Posted on 01/22/2018 2:53:33 PM PST by CedarDave
“Did you like Breaking Bad as much as the rest of these folks?”
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Yes. It was pretty good, though dark and depressing at times. But it was well written.
If I remember the story line correctly, Brian Cranston played a high school teacher with cancer who decided to make crystal meth in order to leave his family some money.
I remember one episode where the Cranston character went to his storage locker. Inside, there were pallets stacked with $100 bills....80 million dollars total.
During my hospital stay, another night there was a “Walking Dead” marathon....seasons 1 and 2 around the clock. It was the first time I had ever seen “The Walking Dead.” I watched it morning, noon and night, and at one point I fell asleep. I told that to a nurse, and she said, “I can’t believe you feel asleep during “The Walking Dead!”
Yup. I didn't watch it for years because I ASSUMED it glorified drug use. Boy was I wrong. Great show.
I watched every episode at least five times. I had a cook book to write down things I missed and needed answers too during each episode. It was the best show to me.
Maybe all the car thieves were too busy binge watching BB to steal as many cars. Or maybe they all landed parts as extras on the show so they picked up more disposable income and didn’t need to be out thieving as much?
“I never heard of anyone else mentioning an idea like that until this show!”
There was a similar plot line in the movie “The Big Easy” in the late 80s, but it was about wiping a surveillance video tape that was stored in the police evidence locker.
I’ll have to check that out, thanks!
Your chart says auto thefts dropped dramatically during the run of the show (2008 through 2013). Hardly contributing to cultural rot. If it had any impact at all on auto theft (which it probably didn’t, most stuff is correlation without causation) it was contributing to civic pride which reduced crime.
BB wasn’t quite the one that broke that mold. The Shield on FX was the first big step to prestige TV on basic cable, then AMC put on Mad Men, followed shortly by BB. Those proved that Shield wasn’t a one time thing. Kind of like how Jaws was the first summer blockbuster but it took Star Wars and Close Encounters to establish a trend which continues to this day. We still get GoT without BB since HBO was well established as a prestige TV network before BB ever showed up. Probably helped Netflix establish its TV model since BB got a lot of audience there first.
If you’re into that kind of stuff I highly recommend Alan Sippenwall’s book The Revolution Was Televised and his Uproxx column. Good TV commentator and analyst, in the book he goes through all the building blocks to the modern age of TV drama.
Your opinion. I’ll repeat again, I get it you are a fanboy of a meth making show. And what was the objective of the show again? Making drugs? Sure. LOL
(Omg I would have wanted to go just for the fun) (and the manager looks like Gus!)
What does ‘Breaking Bad’ mean?
Possibly the best title for possibly the best tv series ever. Watching a good, ordinary man turn into a bad one.
Great point. Thanks for making it.
I’ve never watched game of thrones and probably never will. Fantasy stuff leaves me too cold.
I suppose. How about a well-conceived, well-written story about a “good” man gone “bad” who finds redemption? I guess like a good marriage and a good family, it doesn’t make for good drama? Well, “Our Vines Have Tender Grapes” is certainly a heart-warming movie with love and drama.
TV series’ are a different story. Not sure I’m too crazy about TV series’ because it’s hard to sustain interest? Dunno. But I’d like to see them try. How about a good heart-warming series about Trump and his family? I could see interest being sustained over a season. Just thinking out loud right now...
Morally it is a horrible series because it shows in living color how a good ban goes bad and all the bad things that can happen in a ripple around him. But as a story it is superbly done, with acting, cinematography, writing, everything done to perfection. One man’s vision reaching a lot of people. Sure, I like happy endings better, but this one was very bittersweet and a work of art.
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