Jesse Pinkman look-alike Ryan Lee Carroll was popped Wednesday after cops found a shocking 79,000 packets of synthetic pot ... with a street value of $1.25 mil.I guess 'breaking bad' is not as easy as the show made it out to be.
As for the "Breaking Bad" connection ... Carroll is the dude who won the ultimate fan prize -- hanging with the cast during the series finale at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery.
Carroll ironically said at the time ... the show was "highly addicting, just like the meth they make."
Friday, January 3, 2014
'Breaking Bad' Contest Winner Breaks Bad... (allegedly)
"There's been a drug arrest connected to "Breaking Bad" ... and the culprit was as bold and prolific as Walter White himself."
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Better call Saul!
Sixty, There's a prequel in the works, Better Call Saul.
ndspinelli said...
Sixty, There's a prequel in the works, 'Better Call Saul.'
Isn't that HRC's Wellesley thesis?
I started marathon watching the show, I had to stop.
I never got around to picking it up again.
One thing that bothers me about BB is that Walt didn't do anything that any garden variety Merck chemist couldn't do. Pharma would scoff at a 99.1 % purity.
Walt just broke the rules and worked outside the box. In this sense he's no better than a renegade soldier or policeman enforcing the law which I guess was the point of the show.
As a chemist, I scoff at him and I've seen better.
I just recently watched the first five and half seasons over about 3 weeks. Of course there are things that are improbable - a lot of things, but the show is really entertaining as you are drawn to see just what shit will happen next. I just saw it as great fun, and that's quite an accomplishment for writers, and actors and all the rest. Stuff like that makes the entertainment business look like an incredible good time. It made me envious of all the jobs involved. It just looked like murderous, competitive, cut-throat fun all around. Who do I have to blow to get a job like that?
The guy looks more like Anthony Soprano Junior than Jesse Pinkman.
Every time I tuned in it was a scene in the main person's house, arguing with his wife, the young tweeked guy dousing it with gasoline, the main guy cleaning it up!, most unscientifically, scrubbing on hands and knees, no shop vac, no carpet cleaner of the sort I have right here at my apartment, nothing chemistry-aspiring, and worse, the color palette for the design of the house is chosen to be depressing on porpoisexxxx purpose.
No designer picks such a limited color palette without something specific in mind and that something specific is: be depressed.
It works. I am. The whole time I'm going, "This sure is depressing, this sure is depressing, this sure is depressing, this sure is depressing. man, this color palette sure is depressing, stop watching you're becoming a little bit depressed"
It was Walt that made this series. Oh, some GREAT supporting roles but Walt was underplayed, something actors have a very difficult time doing. Like we are currently doing, watching the series every night on Netflix, so did the great actor, Anthony Hopkins. After finishing his marathon, Hopkins wrote a heartfelt letter to Bryan Cranston telling him unequivocally his performance was the BEST he has every seen anywhere, and the ensemble, the BEST performances also.
Chick, If I want to enjoy movies I need to put aside my knowledge of PI's, courtrooms, and prisons. Now, there aren't many flicks or shows about chemists, but if there are, I would suggest you just go w/ the flow and suspend disbelief. However, I understand some can't so that. I can't do it in reading fiction. A friend of mine in the fight biz can't do it w/ boxing movies. But, since I LOVE movies, and since so many include my expertise, I knew I had to do it.
There were some good characters, too - Mike, the guy who was everywhere and knew everything, Hank, the Javert of the story - the pit bull who will not relent in his pursuit of Heisenberg, Saul Goodman the comic relief, and of course, Jesse, who is as woebegone as a person can be. Set upon by iniquities from all sides.
The rest - Skyler, Marie, Walt Jr., Holly, Badger, Skinny Pete, who, like Reverend Jim on Taxi, apparently had piano lessons, and other conspirators, all had their moment in the sun, then were dispensed with.
It is safe to assume that Huell is still sitting in the room that Hank and Gomie put him in - unless he got hungry.
I enjoyed the series when I watched it the first time, but watching the marathon this past weekend all I could see was how dark it was. I think it is best consumed in small doses. Just like meth.
Wait, what?
Bagoh20's comment at 11:16 PM says it all...as far as the reality of it all goes. Entertainment, dark, is all BB was and is. The reality of the drug world, in particular the meth world is far darker and lethal. Walt's life expectancy, in reality, would really have been about a week after he entered "the market." Makes me a Grinch I know, I know...don't ask how I know.
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