this is what comes of blood for blood, Hector.

[pocochina]

Who wants to talk to me about the first four seasons of Breaking Bad? EVERYONE, THAT'S WHO!

It’s hard to stick with (I’ve been “watching” BB since it first went on Netflix Instant months ago) because ugh, as much as I can watch violence of much greater magnitude if it’s clearly fantasy, it’s still hard for me to distance myself from realistic human

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[waltzmatildah]

Breaking Bad is the best show to have ever flashed before my eyeballs.

True story.

The end.

[pocochina]

IT'S SO GOOD.

I feel like a lot of times shows that are this dark are so gratuitous and manipulative with it? Like it's trying to distract and impress me with the Unflinching Bleakness (TM) and using it as a distraction from mediocre storytelling. I never, ever feel that way with Breaking Bad. I think the ugliness is used exactly right, and that's really tough to do.

[waltzmatildah]

There is so much meta and flail and squee and OMGWHATISBREATHING? at my journal for this show... but you should wait if you want to check it out because I've seen all currently aired episodes.

Everything about it is so refreshingly freaking HONEST that I just can't even...

*thud*

I think the ugliness is used exactly right... I'd go so far as to say the ugliness is pretty much the whole, entire point.

Except for this, this is not ugly, it's... I have no idea what it is! Loltastic perfection perhaps?!

[pocochina]

AWWWW, GALE. The one character even sweeter and more vulnerable than Jesse! poor guy.

[waltzmatildah]

And yet... still a crystal meth. cook! OH! THE MORAL AMBIGUITY!! ♥

[pocochina]

Ugh, it's so tragic. Like, he clearly wanted to geek out about chemistry - he would've gotten into any sufficiently advanced scientific puzzle like that - but someone so purely academic and so very without social skills or confidence really *doesn't* have as many options as you'd expect in the US system? There's so little funding for research and so much competition for it, and so much uncertainty about profitability. It's not like he had *no* choice, but still, even with such little screen time, the character was well-drawn enough that I felt like I knew exactly where and how he slipped into the black market.