# "Breaking Bad" starts tonight on AMC
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-starts-tonight-on-amc/434288
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**Created:** [January 20, 2008, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-starts-tonight-on-amc/434288 "2008-01-20T19:33:37Z")
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### Author:  [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)
#### Post date: [January 20, 2008, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-starts-tonight-on-amc/434288/1 "2008-01-20T19:33:37Z")
Cribbed from TWOP:
“Chemistry: the study of change. Apply heat and, boom, no going back. Meet Walter White, high school chemistry teacher. Sleepwalking through life when, boom, a terminal diagnosis changes everything. Liberates him. Empowers him to use his chemistry skills anew: to man a rolling drug lab and finance the future for his struggling family. It’s an uncontrolled experiment with the American dream. And it finally wakes him up.”
Walter is played by Bryan Cranston – Hal from Malcolm in the Middle.
It looks interesting. The NPR reviewer liked it, and AMC’s other new series _Mad Men_ was excellent.
Who’s gonna watch? It starts Sunday, January 20, and will probably be repeated during the week.
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### Author:  [@Hockey\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hockey_Monkey)
#### Post date: [January 20, 2008, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-starts-tonight-on-amc/434288/2 "2008-01-20T20:20:56Z")
DVR is locked and loaded. I think it’s going to be a good show.
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### Author:  [@supervenusfreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/supervenusfreak)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2008, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-starts-tonight-on-amc/434288/3 "2008-01-21T02:48:17Z")
I’m there. I like Bryan Cranston and the plotline itself intrigues me.
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### Author:  [@BoBettie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BoBettie)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2008, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-starts-tonight-on-amc/434288/4 "2008-01-21T04:22:09Z")
I’m watching it now- engrossing already.
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### Author:  [@Clockwork\_Jackal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clockwork_Jackal)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2008, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-starts-tonight-on-amc/434288/5 "2008-01-21T04:29:08Z")
Twenty five minutes in, and Bryan Cranston has stopped being Malcolm’s dad for me. He’s really good in this!
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### Author:  [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2008, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-starts-tonight-on-amc/434288/6 "2008-01-21T04:42:13Z")
Well, the missus and i really enjoyed it, and we’ll definitely give it another shot next week. Cranston was excellent.
Their choice to include swearing (“fuck”) and nudity (tits), and then blank them out, was interesting. Presumably this is so they can release DVDs later that contain the naughtier stuff. It’s still pretty fucking lame that they won’t actually put that stuff on cable at 10 p.m., but that’s American TV for you.
Anyway, good show.
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### Author:  [@Two\_and\_a\_Half\_Inches\_of\_Fun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_and_a_Half_Inches_of_Fun)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2008, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-starts-tonight-on-amc/434288/7 "2008-01-21T05:13:11Z")
[QUOTE=mhendo]
Well, the missus and i really enjoyed it, and we’ll definitely give it another shot next week. Cranston was excellent.
Their choice to include swearing (“fuck”) and nudity (tits), and then blank them out, was interesting. Presumably this is so they can release DVDs later that contain the naughtier stuff. It’s still pretty fucking lame that they won’t actually put that stuff on cable at 10 p.m., but that’s American TV for you.
Anyway, good show.
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How did they get out of the desert? Did they get the RV out, too? Why didn’t the firemen radio into the cops that there was a crashed RV at the side of the road with a guy with a gun and no pants standing next to it?
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### Author:  [@Mongo\_Ponton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mongo_Ponton)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2008, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-starts-tonight-on-amc/434288/8 "2008-01-21T06:09:36Z")
Good show.
I loved it when the wife wanted to “talk”
Well honey, I found out I have terminal Cancer.
I quit my job.
I tried to kill myself but it didn’t happen.
I also killed two other guys.
But I did save another guys life.
And I took out all of our $7500 savings and bought a motorhome…which I wrecked.
But I got a bunch of money from the drug dealers I killed.
It’s been a long day.
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### Author:  [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2008, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-starts-tonight-on-amc/434288/9 "2008-01-21T07:30:55Z")
Saw most of it. Liked it.
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### Author:  [@Hockey\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hockey_Monkey)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2008, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-starts-tonight-on-amc/434288/10 "2008-01-21T15:52:19Z")
I’m gonna have to watch it again. I really like Bryan Cranston. I was a little perturbed at the censored stuff. It was made for cable, and aired at 10pm. Is it because it wasn’t a pay channel? Other than that, I’ll be tuning in again next week.
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### Author:  [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2008, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-starts-tonight-on-amc/434288/11 "2008-01-21T16:47:39Z")
I liked it too. It seems weird to say, but it’s so believable. It doesn’t feel made up, maybe because the actors are so good. Great dialogue too, very realistic, not strained for humor or pathos.
I love how Walter wants to make a good product, using the proper equipment. Who hasn’t looked at a criminal enterprise and thought they could do it better?
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### Author:  [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2008, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-starts-tonight-on-amc/434288/12 "2008-01-21T18:20:36Z")
I thought it was great also. Believable too. In the clip for the next episode they mention they have ‘a’ body to deal with. I remember two dead…so?
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### Author:  [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2008, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-starts-tonight-on-amc/434288/13 "2008-01-21T18:43:30Z")
I thought it sounded interesting but I was watching part of The Matrix beforehand and they kept a [bug](http://crave.cnet.com/8301-1_105-9784023-1.html) advertising “Breaking Bad” superimposed over the bottom lefthand of the screen for the entire first half of the movie. I decided I wasn’t going to reward that kind of behavior so I turned it off.
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### Author:  [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2008, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-starts-tonight-on-amc/434288/14 "2008-01-21T21:00:11Z")
[QUOTE=Sitnam]
I thought it was great also. Believable too. In the clip for the next episode they mention they have ‘a’ body to deal with. I remember two dead…so?
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Yeah, two dead. Maybe they got rid of one but were having difficulty with the other.
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> How did they get out of the desert? Did they get the RV out, too? Why didn’t the firemen radio into the cops that there was a crashed RV at the side of the road with a guy with a gun and no pants standing next to it?
Let’s assume they had a cell phone and called for a ride and a tow. Or maybe the RV was driveable. I guess the firemen didn’t report it because Walter didn’t indicate he needed help. And they didn’t see his gun. Guy in underwear? They probably see crazy stuff like that all the time.
I have a lot more sympathy for Walter than I had for the woman on _Weeds_, but that’s a given. Nancy (?) was trying to maintain an upscale lifestyle, and Walter’s trying to preserve the lives of his family.