I watched the first season, and I was bored beyond words. I couldn’t care less about any of the characters, and thought the story wasn’t compelling at all.
Posted on 09/12/2013 12:26:01 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Breaking Bad is about a lot of things—the contextualization of evil, the blind bond of family, the consequences of lifelong repression—and of course, the macro and micro-economics of the methamphetamine industry. But wrapped within all of this is a medical drama unlike any other, possibly the best medical drama on TV, ever.
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According to the article, Walt would never have turned into Heisenberg if only we had a health care system like Canada's. Of course he wouldn't have gotten any treatment, either, but it is racist to think through it that far.
Not so sure... we don't know if he was a registered democrat or not.
There is that.
Mr. White, aka, Heisenberg, didn’t start mixing meth to pay for his treatment. He was doing it to leave his family a nest egg to support them when he dies. He didn’t even want to do the treatment. The wife backed him into it.
I watched the first season, and I was bored beyond words. I couldn’t care less about any of the characters, and thought the story wasn’t compelling at all. My question is: is it worth giving it another shot? I hate wasting time on over-hyped shows, but it seems that everyone loves this show.
The doctor told him that the lung cancer was incurable and that all he could do was buy him some time to put his life in order. That is what Mr. White planned to do, but without the treatment. He didn’t want to spend his last year on Earth as as an invalid. The meth cooking was for the family.
At least you should watch this season and only a few episodes left. To see how it ends. These episodes move the storyline much faster.
It's where we start seeing Jesse as more than an Eminem wannabe.
You might try watching that one and see if it draws you in.
All I saw was degeneration into evil.
No hope for redemption.
I don’t watch the merely depressing.
If you liked Sopranos, you’d love Breaking Bad. I have run into a few people who genuinely dislike the show, but they those folks love The Big Bang Theory and The Housewives of the OC so your basic moron segment of the viewing public. It can be very cerebral, but as a lover of Vince Gilligan for a while since the X-files days the guy has really honed his craft.
I humbly disagree. I have told friends that they should not watch the remaining episodes if they haven't seen it in it's entirety. If you start now it would be like reading only the last 50 pages of Moby Dick or Count of Monte Cristo
I see what you mean. Any predictions on the ending?
I didn't like Sopranos.
I already knew that mobsters were - at best - ordinary schlubs. I already knew that members of La Cosa Nostra have to deal with many ironic moral inversions in their private lives. Neither of these insights are profound or particularly useful.
I'm sure that if you could have looked into the home life of Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu, or for that matter Saddam and Samira Hussein, you would have found that they had all the usual banal problems anyone else has. OK, they could deal with those problems using lethal force or torture, but those methods bring their own sets problems you wouldn't want to have, can't learn anything from, and cause nightmares. Who needs to know? Pfui.
Yeah, I think Walter will emerge alive and well as his BIL and co-DEA agent are killed in the shoot out. With their deaths the evidence and trails to Walter die with them.
Jesse will then kill Walter as he lies in a hospital bed on life support to get his revenge.
I watched the first season, and I was bored beyond words. I couldn’t care less about any of the characters, and thought the story wasn’t compelling at all.
well not everyone likes what others like. my general/rule’is if lots’like something i probably won’t. i came late to the game and watched about 4 years of the show across a couple months.
i think it also helped that i hapoened to like bryan cranston from his prior roles - all comedies so i was’kind of interested in how he’d pull off drama with some dark humor.
the best thing about the show is the characters, and plot are believable, for the characters as they are written. problems seem to naturally occur. nothing is awkwardly forced. how ‘people’deal with it is plausible. that’s how it gets you into it. i thik the general story concept was interesting to me. to see how they would’write it and pull it off without jumping the shark and keeping it believable.
of course not everything is everyone’s cup of tea. i never got into mad’men, or the sopranos, or other shows people’went nuts about.
But what is TV's best medical drama ever? Medical Center? Doctor Kildare? Marcus Welby, MD? Ben Casey? Quincy? St. Elsewhere? Chicago Hope? Gray's Anatomy? General Hospital? Frazier? I'm betting it's House, though doctor dramas are pretty slim pickings, and hoping it's not Bones or whatever the one with McSteamy and McDreamy is. It's not St. Elsewhere, if only because of their stupid ending.
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