Comment on Breaking: BAD
blady_blah@lemmy.world 3 days agoI honestly can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic, but I kind of agree with those statements. I just couldn’t get into breaking bad or better call. Saul and I gave each of them a number of episodes to get there. I think it doesn’t help but I don’t like the characters and that makes me not want to hang around and see what happens.
kofe@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Thats part of what made me keep watching. It’s almost masochistic. Walts character going further into the narcissistic abuse with each season is horrifying to me, but it’s also so well written through that psychological lens that it fascinates me.
The difference between that and BCS for me was mostly that there was a ton more back story to see how Jimmy’s psychology developed. I had a lot more sympathy for him.
Both are interesting to me in the sense of how TV shows were starting to pivot away from these more traditional perfect protagonists into complex mixtures of horrible people that I still wanted to root for. But again, masochistic for me, cuz I want to see the good in everyone — and that has come at the cost of understanding when I need to set boundaries and walk away irl. I like to tell myself its like exposure therapy when in reality I need professional therapy 💀
blady_blah@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I hear you but I can’t relate to you. It says no one in the show. I actually like I don’t want to watch it. I’ve yet to find a show or book or anything where that’s not true. I don’t have to like the person in their entirety, but if there aren’t at least some aspects of them that I enjoy then fuck them. I’ll go spend my time doing something else.
KeenFlame@feddit.nu 3 days ago
Why the skull? Are you beset by Ghosts?
kofe@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Iiiit can be risky following those impulses, like retraumatizing rather than healing. So… kinda? I say while currently binging true crime lol
KeenFlame@feddit.nu 1 day ago
Guilty pleasures are ok, being avoidant against burdens is not ok. To yourself I mean