I have not had tv since 1997, but tons of folks I work with say Breaking Bad is really good. So I watched the first two episodes last week. Well, actually the first episode and half of the second. I turned it off.
I’ll never need to see it again. I have no moral repulsion to the concept. It just wasn’t very good. I could not really care about ANY of the characters. It was almost like watching cartoons.
Part of what made Breaking Bad so special was the character development. One may not like a certain character but the viewer is able to understand the motivations and reasons why a certain character would do a certain thing. An episode and a half in, the character development had barely begun. The transformation of Walter White is quite remarkable by the end. Few characters of any cinematic enterprise have undergone such a makeover. Unfortunate you have stopped watching, you will never experience the change that comes over the viewer as well...