How about Baking Good, where a drug kingpin leaves that life to bake bread in a cozy little town.
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Making Bad.
She's the danger. She's the one who makes you have to knock.
I want one where they end up living in a country with proper healthcare and the cancer gets treated properly.
The cancer was just an excuse. The real reason Walter White cooks meth is out of bitterness and resentment towards Gretchen and Elliott and their profiting from his research with Gray Matter, as well as his bitterness with having become a chemistry teacher instead of a wealthy business owner.
This is crucial to understanding his villain arc. He winds up doing all of these terrible things because of his wounded ego.
I miss the limewire era
It has been revived! Kinda.
I have recently used limewire.com to transfer a couple of insignificant files in a pinch when I've had no other option.
It does sound like some weird AI crypto bullshit, but it exists...
New husband is a cannabis dealer on the show, Bad Botanical. He has a new strain that makes their users a temporary genius.
Breaking Bad + Weeds + Limitless?
I'd watch it.
And his name is Brad and they call it Breaking Brad
I-Is their pfp the limewire logo?
YEAH MF, congrats, now your brain is malwared to fuck, you shouldn't have looked at it dead on. Limewire is best treated like a Medusa... whose effects show up later.
Guaranteed 10 years earlier dementia onset at a minimum, probably some strokes that leave you "revealing" family secrets invented out of whole cloth by the w4r3z in your now-compromised, botnet brain.
Sorry, Limewire was a wild ride. Could just be the way memories work, but looking back, I think Limewire delivered what I actually tried to download <50% of the time, maybe <30% by the time I stopped using it.
Napster was super dope (and, oddly enough, accidentally produced a solid way for me to buy drugs from the hood, lmao), and Soulseek was absolutely delicious, but - alas.
She remarries, but later, misfortune strikes her family and in increasing desperation to save her family, she starts increasingly breaking bad without realizing. Shortly before the consequences catch up and kill her, she profoundly understands what happened to Walter and why he did what he did.
Signed,
A person who only watched season 1 (and watched a lot of the rest through YouTube shorts)
So Walter's actions in the first season, apart from maybe the initial bad idea of making meth for a quick buck, are entirely rational and relatable. Everything that happens to him is the result of that initial bad decision and he handles it (barely) in the same way most of us would in that situation, which is why it is so compelling.
As the show carries on, much of his actions are, likewise, just dealing with or making the most of the situation he has found himself in. But it is also sprinkled in with a few things that you really can't say you would do in the same situation. It starts a bit morally ambiguous, like letting a woman (who is ruining the life of your surrogate son by getting him back into using drugs) die from her own bad choices. Then it gets a bit less morally ambiguous, like exposing a child to a poison (that he is saved from) to manipulate that said surrogate son.
But for the most part, his choices are kind of made for him by the circumstances and justified by trying to protect others from dangerous people. But then at a certain point he has successfully changed his circumstances, eliminated all threats, and he is 100% free to walk away scott free as a very wealthy man in good health with an intact family, as are his allies. But his transformation is truly completed at this moment. Instead of seeing this as his opportunity to escape that life, he sees his opportunity to take the place of the men who have exploited and endangered him for years. And he convinces his allies to be a part of it. And, as a result, he eventually ruins the lives of every single person around him because of it, including himself.
The point is that there is no understanding what he did in the end. Much of it was out of his control, but all of it ultimately happens because of his personal weaknesses, his ego and his greed. Even the initial decision to make meth was completely driven by ego because he couldn't accept money from an old business partner for his medical bills because of ego. By the end, that is all that is left, him, his ego, and his meth.
It starts a bit morally ambiguous, like letting a woman (who is ruining the life of your surrogate son by getting him back into using drugs) die from her own bad choices.
I didn't find that morally ambiguous at all. That was when I had my first "okay, fuck this guy" moment.
I also want to point out how your last paragraph starts with "The point is that there is no understanding what he did in the end", and then you promptly proceed to explain how you understand it.
By "understanding" I meant there is no coming to a realization that he was right to make the decisions he did.
Holy crap I forgot they got divorced.
5 to 10 years later, Skyler has remarried...
...Donald Margolis, (John De Lancie, Q from Stsr Trek lol) the former Air Traffic Controller who was the father of Jesse's girlfriend who OD'd.
Surprise! He survived his suicide attempt! ... He's had reconstructive surgery, changed his name... he can only speak through a vocoder, but he has genuinely found new meaning in life working at first as a counselor, eventually working his way up to an administrator of a fairly small, but low cost sort of rehab / mental health retreat/clinic.
Their relationship is of course basically built on similar levels of traumas ultimately leading to similar levels of a no bullshit attitude, yet at the same time, determined to hit the reset button and move on, live life..., but they are also totally unaware of how directly they are connected, with both having... not really directly mentioned too much about their recent past.
Skyler has been using her maiden last name, and has never at all mentioned anything about Walter. She was married to abusive man, she got the courage to leave, that guy disappeared, etc etc.
Together they raise Holly, out of a different home in say... Reno? Albuquerqe? Tuscon? Colorado Springs?... Skylar runs a different car wash now.
Flynn (who likewise has officially changed both his first and last name, and goes along with Skylar's fake story about Walter) has gone to a community college and gotten some kind of Comp Sci degree and is doing decently well for himself as some kind of an entry/mid level programmer or db admin or some such, able to afford the specialized car and an ADA compliant apartment... he pops in from time to time to visit mom and new dad... but he is still totally unaware that Walt threatened the Whitmers into putting aside millions for him in a trust fund.
At some point, they approach Flynn with some kind of offer and concept for some kind of ... medical tech startup.
... I am not quite sure how to write the next part, but at some point... well, all you have to do is have Jesse enter the plot either directly or remotely, and probably at that point, shit gets insane fairly quickly.
Well, we don't have that but meanwhile even more Dexter is on the way.
I enjoyed Dexter, but am I alone in thinking it wasn’t that good to begin with?
No, I think a lot of fans agree that the show went bad at some point, people just have different arguments for when it stopped being good.
The first few seasons were pretty good TV, but I don't really understand why studio's are holding onto it either. At first I thought it was just "yeah it ended poorly, maybe we can fix that?" but I feel like a lot of the new stuff has writing just as wacky as season 8.
Even the cereal?
So like...season 5?