The Weird, Secret Rivalry Between ‘Game Of Thrones’ And ‘Breaking Bad’

[steve2470]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/the-secret-rivalry-between-game-of-thrones-and-breaking-bad-directors_us_57e03eb1e4b08cb140974d70

”Game of Thrones” is a great show. “Breaking Bad” is a great show. Is one of them a better show? Perhaps, according to one system of ranking that many of us regularly overlook ― IMDb episode ratings.

Evidently, when the episode “Battle of the Bastards” aired in June, “GoT” co-creators David Benioff and D. B. Weiss spent hours obsessing over IMDb scores, anxiously refreshing the page to see whether they’d tied “Breaking Bad” director Rian Johnson’s perfect 10. And that may be the nerdiest sentence I’ve ever written.

Benioff and Weiss revealed the weird rivalry between themselves, director Miguel Sapochnik (who helmed the fantastic “Bastards”) and Johnson in a post-Emmys chat with IMDb Live.

“Well, can we tell you guys a secret?” Benioff began. “After that episode aired, we were talking to Miguel Sapochnik every hour, and all we kept doing ― we didn’t look at the ratings, we didn’t look at any of that stuff ― we were checking the IMDb episode rating. ‘Cause our friend Rian Johnson directed the ‘Ozymandias’ episode of ‘Breaking Bad,’ which was the 10.0, and we’re like, ‘We gotta get freakin’ Rian!’”

[PasadenaTrudy]

1. BrBa is my favorite show

in the known universe! I do not like GoT, for the record. Better Call Saul is my #2 favorite

[CBGLuthier]

2. BB is better. Where GoT really fails is in writing for the episodic form

Seasons can add up to good stories but few individual episodes feel like tight clean constructions.

Breaking Bad on the other hand could make one single episode serve as a microcosm of all the themes they explored. Like the above mentioned Ozymandias. Brilliant.

[hibbing]

3. I'll go with Breaking Bad too n/t

[steve2470]

4. put me down for Game of Thrones nt