The prevalence of these TV shows may explain why so many Americans remain convinced of the prospects for upward mobility.

    • catposter [comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      "stay working because eventually you will either have a drug overdose and die or get shot by someone for dealing meth"

    • DragonNest_Aidit [they/them,use name]
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      3 years ago

      A lot of Breaking Bad fans really got. that message though, which is why they found the final acts of the story shocking. Like a lot of them hated Skyler because she's the party pooper mean lady who keeps getting in the way of Walt's fun, until the final act where people goes "holy shit Skyler is right all long".

      • came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]
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        3 years ago

        BB is difficult for its fandom because it took a sympathetic protagonist and turned him into an unsympathetic villain over the course of several seasons without a giant flashcard popping up to say "Walt is the bad guy".... despite the fact that it's in the title. whatever poor analysis we imagine is being done by the teeming hordes of sigma grindset weirdos comes from this and their own preloaded ideology, not the show's presentation of the world.

    • riley
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      1 year ago

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