Can someone please explain to me how Breaking Bad is considered the GOAT show?

[TheAlbionist]

BB was one of the most enjoyable shows I ever saw... FIRST TIME THROUGH.

I had a couple of days off with a fukked back earlier in the year and tried to binge the first season again, but only made it a few episodes in before getting bored - once you know the plot/twists it's just not enough to hold you.

Gave up and rewatched some Wire and Game of Thrones - those both stand up far better to repeat viewing.

 

[HookersandIceCream]

Thank god people are realizing how dull of a show it was at times

 

[Golayitdown]

Still don't get the Wire hype either *ducks tomatoes*

 

[Dr.HannibalLecter]

Breaking bad is a great first watch show. You shut your brain off and enjoy the tension and bryan cranstons brilliant performance.


BUT. The show has 0 depth. It does not stand up on repeated viewings. So much of the show is built on tension and suspense and after 1 viewing thats gone. Theres nothing else to really sink your teeth into beyond that. In fact, on 2nd viewing a lot of the show becomes very silly in retrospect.

I watched the show front to back 3 times. Each time I liked it less and had more complaints.


Compared to the wire and mad men,which both get better on every viewing and you catch new things that you missed. Ive watched the wire front to back 7 times now,and every viewing I come away with something new to think about and breakdown.


The vast majority of people dont rewatch shows like that though,so BB glaring flaws dont get talked about that much.

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[showtime]

Not to sound like a hipster but the show was good before it got a huge mainstream following, then they tried to please everybody and the show lost it's dark theme which made it good.

 

[Sensitive Blake Griffin]

And right there is why I can never put it up there with some of the other shows mentioned already. You have a show like The Wire that's about the different yet connected facets of the city of Baltimore. A show like the Sopranos about family: specifically two types of families and how its main character juggles them. Every single episode of Mad Men has a different theme so I'd be here all day talkng about it. Then you have Breaking Bad..."a show about making methamphetamine". Breaking Bad was a fun, entertaining show, but it was ultimately a pretty shallow experience. I've heard cases being made for it being a study on morality yet the show ends

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with the bad guy killing all of his enemies and dying with a smile on his face. The vast majority of the audience is rooting for the supposed "bad guy" till the very end

I watch The Wire and The Sopranos from start to finish every year because I pick up on new things and themes all the time. They're deep shows in terms of content. Mad Men will get the same treatment. I watched Breaking Bad from start to finish and enjoyed the ride. I have no desire to watch it again. I know the story that was told. There's nothing to gain from a rewatch. I'm not the type of dude to lose my shyt because a character wears purple all the time or the camera frames a character a certain way.

I think that's a valid criticism but the tension and suspense BB created is probably some of the best I've seen in television. To be honest there are very few shows that I've rewatched over and over. the knick, true detective s1, game of thrones, but maybe that's just me.

 

[SanchoPanda]

Still don't get the Wire hype either *ducks tomatoes*

 

[MenacingMonk]

Breaking bad is a great first watch show. You shut your brain off and enjoy the tension and bryan cranstons brilliant performance.


BUT. The show has 0 depth. It does not stand up on repeated viewings. So much of the show is built on tension and suspense and after 1 viewing thats gone. Theres nothing else to really sink your teeth into beyond that. In fact, on 2nd viewing a lot of the show becomes very silly in retrospect.

I watched the show front to back 3 times. Each time I liked it less and had more complaints.


Compared to the wire and mad men,which both get better on every viewing and you catch new things that you missed. Ive watched the wire front to back 7 times now,and every viewing I come away with something new to think about and breakdown.


The vast majority of people dont rewatch shows like that though,so BB glaring flaws dont get talked about that much.

A great show doesn't have to make the viewer catch things when they watch the show again. Yes, it can add to it.

BB is in my top shows because it was something different and interesting. Add in damn good writing and character development and you have something cooking.

All my top shows I have seen 1 time through (Wire, BB, Shield, MM), FYI.

 

[Shogun]

Slightly off topic, but its always interesting to me how people ignore the glaring weaknesses in the Sopranos.

 

[Dominic Brehetto]

A great show doesn't have to make the viewer catch things when they watch the show again. Yes, it can add to it.

BB is in my top shows because it was something different and interesting. Add in damn good writing and character development and you have something cooking.

All my top shows I have seen 1 time through (Wire, BB, Shield, MM), FYI.

It speaks to a lack of depth in the writing. Once you get through the first viewing the seams and weaknesses become more pronounced. I judge my shows on replay value.

 

[Pifferry]

0 depth

 

[Mr Clean]

Not to sound like a hipster but the show was good before it got a huge mainstream following, then they tried to please everybody and the show lost it's dark theme which made it good.

Season 2 was wack. All that foreshadowing and it turned out to be the most goofy shyt ever

 

[JuvenileHell]

@hexagram23

 

[Francis White]

The 2nd and 5th season hurt "The Wire" significantly in my opinion. The 1st and 4th are GOAT level, the 3rd season is good, but the 5th especially weakens it's legacy. The 2nd is probably the most boring, though I fondly remember the Sabotka character.

I don't think "the Wire" is better than "The Shield" or "The Sopranos".

The second season was the close to being the best by far. It explained how true kings ran things, not arguing over fukking corners , that season villain the Greek was so business minded and connected that to this day I don't we have seen a match for him. The man had an federal connect,not a fake small guy but a huge man in the department . He did business with the Colombians and let 15 million dollars in Coke get seized when they got greedy. They didn't show us meeting them but they ran the Coke trade also. Listening to Vondas ask for the chemicals and you hear the amount he needed, the man needed tons to cut the dope show how they rolled. When they had to leave he was up and running in a week, he knew when to walk and then two years he back like nothing happened. But on the Coli Bodie and Poot would run him if Avon gave the word . The Greek is the best villain of all time and that arc was incredible.

 

[Made Man]

IMO BB didnt get good until they introduced gus. I prolly skipped most of te first two season because it was dull as shyt.