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I can see why people seem to like it. Or maybe I can't, as I am only on the 6th episode of the first season and I hear it gets even better later on. Still, what I've witnessed so far is a quality product. The writing, pacing, and acting have all been solid. A few questionable decisions from White regarding some issues like turning down an offer from a former pal, but even that speaks to a story not seen and is given some rationalization by White at the intervention.

Thankfully, I'm going into this thing pretty blind, as I've made a point to avoid discussions of the show beyond the broadest of strokes. I knew it involved a teacher dude who made some special new meth and got rich doing so, but none of the hows or whys. Heck, I've heard people mention the name Skylar before, but assumed it was some future male associate of Walt's...color me surprised to learn that was the name of his wife. Really, biggest surprise for me is that Walter White had hair, was starting to think the bald guy with the hat was some other as-yet-unseen character, but 6th episode is strongly hinting it is gonna be chemo Walt, and I am ok with that.

So yeah, enjoying the show. It manages to take boring normal situations and add spice to them by virtue of Walt's slow sink into the criminal world. Probably not gonna make this a watchthrough topic, as I think there were some not to long ago? But I'll inevitably discuss random things that catch my attention as they happen.

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