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am glad that jesse didnt escape, only because it would be too tv cliche for him to have busted his way out of capture from his enemies.
the hero is dead, the antihero loses everything, the fool is enslaved then watches the one he loves murdered, and the nazis get all the cash. its dark, and rightfully so. its taken decades for tv to allow itself to make genuinely dark stuff that doesn't have to embarrass itself with redemption ever single time.
i mean, breaking bad isn't actually all that out there when it comes to its basic plots and premises. a lot of its narratives are tried and true. what it doesnt do is condescend by trying to create tension for the sole purpose of redeeming it. it doesnt play for cheap melodrama either. it has a basic realism and strong writing. they can get away with wheelchair IEDs and magnetic hard drive wiping from a van all because of this basic realism.
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