Working my way through Season 2 now.
I swear I simply can't ever remember any TV series getting under my skin like this, time just sort of 'warps' when I'm watching it, 10 or 15 or 20 minutes disappears because I'm so involved with what's going on. (I get quite itchy when a programme or film doesn't hold my attention, and jiggle my mouse a bit so VLC tells me how much longer is left to go. I never do that with Breaking Bad.)
It makes me laugh one minute, want to cry the next, then I'm on the edge of my seat with the sheer fucking tension of it all, then I'm just wanting to see Walt fucking destroy a motherfucker, then it just blows me away with a moment of genuine effective pathos and emotion, and I'm just so involved with the
characters, everyone in this thing is
interesting, wherever they place on the goodie or baddie spectrum.
Pure genius, stunningly good, absolutely brilliant.
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Like Tuco's old man doing his 'one ding on the bell' thing, the nervous tension that managed to generate from so very little, masterful stuff.