Breaking Bad Season 2 starts Sunday on AMC

ALASKA · Post by **ALASKA** » Wed Apr 08, 2009 1:01 pm

I agree. I think hank has the need to sabotage himself. plus him and his wife arent really teh fine upstanding people they try to portray to the world.

Nl5H · Post by **Nl5H** » Wed Apr 08, 2009 3:32 pm

If I were Hank i'd go start coooking...my fucking wife is a clepto!

Brougham33 · Post by **Brougham33** » Sun Apr 12, 2009 11:32 pm

This show delivers every week. Next week looks interesting too....DANNY TREJO appearance.

Harry Hater · Post by **Harry Hater** » Mon Apr 13, 2009 3:04 am

at the bitch tipping the atm on dude.

ALASKA · Post by **ALASKA** » Mon Apr 13, 2009 9:34 am

good interview with cranston in esq.

http://www.esquire.com/features/televis ... ck=main_sr

Truth. · Post by **Truth.** » Sun Apr 19, 2009 11:23 pm

explosion

still illiterate · Post by **still illiterate** » Sun Apr 19, 2009 11:42 pm

Damn I thought Danny Trejo was gonna be the new Tuco.

Seiko Flossberg · Post by **Seiko Flossberg** » Mon Apr 20, 2009 4:33 am

Truth. wrote:explosion

Brougham33 · Post by **Brougham33** » Mon Apr 20, 2009 8:28 am

The intro if anyone missed it...

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ALASKA · Post by **ALASKA** » Mon Apr 20, 2009 9:37 am

next week looks great. does he bring hank into the fold?

Employee · Post by **Employee** » Mon Apr 20, 2009 3:58 pm

Excellent episode.

Walt's got a lot of shit on his plate, too.

LOLz @ Jesse catching a rep off the ATM head squash.

Did anyone else find the inspirational blowfish speech equal parts morbid, depressing and hilarious? Jesse is going to catch a bad one soon.

The turtle scene was one of the best things I've seen on TV, cable or network, in ages.

Hats off.

still illiterate · Post by **still illiterate** » Mon Apr 20, 2009 5:24 pm

don't bullshit a bullshitter

Brougham33 · Post by **Brougham33** » Mon Apr 20, 2009 6:13 pm

How did a scary Mexican gangsta-rap group end up on one of TV's hottest shows?

Apr 20, 2009, 04:38 PM | by Chris Nashawaty

Categories: Buzzworthy

Last night, on AMC's cult-hit TV show Breaking Bad, audiences got more than their weekly fix of Bryan Cranston teaching high school chemistry by day and cooking crystal meth by night. They also got a taste of an underground music genre called narcocorridos, or "drug ballads." And it's safe to say that if Ice Cube and Eazy-E grew up south of the border, N.W.A. probably would have sounded a lot like this.

Before the opening credits of last night's episode, the real-life Mexican trio Los Cuates de Sinaloa (the Sinaloa Twins) appeared onscreen in a music video for a song called "The Ballad of Heisenberg" -- a seemingly happy little tune peppered with harrowing inside jokes about this season's twisty storyline, including the rise of Cranston's drug-dealing alter-ego, Heisenberg.

The show's music supervisor, Thomas Golubic, says the idea started when Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan (The X-Files) stumbled across a bunch of narcocorridos videos on the internet and decided to create a fake one for the show. "These videos are all over Youtube," says Golubic, who was nominated for a pair of Grammys on his last gig, HBO's Six Feet Under. "They're homemade, cobbled together from news report images of cocaine seizures, discoveries of machine gun stockpiles, and dead bodies. They're real-life outlaw ballads and they're absolutely fascinating. It seemed appropriate for Breaking Bad because we're dealing with the same world, just on the other side of the border."

Golubic says that Gilligan wrote the lyrics for his own narcocorrido about Cranston's character and then brought it to an L.A. producer and Spanish radio station programmer named Pepe Garza, who rewrote the song to fit the format of the genre. "The songs are essentially just like American gangsta rap," says Golubic. "They're tough and they use dicey language and not a lot of radio stations will play them. One thing that Pepe told us was that there's a formula. Heisenberg couldn't be the hero in the song like Vince had wrote it. The cartel had to kill him in the end. The cartel has to win in these songs. It's like Smokey and the Bandit. The Bandit has to get away. If Smokey gets him, it's not satisfying as a song."

Next, Golubic contacted Sony/BMG Latin, one of the few American labels that produces narcocorridos, and the label offered one of its up-and-coming acts, Les Cuates de Sinaloa. "They're these three good-looking young guys with two acoustic guitars and an electric bass," says Golubic. "They couldn't be sweeter, but then you listen to what they're saying in these songs and they're just brutal tales of drugs and violence and murder."

Les Cuates all grew up in the Sinaloa region of Mexico, the heart of the country's bloody drug war. And even though they've since immigrated to the U.S. and are based in Phoenix, their songs still have the same chipper-on-the-outside/horrifying-on-the-inside flavor.

Last September, Golubic and his show's producers went to Albuquerque, where Breaking Bad is shot, and filmed the video for "The Ballad of Heisenberg" that appeared on this week's episode. The result, with its cut-rate, cheesy f/x, looks like something you could have made on your laptop 15 years ago. Which was entirely intentional. That's exactly how the real narcocorridos videos look. The shoot took two days and Golubic says there was only one minor snag: "The guys in the band don't speak much English and they had a really hard time saying the name 'Heisenberg'."

Now that the show and the Los Cuates video have aired, Golubic has himself become a convert to narcocorridos. And he hopes that viewers who caught last night's episode and dug the clip might head over to Youtube to dig deeper. "The music's totally vibrant and the culture is really fascinating...it just happens to be in the news for all the wrong reasons."

The Red Scare · Post by **The Red Scare** » Mon Apr 20, 2009 7:38 pm

that was one of the best episodes

RoKnew · Post by **RoKnew** » Fri Apr 24, 2009 2:05 pm

Am I the only one who thinks it's getting a little unrealistic? Still an excellent episode but I hope this doesnt turn into Weeds

Nl5H · Post by **Nl5H** » Fri Apr 24, 2009 8:54 pm

^^ care to elaborate?

i dont' think it's too unrealistic.

ALASKA · Post by **ALASKA** » Mon Apr 27, 2009 11:54 am

anytime you get odenkirk to play a sleeze lawyer its gotta be great.

samdoom · Post by **samdoom** » Mon Apr 27, 2009 1:41 pm

ALASKA wrote:anytime you get odenkirk to play a sleeze lawyer its gotta be great.

agreed. PERFECT casting.

RoKnew · Post by **RoKnew** » Mon Apr 27, 2009 2:51 pm

Nl5H wrote:^^ care to elaborate?

i dont' think it's too unrealistic.

never mind, i misinterpreted the turtle scene, fucking GREAT!

still illiterate · Post by **still illiterate** » Mon Apr 27, 2009 3:11 pm

samdoom wrote:
ALASKA wrote:anytime you get odenkirk to play a sleeze lawyer its gotta be great.
agreed. PERFECT casting.

haha, I love the fact that he was a fake jew

Truth. · Post by **Truth.** » Mon Apr 27, 2009 3:55 pm

this is the best show of all time

christian from austin · Mon Apr 27, 2009 5:48 pm

conscience gets expensive

Apathwhy · Post by **Apathwhy** » Mon Apr 27, 2009 10:50 pm

almost as good as the wire, which is rele rele good.

Employee · Post by **Employee** » Mon May 04, 2009 3:34 pm

Last night's episode might have been the best yet.

Walt erupting in the last five seconds was brilliant.

Everything about last night's episode was perfect.

Apathwhy · Post by **Apathwhy** » Mon May 04, 2009 4:10 pm

still trying to find the torrent for last night. It's usually up after a couple hours after it airs. whats going on.

samdoom · Post by **samdoom** » Mon May 04, 2009 4:20 pm

the last two weeks have been stellar.

"wire?"

Truth. · Post by **Truth.** » Mon May 04, 2009 4:24 pm

this show is perfect

cranston should get an emmy just off the looks he gives jesse when he does something stupid

Brougham33 · Post by **Brougham33** » Mon May 04, 2009 4:28 pm

Employee wrote:Everything about last night's episode was perfect.

Agreed. Really well paced, some beautiful shots, and a perfect mix of suspense and LOLZ. This show has not let me down once.

Employee · Post by **Employee** » Mon May 04, 2009 4:42 pm

Brougham33 wrote:
Employee wrote:Everything about last night's episode was perfect.
Agreed. Really well paced, some beautiful shots, and a perfect mix of suspense and LOLZ. This show has not let me down once.

Oh, man, the chemistry between Walt and Jesse is fucking hilarious. All of their exchanges while they were stranded were classic.

Brougham33 · Post by **Brougham33** » Mon May 04, 2009 5:01 pm

Employee wrote:All of their exchanges while they were stranded were classic.

Jesse:: What are we building?
Walt: You said it yourself.ג
Jesse: A robot?