I've never understood why "Breaking Bad" is considered so great, especially after repeated viewings. The first time I watched it, I thought it was great, until the last few episodes. Watching it a second time through, I found some of the actors, Anna Gunn and Aaron Paul in particular, to be so annoying I gave up halfway through. My opinion now is that "Breaking Bad" is just average, if you can tolerate the annoying characters, which every show unfortunately has. Then again, I've never understood why "The Wire" was ever considered good at all, and I've tried watching it a few times and can never get past the first season.
On the other hand, I enjoyed "Dexter" through and through (minus the gratingly hollow performances of Jennifer Carpenter and C. S. Lee) as well as "Six Feet Under" (up until the fourth season), but really only because of Michael C. Hall. I actually prefer the early seasons, again because of Hall's character, David. Without giving any spoilers, the writers completely ruined David's character development in a particularly notorious episode of the fourth season, which I personally consider to be the moment the show "jumped the shark." I hated that episode and found David's behaviour and reactions in that episode to be so unrealistic and out-of-character that it ruined the rest of the show for me, even though I continued to watch until the very end, not out of enjoyment, but of a tedious desire to reach the conclusion.
If the show hasn't engaged you within the first few episodes of the second season, you should just quit while you're ahead because it probably won't get any better for you.
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flaiky
8 years ago
the writers completely ruined David's character development in a particularly notorious episode of the fourth season, which I personally consider to be the moment the show "jumped the shark." I hated that episode and found David's behaviour and reactions in that episode to be so unrealistic and out-of-character that it ruined the rest of the show for me
Really? I think it's a fantastic episode. How did you expect David to react? (my tone here isn't aggressive; I'm genuinely just curious - it's interesting how we can interpret characters and situations differently).
For me, the one turn of SFU that bothers me/could be considered a sharp jumping moment is the S4 finale, when Lisa's murderer is revealed to be Hoyt and he shoots himself in the head. It's too OTT and soapy, and the twist doesn't fit with Lisa's character. It doesn't even have any follow up afterwards, so there was no point to it (unlike the David & Jake event, which had obvious and lasting consequences). A very strange decision from the writer's IMO, who rarely get anything wrong.
I’ll be waiting, with a gun and a pack of sandwiches.
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