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What can I say? This is a tv summer.
Now that I have finished watching the third season of Breaking Bad, I have to catch up with the third season of Mad Men (I heard season 4 premiered yesterday!) . It's good to have a good tv show left to watch for I'm getting bored with the usually entertaining "guilty pleasure" that is True Blood.
I really like Mad Men, it's a very good tv show with moments of elliptic brilliance, and great characters(Don Draper of course but I also love Peter, Peggy, Roger and Joan) but it has soapish sides sometimes, and often indulges in what I'd call "see how good we are at re-creating the 60's" fault. I enjoy it but I can't say that I'm truly hooked. I much prefer Breaking Bad which I find more daring and more refreshing (even though many fans compare it to the Coen brothers' films). Also, I am more emotionally invested in BB because of the core 'ship that is Walt/Jesse.
Here I want to quote this extract from the review Donna Bowman wrote on the A.V Club, about the finale of season 3:
"Tonight's finale should cement this season of Breaking Bad as one of television's finest dramatic accomplishments. And what makes it so exciting -- what makes the recognition of the current golden age so pressing -- is that the season has not been, as Noel put it in another context, "television good." The heart-in-the-throat quality of this season comes as much from the writers' exhilarating disregard for television conventions as from the events portrayed. Every cliffhanger produced anticipation that often as not was subverted by having what came after timed at a jagged off-angle from the shape we've internalized as expectation.
(...)
That's so far from the equation that set Walter off down this road in Season 1 that it seems like we've substituted completely different elements now. Yet Walter still thinks he's playing by the same unchangeable, fundamental rules. Breaking Bad has taken his insights and delusions to places we never could have seen coming. And while we anticipate seeing him to his end, let's not forget how lucky we are to be in the audience."
Oh and I may have finally found a way to watch online another critically-acclaimed show, that is The Wire....
Now that I have finished watching the third season of Breaking Bad, I have to catch up with the third season of Mad Men (I heard season 4 premiered yesterday!) . It's good to have a good tv show left to watch for I'm getting bored with the usually entertaining "guilty pleasure" that is True Blood.
I really like Mad Men, it's a very good tv show with moments of elliptic brilliance, and great characters(Don Draper of course but I also love Peter, Peggy, Roger and Joan) but it has soapish sides sometimes, and often indulges in what I'd call "see how good we are at re-creating the 60's" fault. I enjoy it but I can't say that I'm truly hooked. I much prefer Breaking Bad which I find more daring and more refreshing (even though many fans compare it to the Coen brothers' films). Also, I am more emotionally invested in BB because of the core 'ship that is Walt/Jesse.
Here I want to quote this extract from the review Donna Bowman wrote on the A.V Club, about the finale of season 3:
"Tonight's finale should cement this season of Breaking Bad as one of television's finest dramatic accomplishments. And what makes it so exciting -- what makes the recognition of the current golden age so pressing -- is that the season has not been, as Noel put it in another context, "television good." The heart-in-the-throat quality of this season comes as much from the writers' exhilarating disregard for television conventions as from the events portrayed. Every cliffhanger produced anticipation that often as not was subverted by having what came after timed at a jagged off-angle from the shape we've internalized as expectation.
(...)
That's so far from the equation that set Walter off down this road in Season 1 that it seems like we've substituted completely different elements now. Yet Walter still thinks he's playing by the same unchangeable, fundamental rules. Breaking Bad has taken his insights and delusions to places we never could have seen coming. And while we anticipate seeing him to his end, let's not forget how lucky we are to be in the audience."
Oh and I may have finally found a way to watch online another critically-acclaimed show, that is The Wire....