john 🤍

Yea he slept in a bedroom with children he was not related to. Shit is weird as fuck, absolutely unacceptable behavior . Joy Robson was not a good parent. This testimony was actually in Jackson’s defense. Her son testified in favor of Jackson multiple times into adulthood before changing his story. It’s completely reasonable for him to do so since something so traumatic could easily be repressed but there are other factors that could have played into his decision to persue Jackson in Civil court. It’s completely plausible that Jackson was a child molester, at the very least he unequivocally had inappropriate relationships with children and probably harbored some sort of sexual pathology in relation to children. There were behavioral patterns consistent with grooming. It’s gross and strange, but there is no proof that he molested a child. I can’t completely condemn him as a pedophile with the information that exists. Does that mean he’s innocent? Not at all, I would say it’s more likely than not that something illegal happened.

@johnm11772003 @reservoirdougs What is nuanced about this?

Michael Jackson was so obviously a horrible soulless ghoul and denying that is denying documented history

@PKontwt There is a bunch of but he didn’t write any of them

@absoIute_batman @EPM108 Funniest sequence in the whole show

finished our watch through of Game of Thrones, up through Season 4. god The Children is such a bad note to go out on

the real mj biopic

@oldnbatweetz 2011 Bron is infinitely worse than 22 Tatum when contextualized. It’s the worst choke job in NBA history

Fuck LeBron this shit worse than 2022 Finals Tatum 😂😂

@HowieRose I would remove Zep and the Stones. Both are fantastic bands but for a Mount Rushmore you need a level of uniqueness and genre influence that they don’t possess. It should be Beatles (Pop), VU (Alternative/Avant-Garde), Sabbath (Metal), and Pink Floyd (Progressive).

Exactly.

I’ve personally found it to be the weakest, still incredible, but very silly in some ways. Campbell is by far my favorite character, he’s great in every season, but I just could not take his mom being murdered by her gay caregiver (after his dad dies in a plane crash) seriously. It’s the most hilariously farfetched plot line in the show. It goes off the rails in 6, for better and for worse. It honestly reminded me a lot of twin peaks.

@eroscestlavie_x bob's disposition is basically that, though calculating behind the scenes. S6 besieged Pete is the best Pete. S6 is maaaybe the best but the audience COULD NOT handle as it aired.

i'm trying to think who in that season has the most like..."dog wearing a propeller hat meme" type character arc...in contrast with this...even though it's darker it does have some moments of real levity. and I actually think the answer has to be peggy LOL

@seuIgifilm I finished episode 7 (moon landing) last month I haven’t been able to watch another because of how good it was. I don’t want it to end.

i have four episodes left of mad men and i'm so depressed about it being over i'm doing an episode a week

@beastbossnastie @BadFilmTakes1 🫶

@johnm11772003 @BadFilmTakes1 owned

The Breaking Bad vs. The Sopranos debate is kind of moot when you realize that Mad Men secretly clears both. It’s the most galaxy-brained version of what historical fiction can be. We are all just characters in the thrall of the changing tides of culture and history.

Then it seems that you dont know tv or ball. There’s only one team with 18 banners. And yea I know no one else will read this, but I’m giving you the attention you wanted when you commented that vapid inflammatory bulljive because I was genuinely curious if you had any valid reasoning 💌

@johnm11772003 @BadFilmTakes1 i don't know who we is and i don't even care to find out lol

@beastbossnastie @BadFilmTakes1 I was trolling. Yall never winning shit with that fat ass Luka that we hung banner 18 on

@johnm11772003 @BadFilmTakes1 also being a laker fan is awesome and the fact it apparently bothers you is even better

@beastbossnastie @BadFilmTakes1 Yea because it’s Reddit as fuck to make a completely empty attention-seeking statement that shits on something the masses enjoy in order to appear more high brow.

@johnm11772003 @BadFilmTakes1 you brought up reddit retard it's not terrible it's just not even in the same class and is WAY MORE edge lordish and reddit (the things you brought up as negatives)

It sounds like you hate the audience more than the show. Doesn’t change the fact that you’re a disingenuous contrarian AND a lakers fan. Like actually try to articulate why you think it’s terrible when compared to MM and TS, you’re obviously spewing attention seeking hyperbole. BB isn’t even my favorite show, but the revisionism people like you have been doing to rag on something with mass appeal is a glass onion

@johnm11772003 @BadFilmTakes1 no it isn't and reddit loves BB BB is reddit distilled

Sure buddy. They are 3 of my favorite shows, so I’m not even arguing that BB is the best of them, but saying it’s dogshit in comparison is pathetic Reddit edgelord contrarianism. Objectively, BB is structurally tighter and more deliberate in its escalation, It synthesizes genre and prestige (It successfully merges crime thriller, western, and character study without diluting any of them. You get the propulsion and tension of genre storytelling alongside thematic weight), its visual storytelling is more foregrounded, it has a cleaner ending, It’s less dependent on interpretive framing, and It has far greater momentum which perfectly amplifies its themes. It’s just a more streamlined narrative in comparison with Mad Men and The Sopranos, which are cyclical, meditative, American Epics with large ensembles of exceptionally written characters.

@johnm11772003 @BadFilmTakes1 it's dogshit compared to eithier mad men or sopranos on pretty much any and every level

I understand where you’re coming from. Breaking bad is a bit more narrow in that department, but that’s entirely by its own design. I believe your claim undersells BBs societal commentary, it just goes about it differently when compared to American epics like The Sopranos or Mad Men. Those shows are discursive and panoramic. They talk about America while showing it through therapy sessions, ad pitches, long conversations about identity, gender roles, consumerism. Their method is to surface the themes explicitly and keep circling them. BB is allegorical and “pressure-cooker” driven. It takes a very specific premise (a financially strained, prideful man in suburban Albuquerque) and pushes it to an extreme to expose what’s underneath. It never avoids adding social depth, it’s just compresses it into a single escalating case study. BB tackles things like healthcare, meritocracy, the shadow economy, and masculinity through Walter White. It suggests you don’t need a whole cross-section of America to see something deeply American. You can watch one man, under the right pressures, become a kind of distilled expression of it. So your statement is accurate, if you equate exploring the depths of American society with explicit commentary and wide social canvas. Breaking Bad does it through plot intensification and metaphor, which is in my opinion, a different but not lesser approach

@johnm11772003 @BadFilmTakes1 Breaking bad is very dramatic and well-shot, but it’s not setting out to plumb the depths of American society the way the other Greatest Shows are

You are really living up to your @. This is a dreadful oversimplification that does a disservice to all three of these shows. You are simply treating ambiguity as inherently deeper than trajectory, and explicit analysis as inherently more critical than narrative consequence. Structurally, The Sopranos and Mad Men are ensemble-driven, reflective, and cyclical. they linger on contradictions. Breaking Bad is plot-driven and escalating. It shows how a flawed idea (masculinity as power/control) spirals into catastrophe. The masculinity critique is embedded in narrative consequences rather than constant introspection. Also, Walter’s arc isn’t just a straight line toward toxic, evil, all powerful “masculinity”, it’s a collision between multiple, incompatible models of manhood. Provider, genius, outlaw, patriarch, bohemian. Those don’t resolve into a stable “end state”, they end up cannibalizing each other. By the end of BB, he’s not the most “masculine” he’s ever been, he’s not fulfilling any masculine ideal he aspired towards, he’s isolated, exposed, and operating on a story he’s telling himself. You can make the critique that the show undercuts this by having him “win” in the end, but I don’t believe it’s a particularly strong one. Walt “winning” is expertly framed. His family hates him, his “providing” is indirect and hollow, he dies alone, with no legacy except destruction. What he does get is something narrower: he gets to feel like the version of himself he’s been chasing. On the day he dies he’s competent, feared, and decisive. The show gives him that feeling one last time, then immediately contains it. It’s a win in the language of ego, not in the language of life. That’s when I believe it turns into a shrewd critique of the audience, and sadly, a large portion of that audience failed to absorb and reflect on the deepest themes of the series.

Mad Men and The Sopranos both treat masculinity as tenuous constructs of their respective cultures (the '60s in the former, the mob life in the latter). Breaking Bad treats masculinity as the end goal of character development, and that's part of the reason why it's a weaker show.

It’s only vastly inferior if you don’t watch games. Porzingis and Jrue were negatives in the knicks series due to illness and the inability to shoot while Jaylen was also playing with a partially torn meniscus and they obviously didn’t have Tatum while facing elimination. Not to mention that they also had terrible meltdowns in the first two games of that series. They are vastly inferior to the fully healthy 2024 team.

@AntAllbusiness Can someone tell me why a vastly inferior Celtic team who lost to them last year has any shot this year?

Im not looking forward to Boston playing this flopping ass nigga.