Breaking Bad: Season 2

Great show

Breaking Bad is very interesting. The acting is superb. Yes, I am a fan of Breaking Bad, however, there are major flaws in the story that just have to be addressed. Here are a few: l. Walt Jr. is far too cooperative for a 16 year old boy. When asked to do chores, he always says, "Sure, Mom!" like he is soooo happy. Most 16 year olds are sassy, self-centered, sleep all day-up all night, talk back, spend 99% of time with friends, NEVER do housework, and more. His grades would tank, too, if his dad was as much trouble as Walt Senior. 2. Jesse's teeth are too perfect. A heavy meth user's teeth ground away with the constant use and gums are red, bloody, soft. Other users on the show have bad teeth, but not Jesse. NOT believeable. 3. There is hardly any mention of DNA. At all murder scenes in which Walt just walks away, his DNA would be everywhere. BOTH their DNA and fingerprints were all over Uncle Tio's house--case over. 4. At Tio's when Tuko throws Jesse and Walt's phones into the back yard, police would have found them, found their fingerprints and case over. 5. Jesse is not that attractive that super hot chicks would be after him. The actresses chosen to play his love interests are way too pretty for a guy who is a big loser. They are also too tall and too big for him. He seems overpowered by them. 6. The theft of lab equipment would have been noticed. Other teachers would have complained that things were missing. Schools keep up with stuff better than that. Each teacher uses the equipment, so someone would have noticed. There is always a bitchy woman on the staff who keeps up with stuff right down to pencils and erasers. 7. No one ever seems to be looking out a window to see murders and kidnappings. Just not realistic. 8. Mike would have immediately killed Walt when Walt killed Gus. Mike would know he had to get to Walt before Walt got to him. 9. Killing 9 in prisons? Come on!! Prisons have cameras everywhere. Someone would have seen something. NOT believeable. 10. When Hank was driving by the laundry, he would have seen Walt's car. We cannot believe that a skilled detective would rely on one person to drive him by that place only one time. He would have driven by at all hours of the day and night. 11. Walt would have spent his money all along for basic household needs. They were barely getting by, so he would have been buying groceries, new shoes for Walt, Jr., baby clothes, gas, etc. He would have always had a pocket full of cash, to make Skyler's life smoother. She would have liked that and he could have eased her along better. 12. Why did Walt make a pass at the principal? Does not make sense for him logically. We are to believe he does all things out of logic. This would only harm him. 13. We are told over and over how he does this for his family. All right-----we get it. You do not have to remind us....enough already. 14. Jesse throwing money away would not happen. He would be doing his best to show that he is a winner to his parents. He would have been buying things for his parents, sending his mom flowers on all occasions, and spending the cash on the girlfriends for diamonds, clothes, etc. 15. Jesse would not drive a beat up car. He would have a Lexus or Mercedes. All drug dealers drive the best cars in town. The local car dealers rely on them to spend their cash and everyone turns a blind eye. 16. Someone with the DEA would be on Walt and Jesse's side. The money is just too much of a temptation. They could have paid off their own informant. 17. Jesse and Walt's DNA would be in the UHaul Truck that did the magnet thing. The magnets would get traced back to the junk yard and case closed. 18. All junk yards have to give account for cars that are smashed. Even though they got rid of the RV, there would be enough left for DNA, even fingerprints. Case closed at that point. 19. Someone would notice that Walt was visiting Jesse in the hospital. Case closed. 20. The mask found in the desert would have had fingerprints or DNA from Walt. Case closed. It did lead them back to the school. DEA would have put in cameras and found Walt stealing more property. Most schools have cameras inside anyway. Case closed. 21. Once Walt gets all that money, women would be after him. 22. There are not enough female characters in this show. Women are always around where money is being made. Walt would have been tempted with plenty of 15 to 20 year olds. Hot chicks can sniff out cash. 23. Walt would have been using cough drops with all that coughing. 24. There is a mouth wash that cancer doctors prescribe for lung patients because of the dry mouth and odors. Walt would constantly be using mouthwash and cough drops. 25. NO one with lung disease can run up and down steps. He would be on oxygen therapy with the air tanks needed at all times. Uncle Tio has them and he is sitting. Walt would not be that active with real lung cancer. Lungs determine all movement of the body. He would not be able to move like he does. Even driving a car is difficult with lung cancer and chemo. 26. Nothing is said about the raids on Gus's delivery trucks. Law enforcement would have been involved, this would lead to Gus; case over. 27. Ted would not be all goo goo over a 40 year old pregnant woman. He would have a long line of 20 year olds in his bed. 28. Once Skylar found problems with Ted's books, he would have fired her. Men do not like bad news. 29. They can pay $800,000 for a car wash????? How is that money laundering???? 30. Walt would have been traveling to the Caymen islands or other sites that will launder money for him. He could afford to hire a private plane. 31. Walt would have an alternate plan of escape. With 80 million he would have many options. 32. He would have been sending the family on long vacations, as in Europe or Australia. People with new money travel. He would keep them out of town and out of his way and out of harm. 33. Most people who live in the West do speak Spanish. A person with Walt's intelligence would pick it up easily. 34. Walt would buy diamonds and expensive shoes for Skylar. Woman can be bought off. Logically, he would appeal to her ego. As Ron White says, "Diamonds, that will shut her up." 35. The baby does not seem to grow very fast. Most children will not fit into a bassinet at age 6 to 9 months. Is that a real baby? Looks fake. Why is it always wearing a hat? In New Mexicto with heat in the 100's to 110's? 36. Skylar would have followed Walt to the laundry. case closed. 37. Friends of Crazy 8 would have gone to see Jesse as he was last seen with him. 38. The police are portrayed as bunbling fools. Not so. They are generally very thorough. Not believeable that no police officer can put two and two together. 39. There would have been a police report filed when Walt crashed the new car he bought for Walt Jr. Noone gets away with that kind of damage without someone noticing. cash closed 40. Hank has plenty of chances to bug Walt's home or car. He would have just to find out the truth, then, he could have built his case. 41. Gus's operation was way to big for him to rely on one person to cook. He would have had cooks all over the place. He could have set up labs in his trucks. He was too smart to put all his eggs in one basket. 42. Tio would not pee in a pool in front of the Don--never happen. pee on flowers or people, but not the pool where gals are gonna be swimming. 43. Walt Jr. never changes. A kid at age 16 changes in many ways. His hair style is not modern. His clothes are like circa 1995. 44. Jesse's shirts never get dirty. The white stays the whitest. He sleeps in clothes, but they do not wrinkle and he does not smell. Not believeable. 45. Hospitals film all visitors. Hank would have reviewed the tapes to see who was visiting Jesse. case closed 46. All in all, too many things just are not believeable. Police are not that bad at their jobs and criminals are not that lucky.

In a nutshell, the story is about a high school chemistry teacher/husband/father who finds out he has terminal cancer. Realizing his family will be burdened beyond belief after his death, he sets out to secure their financial future by cooking and selling crystal meth with what little time he has left. Encountering all the problems one would expect from the situation, he seeks out and employs a former student of his who is a small-time CM dealer/user, all while trying to keep his cancer and newfound "hobby" a secret from his wife and DEA agent brother-in-law. The writing is superb. Just further proving that all of the best creative work right now is in 60-minute TV, not films. The acting is fantastic - Bryan Cranston walks away with the Best TV Actor award each year. The show is also far and away above all others in their artistic use of light and camera. But here's the thing: I've never seen a better "save the cat" show in my life. It's one thing for a show to place their characters in seemingly impossible situations but it's an entirely different thing to be able to creatively get the characters out all while maintaining believability. Despite the absolutely absurd situations these characters put themselves in, at no point do you question their motives or their decision making. Yes, this is what would happen if this person tried to do this. Yes, this is how they would behave. And it's always nothing short of fascinating. I originally thought they would take a more absurdist/comedic POV to the story but, to my surprise, they went in the opposite direction. The story goes to some very dark, very real places. There were points in season 2 (I watched seasons 1 & 2 on DVD) when I had to pause the show and walk away from it for 5-10 minutes because it was simply too intense. Fair warning: as good as the writing and acting are this show probably isn't for the ultra squeamish. How would a high school chemistry teacher dispose of a body? What would such a person realistically have to do to become a major drug player? The creators don't dodge any questions and don't make it easy on the characters.

This "Breaking Bad" season was a gift for a friend. I naturally also gave them The Complete First Season first! as a present. Why share this crude, "low-life" theme? This series is so expertedly put together! It is difficult to analyse WHY given the subject matter,is so good. I can mention several factors that may have "hooked" me to such an unlikely series, with such "low-life" subject matter! I wanted to share this series. The "hero" was a lawbreaker with a capital "L" , yet, he had his own sort of integrity and values or agenda which he put as a higher priority to the "LAW"! namely . . . the survival of his family after his death! His genius ideas for Chemistry had been stolen from him by a so-called friend and "society" was rewarding this "friend" while HE with his unappreciated gifted intelligence was being treated as a slave by society . . . the same society. . . that backs up the "LAW"! The world is pretty absurd anyway and this situation about the hero and his priorities becomes understandable. We can't help but sympathize with him on his dangerous quest to make millions of "big Bucks" out of a potentially lethal situation! He is doing it for altruistic reasons. He is very unselfish. Bryan Cranston with his understated personality portrayal is very good casting. The other actresses and actors are really well cast. The situations are bizarre yet believable and convincing. Bryan Cranston's role was like a mouse trying to get the cheese from the trap and not get hurt. He had to outsmart so many people we are sure he will fail! Just when things look most bleak for him a tiny little triumph due to his own intelligent and calm reasoning help him out of the impossible situation and we breath a sigh of relief! Everyone needs him and wants him to be perfect! Who is perfect? No one not even the Chemistry teacher. Another sigh of relief for the audience. He keeps his mouth shut and forgets his own ego when most would be tempted to talk about themselves. We have to admire this trait. The roles of all the players were so well and realistically portrayed. There was a lot to enjoy about this series. I am really looking forward to when the fifth series comes out on DVD in PAL frequency as that is my frequency.

This review is not specific to season 2. I never watched Breaking bad while it was still running. I only get a very minimal selection of channels and for me, the whole idea of a series where the main characters were into manufacturing meth just got on my nerves. I finally broke down and watched this when I was in the process of recovering from surgery and had been spending a lot of time around the house resting. I got into the story and really got into the characters who were for the most part well developed. I have a connection to New Mexico, so that was cool as well. I thought it was strange and a bit annoying that this series was censored!!! o.k the show is about meth guys, has loads of people saying "bitc*", strung out addicts, people having their brains blown to smithereens but, the "f" word and others were changed and frontal nudity was blurred out...There was not excessive nudity, it was not done in what would be considered obscene, it was just a scene of a body...this is not disney. Why censor it? I did not realize that I was paying for a censored version. I also found out after the fact that some of the seasons are cut down by a few episodes. What!! Overall, a good series, but I did not appreciate the censoring or the reduced down seasons. Just mentioning it so future buyers will be better informed consumers.

What can be said about this spectacular saga that hasn't been said before? One of the very few series that competes with the best films in history for achievement in cinematic storytelling. Like a great novel slowly unfolding, it's funny, heartbreaking, incredibly tense, deeply disturbing. A nebbishy high-school science teacher finds he has lung cancer, so becomes a meth dealer to make money for his family before his death. Often visually stunning, with a breathtaking performance by Brian Cranston in the lead, and great work from all the supporting roles, this portrait of a man's decent into hell couldn't be much better, and it just grows darker and more disturbing each year. In a way, thematically it recalls "The Godfather I and II" in how that epic charts Michael's journey from innocence to darkness, along with the moral murkiness of the endless drive for money and success - how we lose ourselves, so that succeeding and having ever more becomes an end in itself for which we will pay any price, rather than a route to happiness, trapping us in a game we can never win. The second season made clear the promise of the first would be lived up to. The show would go to the edge, even if it meant risking alienating the audience. This is powerful, important and yet utterly enthralling stuff.

The first season of Breaking Bad saw Walter White (Bryan Cranston), a struggling high-school chemistry teacher, and his former student Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul) join forces to produce and distribute methamphetamine in Albuquerque after Walt is diagnosed with terminal lung cancer. Season Two was originally broadcast on AMC in the spring of 2009, and this DVD set contains all of that season's 13 episodes as well as special features that discuss the filming and plot. Walt decided to become a drug dealer to ensure financial security for his family after his impending death, but he and Jesse quickly ran into much more trouble than they anticipated--when this season started, they were already responsible for a death and found themselves as a business partner with someone insane (and that's putting it mildly), and their troubles only multiply in Season Two. The blue-colored meth that Walt produces with his vast knowledge of chemistry begins to sell quickly on the streets of the Duke City, and both Walt and Jesse rapidly progress in street smarts, but the unintended consequences of their life of crime escalate throughout this season. The two live a life of constant danger, do things that they likely thought they would never have to do such as launder money, must associate with many unsavory characters, and have to evade the police, including Walt's brother-in-law, DEA agent Hank Schrader (Dean Norris). The series portrays the tremendous psychological tension Walt suffers in attempting to live a double life and to keep his dealings secret from his wife Skyler (Anna Gunn). The entire season, but the final episode in particular, shows the extent to which the crimes of Walt and Jesse affect not just them, but Walt's marriage, their families, Walt's old friendships, and total strangers as well. A recurring theme that really arrests the viewer is the sheer number of lies that Walt tells to hide his drug activities as the season progresses. This series is not for children--there are extremely harrowing scenes of the aftereffects of an IED explosion, of a fierce gunfight, and of graphic effects of drug use and addiction. For those of age, though, "Breaking Bad" is an extremely rewarding series--there is great use of symbolism and the show has unexpected plot twists as well as outstanding scenes from the New Mexico desert. Above all, it probes moral issues by negative example, offering lessons on how not to deal with adversity, fear, and uncertainty.

~~~~SPOILERS APPEAR LIBERALLY THROUGHOUT THIS REVIEW~~~~ DO NOT READ IF YOU HAVEN'T WATCHED BREAKING BAD Season 2. Amid all the darkness of BREAKING BAD's second season there is light, and generous pockets of laugh-out-loud comedy. The funniest dialogue spills from the mouths of characters not around in the first season. Skinny Pete's nonchalant delivery of "Feng Shui, yo!" comes to mind. A man of Skinny's limited intelligence would not even know how to spell Feng Shui, let alone pronounce it. Yet the expression rolls off his tongue as if he were intimately versed in the Chinese concept. And that's one of the throwaway lines. The best ones come from Saul Goodman, a one-of-a-kind criminal who happens to be a practicing member of the Bar. The first time I saw 'Better Call Saul' I thought the suits should give good ol' Saul a show of his own. And they did! One can't help but accept Saul's deliberate smarmy approach, his license plate is LWYRUP, typical of his sense of humor. His multitude of underworld connections yields a number of interesting personalities who aren't funny at all; suffice to say they're scary and realistic people. Chief among them are Gus, slight in stature, mild-mannered and walks without moving his arms but seethes menace; and the damage control expert to whom Saul conveys complex instructions in cryptic Saul-speak: "I think we got a wife problem." Danger keeps looming up more and more around Walter and those he loves. Jesse has an intense side-story (without Walter but with consequences) that concludes with him holed up in what looks like a native American Indian sweat lodge. Walt Jr. AKA Flynn becomes quite a forceful personality taking turns hating both his mother and his father. Flawlessly portrayed but totally unlikable Hank Schrader becomes slightly less overbearing, i.e. a bit more likable. Not a lot but a bit because some chinks in his armor are divulged. BREAKING BAD Season 2 has a lot going for it, wonderful writing, acting and photography, the outdoor scenes make me want to move to New Mexico. If one looks closely enough a lot of the pre-credit openers are out-and-out tributes to Sergio Leone. Clever, subtle, nice. Why four stars instead of five? There's only one bad show out of all 13, 'Four Days Out,' with Walter and Jesse stranded in the desert without water for a boring amount of time. This dispensable episode drags unbearably and, although not laborious to watch, is curiously slow compared to the show's regular frenetic pace and seamless weave of multiple interconnected storylines. That alone doesn't merit a four-star rating. I felt cheated by the plane crash finale though horrified just the same. Cheated because the whole second season previewed images of Walter's shattered windshield and body bags in his driveway begging to mislead the viewer into thinking two of the White family die by violence. The last show of the second season opens by panning back from the driveway to a panoramic wide angle shot that includes the smoke of two separate fires burning behind his house. I wondered what that meant until Jane's father was revealed as an air traffic controller then immediately knew he would cause a crash. BREAKING BAD is not a mystery story, per se, it doesn't need such unnecessary misdirection, sufficient tension existed without it. Those flash forward images DO ratchet up viewer suspense. Except in the end the payoff is undercut bigtime, yo!

Bad is addictive.2 is no different.revolves around relationships.an evolving phase with an intriguing premise.ğo for it.amaZon delights.

The second season of Breaking Bad is a wonderful continuation of the first season. I like this series because it has very real characters. They are complex; one minute they are making extremely bad choices and the next they show surprising strength and compassion. The plot keeps you on the edge of your seat, and despite the fact the story line revolves around the manufacturing and distribution of drugs it in no way glamorizes this lifestyle. On the contrary, we see how Walt slowly loses everything important to him. This series is very well written and the actors are wonderful. Breaking Bad is a refreshingly different series and would highly recommend it.

Dans la droite ligne du "coup de poing" que représente la 1ère saison, ce 2nd opus continue son inexorable avancée dans les méandres du trafic de méth' pour notre duo de choc et son Blue Cristal de 1er choix... Cette 2ème saison est vraiment excellente, avec des moments tout simplement cultes => l'ouverture de l'épisode 8 mettant en scène Badger est une séquence fantastique ! Totalement Enorme ! ;-))) Je ne cesse d'être surpris par l'intelligence de l'écriture, sans concession aussi bien pour le spectateur que pour les malheureux protagonistes qui, soyons francs, les accumulent ! Loin d'être une apologie du trafic de stupéfiants, cette série donnerait plutôt matière à plus ample réflexion ! Tellement les personnages sont secoués dans tous les sens ! Le jeu des acteurs est toujours aussi bon, tous sont excellents ! Les scénarios magnifiquement écrits et réalisés ! Bref, on ne s'ennuie pas un instant et on dévore les heures de visionnage comme s'il s'agissait de minutes, jusqu'au moment fatidique où on termine le dernier épisode et, encore sous le choc, on se décide à ranger le coffret dans l'armoire en espérant que la saison 3 sorte le mois suivant... mais non, pas tout de suite... Mais pourvu que ce ne soit pas long !! On en veut plus !!!

una serie sorprendente,divertente,piena di colpi dis cena,con attori eccellenti.I personaggi sono molto interessanti e realistici.Lo sviluppo della storia articolato e per nulla scontato.Raccomandato

the plot is amazingly weel structured, performance excellent, camera movements great.PRICE GREAT COMPARED WITH OTHERS COUNTRIES PRODUCTS, SEVERAL LANGUAGES AVAILABLE.