Monday January 24th, 2011

Bah humbug. Uwtl yet again for the littlest of reasons.

It's like a broken record. Was planning to get shit done, opened myself up to distractions, bla bla bla, then 1-4 hours later here I am passing out at the keys and throwing in the towel.

One awesome thing I did accomplish in the latter portion of this eve, was finishing season 1 of BREAKING BAD. Having powered through the first two discs of the season over a reasonable 3-4 month span, I popped in disc #3 thinking I had 3-4 eps to go. Considering I only had the juice for 1 ep, what a nice surprise that that was all there was to watch on disc 3. Not an uncommon occurence for a basic or premium cable show to launch with a manageable 6-7 episodes, but I was unawares.

The following seasons are a solid 13 eps a pop and I thoroughly look forward to getting through those in hopefully less than half the time it took to watch the 1st.

For a good year now I was getting the distinct impression that despite never, or at least barely having seen the show, that it was totally my taste and that in some ways was my favorite show on TV without having watched a frame.

After now getting into it, I can't quite say I feel that insanely strongly about it, but nonetheless it is awesome television and one of a growing number of reasons why AMC is becoming the standard for event television. Between this, MAD MEN (which i'm fully up to speed on), THE WALKING DEAD (another show that had sold me before seeing a frame, and of which i've seen just short of all) and the upcoming crime thriller and western THE KILLING and HELL ON WHEELS, I may soon enough just be able to live on the channel that formerly stood for American Movie Classics. Shite, I may just have to go ahead and watch the dearly departed RUBICON sooner rather than later.

"We know Drama," eh? Haven't had that disproven yet so keep on touting yourself as such AMC.