Breaking Bad - Writing Characters into Corners
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Published 2021-10-20
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Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
2:53 Season One
4:44 Season Three
8:53 Season Four
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All Comments (21)
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It's amazing that this show is over a decade old and still has an audience pouring over every theme and storytelling technique
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You know, a forced reaction seems entirely appropriate for a show about a chemist.
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I’ll never not click on well made videos about breaking bad
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Woahhh this breakdown made me realized that BB might just have the tightest writing ever. Many shows can construct the web of actions & consequences, but in a seasonal arc or two. Most will falter the longer they run. Consistency might just be the biggest challenge in the writing process.
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Breaking Bad season 4 is a tour de force in ratcheting up tension. Incredible television.
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There are even more unintended consequences in the first season after Walt killed Krazy-8. Walt and Jesse are left without someone to sell their Meth to, so they have to sell it to Tuco. To make enough money they're forced to work with a psychopath, these deals lead to the deaths of No-Doze and Gonzo which then leads to Tuco kidnapping Walt and Jesse, Tuco's shootout with Hank, Walt pretending he lost his memory and ultimately Skylar finding out that he lied to her.
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Probably the best written series in history. Every second that I spend watching it or other people's analysis on it, I realize more and more how absolutely brilliant it is.
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I feel like a detail that a lot of people miss is that the police only discover the offshore bank accounts Gus set up for his employees as a result of the photo frame of Gus and Max being damaged during the magnet scheme. That's an unintended consequence which forces Mike to work with Walt and Jesse while also making it nearly impossible to keep the DEA off of Mike and his guys.
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Great work as usual. I'd point to the Sopranos as far as characters having consequences come back to haunt them. When Tony whips Zellman with his belt, it has a domino effect which ends up basically causing Tony's separation from Carmela after Irina tells Carmela about Svetlana.
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Love how every problem always leads to another bigger problem, and the end doesn’t even avert this. Walter has to literally die to break the cycle. Edit: The ending doesn’t even break the cycle! Who knows if the cops ever stopped investigating Skyler and Flynn? The whole thing with Hank and Gomey’s bodies was just a gamble.
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They fact that people are still analyzing the genius of this show speaks volumes
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I love this. That they have to create a believable headspace for Walt, a fictional person, and get inside there and essentially think as he would in order to solve a problem. You've got a believable set of factors and chain of events that governs how Walt's thought moves, and they have to abide by that. I can't articulate it properly, but it's so cool that they REALLY put themselves in his shoes like that.
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Great unintentional video essay on why Crawl Space is lowkey the best Breaking Bad episode.
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When I'm watching The Walking Dead or the late seasons of Game of Thrones: "Why the hell can I write a better story than this?" Breaking Bad / BCS's writing team is one of the rare times today I am in awe of writing talent.
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I watched Breaking Bad for the first time when el Camino came out, and bro its been 2 years and i still can't get over how great the show is especially on your first watch
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Breaking bad writers were the absolute best tension builders. They’re also excellent in making the watching audience feel complicit in this crime enterprise🦹♀️
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This seriously is the best show ever made just logically think about any other show that actually has a good finale and consistently good episodes 5 seasons in a row even the most boring episode about the fly has so much actually going on
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When you watch it as just a show you don't really dig into a neatly woven writing, but when you analyze it you see what a great job writers have done on so many occasions.
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Macabre Storytelling had a great video recently about the flawless causality in the storytelling of Zodiac. I think Breaking Bad is also one of the rare shows to have that unique quality.
