Disagree. For everything that BB did well, it missed some key fundamentals of TV excellence: characters you could root for, and tight pacing/plot mechanics.

Disagree. For everything that BB did well, it missed some key fundamentals of TV excellence: characters you could root for, and tight pacing/plot mechanics.

I never liked Jesse and hated Walt once he went full Heisenberg. Did anyone root for Hank or just view him as comic relief?

Much of the show felt like a slog for me: Basically everything with Jesse once he got a girlfriend, she died, he became depressed; and lots of stuff around Walt and Skyler’s relationship felt tedious and unrealistic — she could be conveniently dumb whenever the show needed her to be.

I also liked all the main characters, even Skyler.

Now this shit is crazy.

I also liked all the main characters, even Skyler.

There are many good and enjoyable things about it. It's just very silly and occasionally stupid

if it's "comedy" at all, I think that's where the funny lies, and it seems very deliberately that way

it feels like Walt is living this bizarre, over the top narcissistic comedy of errors, while everyone around him is slowly having their lives ruined; the very silly and irresponsible is contrasted with the very serious and traumatized

that's my take, anyway! it's just a solid piece of genuine satire (not just something some dude has slapped the term "satire" onto just to defend it)

Not every social critique is a satire.

thanks, I was not aware...

but I view Breaking Bad as satire, amongst other things

I’ve never seen BB called a satire and I’m not sure I would agree.

Your description of Walt does make me kind of view his story as someone who thinks they can control a wildfire cuz he does it successfully until he teams up with nazis