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hey guys so i just got finished watching the latest episode of what is honestly at this point the best television show ever. yeah, better than the wire and maybe the sopranos. honestly this show is some great fucking literature and really brings tremendous storytelling and vision to the media of the television drama. not to mention bryan cranston is fucking INCREDIBLE in:
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Sundays at 10PM on AMC
if you haven't been watching it, then here's my summary: the show is all about a man named Walter White.
Walter White is married to a total cunt bitch named Skylar and he has a son (Walt Jr, yup) with cerebral palsy (a smart kid who knows just when and how to play up his disability and an actor who can get that point across in a natural and charming way).
Walt is a high school science teacher—formerly a REAL scientist who did cool stuff at a big company—who lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico with his family. and then he is diagnosed with cancer (not spoilery: this is pilot episode stuff). this drives him to a really hardcore midlife crisis where he realizes that he will die and end up leaving his family with nothing. his sense of self and value and PURPOSE are kicked into action and he determines that he will go to any length to provide for his family.
and this is where he meets Jesse Pinkman, a local methhead and dealer—and former student of Walt's. jesse's original partner and "cook" gets busted, and walt offers up his science expertise in order to make some mad stax. so the two team up and become a meth-cooking and selling team. hijinks ensue.
so for a while Breaking Bad was about Walt and Jesse cooking meth and the trouble it gets them into:
but then they start to get REALLY good at it, and they end up getting into the business really deep. Not to mention that all the characters are undergoing tremendously well-written development throughout the entire story:
eaking d
Sundays at 10PM on AMC
if you haven't been watching it, then here's my summary: the show is all about a man named Walter White.
Walter White is married to a total cunt bitch named Skylar and he has a son (Walt Jr, yup) with cerebral palsy (a smart kid who knows just when and how to play up his disability and an actor who can get that point across in a natural and charming way).
Walt is a high school science teacher—formerly a REAL scientist who did cool stuff at a big company—who lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico with his family. and then he is diagnosed with cancer (not spoilery: this is pilot episode stuff). this drives him to a really hardcore midlife crisis where he realizes that he will die and end up leaving his family with nothing. his sense of self and value and PURPOSE are kicked into action and he determines that he will go to any length to provide for his family.
and this is where he meets Jesse Pinkman, a local methhead and dealer—and former student of Walt's. jesse's original partner and "cook" gets busted, and walt offers up his science expertise in order to make some mad stax. so the two team up and become a meth-cooking and selling team. hijinks ensue.
so for a while Breaking Bad was about Walt and Jesse cooking meth and the trouble it gets them into:
but then they start to get REALLY good at it, and they end up getting into the business really deep. Not to mention that all the characters are undergoing tremendously well-written development throughout the entire story:
walter white becomes a stone hard gangster.
as the story progresses, walt and jesse climb the power ladder of the Albuquerque meth trade. their operation starts to get really big. Walter's good what what he does—very good—and makes the best meth the world has ever seen. it gets the attention of the DEA—Walt's brother-in-law Hank is an agent—who are on the hunt for Walter's street alias: Heisenberg.
they also get the attention of gus:
gus is big. a big-time motherfucking businessman and boss crime lord for the entire southwestern United States. and by the time walt becomesa total G and the primary supplier of meth to Gus's entire operation, our protagonist has a LOT OF SHIT on his plate.
as the story progresses, walt and jesse climb the power ladder of the Albuquerque meth trade. their operation starts to get really big. Walter's good what what he does—very good—and makes the best meth the world has ever seen. it gets the attention of the DEA—Walt's brother-in-law Hank is an agent—who are on the hunt for Walter's street alias: Heisenberg.
they also get the attention of gus:
gus is big. a big-time motherfucking businessman and boss crime lord for the entire southwestern United States. and by the time walt becomesa total G and the primary supplier of meth to Gus's entire operation, our protagonist has a LOT OF SHIT on his plate.
imo the latest episode was awesome. awesome showcase of walter's development on the road to pure evil. he's distancing himself from everybody but he is'nt doing any illogical: in fact imo that's the greatest trait of his character (and i think the trait that leads to his defining hubris) he is a rational and logical man and expect others to be the same. here's the problem with that: he's only rational and logical as things relate to him, a trait that we watched him develop as he plunged himself into this criminal world, expecting to die of cancer some time ago—but beating it.
so we now know that the series has a final episode count and there will be a definite ending, and I couldn';t be happier. a show like this needs a real ending, and i'm glad that they're building towards definite conclusion (which, I think thematically and structurally, needs to end with Walter's death). I would love to see him become totally evil but having amassed tremendous power in a real american gangster kind of way, to end with him having "broken bad" for good.
so we now know that the series has a final episode count and there will be a definite ending, and I couldn';t be happier. a show like this needs a real ending, and i'm glad that they're building towards definite conclusion (which, I think thematically and structurally, needs to end with Walter's death). I would love to see him become totally evil but having amassed tremendous power in a real american gangster kind of way, to end with him having "broken bad" for good.
