Very little of the show is making and selling. The moral dilemmas and the guy’s process of trying to make good out of a bad situation, only making things worse, is something on a human level (not bible-believing christian level) that one can relate to, but not celebrate.
It’s like on a base level, you can understand why he did it, but you wouldn’t do it.
To me the show was a great metaphor for how a secular person tries to solve their problems. Their solutions - not based on anything biblical - solutions devised by man alone - only go on to make matters worse - even when they are trying with the best of intentions. They could have used anything - drugs was just a story mechanism. It could have been other things. If it was about a person facing a tragedy who decided to do something else illegal to make money, it could have worked with that.
It is a story about morals and rationalization. That’s why it worked. Because everyone still has a sin nature and it’s a story - to me, because the guy was not a christian, there were no churches, prayers, at all in the story - about how natural man, when he tries to make things right, just screws things up more.
And because it ran this way, it came across as REAL, plausible. For a secular guy to end up this way, rationalizing more and more of his choices that get darker and darker.
SAM, great breakdown! Brilliant.
The show is more than anything an example of if something can go wrong it will and it does in spades for Walter White and everyone who comes into contact with him.
There is absolutely no glamorization of drugs and if anything this show makes one realize all of the other reasons they don’t traffic in drugs.