Why 'Breaking Bad' Is The Best Show Ever And Why That Matters

Forbes ^ | 9/16/201 | Allen St. John

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Twenty three minutes into Episode 514, entitled “Ozymandias” after a Shelley poem, Breaking Bad made television history. Except that most fans didn’t notice. They were instead ready to cry, scream, vomit, or hurl a waffle iron at the plasma TV, or some combination of the above.

[PieterCasparzen]

From the Sparta Independent, a real-life heroin operation in beautiful suburban NJ.

"Davieau is the owner of Royal Communications of Wharton, N.J., a business that provided the communication needs to a host of law enforcement agencies throughout the State of New Jersey. Davieau is also the proprietor of the River Styx Grill located on Lake Hopatcong, N.J. Police executed search warrants on the evening of August 6, 2013 at both locations from which Davieau is charged with distributing heroin during this investigation.

Authorities also identified Frank L. Griffin, 51, of Newark as the source of the heroin. He was also arrested in Newark, N.J. on Tuesday. Griffin was lodged in the Morris County Correctional Facility on $120,000.00 no 10% bail.

In addition authorities arrested Amanda Skinner, 25, of Hopatcong; Rachael Dean, 29; of Hopatcong, Jimmy Mauer, 25, of Andover; Maria McHugh, 28, of Ledgewood; Joseph Pokrzywa, 28, of Hopatcong;for their involvement in this illicit heroin distribution operation, according to a police statement."

Of course, Frank Griffin's supplier is "too big to fail", i.e., too close to the Afghan pipeline to touch. So it ends with Frank.

I have no idea who these folks are; they are just one of so many low-level busts. I know that we don't see years of finely crafted greek tragedy storylines, just a brief, albeit cheesy, stint at the bottom of new world order's drug distribution hierarchy. They no doubt thought they were way cooler than "Breaking Bad", since, instead of just sitting watching on the couch, they had the ambition to get up and make it happen in real life. The only people in the drug business who never get caught are the mainstream banks who participate in the money laundering, for example, HSBC, while the BCCI-type rogue operations are taken down every now and then to appease the public (while, of course, the real connections to them are "washed out" of the news), to spring up elsewhere under different names. Even the spooks who facilitate the large-scale producing and importing are subject to new world order's internal death penalty, which must temper some of the job's excitement. Nobody wins but new world order, since the connection between them and the drug trade, for practical legal purposes, does not exist.

http://spartaindependent.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20130809/NEWS01/130809964/0/entertainment/Police-bust-Hopatcong-heroin-operation

[doorgunner69]

I don’t watch shows that have followed the trend of making losers somehow be cool and edgy, it just feeds the gangster mentality.

Precisely why I mentioned why I would never watch a minute of that sort of garbage. Tried Hell on Wheels and turned it off immediately. Junk.

One thing about these threads, though, really brings out some very odd FR members when their favorite ox gets gored.

Almost as much fun as poking fun at Apple fanatics......

[Revolting cat!]

323 posts about a show so many people DON’T watch!

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Precisely why I mentioned why I would never watch a minute of that sort of garbage. Tried Hell on Wheels and turned it off immediately. Junk. One thing about these threads, though, really brings out some very odd FR members when their favorite ox gets gored. Almost as much fun as poking fun at Apple fanatics......

So you're not really interested in the topic, you just like harassing people?

Do you still beat your wife?

[murron]

Me too. I had no idea they called it “cooking”.

[murron]

I see a lot of posts about shows that I don’t watch and I just pass them by. If people like a certain show, even if it’s not my cup of tea, I don’t care and leave them alone to discuss what they like. I can’t understand people who don’t watch a show and join a discussion thread about what they don’t like about it.

[doorgunner69]

I like pissing off fanatics. Television addicts fit that description.

Your howling at the moon on this thread have given me a lot of laughs, please continue..............

[E. Pluribus Unum]

You admit you enjoy being a bully.

How many times have you been married?

[dead]

Shane may be my all time favorite character.

Do you watch Justified?

The actor who played Shane (Walton Goggins) once again plays the second banana to the main character, and once again totally steals the show.

He's really a fascinating actor, reminds me a bit of Steve Buscemi in that he's automatically the focus of every scene he's in.

I loved The Shield, but I thought the ending was a bit preposterous. He couldn't strike a deal to stay out of prison (and remain a cop!!) after coming clean on all that he'd done. There's no deal available for a guy like that.

[dead]

I want that!

Unlike so many other comedies, Car 54 still holds up as hysterically funny.

It was way ahead of its time - very absurdist and surreal, especially for the pre-Beatles black and white world of early 60s television.

[Ms. AntiFeminazi]

Yes, I watched Justified. I’m a big Timothy Olyphant fan. I liked him in Go! I thought he was a good match with Walton who does steal the show. I’m always watching for his next gig.

[Zionist Conspirator]

[free-n-TX]

Wow, you nailed it.
I used to catch hell from my (self-righteous) husband about watching “that drug show”. I have never done illegal drugs or even smoked a cigarette. This show certainly does not make the drug world glamorous. But the drug culture adds a contemporary twist to an ancient morality tale. Now my husband is “addicted”..... The story, the writing, the acting, and the editing are just superb.

[cornelis]

It’s too hard to write a successful plot where the protagonist is ravished by virtue and inspires with beautiful relationships.

[woofie]

I dont watch it all the time

[woofie]

Let me rephrase that ...I am busy most Sunday nights not watching it

If you missed any I can probably fill you in

[woofie]

Immoral and Amoral characters. Gory violence. Meaningless sex and nudity. Lots and lots of foul language.

Are you talking about Shakespeare?

[woofie]

Here is my vote for the ending ...

Walt returns to Albuquerque to shoot the people at Gray Matter

[BADROTOFINGER]

You really should check it out. The best show ever.

[patriot08]

They are starting the BB series all over again on AMC later this month. (for anyone who missed any of it)