I didn't want to watch “Breaking Bad” because we're conditioned to bond with the protagonist, and I did not want to bond with someone who purposely chose evil. I didn't want to root for the dealer of death to avoid detection. I feared it might poison my soul. But my friend Aaron sent me the first season on DVD, so I watched it. I was kinda committed at that point, so I binge-watched the entire series in a couple of weeks.
The most memorable scene for me in the whole series featured "Crystal Blue Persuasion," the 1969 psychedelic drug-era song with Biblical origins. As Walt and Todd are efficiently cooking up big batches of blue death in the shiny new lab, and amassing mountains of money in the process, Tommy James and the Shondells are singing this gentle, upbeat song about "peace and good and brotherhood." Cooking meth is just a job to them. They suit up and work a full day then go home and relax, only to repeat the process the next day. The feel-good melody renders an almost dream-like quality in stark contrast to the boring yet evil process. Rather like watching WWII Nazis preparing a gas to the accompaniment of "The Blue Danube." Normalizing the unthinkable.
When “Ozark” was advertised I instinctively knew everyone on the show was a terrible person, and I had had my fill of terrible people. Watching/reading crime is exhausting.
I didn't want to watch “Breaking Bad” because we're conditioned to bond with the protagonist, and I did not want to bond with someone who purposely chose evil. I didn't want to root for the dealer of death to avoid detection. I feared it might poison my soul. But my friend Aaron sent me the first season on DVD, so I watched it. I was kinda committed at that point, so I binge-watched the entire series in a couple of weeks.
The most memorable scene for me in the whole series featured "Crystal Blue Persuasion," the 1969 psychedelic drug-era song with Biblical origins. As Walt and Todd are efficiently cooking up big batches of blue death in the shiny new lab, and amassing mountains of money in the process, Tommy James and the Shondells are singing this gentle, upbeat song about "peace and good and brotherhood." Cooking meth is just a job to them. They suit up and work a full day then go home and relax, only to repeat the process the next day. The feel-good melody renders an almost dream-like quality in stark contrast to the boring yet evil process. Rather like watching WWII Nazis preparing a gas to the accompaniment of "The Blue Danube." Normalizing the unthinkable.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0v66A_H4ig
When “Ozark” was advertised I instinctively knew everyone on the show was a terrible person, and I had had my fill of terrible people. Watching/reading crime is exhausting.