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Ungeachtet der durchwachsenen Erfahrungen mit Season 4 habe ich mich nun an die erste Staffel gewagt und bin aktuell bei Episode 5 ('Gray Matter') angelangt.
Bislang ein zäher, langweiliger Brocken voller mediokrer Nebendarsteller.
Nach dem bisher Gesehenen kann ich das Urteil von Blogger Stephen Bowie unterschreiben....
........................................http://www.avclub.com/article/…nst-ibreaking-badi-101439
Zitate & Kernaussagen von Mr. Bowie:
Breaking Bad is the most over-praised entry in television’s present golden age, a show that mixes a slim test tube of thrilling ideas with a fat Erlenmeyer flask full of derivative and obvious ones....
....one brilliant actor doesn’t make a great show. All of the characters other than Walter White are sorely underdeveloped....
As underwhelming as many of the individual components of Breaking Bad are, the more central problem is that all of its essential concepts and themes have been done before, frequently better, and not that long ago.
The similarities between Breaking Bad’s premise and those of both Weeds and The Sopranos are obvious. Yet while many observers have noted those similarities (as well as connections to The Shield and The Wire), few have considered the extent to which they render Breaking Bad redundant....
If history is just, it will judge Breaking Bad as a show that reconstituted other, finer series’ spare parts with middling success, and as more of a footnote to an exciting movement than a centerpiece of it.
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