GEITF 2013 - Breaking Bad: The Network & GEITF Joint Session Masterclass

[@raisinsandpeanuts]

The silloutte of the Charlie Brooker

[@DanXmas]

I wonder what Vince Gilligan thinks of Black Mirror

[@TheCulturalBomb]

I'm sure once the 12 episodes of Black Mirror season 3 have aired he will most surely have an opinion on it. Don't believe Brooker is working on anything else except his 20XX wipe.

[@terminalfrost3645]

he does like it, i think he said after meeting charlie doing this not knowing who he was before here, this is when he discovered the show.

[@MartyrLoserKing]

Lol "12 episodes of season 3". Good one

[@crazytosh1]

Close your fffffffffff.. eyes and ears!

[@TheCulturalBomb]

Charlie Brooker now has MULTIPLE Emmys for Black Mirror

[@SSCFPA]

Thanks Charlie, I got into Breaking bad through your advocacy of it. As well as The Wire and The Shield.

[@isabella6206]

love Breaking Bad and Charlie Brooker top banana so full of treats and up and down emotion,Breaking Badis the nuts

[@RuskyM]

Look at him when he says he's worried about Hank. Look at Vince's composure. HE JUST KNEW.

[@Eradicus]

Excellently stuff. I've seen every interview with Gilligan under the sun so I didn't think my attention could last an hour but it flew by. I really wish they had just kept going, could have listened for hours! Good audience questions too

[@nickwithers2244]

Thanks guys. Worthless, though, without the true footage

[@ernestocalzone1171]

What? Go watch the show lmao

[@enossified]

I would like to make the pitch for a show that consists entirely of Charlie Brooker sitting in silhouette to the sound of television montage.

[@TJB5]

Thank you so much for uploading this session. This is fantastic.

[@johnPaul-qn3dg]

Brilliant interview everything covered and I watched the whole hour, something I wouldn't normally do.

[@blizzy00]

0:25:55 God damn, i dont even have to see that scene to feel its emotional depth. About to re-watch the series for the 1st time...

The Sopranos is a show for van drivers and sales reps, and fair play to them they should have some entertainment in their lives.

[@giftofthepadgii]

As a self confessed huge twilight zone fan, I hope Vince has seen Black Mirror, nice one Charlie, keeping the Serling torch burning in your own inventive way! Also best interview I've seen of Vince and I've seen a few.

[@chesterules]

29:40 I'm glad Vince listened to his writers.

[@IchigoPotato]

Listening to someone drown in their own vomit from sound only is a weird experience.

[@EvilEddtheRed]

Thanks for sharing. The only shame, we can't see the clips!

[@jondkilla]

Do yourself a favour and watch this with the subs on, it's very funny.

[@veemacks7255]

Jon Budworth LMAO. That was a brilliant suggestion.

[@JKCWvids]

the difference between an interview such as this in UK vs in the States. The host/interviewer actually does good research and knows the show, including its trivia and side stuff.

[@e2theoc]

Funny Brooker said he was tempted to turn off after Walt didnt revive the girl, wouldnt he be interested in the arc of the character? Wouldnt that pique his interest??

[@peanutismint]

I imagine there's some legal reason for not cutting to the trailer but whatever the 'reason' it's not good enough. Couldn't they have worked something out for this tiny bit of the video?!

[@AtticusFresh]

Two of my favorite people. Awesome.

[@resevoirstudios]

Sopranos & Breaking Bad, two of the finest TV shows ever made!

[@mikeskeggs2418]

Just listening to the scene where Jane is choking to death is kind of funny.

[@amiclarehutton8689]

that guy needs rings on his left hand. "they stumble that run fast" said Shakespeare

[@henrywiltcher]

Brooker is a writer himself and often comments on the media, so it's the kind of thing he's used to doing.

[@TheScienceofArt]

Vince Gilligan is awesome. Supposedly Netflix has written a blank check with his name on it for the rights to whatever his next series will be. (Better Call Saul will be Peter Gould's show not Vince Gilligan's, but he will have a limited role in its creation)

[@Kairikiato]

i would be meeting vince

[@Kairikiato]

i know i didn't believe it when i first read, i didn't think they'd ever meet, reminds me of the surprise at listening to a derren brown and tim minchin interview?

[@iainjames03]

I hope Charlie will do a retrospective on Breaking Bad like he did with 'Tapping The Wire'

[@chasedbyfaun]

Now this. Is AWESOME.

[@WAAAAAAAAAAAY]

that was a great interview. Breaking Bad is amazing I would love to ask Vince Gilligan a question about the show Weeds [my favourite show ever btw], the initial premise of both shows are pretty similar......I've heard that if he had heard about Weeds before pitching BB, he wouldn't have pitched it at all......that would have been a great shame :)

[@amiclarehutton8689]

you know what's funny? this is acidic like the lysergic acid i had wasn't.

[@peanutismint]

Damn lawyers. Always after my Lucky Charms..... Great video anyway guys! Real insight.

[@J_PhD]

Well, it's past 4 and I just finished it and I have my fingers crossed s05e14 is available somewhere on the intertubes.

[@amiclarehutton8689]

acid reflux problems? try milk. mint. or minty milk. speaking of that i have some ice cream thanks for reminding me

[@amiclarehutton8689]

Walter White! "The Man In Black fled across the desert and the Gunslinger followed" Steven King. "my first thought was: he lied in every word, that hoary cripple with malicious eye!"

[@jessebrode4937]

Vince Gilligan = God of TV !

[@shadebug]

Good ol' KZbin, making it impossible to fair use clips.

[@BigEnos001]

The general critical consensus of all three shows throughout their runs are easily accessed online if you care that much. It undermines your rose tinted claim "neither the sopranos or the wires final seasons were received badly whatsoever". That demonstrates confirmation bias. They all attained groundbreaking brilliance but of the three, the consensus is that Breaking Bad maintained an exemplary standard most consistently. I didn't mention the Sopranos finale, but your comment is an ad hominem.

[@standardofexcellence]

Breaking bad,x files, and black mirror awww tv heaven

[@colz22]

Why don't they show the clips? Annoying.

[@amiclarehutton8689]

*whispering* fight for my right to party? what if i don't? i can't wear this if it smells like cheap base metal

[@Craig07L]

Starving himself? He took up running and said so on 10 o'clock live.

[@MrPKenneally]

'Saul Goodman spin off' !!!!!!!!!!!!

[@FreeThePlague]

0:05:50 for the interview

[@RichyTheSaint]

26:13 feels a bit strange if this is where you jump into the interview

[@jhmills1]

Brooker's lost a bit of weight. But his head's still pretty big. It looks kind of weird.

[@TheDanielShepherd]

Slightly concerned that I liked Walt more and more as time went on...I was suppose to lose sympathy? I thought he got cooler and cooler, I think Heisenberg is awesome. Now i'm worried there i something wrong with me...

[@TheQeltar]

Don't worry, you just lack basic human empathy.

[@peopleinthechat5324]

The Qeltar untrue, he lacks respect for his own empathy...disinhibited dissociative disorder....the fact it worries him is good. after watching this i agree with brooker ...control freakery, breaking bad is the work of a psychopath by the look of him...he turns walter into a sociopathic borderline cse from a schoolteacher. its nothing like the wire, the fans of this show are quite a different bunch.

[@peopleinthechat5324]

its the glamour and the attraction of the psychopathic mindset...it says "do what you want". Its a very dark path that would have ended far sooner for him in the real world. The fact that you care about walt is because the actor is not himself a psychopath...the director is...the absurdity of walt is what gets you i suspect. I tried watching it but my suspension of disbelief was too bored to tears by unrealistic characters and mainly boredom. his inevitable dev into some kingpin and killer ? not believable...hes the dad from malcolm i the middle for fucks sake and its just a rip off of weeds but with meth. theres no humour there...you ever met a meth addict? schoolteacher makes meth, gets away with it for five seasons as a plot device this little twat is proud of? guy needs money? how can i corrupt him? drugs...lets go with meth....the worst cheapest vilest most evil substance on the oplanet and if you start cooking it certain types will smell it from up to a thousand miles away and they they own you on way or another. Methamphetamine is possibly the most damaging and addictive drug in existance- it is taken by people whom it simply consumes....and quickly...inn many ways meth addiction is an addcitive cancer like no other. The fact that breaking bad exists and methamphetamine addiction is now not a huge and much discussed issue because of it? says wvolumes about the show...to make all that money off the concept of one drug and a mans involvment in it? If id have made it a large part of my profit would be going addiction clinics firstly in the city where it was set. I certainly wouldnt be selling wlater white bobbleheads to make a few extra quid. the hero meth cook...i dont think so. Have nice ife, just pray you or anyone you know ever even so much as thinks of taking, making , cooking or even thinking about methamphetamine witha view to putting it any where near a human. After about three years on the stuff...any amphetamine in fact...the human mind sort of leaves the head...ive met some nutters in my time but nothing comes close to an amphetamine freak... 5 seasons? and did you get the payoff of someone just up and shooting the cunt? wheres Omar when you need him? pish...fucking hero meth cook?...in that story the heavily armed officer of the law investigating the claims that walter white used to teach his students how to brew vodka in his chemuistry lessons or the screwed up meth head who gets a whiff and kills the bastard is the character im waiting for. i know an arsehole with a walter white bobblehead in his van...do you?

[@TheQeltar]

deadprivacy You're right except not at all since the show doesn't glamorize the meth business or Walt.

[@amiclarehutton8689]

That's Hoary. like frost.

[@TrueGaming140.48]

SHIT, its nearly 2 in the morning and ive just found this video LOL

[@Jaycy845]

I did!!!!!

[@amiclarehutton8689]

haha that one is "deviated septum" well not taking that for anyone else. Charlie mentioned the cancer yeah?

[@andrewbeeable]

and the audience are not whooping and cheering at any mention of the show's title. Or anything whatsoever.

[@SethHesio]

That's a very well put together argument.. And I have to say that the final series of The Wire is probably the weakest, you're right. I am speaking as someone who has only the season the first half of season one of Breaking Bad. I have no frame of reference really, and was just asking. People tend to get evangelical about both shows but Th Wire always seems to be #1. I shall have to watch BB fully and report back! Thank you for the superb reply!

[@RHCPfan458]

Was Charlie nervous at the start of this? Doesn't suit him.

[@wysiwyg2006]

loved breaking bad, its a shame UK terrestrial tv didn't show it. instead they show rubbish like eastenders or cheap to make reality tv. but like lost before it i was hooked and it finished very well unlike lost. other good shows are boardwalk empire, southland. love brookers shows, love that he too likes games and love his humour. gilligan seems great too, very nice guy

[@andremp03]

Actually Channel 5 did show it but in a crappy slot and then dumped it.

[@olliemad]

I think the wire is still better, the plot is richer and develops deeper and further, all the character development of every character is sublime. I still enjoyed breaking bad, it's decent.

[@Aveo00]

the wire is kind of overrated. the characters on Beraking bad are much more meaty.

[@SSCFPA]

I just think it is different and I love them both. The Wire is maybe best seen as an early 21st Century Charles Dickens story - which in season 5 was used by the newspaper characters. Dickens told stories about the poverty and related issues in Victorian England, The Wire does the same for a modern American post industrial city. There is a real political agenda and anger in The Wire, deliberately from the start, Breaking Bad is not written in that sense, even if the story does show up issues like US Healthcare and Teacher salaries, the drug war but from a different angle to The Wire.

[@lewiscranston881]

Breaking Bad is better sorry

[@RichardM-kv4uu]

I think The Shield is better than The Wire and Breaking Bad.

[@sidarthur8706]

the characters in the wire didn't really develop much but they were definitely meaty well rounded believable people with lots of sides that are revealed piece by piece. and omar's one of the best tv characters there's ever been

[@chesterules]

Am I the only one who thought they rushed the ending? I think the show needed more time to wrap up. :-/ 44:40

[@frenchdog11]

Yeah

[@amiclarehutton8689]

it's like 3mm short f*ck I've got wire

[@amiclarehutton8689]

manson family

[@Jaycy845]

Jonathan Hickman said don't watch this

[@BigEnos001]

The Wire was a landmark, as was The Sopranos before it. At their best, they were quite possibly unrivalled. But they both featured notable 'wobbles' in storytelling, sometimes lasting an episode, sometimes arguably even plaguing an entire season. The Sopranos suffered a general decline near the end of its run and the final season of The Wire (particularly with McNulty's storyline) tends to be judged less favourably than what went before. I'd say Breaking Bad was the most consistently excellent.

[@jeanpaulsinatra]

When it says 'the cream of TV talent' and there's a picture of Miranda Hart. Half-tempted to click off rn

[@amiclarehutton8689]

lol that ain't my show

[@amiclarehutton8689]

okay i have to admit i didn't watch this show because everytime i walked past my ma's TV set i thought was a jerk the main character looked like. arrogantly crystal meth. You have to balanve this with other consumer trends: how about the vegans? they think my candy nicotine is the danger rebel zone while you're there with the actually mad danger rebel drugs you made me feel like a freaking saint. you knooow? i'll tell you the truth: it's not like smoking tobacco. you might miss tobacco , you might pine for it but you really might not.

[@MartyrLoserKing]

Lol at the silloutes while listening to Jane choke on her own vomit

[@aim2plz89]

sweet

[@amiclarehutton8689]

i have a head. I'm very attached to it

[@puppetri]

28:25

[@jim191185]

Saul Goodmans spin-off needs to start with him leaving a dirty motel with a woman saying "goodbye Mr Costner" :D

[@amiclarehutton8689]

no pennies, i'm rubbing my pennies XD OWW filth in the cheap seats

[@SethHesio]

The Wire is better isn't it?

[@amiclarehutton8689]

nah it's a dud link hang on

[@amiclarehutton8689]

Strange Days 1999. welcome to Future Skank City Breakout. *waving my right index finger* jewellery programmed with antiviral software programs? you might need just to touch public handrails let alone a computer.

[@johnPaul-qn3dg]

Breaking bad utterly compellingly brilliant. XFile utter and complete bollox. What a contrast.

[@VayDooble]

Gosh, because saying that something in one place is better than another place in general does not mean that every member of that set is better than every one from another one. Nice decapitation. Shame you got straw everywhere.

[@BLUEROOMEXITPRO]

Season 2 of breaking bad is a bit boring after tuccos death then only gets good again last 3 episodes. The wire season 5 is a little weak compaired to the excellant season 5. But the wire has no characters that u sigh when you see them on screen. Where breaking bad had annoying characters like skyler and Marie.

[@BritishAutistic]

Did you just say The Wire had no characters where you sigh when you see them on screen? Really? I mean, I love the Wire, but come on. Ziggy Sobotka was so annoying, however he was designed to be annoying. If you think a character like Skyler is annoying, you must not be thinking straight; your head wouldn't be in the best state either if you found out your (hypothetical) husband was a sociopathic methamphetamine manufacturer.

[@donp8136]

+BLUEROOMEXITPRO You don't sigh when you see corrupted and murderous characters who kill their own associates, and instead you sigh when you see a wife worrying about her husband going psycho?

[@SuperWeetam]

I used to like Charlie Brooker, these days he just seems like the wrong person to be presenting things.

[@TroutMaskReplicaa]

once again you provide no proof, just ramble incoherently under the ignorant assertion that breaking bad was more consistent - wrong.

[@patrickkoduah]

The Wire is better than Breaking Bad

[@MartyrLoserKing]

Nah man

[@TroutMaskReplicaa]

notable wobbles.. what are you talking about? how do you even account for this supposed false-consensus? neither the sopranos or the wires final seasons were received badly whatsoever. the ambiguity of the sopranos finale failed to quench the thirst of the blood-lusting casuals who only watched it to see people get shot.

[@Borokan]

that has to be one of the most horrible intros ive ever seen

[@busessuck1]

lol I don't think he knows who Brooker is, he talks about people in the audience who've had to work on TV shows, and Brooker is tempted to yell "I know! I've done a TV show!" ... but he refrains

[@WhatTH3fuckkkkkkkk]

hahahahahahah