[Cornballer]

Breaking Bad is back for Season 5 on AMC. The new season starts Sunday, July 15th at 10pm on AMC. Emmy winners Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul plus the rest of the superb cast are back for another season of meth-fueled suburban chaos. There are only 16 episodes of Breaking Bad left. The first half of season five will air this Summer, and the last eight episodes will air Summer 2013.

Please take the time to read through the OP - in particular the spoiler rules if you're not familiar with how things are done on TV GAF. Let me know about any omissions, errors, dead links, etc... in the thread and I'll fix them up.

About Season 5 Breaking Bad returns to AMC for the first part of its final season on Sunday July 15 at 10/9c. In the highly anticipated new season, a newly empowered and increasingly remorseless Walter White (Bryan Cranston) finds himself attempting to control a tenuous empire. But uneasy lies the head that wears the crown. At the end of Season 4, Walt's war with Gus Fring (Giancarlo Esposito) ended in triumphant victory. Now, his transformation from a well-meaning family man into Heisenberg, a ruthless drug kingpin, is almost complete. No longer under the thumb of a mastermind criminal, Walt now assumes the role of one himself, as he and Jesse (Aaron Paul) look to build their own empire. Meanwhile, Skyler (Anna Gunn) struggles with the reality of her husband's new role and Hank (Dean Norris) works to wrap up his investigation of Gus' business. About the Show Breaking Bad follows protagonist Walter White (Bryan Cranston), a chemistry teacher who lives in New Mexico with his wife (Anna Gunn) and teenage son (RJ Mitte) who has cerebral palsy. White is diagnosed with Stage III cancer and given a prognosis of two years left to live. With a new sense of fearlessness based on his medical prognosis, and a desire to secure his family's financial security, White chooses to enter a dangerous world of drugs and crime and ascends to power in this world. The series explores how a fatal diagnosis such as White's releases a typical man from the daily concerns and constraints of normal society and follows his transformation from mild family man to a kingpin of the drug trade.

Cast

Bryan Cranston - Walter White
Anna Gunn - Skyler White
Aaron Paul - Jesse Pinkman
Dean Norris - Hank Schrader
Betsy Brandt - Marie Schrader
RJ Mitte - Walter White, Jr.
Bob Odenkirk - Saul Goodman
Jonathan Banks - Mike

Videos:

AMC:

- Sneak Peek #2 from Episode 501
- Where Season 4 Left Off: Inside Breaking Bad (AMC vid)
- On-Air Trailer: Because I Say So *spoilers*
- A Look Ahead at Season 5: Inside Breaking Bad *spoilers*
- On-Air Trailer: Time Bomb *spoilers*
- On-Air Trailer: Dangerous *spoilers*
- On-Air Trailer: Antihero *spoilers*
- On-Air Trailer: All Hail the King *spoilers*
- On-Air Trailer: Walt's On Top *spoilers*
- Sneak Peek Episode 501 Breaking Bad: Live Free or Die *spoilers*

Fan Videos:

- Montage of Breaking Bad POV camera angles
- Breaking Bad - The Ecstasy of Gold
- Breaking Bad - A Series
- Breaking Bad: Requiem for a Dream
- Breaking bad gag reels
- Breaking Bad : : : T I M E L A P S E S : : :

Picture Galleries:

- Studio photos
- Promo pictures (spoilers)

Articles, Interviews, and Casting Reports:

- Short article from Wired: How Breaking Bad Resurrects Its Antihero Again and Again
- Poniewozik for Time Magazine: The Greatest American Antihero (behind a paywall & print edition only, excerpts here)
- EW.com: 'Breaking Bad' taps Scottish actress Laura Fraser to play 'important' character in season 5
- Onion A|V Club: Friday Night Lights' Jesse Plemons joins the cast of Breaking Bad

Other Links and Media

- Wikipedia
- IMDB
- AMC Vids
- AMC's Official Site
- BetterCallSaul.com
- GAF S1 thread
- GAF S2 thread
- GAF S3 thread
- GAF S4 thread

Hardware:



Upcoming Schedule & Loglines:

S5, Ep1 - Live Free or Die - Jul. 15, 2012
S5, Ep2 - Madrigal - Jul. 22, 2012
S5, Ep3 - Hazard Pay - Jul. 29, 2012
S5, Ep4 - Fifty-One - Aug. 5, 2012
S5, Ep5 - Dead Freight - Aug. 12, 2012
S5, Ep6 - Buyout - Aug. 19, 2012
S5, Ep7 - Everybody Wins - Aug. 26, 2012
S5, Ep8 - Gliding All Over - Sep. 2, 2012

On Spoilers:

Regular TV thread rules apply:

• Once an episode airs in the US on the East Coast, it's fair game. Feel free to discuss anything that has aired without using spoiler tags.
• Anything that hasn't aired yet should be spoiler tagged including information from previews, loglines, trailers, interviews, and a few other places.

There is a spoiler thread if you'd like to discuss leaks, photos, and other content without spoiler tags:

Breaking Bad Season 5 *SPOILER* Thread - Untagged discussion, photos, and leaks

If anything leaks, please use the other thread for discussion.

Etiquette and a Plea for Civility:

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Posting Etiquette Be polite, please In general when posting in threads, don't be a dick. Be respectful of other fellow members, and learn to argue against the points in a discussion without making it personal or insulting the other party. Present your points well and others will respect your opinion more. Using proper grammar and avoiding typos will also make it easier for others to understand your message. Don't derail threads Forums generally operate differently from chatrooms. While NeoGAF is faster moving than most, and some threads on Off Topic Discussions cover a more general set of topics, it is still best to keep within the perimeters of a discussion. Posting in a manner that would shift the subject of discussion to something completely unrelated to the thread's core discussion point is not welcome.

Let's do this!

[Az]

Wohoooooooooooooooooo

[BlueTsunami]

[Good Job Bob]

Ready.

[ivysaur12]

What is this from?

Also, from the official Breaking Bad facebook page... I lol'ed:

[Rez]

I wonder how many times the same "is Walter sympathetic/evil" conversation will occur this time. I hope we can continue having the same interesting discourse over and over and over and over and over

[BigAT]

So hyped.

[gdt]

I am partly aroused at the moment.

[WillyFive]

Sounds like a blast.

In that I expect explosions.

[shorty_symd]

Can not wait!!!

[Divvy]

HYPE HYPE HYPE!

[Willkiller]

OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG

[Cornballer]

What is this from?

It's a shot from one of the wrap parties on the blooper reel from one of the early seasons. Cranston usually shows up in costume:

[Copernicus]

Cornballer isn't the Breaking Bad thread maker, he IS the Breaking Bad thread.

[ezekial45]

Well done, Cornballer.

Hope everyone with access to AMC will enjoy it.

:(

[dave is ok]

Walt dies.

[Copernicus]

Walt dies.

Walt is already dead.


On the inside.

[Jarmel]

Best show airing on TV makes its return.

Yes I'm including Mad Men.

[Chinner]

walt junior becomes a rival gang boss.

[The_eJoker]

Yes! My body is ready, biAtches!

[Divvy]

I can almost taste it!

[ivysaur12]

HYPE HYPE HYPE!

This is amazing.

[bangladesh]

I can breathe again..

[Jon]

SO READY.

[IamMattFox]

Finally caught up with seasons three and four over the last week or so.

I think I'm ready for this.

[Altazor]

My body is ready, BITCH!!!

[RubxQub]

AW SHIT YEAH! ....BITCH!

[H3xum]

Shortly after wrapping up season 4 I wished they would have ended the series there, Walt made the transformation of good guy to completely evil guy, the arc was done.

Then after not watching it for a few weeks I wanted more

Give me more

Can't wait for more

Also, please bring me some Mike

[dave is ok]

Kind of crazy to think only a year has passed from the pilot until episode four of this season.

[Dany M]

Let's do this! BITCH!!!

[Wuthering_Heights]

Can't wait for this, urgh!

[Az]

Sub'd. I am moving in full time.

[M_Night]

subbbeddd!!! first season for me whilst the show is airing!

[tycoonheart]

Awesome stuff Corn.

Hyped.

[Clown_im_OP]

Wait what, part 2 airs next summer? I thought it was due this year. I'm never gonna survive this :(

[H3xum]

God I (irrationally?) hated Skylar SO MUCH during this scene

[RyanardoDaVinci]

Fuck you, Dish!

Melt in a tub of acid, please.

[BenjaminBirdie]

HYPE HYPE HYPE!

OMFG

[mysticwhip]

cornball u da man


so this year's emmy's will have season 4 up for nomination?

in this video we see walt with hair and a beard, i knew cranston wasn't going to put it to waste when i saw him rocking it earlier in the year.

[Superimposer]

My body is ready

[ConvenientBox]

STICK IT INTO MY VEINS

[dave is ok]

so this year's emmy's will have season 4 up for nomination?

Yes.

[Palabrah]

Ready Bro. Ready.

[Neuromancer]

I'm all caught up, can't wait!

[The One Who Knocks]

walt junior becomes a rival gang boss.

"Becomes"? He already is! Walter Junior and Flynn parallels Walter and Heisenberg. Walter Jr. also has Louis who parallels Jesse. When Hugo got arrested in Season 1 as a "major pot-head"? That was Walter Junior covering his tracks. Breakfast is merely a cover, excess maple syrup is his ricin.

Anyway, this is how the show must end:
The final episode wraps up and the credits roll. However, after the credits another scene is played. It is breakfast. Walter White (with hair) is talking to Skyler with affection and they are clearly happy together. Walter Junior is sitting at the table, maple-syrup covered pancakes in front of him, staring intensly. Walter then turns to Skyler and says "I wonder what he thinks about while eating breakfast?" and the show ends, the real final credits then play.
A joke of course

Anyway, incredibly hyped for Season 5, I can't believe it's less than a week away now, that gap between season 4 and now was arduous but not as bad as I'm sure Part 1 to Part 2 will be.

EDIT: Also, forgot to say that that's an excellent opening post. The .gifs you've included and the videos are very entertaining.

[MightyHedgehog]

I've heard so much shit about how awesome this season will be, I cannot wait to start seeing it for myself. I just don't want it to end, though.

*hopes for a BB post-series movie*

[shotgun shaun]

Kind of crazy to think only a year has passed from the pilot until episode four of this season.

I know that baby should be like 4 years old.

[mysticwhip]

in this video we see walt with hair and a beard, i knew cranston wasn't going to put it to waste when i saw him rocking it earlier in the year.

[ReiGun]

Hype is at an all time high.

What is this from? Also, from the official Breaking Bad facebook page... I lol'ed:

HYPE HYPE HYPE!

LMAO

[IceCold]

Get hyped!