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[Mid Life Crisis Marathon Man]

Anyone here who hasn't indulged should immediately book a week off work and get stuck into the first of the 63 episodes, which turns out to be more addictive than blue meth itself. I envy people who haven't yet experienced it.

Hate to disappoint, but after hearing the Breaking Bad author speak at the recent Sydney Writers' Festival, I was intrigued enough to actually attempt watching episode 1 of series 1, of which I found a squillion copies on YouTube.

I say "attempted", because after less than eight minutes I gave up, finding it far too depressing and "too Hollywood" for my taste.

Interestingly, the author mentioned the whole Hollywood thing in his talk, saying how the first major TV network he showed it too were over the moon with it and wanted to sign him up immediately, only to be shouted down by the network's senior execs who wanted it to be about "anything other" than meth production. To his credit, whats-his-name declined to change the script and so he moved on to ... wherever it was he moved on to. HBO, or whatever. I don't understand such things.

Whatever, I still found it unwatchable. I'm afraid popularity is not universal.

Thank God! Imagine how dull life would be if we all liked the same things?