Breaking Bad Season 1 - 4 Review

Breaking Bad Season 1 - 4 Review
9,0/10


Hey everyone it's A Guy's Mind reporting for duty. I'm so
sorry for not posting anything for such a long time but I was really tied up with homework and seminar papers. But nonetheless I took some time to watch four out of five seasons of Breaking Bad. A friend recommended me the series and I finally decided to watch it and then review it. Breaking Bad features Walter White, a highschool chemistry teacher who finds out he has lung cancer.


 Working two jobs and providing for his family are his priorities and his main concerns as he is worried with leaving the family with not enough money. Being an expert on crystallography (not so sure about the word choice here) he decides to start cooking crystal meth. The problem is he doesn't know how to go about it and therefore goes to a fomer student of his, Jesse Pinkman, to learn the works. Oh, yea, he first saw Jesse while escaping from a DEA raid and was rather caught in the act of, khm, having sex with what I guess is someone's mom.


Their epic tale of cooking, perfecting and selling crystal meth begins, full of plot twists, murders, bribery and odd coincidences. Needless to say, there is also the occasional sex scene but I personally wouldn't mind one or two more.

Both our charachters develop in such a way thought hardly possible. Walter stops being such a pushover and embraces "the man within himself" and Jesse stops being such a "fuck-up". They develop this awesome relationship that really goes through thick and thin. The series despite it's seriousness does not lack the occasional funny scene. I think I'm not spoiling anything if I mention that there is an old guy on a wheelchair in the series that only communicates with a bell, drools all the time and makes faces as if his mouth was full of bees. The series can sometimes sad as well and I'm quite sure that a lot of things were inspired by real events. I was really horrified of the consequences that crystal meth leaves on people. It transforms them almost into Walking Dead (READ MY OTHER REVIEW). Not to mention that the distribution of drugs often involves children who are tied up with gangs from the moment they are born.

Needless to say, Breaking Bad is a really awesome series and I do not regret watching it one bit. I really look forward to watch the ongoing season and hope they wrap it up soon, since it's really hard for me to watch an ongoing series.

A Guy's Mind

The Walking Dead Season 1 review

The Walking Dead Season 1

8,5/10

Ok, so here we have The Walking Dead, a series set in a post apocalyptic zombie world. The story starts out with our protagonist, Rick Grimes, waking up out of a coma in a hospital. From there out he tries to reconnect with his family. He stumbles on a group of survivors who update him on the current situation. We find out that while Ricky boy was in a coma the world just turned zombie. We don't find out why and how that came into being but it seems we'll find everything out on the go. So, Rick goes to Atlanta where he almost ends up as zombie snack were it not for a group of scavengers that get him out of a tight situation. Rick manages to rejoin his family and take a breather. What Rick doesn't know is that his wife was together with his best friend Shane up until he showed up.

The group ends up having some shut eye and things finally start to look good when ... OMG they're in our camp?!?!?! Yep, a group of walkers attacks them and a few characters who never got a chance to shine end up dead. The group then decides their camp isn't safe and head out to the CDC (something with disease in it) in Atlanta in hopes of finding answers to the whole zombie thing. They find the place deserted, except for a single researcher who gave up hope. I won't say how the season ends but lets just say it ends with a bang, he he he. 

Now lets look at the characters. I really liked Rick and not just because he seems to be the main character but because he takes risks to save as many people as possible which in my humble opinion seems quite a good idea since oh, you know, the world is full of the dead and you don't have all that many opportunities to meet people. And in contrast with Rick we have his best friend Shane, the sort of anti-hero douchebag who undermines everything. He tries to play it safe but kinda seems to be going insane in the process. I really didn't care much for Carl (Rick's son) and Lori (his wife) since they just kinda seem to be there as a plot device to develop in future seasons. But I really liked Glenn, an Asian pizza delivery guy that reminds me of that "doctor Jones" kid from Indiana Jones. He's a good guy and tries to do good by everyone but tends to be used as zombie bait.

The cast aside, the story really barks up my tree. The post-apocalyptic setting sets that sort of depressing mood you'd expect when everything goes to shit and the stories of the members kind of add the rotting cherry on the top of a huge pile of corpses. The zombies are all well tastefully (I couldn't find a more appropriate word for it) done and the gore is ever so graphic. This coming from a person who usually doesn't enjoy the fleshy scenes means a lot. I can't say how the series is in comparison with the graphic novel ( I know I sound like a pretentious twat for not calling it a comic but why the hell not) but I do intend to read it and then write about it. I really enjoyed/am enjoying the experience it's offering me and am very eager to watch the other seasons. Don't hesitate to comment me on your own opinion of the series. Peace out.

A Guy's Mind