On Monday night, in the latest edition of the Emmy Awards, Breaking Bad won five of the most important awards: Best Screenplay, Best Actor, Best Actor and Actress and especially best drama. The series was the second time the favorite of academics, beating ‘True Detective’ , the HBO blockbuster starring Matthew McConaughey.
‘Breaking Bad’ won five of the most important awards
It is not absurd to ask why has triumphed ‘Breaking Bad’. More so if it is a story that led from 2008 showing a complete catalog of human baseness . What happened between television clean a few decades ago and this one, in which the history of conscious corruption of a chemistry professor wins top awards from major TV? Why we like Breaking Bad ? Why see it? Why we love it? Are we masochists perhaps?
Masochists no. Mature is the word. Audiovisually mature through a process of education, not detract from the film, has been mainly driven TV . Specifically for the Anglo television fiction. Before we saw ‘Dynasty’; now see ‘True Detective’. Thank you, among other series, ‘Breaking Bad’.
Nic Pizzolatto Cary Fukunaga and are the creators of ‘True Detective’ series further analyzed and discussed the year. They also arrived on Monday Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles in the hope of getting out loaded with prizes. But most of his Emmys took them ‘Breaking Bad’. Regardless of whether or not win prizes, there is one undeniable fact: Pizzolatto and Fukunaga, despite their youth, are two great creators. And they are because they have lived in an environment in which the television series no longer belong to the cultural periphery. A visual and narrative scene in which ‘The Wire’, ‘The Sopranos’ or ‘Lost’ are not adaptations or simplifications of anything but major works in its own space and really classic literature and film.
But for Pizzolatto and Fukunaga have arrived where they come, others have paved the way. The same people who brought the audience to embrace new forms and themes . A generation of television creators who drove the blade, ie the chamber, where no one had done. Would there be ‘True Detective’ sin ‘Breaking Bad’? If Vince Gilligan and Bryan Cranston had not introduced us to Walter White maybe we would not have been prepared to meet Cohle and Hart.
years ago that television gets us into worlds where cinema, space problems, fails
emotional connection with the viewer is one of the factors behind the commercial success both as cultural and social significance of television series today. With the characters of a series spent many hours. Without getting up from the couch, we establish a bridge, sometimes daily, between his fictional world and our real life. If not how we were going to take our conflicts as ‘The Good Wife’, which are nothing but a posh lady Chicago. The magic of television was this. The new TV was this.
years ago that television gets us into worlds where cinema, for a mere space problem does not come. ¿Movies 12 hours? No thanks. ¿Series of 13 episodes per season? Yes, please. And, if you are like ‘Mad Men’, ‘Masters of Sex’ or ‘Sherlock’ , the more the better, although we steal sleep.
Physically we are what we eat. Intellectually, we see . Now more than what we read. Perhaps that of the Great American Novel is now the Great Series (American). All looking like crazy the new ‘Lost’, the new ‘The Wire’ and, from next year, the new ‘Mad Men’ year. All fictions hooked when they decided to penetrate a little deeper (in his characters, their stories, us) became key parts of our lives.
Across the screen look a mixture of identification and avoidance . This duality is what makes the perfect series Breaking Bad. Set in the unlikely city of Albuquerque, a non-place devoid of previous meanings, everything about her is strange to us. At the same time, its ability to trap has much to do with his character not as distorting mirror of our reality. We could say that the triangle of stars of ‘Breaking Bad’ is but a triple split of each of us, three gifted intelligences characters, motivations and emotional fans. Three complementary beings ominously. In front of the brain and arrogant Walter White (Bryan Cranston) who, as a villain superhero story , decides not to stop its brutal destructiveness, that Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul) innocent, manipulated and essentially good . And completing the trio, Skyler White (Anna Gunn), the little empathic force survival. The practical side. Feminine. Mother.
There has been much discussion about the reality-fiction more interesting relationship than that generated by Skyler White . A disproportionate debate that led to the interpreter of the character, Anna Gunn, to publish an article defending a woman, perhaps precisely because it is fictional, it was more real, because instead of being represented. For many women branded as castrating a society aimed at maximizing the achievements of men and ningunear those of (their) women. The disturbing thing was, the company that “supported” Walter and Skyler attacked was not inside the series, written by Vince Gilligan and his writing staff, but formed by viewers of the series. Skyler was helpless and had to leave Anna Gunn to help him.
How did ‘Breaking Bad’ at that point? How it happened to be a series to become the TV series? What springs touched viewers? Possibly the same as The Sopranos and groped and above all, A Six Feet Under and The Wire a few years earlier. ‘Breaking Bad’ told his viewers “look at me” but really meant “look at you.” It made us rethink our ideas of good and evil, success and failure, life and death. We showed that we are all Walter, Jesse and Skyler. That we are all monsters, mothers and innocent.
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