Breaking Bad

Are you guys watching this?

It's a show about this loser-y coulda been/never was chemistry wunderkind named Walter White (Malcolm in the Middle dad Bryan Cranston in a remarkable multi-award winning tour de force performance) who lost his shot at wealth and scientific prestige YEARS ago, and is now just a middle class high school chem teacher with a marginal amount of personal dignity in his life. Bad gets worse when he's diagnosed with almost certainly terminally advanced lung cancer. Thinking of his pregnant wife and teenage son who has cerebral palsy being left with less than nothing after the exhorbinant expense of his unlikely to succeed treatment, he of course realizes what he has to do:

Manufacture a new strain of blue SUPER-METH, obviously.

with his gangsta wannabe super small time dealer/z tier cook of a former student, he sets off on a very jacked up course.

Season Three is airing now (next episode will be the 4th of the season). Seasons One and Two are out on DVD. Netflix it, buy it, whatever it. it's a bleak, funny, twisted, visceral show with a heart... however that works, but it's true!

Fair warning, though- if you were ever into meth, this show will make you grind your teeth a little bit. Still, it's worth the discomfort. The drug stuff doesn't make it look fun or cute in any way shape or form.

ps: my friend rob wants to bang the teenage son who has cerebral palsy. at least he LOOKS legal, i guess?

stay classy, rob!

:-)