In case these two series have flown under your radar (as they did with me), I suggest you add them immediately to your TiVo/DVR and get caught up as soon as you can.
I fist read about Breaking Bad over at Uncrate, and finally started watching last week (AMC is showing the season in order again). I am two episodes in and it is pretty damn awesome. A chemistry teacher (played brilliantly by Brian Cranston from Malcom In The Middle), turned crystal meth cooker, and that’s just the beginning. This show is the perfect blend of dark, real, gritty, and gripping moments. I highly recommend watching the first episode and you will quickly be hooked into this series.
Also firmly planted atop my must-watch tv schedule of late is John Adams, a new HBO mini-series that covers the American Revolution, with John Adams as the central character. Paul Giamatti is simply perfect as Adams, and there are sure to be Emmys or Golden Globes, or whatever this sort of series can win, when the time comes. All of the acting, the sets, the script, the whole production is superb.
Also, as a life-long Massachusetts/Boston resident, I love anything to do with the Revolutionary War, as so much of it literally took place right outside my window, and on the streets that I walk every day.
Check both of these series out when you can, either now, or on DVD later. Both are absolutely fantastic.
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