Addicted to Breaking Bad

I don’t watch much tv. Well at least “tv shows” that is. I’ll use it as background noise when I’m tired of music or political talk radio, but I mostly watch sports and movies. However, I must admit I’m addicted to Breaking Bad.

I kept seeing tweets from several friends about it being “time for Breaking Bad” and how great the show was. Then, as I started inquiring about it, I was told it was the best show on tv. “Better than Dexter,” I said with a *gasp*. “Yes, better than Dexter,” I was told. So, I gave it a shot.

Breaking Bad is a Vince Gilligan production shown on AMC. The quickest description I can give you is that it’s about a local high school chemistry teacher who finds out he has stage two lung cancer and turns to “cooking” meth as a way to support his family.

I’ll admit, the show started off pretty slow. Through five episodes I started asking, “this is really the show you guys are raving about?” I was urged to give it time to develop and boy am I glad I did. Now, in the span of the last two weeks, I’ve caught up on the first three seasons. Yes, I said *seasons*, plural.

The addiction was so bad that yesterday I did two crazy things… first, I woke up at 6 am with the only intention of watching two episodes of Breaking Bad before I left for work. Then, and this one is worse, I had a trip to Chicago in the evening… three hours in a car… the only thing I could think of was watching the LAST TWO episodes of season three. So, I mounted my phone on the dashboard like a GPS and… thanks to Netflix… watched the last two J

Now, I have to wait for season four to hit Netflix… agh!