Click here for linkIf you don’t watch Breaking Bad – which concluded its excellent fourth season last Sunday – I can guarantee that you’ve at least had a number of friends try and sell you on the show. Breaking Bad fans tend to be rather evangelical in that sense.
And why shouldn’t they be? We’re talking about a show that brings in heavy-hitters like Brick and Brothers Bloom helmer Rian Johnson to direct mere bottle episodes. It’s a show where the dad from Malcolm in the Middle gets a chance to slowly yet seamless transform from an impotent, milquetoast high school chemistry teacher to a badass, merciless drug kingpin. Even the soundtrack is terrific, the last season alone utilizing perfectly selected needle drops from “Fever Ray” and “Apollo Sunshine” at ideal dramatic junctures.
So why is Breaking Bad different? Because it’s the first televised drama, to my recollection, that takes an imminently recognizable suburban American plateau full of RVs, fried chicken joints, and retirement homes, and uses it to tell the story of an honest-to-god birth of a supervillain.
In an above paragraph, I used the term “supervillain” for a specific reason. The criminal underworld of Walter White’s America is a grotesque place where the sight of a human head bomb-rigged to a tortoise in the middle of the Mexican desert is par for the course. While Walt may often play the victim, a breed of violence festers inside of him that often threatens to reduce the world around him to ash. Perhaps most frighteningly, as a chemist, he often proves himself most competent with homemade implements of destruction. In the year 2011, Lex Luthor drives a puke-green Pontiac Aztek, wears a pair of Clarks, and takes his fifteen-year-old son to school every morning. For my money, it’s the absolute best thing on television, now and in some time.
The writers and producers worked together in the 1990s on "The X Files."
"Breaking Bad" makes the Coen Brothers' movie "No Country for Old Men" pale in comparison.
Here is a download for Halloween. A mask of Gus Fring!
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