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Impossible Choices? The Conservatism of "Breaking Bad"
Truth-Out ^ | August 30, 2012 | Michael Corcoran

Posted on 08/24/2013 2:39:14 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued

"Breaking Bad" is a fascinating show. But efforts to compare it to "The Wire," which systematically analyzed American institutions and the American experience, are misguided. "Breaking Bad" is fundamentally a conservative show that is all about the individual.

This Sunday (September 2) AMC will air the final episode of part one of it's fifth and final season of "Breaking Bad," an immensely popular and critically acclaimed show about a down-on-his luck high school chemistry teacher who, after being diagnosed with terminal cancer, starts a life as a crystal methamphetamine manufacturer. The high praise of the show is largely warranted: the premise is fascinating, the photography and acting is superb and the drama intense. Some have even dared to suggest that "Breaking Bad" represents the best that modern television has to offer, even surpassing HBO's the "Wire" as the greatest show of its time.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; US: New Mexico
KEYWORDS: breakingbad; bryancranston; lospolloshermanos; vamonospest
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To: Mr. K
yes you are = trying clicking other links

click putlocker or filenuke or clicktview or any of the other links except for the one that wants you to pay

81 posted on 08/24/2013 8:21:30 PM PDT by vbmoneyspender
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To: SandwicheGuy
he only does what the script writers say to do

Really? The actors have no clout at all? I spent 5 years covering Hollywood as a TV columnist and my experience is very different. Writers are the lowest people on the totem pole. Most character development in series TV results from interplay between actor and director. Writers do as they're told, with rush overnightor on-the-spot script changes when needed.

82 posted on 08/24/2013 8:34:41 PM PDT by Bernard Marx
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To: Waryone

Well, I stand by that. There are a lot of episodes that don’t have gore in them. In fact there’s good, not over the top humor in them.


83 posted on 08/24/2013 9:09:05 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Yeah but Saul will look out for Saul when the ship starts sinking. He is ready to bail at a moment’s notice and at the end of season 4 he had already went underground with the Walt/Fring fiasco.

Besides the whole “when they start killing the lawyers I sit up and take notice” dealie - he ain’t lying.


84 posted on 08/24/2013 9:11:32 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: bert

Yeah, her and Skylar get on my nerves. Sometimes more than others, but consistently.


85 posted on 08/24/2013 9:12:28 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: LibertarianLiz

I’ve never watched it, but was a 24 fan, which I thought was great for intensity. How does it compare to 24?


86 posted on 08/24/2013 9:14:53 PM PDT by Rennes Templar (Mr. President, can you hear a special prosecutor now?)
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To: bert

Tomorrow, my prediction is Hank hijacks Jesse out of the holding cell and somehow gets him to talk, playing on the atonement line/telling him something about Walt that makes Jesse figure out one of the things Walt did to him to use him. If Jesse can be made to get angry at Walt, he turns. Also becomes the next logical target Walt would need to deal with.


87 posted on 08/24/2013 9:15:43 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Rennes Templar

I watched a lot of 24 in its heyday. Breaking Bad is by far, a far, far better show. Writing, characters, plot, premise, nobody lives through something they shouldn’t live through, willful suspension of disbelief is not required.

Best thing I have watched in years. Perhaps ever, in terms of real drama. Certainly the most real, unpretentious, not forcing you to sit through some leftist bullcrap ideology. Lets you see it through your own worldview. Everyone talks about it from their own reference point.


88 posted on 08/24/2013 9:20:51 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: A'elian' nation

Justified is fine....but have you seen The Wire?


89 posted on 08/24/2013 9:21:04 PM PDT by Blackirish (Forward Comrades!!!!!!!!!)
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To: Bernard Marx

We shall disagree on this. It’ OK, life goes on.


90 posted on 08/25/2013 12:11:28 AM PDT by SandwicheGuy (*The butter acts as a lubricant and speeds up the CPU*ou)
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To: Clintonfatigued

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.


91 posted on 08/25/2013 12:15:56 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Rennes Templar
I never watched 24. I just couldn't stand the little boxes and simultaneous stuff going on. I know everyone touted it as being groundbreaking; but, I was just annoyed by it. So, never got into it; although my youngest daughter was a great fan.

I find that Breaking Bad is very intense at times and, I have decided that it is actually a very personal and intense view of someone losing their soul.

92 posted on 08/25/2013 9:36:38 AM PDT by LibertarianLiz
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To: catfish1957
I actually have watched Breaking Bad since Season 1. The premise of Malcolm in the Middle’s dad being a meth dealer seemed pretty far fetched at first. Wow was I ever wrong. Cranston’s three consecutive emmys are well deserved.

I missed the first season of Breaking Bad. The premise of the show sounded so horrible I wanted nothing to do with it. Then my kids started watching Malcolm in the Middle reruns and I discovered Bryan Cranston. He is the reason I started watching BB with season two and haven't missed an episode since. It is the only show on television I can say that about.

93 posted on 08/25/2013 11:40:41 AM PDT by GATOR NAVY
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To: LibertarianLiz

I look forward to an intense and personal series about someone developing and integrating their soul.


94 posted on 08/25/2013 1:56:19 PM PDT by Rennes Templar (Mr. President, can you hear a special prosecutor now?)
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To: vbmoneyspender

OK thanks
I was eventually able to see the latest chapter by buying it from Amazon ($1.99 )

This is the ONLY show I miss on TV since giving up cable last year


95 posted on 08/26/2013 6:21:56 AM PDT by Mr. K (Lies, Damned Lies, Statistics, and then Democrat Talking Points.)
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