I wish I had watched this show. I haven’t see it yet and encourage comment from those who have. The story of a meth dealer does not sound like a show with a conservative message, but it’s worth noting that a number of mobsters from the 1950’s and 1960’s were staunch Republicans.
The article is a year old, just in case some people miss that.
The writer of this dreck blames capitalism on the downfall of Baltimore. Yeah right.
Or put another way, there's a freight train of karma coming at Walter White and there is nothing he can do to step out of its way.
Hard to believe he was the dentist on Seinfeld who became Jewish just so he could tell better jokes.
It’s a very entertaining show, but I don’t see much that is conservative about it. I think most of us here on this site (a conservative site if there ever was one) would not choose to start a meth business if we were diagnosed with terminal cancer. That seems like something a liberal would do even if he did not have cancer.
I was a bit late to the party on Breaking Bad but that only means I got to power watch the first three seasons in about three weeks on Netflicks, which was awesome. Best drama on TV without a doubt and one of my favorite shows of all time. I thinks it’s better than “The Wire”, which is not a criticism of “The Wire” (I loved it) but high praise for BB. Cranston is just awesome. And his writers give him an excellent script to work with. There are few actors who can do side splitting comedy and high drama with equal skill and Cranston is one of them.
Haven’t seen the show, but it doesn’t really surprise me. Vince Gilligan did a lot of writing for the X-Files and a lot of subversively conservative themes wound their way into the story arc. There’s a fascinating assessment of the phenomenon here:
http://takimag.com/article/the_truth_about_the_x-files/print#axzz2cvfw6rgC
I MISSED LAST WEEKS SHOW!!! DOES ANYONE HAVE IT RECORDED???
CAN I COME OVER????
Loved The Wire, guess I’ll have to give Breaking Bad another chance.
Actually, “Breaking Bad” is what happens when a group of Hard Line Socialists try to write a TV program about someone they CLAIM is a Conservative individualist.
I watched the first episode and small parts of a few other shows.
The basic premise is that a cancer stricken teacher is terrified about the financial security of his family after his death.
What do the show’s creators fail to tell their gullible and poorly informed viewers?
The teacher belongs to a powerful union, and his family will be lavished with benefits after his death.
To begin with, his health and funeral expenses would be close to ZERO.
He would have a basic life insurance policy - probably equal to three years untaxed salary - plus the opportunity to purchase more insurance at an absurdly low rate, even AFTER he was diagnosed with terminal cancer.
His children would receive educational benefits as they reached college age.
His Down Syndrome child would have been eligible for Social Security (SSI) and Medicaid from birth.
Most public school teachers are state employees who do not pay into Social Security.
Instead, the teacher would have a wonderful state pension plan, typically one that pays 75% of his salary after 30 years of service.
Most likely, that plan would pay around $40,000 per year to his wife, plus monthly benefits to the children until they reach age 22 or so.
His wife would receive lifetime health insurance, and his kids would be covered until their mid-20’s.
The wife would have to find a job in order to maintain the lifestyle they had before the teacher died.
If she did not work, her family could get by, without taking on debt, if she was really careful about spending.
In other words, the whole financial premise of this show is 24 carat BS!
next episode predictions.
lydia and todd forming a walt/jesse work relationship
pressure to get walt cooking , plus skylar’s frontal on her, plus jesse after learning of walt’s betrayal of mike and poisoning brock, helps hank get to todd and crew, cause lydia to have todd’s crew attack walt’s house/family.
somewhere along line walt fakes own death, the chemo is unnecessary as he doesn’t have cancr, but doing so for pretense, gets out of dodge, to regroup, something brings him back to abq to finish a job with the m60
the ricin ain’t for him, he isn’t going to die painfully like that.
lydia, saul, todd and company, good chance hank and skylar, do not survive.
gomez has ties to the cartel.
hank may get taken out by explosives in the neighbor kid’s remote control car.