A lot less rewatch value than the Sopranos
Not as entertaining and a lot bleaker.
shareCan't say because I haven't watched Sopranos even the first time yet (I have it on bluray). Haven't found time nor interest to watch it.
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Nope. You're wrong. It has fantastic rewatch value. I first watched the entire series five years ago and recently revisited it. Now I'm doing what I did in 2016---going back and rewatching my favorite moments or episodes. To me it never gets boring and is superbly well-made and acted.
shareI've rewatched Breaking Bad three times and I personally think it's more exciting than the Sopranos. The Sopranos did run for more seasons and did have more characters. Breaking Bad is more of a non-stop roller coaster ride since Walt and Jesse are always a few moments away from certain death and disaster. Both shows are amazing and they are also quite different.
shareAgree. I've watched The Sopranos 4X and will probably watch it again in a couple years, BB 2X and I'm probably good. BB hit higher highs, but was inconsistent and the last couple seasons dragged. Sopranos is more consistent, had more great characters, and is worth watching just for Gandolfini and Falco's performances. Cranston is no slouch, but his character isn't as fun.
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shareThe Sopranos was just a long, sleazy exercise in Italian-American stereotyping that I've seen a million times before. It's big hook with the mob boss going to therapy was really lame. Breaking Bad's big twist with the cancer-stricken high school chemistry teacher becoming the meth kingpin of the southwest was terrific and way more inventive. The scenarios that emerged as Walter White tried to live two lives blows away what The Sopranos offered.
shareI see we have Fast&Furious fan in our midst.
shareI could never get my head around the number of times Walt would talk himself out of a deadly situation, often by bragging that his meth was slightly more potent than his competitors. Gus for example would never have kept Walt around. Gus was too smart and calculating. Walt just wasn't worth the risk to an operation that was already so successful without him, even if Walt's meth was significantly better than anything else on the market. The second Walt became problematic he should have caught a bullet.
shareYou greatly underestimate the lure of greed. You think people who make, say, 20 million a year wouldn't take a risk to make 50 per? That's why Gus dealt with Walt and didn't kill him. And he was going to kill him once he was convinced that Pinkman could take over.
shareI think you underestimate the difficulty of building up and managing a drug empire the size of Gus' without being on any LE radar as well as the risk that Walter presented to that. Just look at the mafia; it's a common trope for family bosses not to mess around with dealing drugs because extra money wasn't worth the risk to the operation. I would expect an underling to get greedy like that, but not someone like Gus.
There was a lot more going on than mob boss in therapy. Walter White in most ways was the opposite of Tony Soprano. Walter was a brilliant scientist, a narcissist who dreamt of power, and cancer was the trigger that sent him down a criminal path. Tony Soprano wanted to be a normal guy, maybe play sports, but never had a chance because being his father's son put upon him certain expectations. His mother was narcissistic, manipulative and emotionally abusive. Not only was there a lack of consequences for wrongdoing, aggressive and violent criminal activity was encouraged and expected of him. He was basically raised to be a psychopath. That depth is why I like Sopranos. I don't know anything about Italian stereotypes, I didn't meet an Italian-American (he was from the Bronx) until my 20s, he was loud, quick tempered but just as quick to calm down, abrasive, and generally fun dude; but by all reports the show was an accurate portrayal the mob.
shareI would agree with that statement.
I've watched the Sopranos 3 or 4 times all the way through and loved it all.
BB on the second time around I just quit. AND I LOVE BB. I just got tired of it.
It's just an opinion. Settle down.
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One more scene of Tony's annoying wife picking out curtains for her 'dream house,' her flirting with a Priest for fuck's sake or anything to do with those shitty kids of his and I'd buy meth for everybody knowing full well it would likely kill us all
BB was amazing, start to finish.
The Sopranos crawled up it's own ass and took a shit pretty often
I own both shows on blu-ray.
I'm just now starting my 5th full re-watch of Breaking Bad, which is what made me come in here today.
I've only watched the Sopranos once, years ago. I assume I'll re-watch it someday, it was great. But whatever, I've already proven you wrong. The show that I re-watched is obviously more re-watchable than the one I haven't re-watched.
My Blu-ray is the barrel set. Is that what you have ?
shareI bought them individually season by season. I think season 3 was just wrapping up on AMC when I started watching season 1 on blu ray. Season 4 was the first one I watched when it was first broadcast. I bought them all on day 1 from then on because I was sure I'd be re-watching it more than once.
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