![]() Don’t we all have at least something in common with Walt? He represents the metaphor of someone not really alive but merely getting by. Why doesn’t he just kill himself rightaway? Walter White is surely not the aspirational hero, rather the identificational one. Here is a man whose life can’t possibly get any worse. Skyler gives him a hand job while focusing on her ebay auction. “I’ll take you on a ride along! Get a little excitement!” 13.00 Walt in bed. 12.00 TV report on Hank’s meth lab seizure: $700k. 11.00 Hank shows off his hand gun and Walt reluctantly watches as he gives it to Walt Jr to hold. Skyler is pregnant, her sister Marie with DEA husband Hank. 09.30 The unruly student arrives with car and girlfriend. Boss Bogdan takes advantage of Walt’s compliance. 07.00 Walt teaches chemistry – the study of change. 06.30 Walt arrives at school with his son. 05.30 50th birthday breakfast: veggie bacon breakfast with wife Skyler and son Walt Jr. Was once member of Nobel winning chemistry team. ![]() It’s a familiar technique and Breaking Bad will rely on it often.Ġ4.30 5am and Walt lies in bed, awake. But by moving five minutes of excitement from episode climax to the front, the entire expositional opening becomes palatable. It would have been indigestible, dead boring and plain awful writing. Now this is exactly what Act One shows us, for a full ten minutes. Imagine opening a new TV show by showing the life of a 50-year old goody two-shoes chemistry teacher, whose greatest excitement is getting veggie bacon for breakfast on his birthday. ![]() Walter White faces the sirens, ready with a handgun. To camera: “This is not an admission of guilt.” Addesses family. 02.00 Underpants man goes back in, takes a vide camera, puts on a shirt. 01.00 The driver, in underpants, comes out, distressed. Most agree that Breaking Bad offers us the very best of what is currently on the screen – and it all started with a brilliant script.Ġ0.00 An RV with driver and three bodies races through the desert, goes off the road, stuck. The show is loved as much by its audience as by the critics and industry peers. The pilot episode planted this drama series squarely on the map and to my taste, Breaking Bad became an instant classic. With the 5th and final season of Breaking Bad underway, let’s look back at how it started. ![]()
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