Breaking Bad. I'm sure it's an entirely entertaining experience, with danger and drama and all of that, but I'm too sensitive and easily bothered by great immorality, and honestly I'm also a bit too critical of male weakness... Like, Walter, either move to Europe or die, my guy. You're such a frail, ungrateful, unsatisfied b* that you have to do all of that?! I only watched an episode and a half because it's in my wife's top 3 but it wasn't for me, and not because it's a bad show... I just didn't agree with having to follow this guy, there are enough villains IRL.

[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I watched a few episodes but the reality of the situation was too close to what I have witnessed growing up. Meth is just such a corrosive drug, everyone I knew that tried it was destroyed. I just couldn't stomach that aspect and can't watch it.

But from what I gathered is that Walter has a wife and special needs kid He's terminal and wants to leave them with something for when he's gone. He's the chemistry teacher so knows how to do what needs to be done. After the first batch, he didn't really plan on continuing until the market comes to demand his product. So he makes more and more problems are created and that's about where I stopped.

He couldn't leave the country because he thought he only had a short time to live and he had to care for his kid and do something to give his wife a chance when he's gone

[–] ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

From what I saw (and he was fantastically acted), Walter was doing it for himself at least as much as he was doing it "for the right reasons" . Like, it's fine, I'm sure there's family that can help... I mean, my uncle with Down's syndrome is healthy at 61 (thank God!) and has always been cared for by family. I just can't picture anyone reasonable and with a minimum of morality to be like "oh I have terminal cancer? Time to become a drug lord!", idk.

[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I have a special place in my heart for people with Down's. They are always such amazing characters. I hope your uncle continues to have good health, it's rare for them to get so old and still be healthy

[–] ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You're very sweet! And yeah, I haven't seen him in so long (I emigrated), but he still recognises me and chats with me through video calls. Man's bright, he has always been verbal and lucid (and even used to flirt with my mom's friends, lol), he just has Down's! 😅🙏

[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 day ago

in the 90s I worked at a grocery store and one of the baggage clerks was a guy in his 50s with Down's. He was always polite and kind. He clearly liked the young ladies that worked with us but he was never inappropriate. One day he and I were in the back cleaning up and I looked in his backpack lol dude had a bunch of new porn tapes in there. I was laughing when he noticed I saw it and poor guy was so embarrassed until I told him it's fine. He then went on to tell me about his 1000+ tape collection!

lol I'll never forget you Greg. One of a kind!

[–] miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

My kids and spouse were in to BB, but I paid limited attention bc I wanted to watch it from the beginning.
About 18 months back, I started from the beginning.
Watched 4 episodes. Found it brutal to watch: the dialogue, acting, storyline - all sucked imo.
I know it got better, as I had glimpses of the last few seasons, but I couldn't be arsed to watch any more episodes waiting for it to get better, and I wonder how people did.

[–] ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And it's so acclaimed too... I'm gonna be charitable and say something perhaps just isn't clicking with us. 🤷

[–] rodneyck@piefed.social 6 points 1 day ago

Same, I have started this series two times and for whatever reason, it didn't click with me either. All my friends were like, "it is the best!"