<p>We are finally watching it on Netflix over the holiday break, show after show…til the wee hours. Already into Season 3. Really fabulous show! I love the acting, the characters, the film techniques, the twists and turns of plot. Better than a lot of movies out nowadays. </p>
<p>Anyone else enjoying it? </p>
<p>For those that don’t know this show, the premise is a middle age chemistry teacher, with a PhD in chemistry, who is diagnosed with lung cancer. To cover the cost of his treatment and provide for his family for when he is gone, he starts producing crystal meth with one of his former students. </p>
<p>Never seen but I plan to watch it sometime. I met one of the actors and had no clue who he was until people around me starting making a fuss…he was a super nice guy and happy that I treated him like a regular person…</p>
<p>ebeeeee, can you tell us which actor you met? I’m envious! I think this is one of the best ensembles on television, and that Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul are brilliant.</p>
<p>I’d never heard of it but we were in the car yesterday with S’14 and NPR had a segment on it, and he asked us to turn it up so he could hear it. Apparently he’s been watching it at a friend’s house (we don’t get that channel) and he likes it.</p>
<p>A youngish guy from LA who plays a character named Badger. I’ve met lots of actors and more famous people and he was actually very humble and sweet.</p>
<p>We have raced through the series on Netflix to catch up from the beginning. Musmom2, Season 4 is available in its entirety, but you have to buy it (we did itunes). We had no choice. We have never watched so much television over such a concentrated period of time. Though quite violent, the series is well written, well cast and well acted. Very compelling. Looking forward to late spring when Season 5 is due to start. I will hate waiting a whole week to see what happens next, though.</p>
<p>Travelnut, I know what you mean…we really seldom watch TV but now its like we can’t wait…and then we have trouble stopping. </p>
<p>We are now onto Season 4, downloaded from itunes (but well worth it, as it is the same price as two movie tickets we bought last night to see Mission Impossible!). Speaking of which, while watching Mission Impossible I kept thinking “I wish we had stayed home to watch Breaking Bad instead…its so much better…”</p>
<p>Hee! It’s filmed right where I live. (So is In Plain Sight.) Always fun to see the locations. And laugh, laugh, laugh because so many locations have been “repurposed.” Admin building of D2’s HS was a boarding school dorm for IPS. A nearby elementary school was shown as a high school campus for IPS. And D1’s HS is the one they show when they show where Walter White teaches. Even know where the house they use as an exterior for White’s home. I’ve watched BB filming at the VA Hospital. (Right across a parking lot from where I work.) </p>
<p>Bryan Cranston lives in the Nob Hill area (right next to the college campus) and is a frequent patron of several of the local bars & restaurants. D1 has run into him several times. Really nice guy.</p>
<p>I’m a fan of Breaking Bad–only started watching it last year. My D and son-in-law introduced me to it. I heard this story on the news and it cracked me up–wonder if the prof got the idea from the series.</p>
<p>Been watching it during break on Netflix with DS1 home from college. I’m addicted and also loving the quality time, will have to spring for a Netflix account of my own when he leaves.</p>
<p>Im intrigued by all the reviews but is there some sort of rational explanation for the sketchy ethics of manufacturing meth- especially by someone who is supposed to be a role model for children?</p>
<p>(I’m looking for a new show to watch- but I can’t stand for things not to make sense)</p>
<p>^ I think the show does a very good job of showing how an ordinary person might justify starting this path (e.g. dying of cancer, way underpaid as a highschool teacher with a PhD in cehmistry, worried sick about how they will survive when he dies, and he needs expensive medical treatment for his cancer). But at the same time, they show the slippery slope of unethical actions, the house of cards one can build…one lie leading to another, one justification to another, and one unethical move that leads you to get comfortable with more. But I was pleased to see that the series highlights the underside of this drug, and does not at all glamorize its effect or its production (if anything, I think this show would be a great warning to others— or at least, no sane person would choose to get involve in this if they believed this plot line!).</p>
<p>Oh, thank goodness someone started a thread on this. Kids gave DH three seasons for his October birthday. He finished before I did, but I finished about a month ago. So addicting. You do have to suspend a little reality – most teachers do have good health insurance and it’s hard to believe only one doctor could provide this treatment, but after that (and the fact that the wife seems to have the longest pregnancy in history) it’s very compelling. It seems that every season has an episode where it’s just the two main actors – stuck in the desert, alone in the lab, whatever. Those episodes are incredible for the acting. (I had no idea Bryan Cranston was a dramatic actor. I only knew him from when my boys watched Malcolm in the Middle.) The supporting cast is incredible – the twin brothers, Gus, etc.</p>