Cannot unsee

[lizbee]

This week, at the behest of suburbannoir, I started watching Breaking Bad.  (We have a thing where I watch one of her favourite shows, she watches one of mine, etc.  Last year I watched The Wire for her, and she watched Babylon 5 for me.  SHUT UP, THEY ARE TOTALLY COMPARABLE.)

Anyway, I'm only four episodes in, but it's the internet, I've seen pictures from future seasons and whatnot, and I already know that Skyler is the very worst character in the history of storytelling (on account of how she's a woman, and has opinions, and expects to be treated with respect, as far as I can tell), and according to The Guardian, the whole show shamefully appropriates the drug culture of people of colour (and only PoC) and turns it into a white middle class fantasy, and worse, isn't even an accurate depiction of the meth industry! 

(Which I can vouch for.  I've transcribed cases involving meth cooks and users, and either way, the transcript tends to come out looking like this:

SUSPECT:   ...(INAUDIBLE)... fuckin' ...(INAUDIBLE)... cuntin' ...(INAUDIBLE)... fuck - - -

And let me tell you, I am SHOCKED and APPALLED that television, of all media, would enhance the truth.)

The actual point, however, of this post is this:

Yep. Good luck getting that one out of your head!  And don't do meth.  It's legit nasty.

Comments

[sabra_n]

Huh. I have to say, that's the first time I've heard of anyone saying that Breaking Bad appropriates "PoC drug culture"(!). I have heard objections to the way PoCs are only cast as enemies in the show, but that's about it.

[lizbee]

See, that's a criticism that doesn't surprise me at all! With the exception of Hank's Latino partner in the DEA, so far all the good guys have been white. And I haven't heard much to suggest that changes in any big way.

[nonelvis]

It doesn't, unfortunately, though I will say that IMO the most interesting character the show has other than Walter White is a PoC. You'll meet him in S2.

[skywaterblue]

This is true.