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- “Bad” is Good
  
  A post about Breaking Bad by Josh on January 21st, '08
  
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- “By the end of the pilot episode, I found myself caring about the characters. That's no small feat for a small screen story.”
  
  I had a hunch that I’d like Breaking Bad (see my previous post on the AMC show). But, as with any new show, it had a high chance of crashing and burning. Luckily, the only thing that crashed was the second-hand RV that hit the ditch in the opening scene of the series.
  
  The pilot episode, which aired last night, gave viewers a taste of the kind of comedy the show will have. It wasn’t as dark as it was billed. But there surely wasn’t much laughing out loud either. I guess the off-beat characters made you smile. They were more Pulp Fiction (the movie not the genre) than Malcolm in the Middle (lead Brian Cranston’s previous series). I’ll gird myself and venture to say that Breaking Bad’s characters are more compelling than Tarantino’s. Why? They aren’t comic book characters. They are real people that we feel sorry for and whose decisions sometimes make us cringe. By the end of the pilot episode, I found myself caring about the characters. That’s no small feat for a small screen story.
  
  If Breaking Bad’s story and acting are top notch, then so is its backdrop. Vince Gilligan, of X-Files fame, obviously chose Albuquerque for a reason. It’s suburbs are interchangeable with any other city’s, but the harsh and huge landscape of the desert are a perfect setting for a show like this one.
  
  All in all, Breaking Bad’s first hour was a good one. It was more like a good independent film than an hour-long show. The question: can it sustain that kind of cinematic energy week after week.
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