“…Breaking Bad’s Failed American Dream…”

“…In the third season of Breaking Bad, AMC’s critically acclaimed drama – there was a flashback to the apex of protagonist Walter White’s life.

While touring an empty prospective home—a home that viewers have come to know so well—Walter bemoans the lack of space for the many children that he plans on having.

A young chemist in the burgeoning Sun Belt of the early ’90s, Walter holds his pregnant wife and says, “The only way is up.”

This scene is perhaps the cruelest of the series – which chronicles Walter’s bleak descent into the world of border killings, drug cartels, money laundering and Faustian imbalance.

The show touches upon most things desperate and failing in America’s huge, dry Southwest..”

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Breaking Bad’s Failed American Dream | The Nation.

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