Unless you’re a nerdy kid growing up in the 90s. I loved the MOTW episodes, but I was 100% on board with the lore. The season 2 finale was my favorite episode of television for a long time
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Plus they’re only actually 45 minutes so more like 150 or so hours.
You should do what I call episode sniping i.e. look at the IMDB ratings for each season and skip the lowest rated episodes (or just pick the highest), we’re doing that with various shows now.
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Wouldnt you miss out on one of the best Breaking Bad episodes doing this?
Well yeah do it on either shows like the xfiles which are not sequential or on shows you’ve already seen once, BB is a terrible idea. Other than the fly episode 
That’s the episode I was talking about.
It’s an essential episode and Bryan Cranston gets to do a live action Looney Toons act. Its fucking incredible, and people that shit on it because it backed off the throttle of the episodes around it drive me crazy.
Outside of Ozymandius I think it has the best cinematography as well.
Damn, it’s a good episode of TV.
Ozymandius/Fly episode connection:
The episode was written by Moira Walley-Beckett and directed by Rian Johnson. Walley-Beckett requested to work with Johnson because of their positive experiences together working on the third-season episode “Fly.”
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Fly is great.
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I did a little research and apparently having season one ranked first is the hotter take. Many people have it as the worst season, which is absolutely absurd given the existence of season five. But I am not alone in having season three ahead of season two.
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I had to stop S1 of the Sopranos due to all the election activity last week, but the train has resumed. I just finished S1 and I’m HYPED for the rest. Starting S2 momentarily.
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From a dramatic standpoint, it’s an entire episode where one person almost takes one action, but then doesn’t. (Note that “action” doesn’t mean gunfights or explosions; this is simply in the sense of plot/character action, where “action” is simply “a decision a character makes or takes that moves the plot forward.”)
I’ve gone through my own journey on this:
S5 gets that criticism a lot, but I don’t mind as much as most people. Daryl Crowe Jr. is so obviously full of shit that his accent also being full of shit doesn’t bother me. It sounds like a guy trying to be something he’s not, which works very well for me with the character.
Anyway, I’d rank the seasons 2, 4, 6, 3, 1, 5 probably. And that’s no shame on 1. I just think the Givens / Bennett story of S2 is the highlight of the series, and S4 gives us some awesome action down the stretch with the hunt for Drew Thompson.
This is the response I was hoping for, but I see someone else put you on to it already.
It wasn’t bad-- it was good enough for us to watch the whole season-- but it wasn’t my favorite show of the year or anything. If you still have Apple TV, Ted Lasso is better; that’s a top-tier TV series this year.
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I feel like the ultimate result of White not saying anything at the end of Fly is the last vestiges of his humanity vanishing in (poetically) drugs. He passes out at the end much like Jane does and symbolically loses his humanity just as she did.
It’s an essential chapter to me. If it was in a different medium, like a book, we would hail it as the lynchpin of the story. The ultimate end of the last good part of Walter. He WANTS to confess to Jesse at the end of that episode, and he can’t, and the moment passes him by forever.
I’ve always thought it was the most tragic episode of the story, because without it, the story doesnt grow to encompass all of the rest of the tragedy yet to come.
Honestly, I was very much in the Fly hater camp when it came out (aside from my love of slapstick. Action or not, it’s the best comedy episode of the show) but I’ve grown to love it as one of my favorites.
Not sure if you have ever read The Dark Tower series, but Fly is essentially Wizard and Glass, an extremely personal, essential tale that everyone hates because it throws on the proverbial brakes of a story that is chugging along at a breakneck pace. It’s my all time favorite book, and most people who read the series loathe it on their first read through.
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There’s no way you drop out of the X-Files in S3 if you’re already in for most of S1. You’re going all way to the first movie, and hopefully S6 too because two of my favorite episodes are in that season.
Feel free to tap out there though. S7 and beyond is all down hill.
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See, I think it was clear what happened to his humanity when he let Jane die. (Similarly, I wasn’t that shocked by the S4 “shocking reveal” in the last scene-- I was like, duh, of course he would do that; I don’t believe he has any bottom to his morality, but I guess the writers thought people still did believe that?) I don’t think apologizing would have redeemed him in any meaningful way. And, I dunno, him only nearly confessing because he’s incredibly doped up on sedatives kind of blunts the character moment for me.
See, I don’t feel that way at all. Before the episode, Walt was someone who had discarded his humanity and regard for the lives of others on his Nietzschean quest of self-actualized supervillainy; afterwards, he was someone who had discarded his humanity and regard for the lives of others on his Nietzschean quest of self-actualized supervillainy.
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Watched the first episode eof Billions. Liking Paul Giamatti and Maggie Siff, don’t really find the Homeland redhead billionaire that interesting
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Wtf. And also, wtf?!
https://collider.com/chappelles-show-episode-removed-streaming-ron-jeremy/
There’s been a lot going on in the world, so it’d be more than understandable if you weren’t aware that former porn star and current incarcerated criminal Ron Jeremy is facing 330 years in prison.
For some stupid reason, I’ve been watching a lot of clips of Kitchen Nightmares and Hotel Nightmares. It occurred to me that if I was at a restaurant and saw television cameras and then Gordon Ramsey walked in to try the food, I should probably GTFO because what I’m eating is likely poisonous.
Also, for a guy who cooks and eats for a living, he has a really weak stomach.
Continue on. S1-3 are pretty great. S4… isnt
I’ve got my partner slowly watching S1. We watched College tonight. All timer.
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Its a fun show, not great or anything but the first few seasons kept me entertained.
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