I'm not a TV series devourer, in fact, I never watch more than one series at a time. But there is a series that struck me in absolute ... the most successful series ever released for the small screen: I'm talking about Breaking Bad, by Vince Gilligan.
Here, I speak of more successful series because it is very rare that a product, whatever it is, manages to agree critically and publicly in an ABSOLUTE way. Go and see on IMDb, go read the various reviews. Those who did not appreciate or remained cold in front of this monumental work is certainly a minority, an absolute minority. We also consider that Breaking Bad is not a series for everyone or rather, does not start as a series for everyone, it is not a series that is based exclusively on the action or the plot twist, it is not The Walking Dead, it is not Lost nor The Sopranos or Game of Thrones, is not shared by any of the most successful series (good or bad they are) in recent years.
These are 5 seasons, 5 real chapters of a series characterized by a strong unity: all the episodes are closely related to each other and, in a certain sense, the concept of the episode is less. Breaking Bad develops vertically, not horizontally. We could almost say that every season is a chapter of this work that never gives way, which never goes down but rather grows up to what I call its summit (the fourth) and then settling on a final in which all the knots come back to the comb. 52 episodes of 45 minutes each in which a very slow development allows the story to take flight. Eventually even the less attentive spectator will notice how everything, any element of the first or second floor, has its precise location and its precise purpose within a well-defined drawing. In this Vince Gilligan was irreproachable, a true master able to program a five-act work in five years without giving up a single episode. In the end even those that would seem to be the only defects in the series (dispersion and accumulation) are justified because all - but really all, none excluded - are functional to the plot.
Everything works in Breaking Bad. Everything is perfect: the dialogues, the script, the actors, the music. Bryan Cranston proves to be a phenomenon, able to change expression instantly and make our hair stand on end. Aaron Paul, perfectly in part, does not disfigure by his side between a bitch and the other and the two, together, are the perfect couple. But the level is still high in all fields and even the episode apparently more useless and slow (The Fly) becomes an opportunity to show that BB is not a simple series of consumption and that those who participate are not put there by chance . And in the end, when the final arrives, whether it exalts or not, whether or not it satisfies, one understands very well that he has witnessed a masterpiece and remains petrified in front of the video wondering what will become of his life, where and how to find something that at least approaches one of the best TV series of all time. Because of this, when we talk about Breaking Bad. And while I talk about it I feel the inadequacy of my words and this kind of review. Because of things like these it would be better to keep quiet and abandon oneself to the vision. In fact, if you have not seen it yet, whether you're passionate or not, it's really worth it. Believe me on the word.
