sinicalypse wrote:
no.... just no.
i'm officially sick of breaking bad. you seriously can't talk to a white person of middle class standing (or at least have enough $$$ to afford their own place+cable) nowadays without the conversation heading over to breaking bad like it's some epic masterstroke of television. the show was fun circa seasons 2-4 as he rose up from flashbanging local hoods with the power of science to breaking into the gus fring empire, but since gus left the whole thing is akin to peter griffin's dislike of the godfather.... it just insists upon itself.
but hey, it's turned into that oh-so-wonderful/ly-marketable niche of "event television" which the british tend to love (see what they've done to doctor who for the last couple'a years, sherlock, luther series, etc) and america loves too, especially in this newfangled superinternet age of memetics gone wild.
but yeah, i don't think of anything/anyone in my day to day life that's representative of breaking bad characters/tropes/comaprisons.... it's just a show about a goofy meth cook in the empire business who i'm told is one to knock. and when krysten ritter dies airplanes explode in the sky. can't forget that....once the show was willing to blow up airplanes to send off a cute lil gothy-looking junkie, welp, it got into the insisting business.
and now the end result is having to discuss this like it's some epic cultural event, when in reality, it's a show that's spent these last 2 seasons (erm, sorry, last ONE season since AMC's got fuck all in teh pipeline and they have to flesh out their soon-departing shows to max htem out for as many big ratings sundays as they can) cashing in on everything it's done for the first 4 years cuz the buzz has caught up and overtaken everything and now everyone just wants to see how it ends, as opposed to watching it because it's must-see-TV.
Yeah, people ruin every good show by failing to get it. The Sopranos is just about people getting whacked, like Mad Men is just about Don Draper keeping his pimp hand strong (or if you're a girl, an occasion to curate a retro cocktail party with recipes from Pinterest), like The Wire is an excuse for white people to think they're black. In turn, Breaking Bad is about shit blowin' up good and Walter White bein' an awesome dude.
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