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Breaking Bad
- Long form television drama from the US
- Complex and typical single storyline
- Stake of the nation TV
- Complex and typical single storyline
- Set in Texas
- Pilot episode aired 2008
- Speech in Chemistry class foreshadows Walts
future: Life changed, solution and dissolution etc
- Begins 'in media res', motionless, western
scenery, floating trousers? then sudden fast pace
action, Walt driving RV in gas mask and half
naked and then he crashed. Raises enigmas but
then starts of at the beginning
- Walt discovers he has cancer
- By the end of the episode, Walt is
now 'awake' and has his sexual drive.
Last line by Skylar 'Walt is that you?'
- Speech in Chemistry class foreshadows Walts
future: Life changed, solution and dissolution etc
- Walter White/ Heisenberg
- False hero or real hero?
- 'everyday' man but hero's journey is inverted
- Walter: Old fashion, boring connotations
- White: Plain, boring, waiting for some
colour in his life, additionally connotes
hope, goodness and purity which is
Walt's underlying peronsality
- Over-qualified High School
Chemistry teacher, wears
knitted beige and green
jumpers, large glasses
- Bullied/pushed around by his pupils
e.g Chad and family e.g Hank
- Skylar is almost opposite; modern housewife,
modern name, 10+ years younger etc
- Kills 'Crazy Eight' = crossing the threshold
- False hero or real hero?
- Hybridity: Western, Crime drama, psychological
drama and black comedy
- Critics also suggest it draws generic elements of US TV, sit-coms,
drama and literature e.g. Father holding the family together
- Critics also suggest it draws generic elements of US TV, sit-coms,
drama and literature e.g. Father holding the family together
- Jesse Pinkman
- Helper/dispatcher
- Pinkman: female attributes
- Originally appears as hard, tough, no good
but audience discovers he is caring,
emotional and means well. Deeply scarred by
some things in his life
- Originally appears as hard, tough, no good
but audience discovers he is caring,
emotional and means well. Deeply scarred by
some things in his life
- Jesse: Androgynous
- Not typical drug dealer stereotype: white, small,
wealthy family
- Begins hating Walt but in the
end learns from him (still a
student/teacher connection)
- Helper/dispatcher
- Hank: Sheriff, American culture
- Hero's journey
- Appear to others as typical
American family e.g. when filming
on camera at baby shower, but
are deeply floored
- Connotations: American dream is ernt
by education
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