Post by Back to being Cenanuff on Apr 5, 2010 14:18:18 GMT -5
Great show. Really liked the first two seasons. It's hard to know who to root for in this series. You have the brooding, underemployed brilliant chemist who thinks he's going to die, but ends up having to live with all the repurcussions for all the decisions he made trying to leave a nest egg for his family to live off of after he's gone. You have the wife, who worried herself sick over her husband, only to find out that the truth of how he's been spending his time is worse than anything she could have imagined. You have the son with cerebral palsy that's trying to cope with his parents' divorce so soon after his father just survived cancer. You have the brother in law, the gung ho DEA agent that is dealing with PTSD after seeing a whole bunch of his fellow agents die at the hands of an exploding turtle. You have Jesse, who was Walt's partner in crime until his addictions ended up killing his girlfriend, and is fresh out of rehab trying to get his life together. Admittedly, some of the show is absolutely absurd, but most of it is so fantastically written and executed that you totally overlook the absurd parts. In all, a great show, and Bryan Cranston never looked so good. Don't like where Skyler's going, especially after Walt opened up to her the way he did. I really like Gus. He seems like a very fair-handed individual, despite living a double life of an entrepreneur and a drug lord. The two guys from Juarez that have been finally introduced as Tuco's cousins are just menacing. But you get this feeling that Walt regrets doing what he felt he had to do, and if he had just died of lung cancer, he could have just left the money with his family without having to explain himself.
