The final episodes of Breaking Bad began last Sunday, August 11. David Zahl has a thoughtful article about it in Christianity Today. You can get the basic drift of his article HERE at the Mockingbird blog.
Here is an excerpt:Below is a powerful scene from Season 4 in which Jesse Pinkman, while attending a recovery group session, faces the bitter truth of the consequences that accompany the choices and actions he has made.
The show has a specific and frightening moral logic: no one gets away with anything. Bad is repaid with bad, escalation with more escalation. Breaking Bad revolves around the least fashionable concept imaginable: wrath. It offers something quite different from the fatalism of The Wire, where things start off ugly and pretty much stay that way. In Breaking Bad, things get steadily worse in proportion to human pride and self-deception.
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