Story Pile: El Camino
I try not to make too big a deal out of the fact I like Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul. They’re pretty well made prestige TV, and they’re part of a modern ‘golden age of television’ that, thanks to the outing of the various people involved as abusers or the demonstration of whole waves of fans being awful or terrible endings has been revealed to be mostly coloured with piss. Breaking Bad is one of those shows where it seems that the people involved are broadly speaking pretty okay, and the worst thing about the work is the fandom.
Yes, the fandom full of people who wear Heisenberg t-shirts or who make fanart extolling that he is the one who knocks and unironically talk about him being ‘such a badass’ and how much they hate Skyler – it’s pretty easy to find anyone talking about these series where the comment section is full of people you’d be embarrassed to associate with.
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