Meth and Taxes

Here's a little backstory: My parents have become increasingly obsessed with Breaking Bad ever since watching the first few episodes off of Netflix. Unfortunately, we reached the climactic finale of Season Four with nowhere else to go; although the first half of Season Five had already aired, it was not on Netflix yet. Rather than wait a year for it on DVD, we downloaded it off of Amazon.

So now we're sitting here watching Live Free Or Die, the first episode of Season Five, and probably a lot more. And I'm pretty creeped out by how much my parents love this show. So over the next few hours, as we binge-view our way through this, I will keep this blog post up as a running experiment, just to see what exactly it is that makes Breaking Bad so addictive.

6:20-- We begin. Epic title sequence. I love this f**kin' show.
6:28-- Walter White is a badass. Bryan Cranston's career should just skyrocket after this shit. He just blew somebody up with a homemade bomb and is now kissing his infant daughter.
6:31-- ODAMN, Hank is in the underground meth lab and has seen the video camera that Gus has been using to watch Walt with. Now Walt's gonna have to destroy the tapes Gus made before Hank can find him. SHIT'S ABOUT TO GO DOWN.
6:34-- Apparently the only people living in New Mexico are scowling, angry bald men.
6:39-- HOLY SHIT THEY'RE USING A MAGNET TO WIPE GUS' LAPTOP.
6:45-- Great, now the guy who Skylar pressured into paying his $600,000 debt has woken up from his coma. That'll go well.
6:47-- YEAAAH! MAGNETS, BIOTCH!
6:49-- Ted's a vegetable now. He slammed his head against a marble countertop and is all f**ked up in the head.
6:52-- They're driving up to an evidence room to activate the magnet and wipe the laptop.
6:59-- Saul Goodman is the funniest TV character I have ever seen. This guy is amazing. Best. Lawyer. EVARRRRR.
7:02-- First episode is over. This show is like crack. I am in f**king love with it. How could any human not love this show? It does not compute.



7:07-- It looks as if the guys funding Gus are now under investigation for their involvement in the enormous meth-producing factory.
7:09-- Well, the guy looks guilty enough, seeing as he's now killing himself by using a defibrillator to give himself a heart attack.
7:11-- Yeah, Walt. Hold on to the ricin-poisoned cigarette and study it for a while. No way something bad could possibly happen.
7:12-- God, it would suck to be a Roomba in Jesse Pinkman's house.
7:17-- It's official. Walt is the devil.
7:18-- It's official. Walt is my favorite character in all of TV.
7:23-- I can't decide whether Hank is an awesome detective, or just the most oblivious DEA worker of all time. His friggin' BROTHER IN LAW is the meth king of Albuquerque. He doesn't know what the hell is going on half the time, and the rest of the time he's analyzing clues that no normal human would be able to see.
7:28-- Mike just said he doesn't want to kill eleven people to keep them quiet. He's losing his touch.
7:34-- For the first time, Mike and Hank are coming face-to-face. And it looks like Hank and Gomie are nailing him.
7:42-- HOLY SHIT, Mike is a badass. He just distracted a guy with a stuffed animal pig, broke into his house, and snuck up behind him with a silenced pistol before the guy even knew what the f**k was going on.
7:45-- Never mind, Mike is so not losing his touch.
7:47-- Now Mike decided not to kill a woman who already sent a guy to kill him. He's losing his touch.
7:50-- Good holy crap, this show is friggin' amazing. Skylar is now just as corrupted and evil as Walt. I have nothing to say. This show is like visual crack. I am addicted. BREAAAKING BAAAAD!!! Duh-duh-duh-duh-duh, duuuuuuuhhhhhh....

Bye!