Saturday, July 29, 2017

This show fucks with me

Both Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul are unrepentantly nihilistic. Every moment of victory and happiness and levity is backed by the absurd meaninglessness of it all. Even the sadness and despair is shown to be worthless in the grand scheme of things.

I've been binging the shows for the past week and Vince Gilligan's apparent worldview is really hitting me. The characters are all cogs in machines of their own pathetic design.

Fucking christ, I love it, but it doesn't exactly make me feel good about much of anything. The entire show is like the moment right after you cum when you realize your euphoria is over. Then every so often it makes you feel like your mom just walked in on you and, rarely, gives you flashes of the actual orgasm.

God, that was a weird analogy. What I mean is, it's shameful yet satisfying most of the time, but you still feel as though you have a mess to clean up. Sometimes it gives you glimpses of genuine delight or terror, but you're always reminded of the deflating monotony following - or perhaps even underlying - these paroxysms.

I'm so tired. Sorry for even making this post.



Submitted July 29, 2017 at 04:33AM by NegativeClaim http://ift.tt/2uHU6u3

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