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Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Entry 8: Merit and Criteria

I will evaluate the television show Breaking Bad. It was recently recommended to me and has won numerous awards, so I decided to start watching it.
1. Breaking Bad is a tremendously popular TV show on AMC and it was won tons of awards including numerous Emmy's. The fourth season just had its season finale so a lot of people were talking about it. It is also a controversial show because it is about a high school chemistry teacher who decides to make and sell crystal meth to pay for his cancer treatment. I wanted to see how they could pull off this topic and make you root for the "bad guy".
2. It is in the category of a television drama. It is for entertainment and it is valuable in that it entertains people and makes tons of money. It could be compared to other tv drama's like Lost, Walking Dead, Mad Men, Dexter, etc. Especially Dexter because that is also a show that focuses on someone that commits crime, yet you still root for them and see them as the good guy.
3. Criteria could be, does it have a good story line, is it interesting or unique, does it set itself apart from other shows. Does it have a real topic, or a current issue that will keep us interested. Does it have good acting, is it believable. Is their good writing? Are the episodes changing and exciting or just the same story over and over again?

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