5-sentence review of Breaking Bad Season 5 premier

Jul 15

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Season 5, Episode 1: “Live Free or Die”

5. Walter White (Bryan Cranston) is what happens when talented and gifted students aren’t challenged enough.

4. Four seasons ago, Walt was a chemistry teacher in a shaky marriage who gets diagnosed with cancer.

3. Now he’s a mass-murdering, meth-making mad scientist who gins up a super magnet to wipe out evidence he worked for the late Gus (Giancarlo Esposito).

2. All this guy needed was some affection from his wife and a little respect at the office.

1. Now the dude is a fearsome villain who is more Darth Vader or Michael Corleone than some goofball teacher making meth in his underwear, which is a shame for morality but it is damned fine television.

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A misanthrope, iconoclast and general grouch since the late 1980s, Daniel P. Finney has been a professional paragraph stacker since 1993. He reports. He writes. He blogs. He tweets. He beats deadlines. He amuses (himself, at least.) He informs. He adapts. He keeps moving forward. He eschews gatherings. The highlights of his week are Sunday chicken wings, new comics Wednesday and naps during televised sporting events. He does not wonder if there is a player to be named later in his life and spends most of his waking hours desperately trying to be left alone.

Posted on July 15, 2012, in Breaking Bad, Popular Culture, Reviews, Television and tagged , , . Bookmark the permalink. Leave a Comment.

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