Breaking Bad and the Modern Western Trope

Ate too late, again. So a little wired. Maybe a hot shower.

Apartment or flat hunting is frustrating. Not sure sometimes if it is easier with or without a buyer's agent. Without one - you have to do more work and are at the mercy of the seller's agents. With one, you spend your time explaining to them why you just didn't like an apartment they thought was great and perfect for you. It's like a battle of wills sometimes. Although I do like my buyer's agent, who more or less picked me off the street - at the very moment that I'd thrown up my hands and given up on the whole thing.

Been watching Breaking Bad again tonight and finally figured out what it reminds me of. Feel like I've seen this story before. This show or trope is what I like to call a Modern Western - which like the Old Classic Western is purely an American Genre and by American, I mean Mexico and Southwestern and Western United States. If you are American, you probably saw quite a bit of it growing up - either on tv, in the movies, or in books.
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I'm trying to watch A Serious Man (Superbowl? What Superbowl? There's a Superbowl on?) and it's putting me to sleep, which I guess is a good thing - since have to go there soon anyhow, having to get up at 6am and all that. Oh look, it's Howard from The Big Bang Theory playing an insightful Rabbi - providing marital advice.

Also apparently there's a Jewish version of a Catholic annulment, called a "ghet", personally I think both are absurd. Call it what it is - a divorce and be done with it.

I think it takes place in either the early 1960s or 1950s. Feels like the 1950s. Also it's reminding me a lot of Breaking Bad, except without the cancer, drugs and violence. So if you want to watch a movie about the disenfranchized American male, this time Jewish, without all that - go rent this movie.

Like most of the Coehn Brothers comedies - it's a satire or send-up of culture. This round Jewish culture. Which I think works better if you understand what they are making fun of and the time period they are sending up. Since, I'm unfamiliar with both - there's a distance between me and the material that makes it difficult for it to hold my attention or pull me in. It is well shot and with an attention to detail like most of their films. But since I don't care about any of the characters I can't quite get pulled into it.

Wait...someone important just died. Whoa.

Hmmm...maybe I should stop this and watch it another night when I'm less sleepy?