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(tv series) Breaking Bad – the best series of all times?

It was a long time until I started watching Breaking Bad, but now that I finished it, besides Lost who is number one series to me, Breaking Bad holds firm second place. How you know that a series is great? When you finish the last season, last episode, you are left with feeling of sorrow and melancholy and realization that it is over. This five season series revolves around how simple chemistry teacher good guy, namely Walter White(played by phenomenal Bryan Cranston), became Heisenberg criminal mastermind and meth cooker par excellence who managed to balance between criminal empire of cartel, neo nazis, DEA and above all his own wife and son. Until the bittersweet end that is. What I love about this series is that there were no filler episodes, each and every one of the episodes are superb and interesting in its own way. Actors are superb, Cranston as White/Heisenberg, then Aaron Paul as his partner in crime Jesse Pinkman, Dean Norris as good yet sometimes annoying brother in law, DEA agent Hank Schrader, of course Bob Odenkirk as Saul Goodman and bad guys, especially brilliant Giancarlo Esposito as Gustavo Fring, kingpin of drug cartel who became one of my favorite actors playing bad guys from Mandalorian to Breaking Bad/Better Call Saul, Godfather of Harlem and more. When I finally watched this, all i can say to the creator of this series, Vince Gilligan is hats off, sir!

10/10

(tv series) ‘Hunters’ season two way better than the first one!

I was surprised when Hunters season two came out because I thought it was a one off series back in 2020. I watched first one during corona lockdown and it was not a prime time of my personal life due to some other issues, so it remained in my memory as good, with good twist in the end. But, there it is! Second season, eight episodes and final season as poster above says. This one starts as first left us, with our characters, a group of Jewish Nazi hunters in 1979, dispersed around the world, some still hunting Nazis, some doing other jobs, some holding grudges due to events in the first season. But, one thing gets them back and joins them with another group of Jewish hunters, the hunt for ultimate Nazi, hunt for Adolf Hitler who still lives in South America with his beloved Eva Braun and plots how to come back and conquer the world. This one was created by David Weil(‘Invasion’, ‘Solos’) and has a stellar line-up with every character being so greatly written and done, from main man Jonah(Logan Lerman -‘Fury’) across Al Pacino who appears again in parallel story which prequels happenings in first season, to Jennifer Jason Leigh, Kate Mulvany, Lena Olin, Josh Radnor of ‘How I Met Your Mother’ sitcom, and of course Udo Kier as Adolf himself being grumpy insane old dictator, on the surface not having much reality based thoughts anymore and Judd Hirsch as Simon Wiesenthal. Since Jordan Peele is executive producer it was bound to have some interesting and a bit different parts. So, I love the hommage to ‘The Sound Of Music’, I think it was in episode two, and also the penultimate episode is I think something weirdest and also most beautiful that I have seen lately. Dialogues are great, there are plenty action scenes and deaths of dear characters, ending provides tiny window for third season, but I would like it to end here, this being final season as they announced.

10/10

(serija) Your Honor S01 – Dokle seže roditeljska ljubav?

Bryan Cranston se vratio starim stazama slave, odnosno tv seriji, nakon što je nekoliko godina izbivao s malih ekrana, otkako je završio legendarnu ulogu u Breaking Bad(kojeg btw još nisam pogledao, mea culpa). Frend mi je pričao za ovu serije još prošle godine uvjeravajući me da moram pogledati i da će mi biti odlična. E sad, nisam baš ziher je li toliko odlična kao što me on uvjeravao, a da je solidna, to je istina.

Dakle, ova serija je zapravo remake izraelske serije Kvodo koju nisam ni gledao ni čuo za nju do sada. Bryan Cranston glumi cijenjenog suca Michaela Desiata u post Katrina New Orleansu, udovca čiji život je sređen, nosi se s gubitkom, redovito trči i cijenjen je u pravničkim krugovima. No, život se zakomplicira kada se najmanje nadaš. Michaelov sin Adam na godišnjicu majčine pogibije odlazi na mjesto gdje je ubijena, no u vožnji mu pada inhalator. Sudbina je htjela da u vožnji naleti na motor kojeg je vozio drugi 17 godišnjak. U nastupu panike, vozač motora umire na trotoaru, a Adam bježi s mjesta nesreće. Nevolja je u tome da je vozač motora sin najmoćnijeg gangstera Jimmy Baxtera koji se zaklinje pronaći počinitelja iako tata Desiato zataška i štiti sina od posljedica…no može li ga zaštiti od savjesti? Zakotrlja se niz događaja koji će dovesti do poetskog no neočekivanog kraja.

Ono što je dobro u ovoj seriji su odlično napisani likovi, dobra ideja i glumačka postava kao i neprestano moralno pitanje dokle ide ljubav, a kada počinje kriminal odnosno kada se gangster pretvara u poštenog čovjeka, a kada uzoran i pošten čovjek postaje gangster i zakoni prestaju biti okvir za postupanje. Cranston je odličan i iz lika kojeg sam poštovao i zavolio u prvih nekoliko epizoda se uspješno do kraja desete zadnje epizode transformira u nešto vrijedno prijezira, odnosno počinjem ga hejtati kao lika. Dok, Jimmy Baxtera, nemilosrdnog gangstera počinjem shvaćati i simpatizirati. Problem ove serije je prvih nekoliko epizoda brzog tempa, no kao da kasnije tempo pada i do zadnje dvije tri i raspleta postane ne momente dosadno, filler epizoda i previše rastegnuto i kao da su autori otišli previše u širinu pokušavajući obuhvatiti više tema od glavne priče. No, eto, kraj je opravdao taj prazan hod i serija je zapravo kvalitetna krimi priča. Ako volite ovakve teme baš će super leći.