I’ve never watched Breaking Bad, and now I’m never watching it. It’s apparently full of B-list Syfy actors. It’s gotta suck.
Why? Spoil us.
It was the equivalent of a “To Be Continued” placard posted in front of a tv camera for one hour.
it’s got Malcom’s dad, it’s a totally different show.
I stopped watching awhile back, but I’ve been enjoying Grady Hendrix’s reviews at tor.com. The review for this week isn’t up yet, but here’s a link to last week’s, and the new one will probably be up soon.
What I understand from comments (not the recap) at Television Without Pity is that the season ended with Barbie about to be lynched for something, that the dome was placed to protect Chester’s Mill (not sure from what), and that Julia is some kind of queen butterfly.
If you were hoping they’d really pull it together and go all out to save the show in the season finale - well this is that not that sort of show.
This show is clearly written by a 12 year old. What a piece of unmitigated crap.
This a thousand times this.
You fucking bastards!!
Thirded. I was actually hoping they might, you know, wrap something up? The ending was looking promising (well, as promising as anything in this series could look) until I realized that they only had five minutes left. How are they going to wrap this up in five minutes?
Oh. Right. They’re not.
Sigh.
Well, we knew it was a season finale and not the series finale, so a cliffhanger was expected. As far as wrapping anything up, I doubt anything has been thought through much further than what we saw. This, despite Stephen King stating, when the show first started airing, that he was excited about watching it because the TV writers had come up with an ending that was better than the one he had written in his book.
What I want to know is: if they continue to get ratings in Season 2 (and I have no idea why, unless everybody else is doing like I am and watching it the way you gawk at a car accident and can’t look away)–will they renew it for Season 3? The Dome is already getting claustrophobic, and unless they kill Big Jim soon I don’t see how Barbie is going to manage to stay away from him for one more season, let alone 2.
So basically what everyone is saying is I shouldn’t bother watching this episode then? Probably could have figured that out a couple of eps ago. Oh well, I’ll watch when I have nothing else to watch.
Looks to me like a lot of the “plotting” is being pulled from the exit end of someone’s digestive tract, and that the “writers” are putting “weird and cool” ahead of “coherent plot”.
I can’t even watch it as a gawker. It’s too sad, thinking back to cancelled shows that didn’t get UTD numbers.
If 8 or 11 million people watched to the end, there’s no reason they won’t watch season 2, so yeah, there will be a season 3.
A poster at IMDB shared worldwide numbers, and this show is a hit everywhere.
Hijack: Has an actor ever criticized their show, even after the show ended? How much time passes before they can admit that something they did was crap? Occasionally you’ll hear comments like “not well-received” or “not my best work”, but even that’s usually after the actor has retired.
But…they didn’t know that when the filmed it…I think.
No, no it does not suck. Breaking Bad is miles beyond the dreck that CBS just crapped out. Breaking Bad is quite possibly the very best television viewing in the history of television. Dean Norris shoulda quit while he was ahead. Don’t judge BB based on this drivel. They are polar opposites.
Ugh.
That is the sound my wife and I made when the credits came on. Wow, they knew how to top terrible with even more terrible.
That was painful, boring, and a total waste of time.
What a crappy show. I was hate-watching for the last half of the season at least.
I’m not sure they’ll be back. A lot of people were King fans or thought it was a miniseries. I ended up sticking around out of habit, but it’s off my radar now. Next season I won’t even remember it. I anticipate a huge dropoff in ratings.
I read a review (with lots of spoilers) online somewhere. Because of that, I have deleted the record last episode and deleted my ‘record this’ timer so I don’t see anything from next year either.
I can’t imagine it will get any ratings next season.
Stephen King has two series on TV. One is good, the other just got renewed for a second season.
Bob
Allison Brie was on the recent Nerdist podcast and admitted that the most recent season of the show without Dan Harmon wasn’t all that great.