Lots of these are easily available online, having mostly fallen into the public domain.
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Mahershala Ali and Stephen Dorff in True Detective season 3 on January 13.
Say what you will, but I liked season 2. Looking forward to this, too.
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I donât know, I never got the sense that the audience was meant to cheer for the bad guy with either the Sopranos or Breaking Bad⌠I know people did, even so. Iâm fairly certain that Gilligan said that your not supposed to identify with WW.
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This weekâs episode of The Gifted (2E07) is really good, probably the best X-Men adaptation Iâve ever seen
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i remember starting out identifying with WW, because he was in a terrible situation and he wanted to make sure his family was ok. but by the end of the series, he and his life had become a slow-motion train wreck and you just knew the outcome HAD to be awful for everyone involved â you just couldnât tear your eyes off it while it happened.
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Gilligan made me pity Walt, then root for him, before making me deeply resent and eventually hate Walt⌠and yet at the end, I was still able to root for Walter White one last time, without forgetting how corrupted and power-drunk he became.
People who think WW is someone to admire completely missed the fucking point; itâs a cautionary tale about blind egotism and good intentions gone so far awry that they totally destroy what Walt was trying to preserve.
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I can see that perspective and I think thatâs what I got when I originally saw it. I recently watched it again (meaning I knew that outcome) and it made me realize that embedded his often terrible behavior from the start. On retrospect, I found it pretty shitty to hide his cancer diagnosis from Skyler at first. I think his reasoning was that she was pregnant, etc, but on a second watch, I think it was more about his own fears of being seen as unmasculine (because it would mean an economic hardship for the family). And then there is that one scene where theyâre at the ob/gyn and he tells Skyler to crawl down out of his ass, when heâs been lying to her⌠Then there is his attempts to be a father figure to Jesse, while kind of ignoring Walter Jr quite a bit.
Honestly, the show is worth repeated watchings because you can get different things out of it the second time around.
Exactly this!
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that could be â i have only watched the series once, and i bet it would be interesting to see it again. but it was such a ride the first time, and my TV watching is so limited, iâm not sure iâm going to see it again any time soon. weâre currently working our way through season 2 of Better Call Saul, so thatâs where iâm getting my BB world fix right now. 
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We watched it again so my daughter could see it, mainly. It was worth the time, even though there are far too many good things to watchâŚ
I have to say, I might like Better Call Saul better than Breaking Bad. It has my favorite characters (Saul, Mike, and Gus) who get great back story. Theyâre also doing a movie with Jesse, apparently. Looking forward to that, because Jesse I think was the character who got shit on the most and who ended up with the most redemptive arc of the entire series.
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omg, Mike is SO good. i mean, what a cast that show has in general â they are all really, REALLY good, but Ehrmantraut conveys so much without saying a word, heâs just amazing. i love every episode that has a lot to do with him.
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I finished all of Hill House last night.
Not bad overall, with some truly creepy scenes and imagery, and one great jumpscare.
Also, it must be said:
Poor Nell.
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Which one? The one where Nell jumps out of the back seat between Theo and Shirley while theyâre driving to the house? That made my daughter scream and throw her notebook across the room (all three of us jumped). We had to pause it and laugh after that for a good five minutesâŚ
But yeah, poor Nell!
Also, episode 6 was amazing, technically speaking. Such a beautifully shot episode, with those long tracking shots. The opening one was a total of 15 minutes, filmed with no editing cutsâŚ
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The one you put spoiler tags on. 
It takes a lot to actually make me jump while watching anything âscary,â because most movies and shows are so formulaic, you can usually see/hear them coming from a mile away.
That one still got me anyway.
âTwo Stormsâ was probably the best ep of the whole series, followed closely by âthe Bent Neck Lady.â
Mike Flanagan really nailed down the difference between merely âscaryâ stuff and true horror, which is what Nellâs final realization was.
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Agreed on both episodes.
Also, my husband is like that. Heâs been a fan of horror films since he was pretty young, so it takes a good bit to get him to jump at all anymore. I also found that after I knew who the bent neck lady was, I was far MORE unsettled then when she was just one of the ghostsâŚ
Absolutely. I hope they do a new season. I think he said they were, but it wonât be about that family. Iâd love a prequel about the Hill guy they found in the wall who became the tall man ghost and the woman who drove Olivia to try and kill the twins and Abigail.
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Same here.
It shouldnât be; their story is told and the Crains have suffered enough.
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Just made it though season 5 of GoT in my re-watch marathon.
Woof. I need another break. Maybe watch something more cheerful, like Infinity War or Hamlet.
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Iâve been rewatching BB lately and while itâs still deeply enjoyable I definitely see Walt in a different light now. Itâs much clearer now that he was an unhappy and miserable person pretty much from the start. Even before his cancer diagnosis he seemed pretty unhappy with his lot in life (and as we later learn, it was largely his own fault due to his own obstinacy).
Honestly, I find myself rooting more for Jesse now. Jesse looks up to Walt and sees him almost as a father figure while Walt sees him as someone he can easily abuse and manipulate. When Jane is choking to death on Jesseâs bed you can practically visualize the cost/benefit calculations going on in Waltâs head as to whether he should save her life before coldly watching her die.
Such an amazing show.
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By the second season, I was actively rooting for Jesse, and I was adamant that he would live.
ETA:
Letting Jane die was Waltâs âpoint-of-no-returnâ, as well as the point where I started to hate him.
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You can just see his face go from genuine concern, to calculating, and finally to cold blooded in the span of just a few seconds.
It just stuns me how good Bryan Cranston is in this show.
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ITA; that scene was heartbreaking but amazing.
Fixed that for ya; heâs good in pretty much everything he does, be it drama or comedy.
I never once looked at Walt and saw âHalâ from Malcolm in the Middle.
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