The Mad Men vs Breaking Bad Thread

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

I just watched the first episode of Mad Men. I watched the first episode of Breaking Bad a few years ago.

Mad Men was fine, but anyone who could seriously argue that -- based on initial episodes -- it is anywhere near Breaking Bad's league should have their tongue ripped out, because that tongue spreads nothing but on-line lies.

[Tdarcos]

I just watched the first episode of Mad Men. I watched the first episode of Breaking Bad a few years ago.

Mad Men was fine, but anyone who could seriously argue that -- based on initial episodes -- it is anywhere near Breaking Bad's league should have their tongue ripped out, because that tongue spreads nothing but on-line lies.

Breaking bad is a much more complex drama than Mad Men, and it technically has a much more difficult job as a story.

Mad Men is just a bunch of ordinary 1960s jerks who work in a pretty good profession. Some of them are good, some of them cheat on their wives, some of them are deviously manipulative, and others are uncaring, and all of them are otherwise within the usual norm of people we know: ourselves, our friends and neighbors.

Breaking Bad has to show you a drug dealing sociopath who kills people and make you like him. True, a number of the people he kills are even worse, so it's kind of like the pleasure we get in Silence of the Lambs when Hannibal Lecter talks Rafail - the crazy in the cell near him who throws his semen at FBI Agent Clarice Starling - into killing himself.

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

I think Tdarcos nails it. Do you hear me people? Breaking Bad is so clearly SUPERIOR that Tdarcos NAILS it.

I can't think of any other post I could add to this thread to make it more clear. Now. Give those daytime Emmies and Oscars to Breaking Bad. Now, god dammit!