Emerging from the telly hole

[sabotabby]

Okay, so Breaking Bad just shot up to Second Favourite Thing On TV* (eclipsing even Fringe and Mad Men, though in fairness this may be because the latter hasn't aired in such a long time) with the fourth season.

You're now allowed to discuss spoilers on my LJ. In other news, I may soon have to produce a long ramble about why I like it so much. For now you just need to understand that it's one of those shows that makes me want to copy what I see on TV. I don't mean drug-dealing and murder; I mean I look at those shots and that editing and wrack my brain all day figuring out how to replicate it. TVTropes says they're using handheld cameras to film, which is making me confused.

Right, now I will need some new TV to watch, I guess. It's probably going to have to be the rest of The Wire.

ETA: Mostly for snarkitysnarks, who is a bad influence in so many respects, Breaking Bad: Friendship is Magic.



* First being Treme, though I think BrBa's cinematography is actually better and the acting about equal.

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[ladypolitik.livejournal.com]

Also, I show my grade 11 Managing Personal And Family Resource class Breaking Bad eps every chance I get; THEY ARE ADDICTED (we are on season 2, hee). And seriously, the show is creepily relevant to the course I teach (which is 2/3's humanities-meets-human psychology). All of the critical analyses/reflection mini-assignments I've given them thus far have been Breaking Bad-based, Muahaha. And the concepts stick, so hey, whatever.

Actually, I've come to REALLY re-appreciative the brilliance of the show just by slowly plowing through seasons 1 and 2 with by class. Going back and digesting season 1 Jesse and Walt is mind-blowing, esp. RIGHT after wrapping up season 4.

[sabotabby]

You show it to you kids?! I've been thinking of showing it to my kids (for different reasons—it's basically the Citizen Kane of TV in terms of its use of framing and angles) but I keep worrying I'll get in trouble for it.

[yes-justice.livejournal.com]

You would probably get in trouble. But not with the kids.