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Catch Up With Your Favorite Show About Chem Instructors & Methamphetamine Cooking

Don't forget.

Sunday.

10 eastern and pacific, and the next day on your VOD channels if you got 'em.

AMC.

I already ran the preview clip and it's at this link.

And now, you can watch all of episodes one and two online. In fact, I can embed the shows after the jump, and you know what? I'm gonna, because I can.

But they're after the jump because your kids shouldn't watch this show, it's really for the older crowd. Really. NO, REALLY!

The video is served by Brightcove, they have a great full screen mode and the streaming is pretty solid technology, so have at it.

Video -- Breaking Bad: Only Show on TV This Week To Liquify a Body With Acid

I think, anyway.

And you know, Walter White is only falling back on what he knows best. Chemistry. You gotta dead body? You gotta get rid of it (and never have the body reappear)? You gotta go with the hydrofluoric acid.

But damn, use the right plastic receptacle, please. Because it'll burn right through your bathtub, your flooring, and you don't wanna know what happens after that. I guess Jesse should have paid more attention to Walter in chem class. But he was probably high.

Video -- Walter White's Meth Dilemma and Making Bad Choices

I know for myself that when I make what are very very bad choices it usually has to do with me being pushed back against the wall. When you options are few they are usually not all good options.

And having a lot on your mind can really make one's brain do things that it might not otherwise do.

So, when Vince Gilligan lays Walter White's life out for you in the opening segments of Breaking Bad, with one challenge after another, you really feel for the guy. And then the humiliation and belittlement begins and the confluence of it all sends him in a very dangerous direction.

And you know, he has the skills. Not only that but he sees a former student with none of those skills and an addiction overlay pulling in plenty of cash. Walter needs that cash.

It makes you think about what you would do in the same situation, doesn't it? A kid with CP, a teacher's salary, a lung cancer diagnosis (and he doesn't even smoke, and his insurance sucks) and a realization that there's not much he can do in the mainstream to change his lot in life.

So, if he wants to cook meth in an RV with and eyewash station in a round-bottom boiling flask, I think he should get one without his former student giving him shit for it. And anyone who has the talent and the wherewithal to go all Mr. Wizard on gangsters is cool with me.

Of course, I'm speaking only metphorically, I certainly don't want anyone cooking meth anywhere. And, I guess even a gangster deserves a jury trial.

I liked everything about this show. Cranston is outstanding and Aaron Paul (above left) and he will be one great team in front of the camera.

It worked for me. It's certainly 180 degrees from Mad Men, isn't it?

Here's a preview of next episode.

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