You know that I like a series when I spend three hours watching all of the episodes available on the disk. So is how it went for the amazing series Breaking Bad. Not only does it have great characters and great actors portraying them, but it is also very visual. Instead of lamenting about the main characters diagnosis of lung cancer (Bryan Cranston as Walter H. White), the show decides to present the information visually, which is my opinion makes much more of an impact on the audience. And it does this a lot – telling you the story through images instead of words (the very end of the third episode does this extremely well). And what a concept for the show – a once seemingly brilliant, but now haggard high school chemistry teacher who has been beaten down by life (by his students, his bosses, money and even his wife at times), gets a sentence of death and makes an unbelievable choice. The main character in Breaking Bad chooses to be a drug dealer out of a sense of desperation (much like the series Weeds, although one could argue that Nancy’s reasoning is much more superficial than William’s), relying on his chemistry skills to help him “succeed”. Gripping, yet sometimes hard to watch, Breaking Bad is a series well worth checking out. 5 out of 5 monkeys
Breaking Bad – Season One (2008)
June 27, 2009 by ladykath
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