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Jul. 11th, 2012 09:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shadowkatStill watching Breaking Bad. I'm halfway through S3 now. Tonight's episode is Sunset. And the series has taken over my DVR. Literally.
While I'm not fannish about the show, I'm compelled by it. It's a bit like watching a Greek Tragedy or a Shakespearean one, reminds me a bit of a modern day MacBeth or maybe Oedipus Rex. The fatal flaw? Pride. And while the characters aren't necessarily likable, they are incredibly well developed. Everyone is. Including Skylar. I was rather shocked about that. But her motivations are well written and analyzed. This is a tale that does more showing than telling and is extraordinarily detailed in both its world and characters. You can taste the story between your teeth. It reminds me a little of Stephen King's The Stand at different points. The characters have that same epic grit to them.
At any rate, it is definitely the best written, produced, filmed and structured television series on at the moment. Rather sad, considering the subject matter. But then that makes sense - we are living in a time period - where an intelligent man decides to become a drug manufacturer in order to support and provide for his family, because he feels his other options, charity and going bankrupt, are far worse. It has a Dickensonian tone to it, dark, gritty.
See? I can change my mind about things.
While I'm not fannish about the show, I'm compelled by it. It's a bit like watching a Greek Tragedy or a Shakespearean one, reminds me a bit of a modern day MacBeth or maybe Oedipus Rex. The fatal flaw? Pride. And while the characters aren't necessarily likable, they are incredibly well developed. Everyone is. Including Skylar. I was rather shocked about that. But her motivations are well written and analyzed. This is a tale that does more showing than telling and is extraordinarily detailed in both its world and characters. You can taste the story between your teeth. It reminds me a little of Stephen King's The Stand at different points. The characters have that same epic grit to them.
At any rate, it is definitely the best written, produced, filmed and structured television series on at the moment. Rather sad, considering the subject matter. But then that makes sense - we are living in a time period - where an intelligent man decides to become a drug manufacturer in order to support and provide for his family, because he feels his other options, charity and going bankrupt, are far worse. It has a Dickensonian tone to it, dark, gritty.
See? I can change my mind about things.