those who haven’t watched much
I mean… I think I know what you’re trying to say, but this seems to imply that you think someone who doesn’t like a show should just carry on watching it anyway
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peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 1 day ago
Look there are two kinds of people with breaking bad.
Those who loved it, and those who haven’t watched much or any of it.
My ex got me into it, and she’s kind of… Well, shes not brilliant. So I didn’t take her recommendations too seriously most of the time (I really don’t enjoy Teen Mom or 90 day fiance or 600lb life). But this? This show hooked me. It takes quite a few liberties with the sciency bits and lawyer bits, but it’s fun even with a bit of knowledge cause it starts with something being “technically correct.” It’s well written more than anything.
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Robust_Mirror@aussie.zone 1 day ago
Sometimes that’s true. Not all times. But many shows have a weak season 1 but then get amazing. And you can’t really skip it without losing context.
wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Look there are two kinds of people with breaking bad.
Those who loved it, and those who haven’t watched much or any of it.
And then there’s my wife, who hated Walter so much midway through she couldn’t watch it anymore.
That was my second watch so not a huge deal to me, but damn she could not stand him.
Contentedness@lemmy.nz 1 day ago
I’ve never managed to watch the whole series. There’s great bits but I get super uncomfortable with Walters bumbling, flagrant dishonesty with his wife and family. I get the same thing with a few different shows and I just don’t enjoy it. To the point where I find myself just switching the TV off mid way through a scene and going to do something else without even really thinking about it.
If I had to describe the sensation it would be “extreme toe-curling cringe”.
ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
I have the same problem with stuff. Can you, um… anti-suggest?
Like suggest things I should avoid that hit those same tropes that made bb unwatchable for me…?
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
My personal anti-suggestion is always the office. Too much cringe. I’ll watch compilations of Jim pranking Dwight on YouTube, but I can’t watch the show as a whole because of Michael.
Revan343@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
That was my second watch so not a huge deal to me
I had to double take, I read that as ‘second wife’ the first time
HellieSkellie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 hours ago
I’ve watched the entirety of breaking bad, it’s mid
x4740N@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
I started watching breaking bad but got bored of it and dropped it
It’s not healthy to force yourself to watch a TV show if you get bored of it even if it’s popular
ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Idk man, as a science communicator, I watched it and thought it sucked. I know enough about any science field to explain to laypeople, but not enough to properly engage experts usually.
It’s not a bad show per se, but it’s a bad show, imho, as far as normal human motivations are concerned. Who gets their shit handled and still risks their whole family’s shit? Like maybe it’s just me but that’s stupid and hard to believe.
Iceblade02@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Honestly from the point where
::: spoiler spoiler Walter was offered to have his entire treatment paid for and turned it down in favour of selling drugs… :::
…he lost all my sympathy. I was increasingly curious about how things were going to go wrong for him. More fascinating train wreck, less investment in him personally.
markovs_gun@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Warning - this post doesn’t contain specific spoilers, but I would recommend against reading it if you haven’t watched Breaking Bad because it may color your opinions of the ahow
I feel like you missed the point of the show if you thought the point was to show Walter sympathetically or as the good guy. The whole point of the show is that it is his pride and greed are ultimately what drive him to do worse and worse things no matter how much he tries to blame his actions on external circumstances. There are multiple instances where he does things that are completely unnecessary because at his core, Walter White is a bad person. He is not truly driven by desparation or by love of his family, but by his pride. He wants to earn his own money, and he enjoys being above the law and feels that he deserves all his money and power because he is smarter and superior to everyone. As he gets deeper and deeper into crime, it becomes clearer and clearer that his moral decay is entirely his own doing and not primarily driven by circumstances, even though Walter certainly tries to act that way. I can provide specific examples but I wanted to keep this post spoiler free.
peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 22 hours ago
I don’t think we were supposed to sympathize with him at that point.
ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Yeah, that shit.
That’s exactly it, and where I stopped because omfg who does that…???
Nobody with normal human motivations, that’s who.
tomi000@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Wow, I thought we left ‘I am too smart for things everyone likes’ in 2015
ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Wow if that’s what you took from that… that says a lot about you…
Sorry I don’t like your pet fantasy…?
tomi000@lemmy.world 1 day ago
that says a lot about you…
That I can read?
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 hours ago
… You are saying you find the idea of someone being very reckless and engaging in very risky behavior, for the thrill of the whole thing, to feel more alive than just going through the mundane motions of an average and safe life, to feel powerful, to prove to themselves that they can do something remarkable and be exceptional…
You find this stupid and unrealistic?
Like, I’ll give you that the science of the show has flaws, but like… it is at least fairly within the ballpark for most things, decently detailed with a lot of other things… like, the FCC is not going to let you air a show that provides detailed, accurate instructions on how to cook meth or make a thermite bomb/lance, lol.
But… I don’t get how you find the concept of people being motivated by … whatever in particular it is, to do dangerous things.
The entire point of Walt breaking bad is that… yeah, he had a taste of all that violent and dangerous shit… and he liked it.
At one point, I think the last time he sees his wife, Skyler, Skyler basically asks him why he did all this insane shit… and Walt more or less says, I’m not gonna lie to you, I’m not gonna bs you… “I was good at it.”
His normal life was unfullfilling to him, constantly being disrespected and belittled… and he found and chose a path that granted him the validation and respect he felt he never had.
Yep, that destroyed him and his family and many other people in the end. The whole show is thus a cautionary tale, that even an otherwise meek, intelligent, and generally respectable man can repress much of his true nature, and that if this isn’t consciously addressed and reconciled responsibly, in a healthy way… it can manifest as a transformation into an entirely different person, with different fundamental values and goals.
pyre@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
i watched it all and it was so shit i lost faith in humanity because of how popular it was
MotoAsh@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
That says more about you than you’d ever care to admit.
pyre@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
lol yeah it says i don’t like subplots that go fucking nowhere and are immediately dropped like they never happened. or that i like satisfying endings to story arcs. or that I prefer things to have meaning rather than happen randomly for no reason. or that I think you should take less than 5 seasons to tell a story that’s at best one season’s worth. care to admit? lmao like it has some moral value. it’s just a bland ass series with mediocre and inconsistent writing carried by amazing actors.
MotoAsh@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
You must have an increadibly bad attention span, or have negative media literacy if you think most of that applies to Breaking Bad.
MightyCuriosity@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
I watched all of it and I found it boring and frustrating 99% of the time…
Crewman@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
I finished up to season 4, wondering when it was supposed to get good. I know there’s a lot of hype around it, but I guess it just wasn’t for me.
tatterdemalion@programming.dev 1 day ago
You gave it a generous amount of your time. I’d say if you don’t like it in the first few episodes it might not be for you. I was hooked almost immediately.
Crewman@sopuli.xyz 8 hours ago
There’s some shows that I’ve seen where the first season is boring, but the seasons after are much better.
My friends kept telling me to hang in there, it gets good, but at that point I gave it up.
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I made it like 3 episides of season 1 before I threw in the towel lol
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 1 day ago
I got to the bathtub scene, said “wow that’s amazing television” and stopped watching. I get it, he sucks and he’s going to get worse.
Crewman@sopuli.xyz 8 hours ago
I always thought I didn’t like shows with main characters I wasn’t supposed to empathize with, but found I loved The Sopranos and Barry. Not sure what it was with Breaking Bad that didn’t stick.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 hours ago
I am baffled by your opinion here, can I ask… what was another show, or season of a show that, in your opinion, did ‘get good’?
Crewman@sopuli.xyz 8 hours ago
I can’t think of anything I really liked, but season 2 or 3 of Game of Thrones I started getting into it.
TheBat@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
Season 4 is the best one in my opinion.
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 12 hours ago
Bruh. Better call saul was so boring. I got bored of Chuck of whatever his name is and the electricity phobia thing. Legal drsma is so borinh.
The Drug Trade is why Breaking Bad was fun and exciting, especially done by an amateur schoolteacher and not some hardened criminal.