'm not going to stick around for the explosion, Wultuh.

lights the fuse himself and dies

Something from the repertoire of the board, like The Shield, The Sopranos, or The Leftovers. You know, something he can deflect with avoiding to actually expose that he has no taste.
Do you know how to find BB contrarian? They will tell you to watch more TV shows and then fuck off, when they themselves have watched like 10 to 20 and actually think aggressively wigwagging they are above BB makes them smarter than all the plebs.

i listed a few but others are the bathtub crashing through the roof from dissolving a body or walt trying to shoot himself in the head but can't manage a gun when he thinks the police are coming. this anon gave the best explanation for it i guess. hank taking a shit and discovering heisenberg is probably the best case of that kind of thing in the later seasons.

What about Walter discovering that car got its fuel tank punctured, having to roll the barrel through the desert, finding some Indian in the bumfuck corner of it, who says he won't sell his car, and then hard cut to them loading the barrel?
Nah, all the humor is still there. I don't know why it doesn't register for you as such.

fired on a lot of cylinders.
script
cast
plot
story
direction/vision
cinematography
marketing/hype
overall production/support from AMC
Felt like watching a John Ford film.

don't get me wrong, that is funny but that is a call back to jesse and walt rolling the barrel from their heist in season 1. i don't even think it's disputable that s1-3 had a lot more comedic moments.

contrarian

How to spot a BrBrainlet, they can't actually explain what makes Breaking Bad "the most tightly plotted show of all time" so they just use their kneejerk boogeyman response of

"you don't like the show because I like it"

It's just a mildly above average drama series. There's at least 10 better