I feel like talking so this post is definitely going to be one of those rambling ones since I’m not even sure where I’m going with it, so just enjoy the ride of stream of consciousness. I’m sure it’ll be just thrilling, like white water rafting except that if you start feeling like you’re drowning of boredom all you have to do is close the browser instead of jumping ship into freezing cold rapids.
I have been thinking about drugs a lot lately, not about doing them of course, but just about them in general. I blame most of this on our obsession with Breaking Bad, which is really such an awesome show. I want all my siblings and Peggy to watch this show so I can talk about it with them. Justin and I finished the second season and the last episode dealt with serious outcomes of drug usage and addiction, which the show to that point hadn’t focused on as much. It was such a heart-wrenching episode that I had tears just streaming down my face. Even now when I think about certain scenes, I tear up. It was one of the few times I’ve let myself totally break down in front of someone else while just watching a TV show or movie. But, whoa, it really got to me.
The more I think about that show — and Justin and I analyze it and discuss it a lot — the more I realize how incredibly well written it is — the psychology of the characters, the scenes they decide to leave to your imagination, the issues they tackle — it’s just one of the best shows I’ve seen in a long time. Even reading a news story about Mexican drug cartels whose turf runs along Highway 35, the highway that runs north and south through Texas that I travel constantly, and the teenage boys who performed murders for hire for the cartel made me think, Wow, this reminds me of Breaking Bad.
Anyway, after watching so much of that show, it’s impossible not to think about drugs, but then to make matters worse, I saw that hulu.com had added some episodes from the first season of Intervention, so out of curiosity I watched some of those. Wow. First of all, I’m going to sound really old and say the same thing I said about Breaking Bad when I started watching it — they can show this stuff on basic cable now?? I haven’t had cable in years so I’m totally oblivious.
But after watching that show (and reading all the episode synopses on wikipedia, thanks a lot, Ted), I just have to beg — BEG! — everyone in my life not to mess with drugs because that is scary stuff. I’m so glad they always terrified me enough to never be curious about them.
Anyway, I think I have definitely gotten my fill of drug-related shows for quite a while (well, until the 3rd season of Breaking Bad starts up), but that is just a dark world and I think I need to watch some Seinfeld episodes to clear that stress and drama from my head now.
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i have to catch up on Rescue Me before starting Breaking Bad.
i did watch an episode of Intervention the other day where an alcoholic went to rehab for a month before quitting, relapsed a couple weeks later, and was dead within a few months. It was sad.