Enjoyed Mad Men, Breaking Bad, and The Walking Dead...

It is far better than the shows you mention, very different though

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"if seagal was thinner this could have been a theatrical product."

Oh look another guy who thinks his opinion is an objective fact, and manages not to do a double-take while using ridiculous hyperboles!

Rubicon is anything but uneven. It is consistently slow in the beginning (which I find refreshing in television, but I understand if others don't), then consistently builds pace as it finds its ground, then is consistently good all the way to the end. That's my take on it, at least, but I feel like that really is the majority opinion of people that watched from start to finish and weren't looking for *beep* excuses to hate it.

My personal AMC tier from least good the best is The Walking Dead <<<< Rubicon << Mad Men << Breaking Bad.

TWD I find to be good but has a fair number of dramatic hiccups or missed storytelling opportunities. First episode, I'd say, is on par with the other three shows.

Rubicon I've already explained, and if you watch it as a single cohesive work (did so recently, rather than each week), it stands even taller, and the slow burn is much more tolerable.

Mad Men I find very satisfying just because there is no danger of it having a rushed or abbreviated or outright cancellation-induced ending. The storylines they establish always get resolved or continue, and although they are probably beyond the scope of what they expected to reach, season-wise and thus flying by the seats of their pants, it's still solid enough to maintain an edge on Rubicon.

Breaking Bad is the best of the bunch, consistently solid, surprising, moving, funny, entertaining... it's the whole package. The massive amount of taxing but subtle dramatic acting and visual metaphors really push it as a show that I think of as art. Only some of Rubicon and Mad Men (and only the very first episode of TWD) come close to that poignancy for me.

I'm looking forward to The Killing but I fear cancellation is likely for it as well, now that AMC is changing the name of the game to Ratings Matter Here. The fact that it will be a serialized show about an ongoing investigation is bothersome. The fact that it's about a small child, and thus emotionally taxing in all likelihood, is even more bothersome, because that will turn off a lot of cop show viewers who want fluffy unreality. It's things such as these that had The Wire be a show with low ratings despite its dogged excellence. Then the fact that it follows the ripples through the community suggests that it will be a character show, and focus on a lot of people in no way related to the investigation, solely for dramatic purposes. That's something I'd expect and hope for from AMC storytelling, but it's also something that ensures the show will go the way of Rubicon. "BORING!" "SO SLOOOWWWW." It's a double-edged sword, because the approach that will get high ratings is frankly terrible, and the best one will shun the ratings in all likelihood.

Rubicon, I felt was a much more subtle show than Mad Men or Breaking Bad.
Extremely good, and could get really tense when it wanted to, Mad Men and Breaking Bad are similar in that aspect but are much different at the same time.

I love all three shows, The Walking Dead not so much, but you should like it just fine.