Comments on: Breaking Bad on the Last (not First) Things

By: Beds

Beds — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 17:46:07 +0000

Which brings up another important point: this is not a series for everyone, the way that FARGO and Showtime’s kindred-spirit drug dramedy WEEDS are not mainstream, either. This is sharp, biting, satirical social commentary that draws blood when it sinks its teeth in, and you are guaranteed to wince even as you laugh out loud at Cranston’s dead-on portrayal of a MAN on the edge of a nervous breakdown (well, more like over the edge.)

By: TV Beds

TV Beds — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 20:10:38 +0000

Disgusting, hyper-realistically gritty, painfully frustrating in that “I don’t want to watch but I’ll look through my fingers” kinda way . . . yet eminently watchable and extremely funny. I don’t know how they get through the situations they do but fate always lends a hand, albeit digging a bigger hole each time.

By: peter lawler

peter lawler — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 19:16:17 +0000

Very postmodern and conservative! Thanks!

By: Mick Lee

Mick Lee — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 16:13:28 +0000

Universalists (and not a few traditional folk) miss the entire point. Yes, it is very possible such secular “saints” as Gandhi and JFK are in Hell. It is also very possible that religious figures such as Martin Luther King and Pope John Paul the Great are in Hell. Why? Because we are ALL deserving of Hell. Trying to locate anyone’s position on the good/bad curve is totally irrelevant. To break one law is to break them all. Debating whether “X” deserves Hell or whether “Y” belongs in Heaven is an exercise in futility. Even the best of us belong in Hell. Thus, the entire argument concerning the “fairness” of the circumstance in which believers in Christ are assured of His grace while non-believers who are in fact “better” people are not given any such promise begins from the wrong premise.

By: Robert Cheeks

Robert Cheeks — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 11:08:47 +0000

This is just a delightful blog!
What I missed in it, was some discussion of the Devil.
The on-going contest between God and his jealous Satan, the eternal harvesting of souls, is the stuff of existence.

By: Mark Perkins

Mark Perkins — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 04:10:59 +0000

There are moments throughout the series that call into question just how good Walter White was to begin with. In spite of Gilligan’s “Mr. Chips to Scarface” vision for the show, it’s less the story of a purely good man becoming bad so much as that of a deeply flawed but socially irreproachable man embracing and enhancing some very dark corners of himself that were present beforehand.

But that’s kind of the point, as you suggest with Solzhenitsyn’s quote. The human person is an open-ended question.