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While the television was in for repair, we watched the first season of an AMC show called Breaking Bad on the computer. It is one dark and twisted tv show. I hadn’t even heard of the thing until Tuffy P came home with the first season on DVD.
It’s about a high school chemistry teacher in Albuquerque NM, who is diagnosed with terminal lung cancer at the beginning of the series. He is a man with many regrets. This fellow, Walter White comes up with the idea that he can generate enough money to look after his family’s needs by cooking and selling methanmphetamines. He does this without his wife’s knowledge. In fact, for the first episodes he doesn’t even tell her about his cancer. He partners up with an ex student who had been cooking inferior product. These guys get themselves more and more involved with the drug world. Meanwhile, Walter’s brother-in-law is a DEA agent.
The show is at times very gritty and nasty, and curiously enough at times it is deeply comedic. Remarkably, I had no trouble suspending my disbelief for this one. Very compelling.
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I just finished watching this (season one) last week! And a friend is going to lend me his copy of season two. I have to say that I don’t know how he can do all that stuff while on chemo but it’s one of the better series I’ve seen recently.
Yeah, I enjoyed this oen too.
It’s kind of like it’s adopted from the school of British movies. Britain makes like 4 types of movies and one of them is the ‘we’re really broke the economy sucks let’s make money in some crazy way and cast madcap characters and save the day’ (it’s a cousin to Mickey and Judy need to save the old fire house so let’s put on a show!)…For example “The Full Monty”, “Calendar Girls”, “Waking Ned Devine”,
Another tv show with this idea is “Weeds” which came out a few years ago about a mother who sells pot in a terrible economy. Only it’s more of a comedy. There is also a guy down on his luck and he gets a female pimp and sells his body and it’s called “Hung”…
I guess when times are tough we’ll emulate inventive and desperate ways to make money huh?
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