Breaking Bad definitely didn’t extol individualism because Walt, the protagonist and Chief Individualist who constantly chafes at being subordinate to others, ruins his life and the lives of everyone around him in his pursuit for rugged individualism. His arc as a drug lord effectively ends with him wasting away in a cabin in the woods, paying the one man who knows he exists hundreds of thousands of dollars for a few more minutes of company
Unfortunately this flies over the head of most young masc viewers of the show. That’s much more an indicator of societal patriarchal brainrot than it is a condemnation of the writing but as I said elsewhere I do think the finale should have been more of a defeat for Walt. Him getting basically everything he wants in the end did not help things lol
Maybe it’s an inescapable problem with the medium of film that even if you show things that suck, there will be a lot of people who think it’s cool. Like how war movies notoriously get people to like war more even if it shows friend and foe alike getting brutally killed.
Breaking Bad definitely didn’t extol individualism because Walt, the protagonist and Chief Individualist who constantly chafes at being subordinate to others, ruins his life and the lives of everyone around him in his pursuit for rugged individualism. His arc as a drug lord effectively ends with him wasting away in a cabin in the woods, paying the one man who knows he exists hundreds of thousands of dollars for a few more minutes of company
Unfortunately this flies over the head of most young masc viewers of the show. That’s much more an indicator of societal patriarchal brainrot than it is a condemnation of the writing but as I said elsewhere I do think the finale should have been more of a defeat for Walt. Him getting basically everything he wants in the end did not help things lol
Maybe it’s an inescapable problem with the medium of film that even if you show things that suck, there will be a lot of people who think it’s cool. Like how war movies notoriously get people to like war more even if it shows friend and foe alike getting brutally killed.