[FRIAM] Breaking Bad

[Marcus Daniels]

I lived in New Mexico for 20 years, and I thought that series was perfect for Albuquerque.   As the series draws to a close years later, the viewer gets some insight into the Santa Fe area, too.

Now there’s the truly weird, and rather unwatchable, dark comedy “The Curse”, on Paramount.   I don’t think fondly of Espanola, but it goes too far in making light of the circumstances there.

Breaking Bad was genius, though.

From: Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> on behalf of Jochen Fromm <jofr at cas-group.net>
Date: Monday, January 15, 2024 at 9:46 AM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam at redfish.com>
Subject: [FRIAM] Breaking Bad
The TV series Breaking Bad was created 10 years ago, but I only recently was able to watch it on Netflix. As you know it is about the question how a good man turns bad. The story starts with a tragedy, a lung cancer diagnosis for the main character Walt(er) White. Life has not been kind to the underpaid and overqualified chemistry teacher who has a disabled son and a pregnant wife. The cancer diagnosis pushes him over the edge and after it he seems to driven by the question "if life has been so bad to me why should I be good?". The episodes that follow describe how he "breaks bad" and turns toward crime.

What do you think, did you like the TV series created in Albuquerque? Is the story accurate from a psychological perspective, i.e. can good people turn into bad ones if life refuses to be kind to them? In a way this story of a person who turns into a villain is the opposite of Joseph Campbell's classic story of a person who turns into a hero, isn't it?

-J.

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