‘Breaking Bad’ Sets Series Highs With Fourth Season Premiere

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• I compare every show to Breaking Bad now. I’ve never seen a show of such quality before in writing, direction and performance. Incredible.

  Comment by Miggy — Monday July 18, 2011 @ 11:16am PDT  Reply to this post

  • The Wire ? The Sopranos ?

    Comment by Kay — Monday July 18, 2011 @ 6:17pm PDT  Reply to this post

    • The show is way better than both of those shows.

      Comment by DexterWhite — Tuesday August 30, 2011 @ 5:07pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Much deserved, best show on TV bar none, plus Vince Gilligan is just a genuinely nice guy, easy to root for him & the show.

  Comment by Zoe — Monday July 18, 2011 @ 11:22am PDT  Reply to this post

• Well deserved. Congratulations to Vince Gilligan and the rest of the crew, both behind and in front of the camera. Right up there with “The Sopranos”, “Oz”, “Six Feet Under”, and “The Wire” as one of the best programs to ever grace television. At least this guarantees the (final) fifth season.

  Comment by Bill — Monday July 18, 2011 @ 11:25am PDT  Reply to this post

  • i bailed on BB after the first season and you had me interested in getting back in until the mention of Oz as a great series. dudes getting their salads tossed with metal spoons? the show was mostly gratuitous prison violence. which, don’t get me wrong, i enjoyed. but in the same league as Six Feet Under, The Sopranos and The Wire? not so much.

    Comment by Beecher — Monday July 18, 2011 @ 12:30pm PDT  Reply to this post

    • If you bailed after the first season you don’t deserve to watch the subsequent ones.

      Comment by Alex — Monday July 18, 2011 @ 3:49pm PDT  Reply to this post

      • Seriously, the pilot alone was like Heisenberg’s 99 plus percent pure, blue meth (thanks Gale (RIP) for the analysis). Every episode, even the Fly, is a 12/10, it is a flawless series.

        This show is the greatest series of all time. Just when you think it can’t get better or top itself, it does above and beyond your wildest expectations.

        Love BB, love Vince Gilligan. Congrats on the great success it is much deserved.

        Once you Break Bad, there’s no going back. So true in so many ways.

        Comment by Benhur — Tuesday July 19, 2011 @ 2:38am PDT  Reply to this post

  • But Oz was also a comment on the prison system and society in general, which is what made it more than just a prison sex/brutality drama. Remember Augustus Hills’ opening/closing monologues?

    Comment by Sareeta — Monday July 18, 2011 @ 3:16pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Can only hope this helps the show get a sixth season. Six seems right, Gilligan wants to end it after five.

  Comment by Chris Shifty — Monday July 18, 2011 @ 11:26am PDT  Reply to this post

  • But don’t you want it to end when Vince is ready for it to end, and not be forced by the network to do a 6th season he doesn’t really want to do? I would gladly take 5 awesome seasons over 5 awesome seasons and one mediocre season.

    Comment by stacy — Monday July 18, 2011 @ 1:32pm PDT  Reply to this post

    • I think Vince went on record that 5 is going to be it. The way they opened 4, you just know something really brutal and tragic is going to happen by Ep. 13 and that is saying a lot in a show that pulls no punches and is willing to go where other series don’t even dare.

      Comment by Benhur — Tuesday July 19, 2011 @ 2:41am PDT  Reply to this post

• Drinks on Gil tonight! Congrats, my friend.

  Comment by Bill Beezley — Monday July 18, 2011 @ 11:34am PDT  Reply to this post

• Great. I agree with Bill here 100%: Breaking Bad redefined television for me, it’s actually that great.

  If AMC wants to have that show for more than just one more season (and after numbers like these, I assume that that’s a sure thing) I hope they’ll renew it for two seasons at once so that Gilligan can plan out the rest of the story in order to end the show properly. Breaking Bad deserves a well planned out finale and I think it would be good for both the show and Gilligan to have that knowledge as far in advance as possible

  Comment by Data — Monday July 18, 2011 @ 11:45am PDT  Reply to this post

• Cranston is a superstar.

  Comment by Anonymous — Monday July 18, 2011 @ 12:09pm PDT  Reply to this post

• This show is a masterpiece. It will go down as one of the top five shows of all-time when it’s over.

  Comment by Yellowdog — Monday July 18, 2011 @ 12:21pm PDT  Reply to this post

• best show on television. a creative clinic for all of us who do this.

  Comment by love's labors lost — Monday July 18, 2011 @ 12:39pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Congrats to the Breaking Bad team! Together with Friday Night Lights the best drama series on TV.

  Comment by John — Monday July 18, 2011 @ 12:48pm PDT  Reply to this post

• If Giancarlo Esposito doesn’t get an Emmy nod at some point we’ll know just how wrong they are.
  Damn first episode, got me so hooked and the week can’t get any slower until a new BB.

  Comment by Manny — Monday July 18, 2011 @ 1:57pm PDT  Reply to this post

• It’s good to see such an excellent show get good ratings for the season 4 premier. It is one of the best made, best acted and dramatic shows I’ve ever seen. Season 3 was the best thing on TV in 2010. So far Game of Thrones has been my favorite series on TV this year, but with Breaking Bad back, it might just slip to #2.

  By the way, Cranston and Paul are great, but Dean Norris, Bob Odenkirk, and Jonathon Banks are spectacular. Here’s hoping Anna Gunn’s character becomes more likable this season.

  Comment by Sareeta — Monday July 18, 2011 @ 3:21pm PDT  Reply to this post

• This is the best show on TV.

  Comment by Angela — Monday July 18, 2011 @ 3:33pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Its an excellent series and I am so glad its back.

  Comment by stevieg — Monday July 18, 2011 @ 8:31pm PDT  Reply to this post

• I watched the first three seasons in the last two weeks for the first time and was ready for season 4 to start. I think history has shown extended layoffs for these Hugh quality and established cable dramas is good for them.

  Comment by Aeiouy — Tuesday July 19, 2011 @ 7:51pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Season 1 was the weakest of the first three seasons by far. In fact season 1 did not get going until episode 4 or 5 of 7. Seasons 2 and 3 were amazing. If you have not watched them you should.

  Comment by Aeiouy — Tuesday July 19, 2011 @ 7:55pm PDT  Reply to this post

• I did not know about the 5 but it makes sense given the spiral Walter and Jesse are going down. They can’t keep this up much longer.

  Comment by Aeiouy — Tuesday July 19, 2011 @ 7:59pm PDT  Reply to this post