Breaking Bad Season 3 Wrap-up
Some fans weren’t even waiting to say this until the season ended in case something happened to ruin the legacy, but: Breaking Bad is the best show on television right now. Everyone knows it.
The acting on this show is great, the writing is legendary and the direction and camerawork are incredible. Breaking bad doesn’t just tell the story of a cancer-struck man who decided to make a fortune by cooking methamphetamine. It shows how infectious evil acts can be, and how dangerous it is to step lightly through a web of sticky and confusing lies.
The appeal of this show is initially hard to pinpoint, but something about the execution makes the series addictive. One episode can be so different than the next. The use of flashbacks, monologues, and montages threw audiences expectations right back in their faces without ever breaking the pace it created for itself in the first season.
At times painful, heartbreaking and bleak with a shining moment of humor, hope or kindness thrown in there, the end result is a a car crash people just can’t stop watching, talking and writing about. Analyzing this show during the commercials and shushing each other violently when it comes back on is the proper way to watch this with friends.
Breaking Bad is so solid it puts subtlety back into the visuals, with body language or the angle of a gun barrel coming into play in ways I can’t even mention right now. Waiting for the next season is going to be excruciating. The Sopranos had a reign on top, and kind of faltered at the end, The Wire was cut short in its prime. It is obvious: Breaking Bad has not even peaked yet.
So… place your bets, where did that final bullet hit? Who’s the next to die? Which character will have another precious bit of innocence stolen from them? All summer fans will be debating the finer points of the darkest show in TV history.