Yeh, I watched BB when it aired and back then would’ve put it up in the very highest tier of TV shows ever. I feel like as I get further removed temporally from that moment, it has lowered in my estimation a fair bit. Still an enjoyable show in my memory at least, but nothing compared to The Wire or something like that. And as someone who watched The Sopranos for the first time AFTER seeing breaking bad, it kind of made me think “why did breaking bad need to get made, we already have a better version of the same show”. Sopranos deals with 90% of the same themes, it just happens that he’s already a mob boss at the start of the show instead of becoming one.
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I tried to rewatch breaking bad with my partner last year because they had never seen it. I think we made it to episode 4 or 5.
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Yeh, I watched BB when it aired and back then would’ve put it up in the very highest tier of TV shows ever. I feel like as I get further removed temporally from that moment, it has lowered in my estimation a fair bit. Still an enjoyable show in my memory at least, but nothing compared to The Wire or something like that. And as someone who watched The Sopranos for the first time AFTER seeing breaking bad, it kind of made me think “why did breaking bad need to get made, we already have a better version of the same show”. Sopranos deals with 90% of the same themes, it just happens that he’s already a mob boss at the start of the show instead of becoming one.